Memorial Weekend

Memorial Day has always been a fun day for our family. It's one of those lost traditions where not a lot of people actually drive hours to go visit cemeteries. Well this year, my moms side the Neilsons, decided to get together and visit my grandpa who isn't doing real well. We met at his house to see him and then drove to Parker, ID to visit my Grandmas and others graves. Parker cemetery is always cold and windy, no matter what the weather is every where else, so I called it I knew it was going to rain, but luckily it cleared up. It doesn't take a lot to entertain our family....a little picnic at the cemetery or reading campfire stories in the hotel, and just playing with each other outside. It was a fun weekend. The Neislon side is a big family. My grandparents had 7 of 8 living kids with 43 grandkids. 43 is lot of cousins to play with.

Elder Braydon Deru

Landons Brother, Braydon left for the Brazil M.T.C on Tues. May 19. He is going to the Joao Pessoa, Brazil Mission and is way excited to learn Portages and spread the gospel to those who live in Brazil. His "last supper" was at Olive Garden right before we went to the air port. His mom says it's a lot easier to say good byes at the airport rather than the M.T.C.


All the Deru Siblings from youngest to oldest.


This is all of us, including Braydons Girl Friend Courtney.

Happy Mothers Day

For every mothers and fathers day it has been a tradition that all the kids wake up and go say hi and give them our presents in their bed. I thought this was something that every family did, apparently not. Even though we are now all grown up, we still do it. I think its a lot of fun, this year my mom woke up before us but we still all piled in on her bed to say Happy Mothers Day.

Camp Fire with Jared

After Jareds surgery he went back to N. Ogden to recover at his grandparents for a couple weeks. He is doing much better. We decided to go over and give him a little company. It was so much fun, we roasted hot dogs and smores outside with his grandpa while he told us the good ol' fashion stories of the war.

Visiting Jared in the Hospital

Landons old missionary Companion is Jared. He is now dating my sister Ellie. He had hip surgery in Salt Lake, so Ellie, Landon and I decided to make it an adventure and take the new FrontRunner and Trax up to the University Hospital. We finally made it up there to see that he got through the surgery just fine, he was tired and sore but it was good to see him, and that all went well.
I think I like this new way of transportation, it was a lot of fun as you can tell by the pictures.