Funeral and family

Funerals are never at a convenient time.  One can never plan around one.  So when a death occurs plans need to be changed at a moment's notice.

That's what happened to us last weekend.  Damon's Aunt Siva passed away on Wednesday May 15th.  The next day we found out that the funeral would be on Saturday the 18th.  Damon and I made the call that it was important to attend and for our kids to be there too.

After we made that decision I spent the next hour on the phone with a whole lot of people.  I talked to Damon's mom, my sister, the eye Dr., the school, and the movie theater (we just bought tickets online for a Friday showing and were trying to get our tickets changed).  We packed, cleaned and did laundry.

Friday morning we were in the car and heading down to Mortensen Manor.  After we got in the kids wasted no time getting in the pool and hanging out with their cousins.

Damon also helped Reed set up a volleyball net in the back yard.  The kids managed to play a couple games of volleyball as well.

 On the 18th we went to the funeral.  The nice thing about funerals is that you get to see a lot of family.  The service was nice.  At the end when the coffin was being taken away all the Samoans sang a song acapella.  They do that at every funeral.  It was really neat to hear.

 We drove back to Salt Lake on Sunday.  It was a very short trip, but a nice one.  We are glad we made it.  Family is more important than any other obligation one may have.