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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

My Wedding Pictures are finally DIGITAL...

I am so excited to have my wedding pictures in digital format. It took forever, but now that it's done I am thrilled. I can hardly believe that it was nearly 14 years ago. Whenever I'm asked "what is your most favorite day?" I always say my wedding day. YES, I loved each one of my childrens births, but it all started with this perfect day. I loved everything about it, except that my brother Jon was still on his mission. Other than that it was truly the PERFECT day.

In this picture with my Dad, I remember the photographer said "now give your Dad a kiss on the cheek for paying all the bills to make this day happen"

The picture of my profile was taken by my Father-in-Law. Being that it's Father's Day this weekend I thought I'd post these pictures. I am very blessed to have a fabulous Dad who always did and still would do anything for me. I am also blessed to have a great father-in-law.

This is a picture of my Bridal party. I look back at these photos and I am so thrilled that I got my BLACK & WHITE wedding. I can't believe that little Spencer is now 16 and driving. Amelia and Meffie (as I now call Megan) are married adults. Even Vikki is married and has 4 little boys.

I love the Bridal shots of my wedding dress. This is the first dress I tried on after getting engaged. I of course tried on a million different dresses at a million different stores, but got the first dress I tried on in the end. Just like my engagement ring. I think girls have been dreaming of this moment their whole lives that when it finally happens we know exactly what we want.

I love these random wedding shots...I have never been a very photo-genic person and during these goofy shots Wayne was making the most HILLARIOUS comments. I think they turned out okay and real looking because I was laughing and smiling at my goofy husband. Most people don't know this but, WAYNE is the funniest person I know...and I know a lot of funny people!

These 2 pictures are probably 2 of my favorites. It was so windy when we came out of the Temple and I was worried that the photos would be bad, but the photographer assured me that wind makes some cool pictures. He was right, I love them. The tree that Wayne and I are posing in was destroyed during the tornado that ripped through Salt Lake. So, I love that I have a picture of what was once called the "wedding tree"

When Wayne first saw this picture of me, he said "I wish I could've been there to see you get up there in that dress" This is one of Wayne's favorite pictures. Jon Faldmo took a bunch of random shots of me. I love the non-traditional pictures, each one has a memory to go with it.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I have a SON...

My last couple of blogs have been all about Britt. I thought I should put some of my other kids too. I recently did one with Ally so I figured it's Jay's turn.

Tuesday night at Pack meeting Jay was awarded the Arrow of Light the ceremony was very cool and we all enjoyed it outside with a fire pit.

Jay really enjoys scouts and has worked very hard during his cub years. He has had some amazing leaders. I worked with him for only a few months when he was a BEAR. I can hardly believe that he is in BOY SCOUTS now. Man my kids are getting big.

Here Jay is awaiting Uniform inspection. The leaders decided that the boys were'nt really respecting their uniforms so they came up with a point system. Each part of the uniform gets a point

and the Den with the most points gets a prize. The list includes belt, hat, slide, scarf, combed hair, tucked in shirt, pants, clean & trimmed finger nails, books and hats. I have to say that Sister Reni is a genius because our Pack looks amazing now!!!

Jay had a great time during the ceremony and is thrilled to have this Arrow to put on display in his room. It was a fun filled evening.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

TEENAGERS ONLY...

Brittany and Bethany finally turn 13 Aunt Anne decided it would be fun to take the girls off for a special weekend. We went to San Francisco Anne surprised us with a room at the Westin St. Francis right on the quad of Union Square. We had dinner at the Cheescake Factory at the top of MACY'S

Here we all are waiting for the MUNI train we had walked from CHINATOWN down to EMBARCADERO St. and didn't want to walk the rest of the way to GHIRADELLI SQUARE we waited at the platform only to have two packed trains pass us by. We started walking and hailed a cab the rest of the way. We each ordered ICE CREAM and then we rode the TROLLEY back to Union Square and shopped at the big DISNEY store on the quad

Here Brittany is braving the TROLLEY. As we rode UP and DOWN the hills of San Fran Britt posed for onlookers who were taking pictures. One couple thought she was adorable and took another picture of her and Beth. They also enjoyed HIGH FIVING the passing Trolley cars as they went by us. We were so close to them that if you were standing on the outside (which we were) you had to take off any backpacks so they wouldn't bump the other Trolley cars. What a fun adventure. We actually rode the Trolley twice. We first caught it right at our hotel and rode to Chinatown and then we caught it on the PIER back up to the hotel.

Brittany and Bethany entertaining themselves as we wait for another train. We didn't wait that long, but we had a great time in the little while we did wait. These COUSINS always have a great time when they get together. We had a great dinner, then shopping and ended Friday night with a movie. We say Indiana Jones Britt and I had already seen it but we were more than happy to see it again. When we went back to the hotel we enjoyed our desserts from Cheescake Factory. We watched a little TV but we all were pretty tired so we zonked out.

Here the girls are making a toast to their teenage years they enjoyed their Shirley Temples and our dinners were all amazing. We had a fabulous time and only wish that Gramma Suzie could have been there to enjoy it with us. What a fun tradition I hope we do with the next batch of girls. We have twin and triplet cousin groups of girls and can't wait for the next adventure. Thanks Anne we had a memorable weekend.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Miscellaneous Madness

Jay loves performing. He was selected to act with this ACTING company. They performed PINNOCHIO at the local elementaries and then an evening at the COMMUNITY theater. Jay enjoyed every moment of this opportunity. He was invited to attend drama camp, but I made the PARENTAL decision that from 9-4 mon-fri for 6 weeks was no way for a 10 year old to spend his summer. Luckily Jay agreed that it wouldn't have been much of a summer.

FAMILY trip to Mitchell's baptism. These pictures are from February. We got to see VIKKI'S boys play basketball and then after the baptism we went to VAL & CORI'S place called PLAYERS. It's a place very similiar to the 49th St. Galleria. STEPHEN'S sister owns it so we were treated like royality. The KIDS loved it they had great food (the one difference from the galleria they have an awesome restaurant) played all sorts of GAMES and best of all hung out with COUSINS.

BIKE RIDE my kids are always ready and willing to go on a biking adventure.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Whole lotta nothin'...

Ally is thrilled to have finally lost a couple of teeth. She always wears this cheesy grin

Ally and Rachel at the 1st grade play " A Book is a Magic Carpet Ride"

Ally and her teacher Ms. Vernon--they adore each other equally

Ally proud to show of her book cover that she made all by herself.

Ally loved performing in the play--her line was "what are you talking about Tommy, there's no such thing as a magic carpet" She did a fabulous job and had a great time.