Pioneer Cemetery--MLK Day of Service

We had a great time sprucing up the cemetery today, despite the freezing cold wind. The kids were great sports about it and Elias especially really got into scrubbing each and every dirty headstone he saw with a bucket of soapy water and a brush. (Sometimes it does pay off to have a child with OCD, after all!)
Chloe was a primo branch-gatherer. We've had some very stormy days, and there were free range branches covering a good portion of the graves.

Clementine did enjoy dragging some smaller branches into piles, but for the most part she wanted to re-arrange flowers and trinkets on graves while we urged her not to, and discover little kitty statues under some of the more ornate headstones:
We were luck enough to have Nana helping.

And here's a final shot of Daddy Gibbous hefting bags of debris:
So what did you all decide to do to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day? And can you believe that as of this posting, there are less than twelve hours left of the Bush era?

Can I hear a Woot-Woot?

That's what I'm talking about.