Thursday, May 16, 2013

Grandma Lauritzen

This past Friday morning, Peter's angel of a grandmother, Grandma Lauritzen, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family. We flew out Friday afternoon to go spend some time with Peter's family and attend the funeral on Monday. It was the first time I was able to meet a lot of his cousins on his mom's side but they are really so awesome. We also got to meet my new nephew, Gideon who lives in London for the first time! He's 7 weeks old and such a little cutie.
Here's Weston with two of his aunts and his newest cousin, Gideon.
On Sunday evening, there was a viewing at the funeral home.


 On Saturday night, we put Weston down at Peter's aunt's house and Peter's cousin was practicing the harp in the next room. Weston is a very light sleeper so we were worried he would not fall asleep but the harp music made him "sleep like a baby" the entire time. When we were at the viewing, he would just keep looking at her play the harp.

 My eleven year old nephew, Jack is almost my height. You can see how happy I am about that.






 Peter with his mom on mother's day.



 Gideon was loving all the attention from his Aunt Anje.

 Monday morning, there was a beautiful funeral at a stake center in American Fork then we headed out to the grave site.











 Weston's middle name is John after Peter's brother who passed away seven years ago and this was the first chance we got to take a picture of him with John's headstone.

 Peter's sister passed away while he was on his mission and Grandma Lauritzen was able to be buried by three of her grandchildren.
  I love this picture of all the siblings. 

 All the grandparents admiring the cute bebes. 




 Monday evening, we all got together for some Cafe Rio deliciousness before we all headed home the next day.

 The crazy family:







1 comment:

glad2bemommy09 said...

What a beautiful casket. I am so glad we have the knowledge of the gospel, to give us peace in what is normally a difficult time.