Parents Visit and Ted's Funeral

On March 10th my parents flew up to spend the week with us. My dad is 85 and my mom is 78. This July they'll have been married 60 years. I'm so grateful they're still healthy enough to come and see us. My sister Delina drove over from Spokane to be with us for the week and picked them up from the airport on her way. We took a couple of days and drove down to Canon Beach, Tillamook and then to Hillsboro to see Kristy and her family.

You never think your parents will get old. After walking a short distance to the beach and back my mom was worn out, but she loved seeing the ocean.

Delina and one of her five sons, Jayson.

You don't visit Tillamook without having one of their ice cream cones. I was soooo disappointed they stopped making German Chocolate Cake!! 

My cousin, Kevin on the far right owns a large dairy farm in Tillamook so he and his wife Annette came over and visited with us while we ate our cones. They milk 600 cows a day!!

My parents were happy to see Kristy and her family before they move to Kansas City:(

The next day we had a beautiful day to walk around the Portland Temple grounds.

They have a new visitor center there that's only been opened for 2 years.

They said they've had over 100,000 visitors since it opened.

Remembering Ted Bingham

Unfortunately we had to cut my parents visit short one day as Lindsey's father-in-law past away after fighting cancer for over a year. Ted was only 51 years old and left behind his sweet wife Kindra and five sons. One of his sons is on a mission in Korea & the youngest is a Junior in HS. Here's a picture of Ted when Lindsey and Tyrel got married 5 years ago. He lost so much weight he probably weighed half of what he did here. He will be truly missed by all those who knew him.

At Tyrel and Lindsey's wedding with 4 of his 5 sons in 2008. Brian was on his mission.

We were so happy we were able to attend the funeral. Kindra and all five sons spoke, including a recording from Dawson in Korea. It was really nice. Ted's brother, Jerry drove his brother to the cemetery in this wagon.

Tyrel, Brian, Logan and Collin.

Notice they put Ted's brand on his coffin.

We did the whole trip in 24 hours. I was so glad we could go and give Tytyn a little one on one time. I'm not sure he knew what was going on the past couple of weeks with everyone's emotions. We watched Tytyn the morning of the funeral while the whole family attended the temple. We wrestled, played on the swing, laughed & played with his toys.When we went to the viewing we had Tytyn with us and I told him we were going to see his grandpa. The first thing he said was, "grandma don't cry." 

When the funeral started he cuddled up on my lap and fell asleep for over a hour.

A BIG thanks to my sister for taking my parents to the airport the next day so we could go to the funeral.

I don't worry about Kindra or her sons. They have been taught well and are hard workers. They have built their foundation on the Savior and have much faith. Remember, cherish those you love as we never know when our time on this earth will be cut short.