Sweet memories remembered and made...

After spending the better part of my trip in Idaho, I drove down to Utah to see the rest of my wonderful family. I stayed with my dear parents in Layton and had a great time with them. We drove up to Brigham City and got to see the new LDS temple that is almost completed there (BEAUTIFUL). This is exactly what the Kansas City, MO temple is going to look like as well. I grew up in MO and am so excited to know that they are going to complete a temple this year.

 

This house was my Great Grandpa Beecher's house in Brigham City. I remember playing on and sliding down that front porch as a little girl. It's still owned by a family member and we were lucky enough to run into them at the house just before they were leaving to go get some dinner. This picture above is one with my Sweet Grandma Beecher waving with her famous smile just weeks before she was T-boned by a truck and killed while driving in her car. Grandma Beecher is so very missed, and I wished she were still alive so I could've spent some time with her while so close to her home. This house holds many dear memories for so many of us in the family. It was so great to get to see it while I was there (the picture below is one I took while on my visit). Time stood still for just a few minutes.

Ah, my wonderful Grandma Hill...

This picture was just after we picked her up from a block away from her home of so many years. I had to take a picture of her with the house in the background. This home holds so many sweet memories for me. I still find myself at times taken right back just by a smell that is so overwhelmingly what Grandma Hill's house smelled like. Sounds strange I know, but soooo true.

We picked Grandma up to take her out to lunch and spend some time with her that day. I love getting to see this smile and hear her laugh. She is my only surviving Grandma and my children's only surviving Great Grandma on either mine or Jason's side. I so wished my children could've been there to spend that time with her as well.  Jason's Grandpa Hofer is our only surviving Grandfather on either side as well.  We need to make a trip out West just to see these two special people.