May 10/2009 Golden Spike

On Sunday May 10 we went out to Promontory,UT to watch the annual Driving of the Golden Spike, This has been a yearly tradition in our family ever since my son Anthony was old enough to go there. My dad started this tradition and we have kept going ever since and have taken all the rest of my kids, they love it. This year when we went Anthony told me he couldn't wait to start this same tradition with his son, I was so happy to hear him say that. It was a lovely day there nice,sunny and warm.It's funny how we go every year and see the same old thing but we love it. We enjoy watching the trains go by and blow their whistles and getting a tour of the trains when the reanactment is done. I love seeing dad with the kids on the way up there, he points out every year where the tracks were layed and where on the mountain they had to lay the tracks to get through and such and how they had to come over the Big Fill and such, it's interesting It really is and I know my dad loves to tell stories especailly when the kids ask questions, and you know grandpas they have an answer for everything :)

I could post many more pics of this wonderful day we had up there at the Golden Spike but there are to many but I will post this one, It's one of my very favorites and there hasn't been one taken like this I don't think ever, this is one picture all my kids will charish the most, I say that cause my mother who is no longer with us never liked to take pictures, so we have very few where she is with my kids in a photo, so this one is very special to me.

This is my dad and his grandchildern Anthony, Letticia, Ruben, Crystiena, This is my special picture.