This past week Aunt Virgina Bingham passed away. When I retired one of my goals was to make some of the funerals that I could not make when I was working. So Tuesday Morning I drove to Burley for a graveside service of Aunt Virginia. She was the wife of my mother's brother Woodrow. Then I went to Twin Falls for the luncheon at the Church.
The pictures above and below are of the Headstone for Grandma and Grandpa Bingham. As you can see Grandma passed away in March of 1975 and Grandpa about 9 months later in 1976. As I remember that was a tough 9 months after he lost Grandma.

Uncle Woodrow and Aunt Virginia's headstone is just accross the road from Grandma and Grandpa's. It has to be hard to live another 40 years after your beloved has gone.

It was a sunny 45 degree day with no wind. The service was nice.

I was nice to visit with family at the church. Below are Aunt Barbara with one of her daughters and Uncle Lynn.

Pat and Lee are at this table.

Dee is sitting at this table.

I feel bad that it has been so long since I have seen these people. It has been over 30 years for many of them.

So many years ago when we were kids and the cousins our age were friends. Such fond memories of Dee and Lee, Lynne and Greg, Larry and Randy, Elaine and Ron. It is too bad when we grow up and have our own families and get too busy to renew those friendships. Our kids don't even know the Bingham family.

Such a great heritage from two great people "Charles and Myrtle".

Thanksgiving in Star Valley

Everyone came to Star Valley for Thanksgiving. They all arrived on Wednesday. The weather forcast indicated the best weather day was Thursday so we decided to get Christmas Trees before having turkey dinner. I was a nice day.

Grandma just couldn't find any trees.

We used the snowmobiles and found our trees. It was much easier than tromping through the forest.

Then it was time for some snowmobiling and tubing. The kids had lots of fun.

Todd got the price for the shortest tree.

Todd decided that Ivy needed a rest after Turkey Dinner.

Then Oakley had to teach Grandpa how to used the Ipad. What fun we had.

Gentry was hauling the candy for the parade around and protecting it. She was saving it for the parade.

Then whenever we were not on the snowmobiles going around the house, we were in the hot tub.

Even Grandma spent a little time with the kids, but she said they splash too much.

This was our first holiday that was consumed with Ipads and Ipods. We had so many at times on the network that we had to shut them all down and rebook the network so the online shopping could be done.

Saturday night of Thanksgiving weekend has always been the Holiday Light Parade in Afton. After the parad last year, the kids decided that they wanted to have a float in the parade.

So we put a golf cart and snowmobile on a trailer with lots of lights. We said "Star Valley is a great place WINTER OR SUMMER." They had 25 pounds of candy and managed to throw it all out.

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It was a cold night, about 6 degress and I thought that they would rather watch than be in the parade. They assured me that particpating was better than watching and they want to do it again next year.

Then we took some pictures of the grandkids. This is why we like Star Valley so much. They love to come here.

Then we had our last lunch before everybody went home on Sunday.

Autumn got her birthday present early. It was a wonderful weekend to be together as a family. We are thankful to have such a great family that gets along so well with each other. Star Valley is for families.

Ivy's Day

This is Craig's son Evan above and Carter below.

This is Craig's daughter Gentry above and Jace below.

Paige and Oakley having fun.

The grandsons and boy to they have fun together.

All the grandchildren.

Craig's family.

Todd's Family.

Shane's family.

The whole crew.

On October 29th we all went to Todd's for Ivy's Baby Blessing. Here are some pictures that we took that day.