Kent's Mom's Funeral in October

Since Kent's Mom was being cremated, we were able to hold off on having her funeral until the 13th of October, which was a Saturday. That gave more people a chance to make arrangements to attend. We were delighted and touched that all four of our children came to honor their grandmother by attending her funeral.

It was a nice day for the graveside service. 

She'll be buried next to her husband, who died in 1971, and her youngest son, who died in 2014

A picture of the remaining Carson siblings in birth order.

Kent and I and the kids sang "Nearer My God To Thee" as a musical number at the funeral. Our musical number went well. Afterwards someone asked us how long we'd been singing together, and we said, today was the first time! Kent put together a slide presentation and created the program.  

The funeral was in the morning, and after the gathering that was held in the fellowship hall of Grandma Carson's church, we slipped out and went over to Oregon to go to the Portland temple with my Mom and Dad in the evening. 

Originally we were going to have Mom stay with Reed and Myra, and then someone suggested that she could go with us since I would be there to help her get dressed in the locker room. When I told my mom we were going to take her to the temple she got tears in her eyes and she said, "You mean I can go to the temple again?" She hasn't been to the temple since her stroke almost exactly two years ago. I'm not gonna lie, it was hard work wrestling her into her dress and temple clothes, but it was worth the effort when we were all able to be in the sealing room together doing some family names. 

We went over again on Sunday to attend church with Mom and Dad, and took this picture of the kids with their grandparents.

More pictures with my parents.

After church the boys had to get to the airport to catch their flights back home.

 Adri and Lissa weren't leaving until Monday, so went to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry because they had a special exhibit of "The Discovery of King Tut"

It was a very interesting display and recreation of the discovery of his tomb.

Kent, Lissa and I were especially interested because we were leaving on our trip to Egypt the next week. Adri had already been to Egypt when she did her semester abroad in Israel, so she was interested in seeing the exhibit, too.

These are recreations of the cases that the mummy was found in.

The small tombs represented children who had died at birth.

I'd seen the famous death mask back in the 70's when the treasures of King Tut's tomb was on tour throughout the United States. Mom took me to Seattle to see it.

The richness of the discovery really boggles the mind. Everything was shiny and gleaming and displayed to it's best advantage with great lighting, which I didn't really appreciate until I saw the originals in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. (Spoilers!)