Remembering Those Who Serve

The Memorial Day holiday began with the oven blazing! We decided to experiment with a new scone recipe: Strawberry Scones. To be honest, these scones weren't our favorite (though they look divine...), but we continue our quest for delicious scone fillings to go with our basic scone dough recipe.

Lovin' this Hotdog from home Depot!

We made a short run to Home Depot later in the morning/afternoon and were surprised with a little barbecue outside the store giving out free hotdogs! We definitely took them up on the food :)
We had a fun time looking around the Home Depot garden section and thinking about how we want to start this new garden of ours. We got a lot of ideas of vegetables and fruits that we want to plant and then walked out of the store with a new shovel, watering can, planting soil, and stones to use for our garden border.
After a few hours of digging up large rocks and picking out as many of the smaller ones we could, we poured in the new soil and stabilized the border around the outside.
We are so excited for the start of this new little garden! New plants to come in the next few weeks :)

After cleaning up from playing in the dirt all morning, Kaleb and I watched Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed and then spent the afternoon walking the grounds of the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville in honor of Memorial Day and the soldiers who fought and continue to fight for our country. This cemetery was a perfect choice as they had a memorial in honor of the holiday. In a square of U.S. flags at the front of the cemetery were benches that had plaques from fallen soldiers who served in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, and other services. Kaleb and I walked around the square, reading each plaque, and thinking about the soldiers and their families. After finishing the square, we walked around the rest of the cemetery, looking and reading the different headstones. As we walked, we talked about how great a feeling it is to know of Heavenly Father's plan for us and how there is a life after this mortal journey that allows us to live with the Savior and our families again. We are so blessed to have the Gospel in our lives!

We returned home for the evening and enjoyed a delicious dinner of One-Pot Paprika Chicken Thighs. This dinner was so, so, so so good! I highly recommend it. It takes a little bit of time, but it is seriously worth the wait! I cannot wait to eat more of the leftovers tomorrow :)

Today marks another memorable day with my husband, of whom I have fallen in love with over and over again today :)