Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Memorial Day Celebration

Yesterday turned out to be the greatest day! We had close to a hundred people here for the flag raising ceremony, music, talks, and breakfast. It was the greatest! It was especially nice because there were a number of people here from the community and several of our dancing friends.
Jim Sibbett provided some wonderful music and stories. Arlin was MC and Jesse, Neil, and I read the information that Garth sent to us. Four different people read the list of 54 names of those who had given their lives from his brigade. It was very touching.
Next year, somehow, we must have a sound system. Too many people were unable to hear. We will work on it.



























Sunday Ells was trying to finish up with the weed eating etc. and Jesse came over and offered on his own to do whatever we needed him to do to help us get ready for the next day. We were so grateful to him. He has grown into a fine young man - only 3 years old when they bought our property and moved next door to us. Now he is ready to make his way out in the world.
Sunday night Cindy, Arlin and Garth's 3 oldest boys, Neil and Maddy spent the night down in the campground. In the morning, they all helped a lot with the various things that still needed to be done. Neil put up flags all over and made it look festive and patriotic. He always thinks of the extra things.
Yesterday turned out to be the greatest day! We had close to a hundred people here for the flag raising ceremony, music, talks, and breakfast. It was the greatest! It was especially nice because there were a number of people here from the community and several of our dancing friends.




Of course, one of the most important things to me was having my family there. This year we had Cindy, Arlin and Jesse Burbidge; we had Neil and Maddy Newell; we had Julie and six boys: Kesley, Dallin, Joey, Elijah, Ammon and Nathaniel. {Garth will be home in a very short time. We were sorry that he just missed this event.) We also had a surprise because Grant and Ronda and Krista came. It was great to have them here.
I so wish all of our children had been here.
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Burbs said...

Did you read Sister's blog about her memorial day memories?

May 28, 2008 at 8:06 PM

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Uncle Ralph

June 25th - As most of you know, Ralph had a complete hip replacement over a week ago and is mending pretty well we think. The first surgery was not healing right - it was crooked so they decided to finally do this surgery. He should be much better off once it is completely healed.
It was quite an ordeal for him
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As most of you know, my brother Ralph was in a horrible car accident yesterday morning (Sat Apr 19th) Actually it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. He was on his paper route and driving along about 60 miles an hour he said when a car came over the hill and was in his lane. He had no time to do anything; the car just hit him head on.
We are all feeling fortunate that Ralph is still with us. He was hurt quite badly with several broken bones. However, he didn't lose consciousness, which means a lot and he is trying to keep his spirits up which means a lot.
Neil kindly drove mom and I to the hospital in Tacoma yesterday and we stayed there and visited with his family until he was out of surgery and then out of the recovery room. We did get to visit with him for a while in his room. He is in a lot of pain but they have changed his pain medication now and it is helping him.

Here is his address if you would like to send him a card which I know he would enjoy receiving.
Ralph R. Dahlberg Room 516 J Wing
Tacoma General Hospital
315 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
PO BX 5299
Tacoma, WA . 98415

Time Goes by

This past Friday night I rode with Neil and Maddy to the Elma Football Field to watch two of our grandsons play soccer.
Jesse Burbidge (Cindy & Arlin's) played for the Elma soccer team and did a great job. Dalton Newell (Eldon & Candy's) played for Tumwater. He did a great job also but was limited on the time he could play as he was plagued with a nosebleed.
It brought back a lot of memories of past football games. Eldon, Gordon, Garth, Aaron, Josh and Dan all played football for Elma. They loved it with a passion. I loved going to the games and rooting for the boys.
How quickly time passes. It seemed so strange to be there at the football field watching my children's children play. I don't get to go very often but enjoy it when I do.
Jesse is Captain of his team and will graduate from high school this year so he doesn't have too many games left to play.
It was good to sit with the family and enjoy their company.

Favorite Memory from Childhood