WEDDING STUFF CONTINUED

What a crazy weekend we had!!

Chelsie and Brian came home Friday night to spend the weekend doing wedding stuff. Chelsie and I spent Friday night locked in my office fitting her wedding dress (which is absolutely beautiful) and making sure it all fits okay. There are many, many layers to a dress. She is going to die of heat wearing all the layers (corset, slip, spanks, dress and her adorable little shrug jacket) on July 11 in the afternoon. The dress is beautiful and she looks like a princess in it!

Saturday morning we met the decorator at the park in the morning to get the layout of the seating and what not all figured out. It started to rain at that time. We had wanted to take some pictures for the invitations but the rain changed our plans real quick. We then headed to south Logan to go pick out invitations and by the time we got there, it was SNOWING! There were some of the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen falling from the sky. The invitation picking was a challenging process. The kids said they wanted to do black and white (since it’s cheaper) and the sales lady then told them that they needed to pick the “colors” for the black, white and gray stripes on the invitations. Who knew that there were so many shades of black and gray?? They finally gave up and just decided to go with color photo invitations. They will be great! I can’t wait to see them.

Then we had an appointment with the cake decorator. Chelsie knew exactly how she wanted the cake so that process went quick and easy!!

Then, we headed shoe shopping. Chelsie needed to get TALL flip-flops to wear with her dress and we needed to get shoes for the bridesmaids. We were able to find them all shoes and they are so darned cute. Brian is such a trooper. He has wanted to be a part of every second of this wedding process and doesn’t mind going shopping ALL DAY. He makes it fun and is in such a great mood all the time. I am so excited to have him be a member of our crazy family. He was trying on women’s clothing. It was hilarious!

We were able to accomplish everything we had set out to do that day and even found an adorable dress for the flower girl.

Then we met up with Jade and Brit to go to dinner for Brian’s birthday which was last weekend. We laughed a lot at dinner and it was nice to SIT DOWN. Kandice and Josh couldn’t make it as they had gone to SLC for the day. We missed them.

On the way home the rain had finally stopped and we were able to stop and get a few photos of the kids. All in all, we did end up taking 57 pictures that day despite the rain. It was a fun day and am thrilled we got so much accomplished.

Yesterday was Branson’s 1/2 birthday. He is 6 months old. HOLY COW has the past six months zoomed by! We sure do love him. He is such a good baby and really starting to develop quite the funny personality. He has learned to give kisses and “high fives” and is such a funny baby.

Jade, Brit, Branson, Kandice and Josh all came to dinner for spaghetti and meatballs and cupcakes. Branson got to taste a little icing and we had a realy fun visit! On the way to our house, they drove through snow, rain, sleet, hail and even a little sunshine. Funny we can have four seasons in a 20-mile drive around here.


Jade and Brit found out last Thursday that they are due with the new baby on November 3. Branson was due November 2 so they will be exactly a year apart. We are so excited to have a new baby and hope this pregnancy goes as smooth as her pregnancy with Branson did.

Glen started his new job yesterday. They did away with is maintenance job and he had to be placed in another position in the store. He has worked for Fred Meyer, now Smith’s, for nearly 12 years now working the graveyard shift. They didn’t want to have to lay him off or lose him as an employee. They know he’s a hard worker and a great employee. He is now in the garden center working 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is so nice to have him working during the day. I think it will be hard for him to get used to, but I really think he will like it so much better. He already seems to be a different person. I will be so happy to have him home at night and not sleeping all day.

SAD SUNDAY

We were woken up this morning at just before 8:00 by a phone call from Josh's cousin, Shannon. She said something terrible had happened at Kandice and Josh's house. My head spun. My heart raced. I couldn't imagine what could have happened, but imagined the worse things.

She told me that Josh had found their adorably sweet cat, Sammy, dead. I was just at Kandice's house last night and Sammy came into the kitchen to say hello, as he always did. He was fine one minute and gone the next. Josh didn't know what to do. He was so upset, so sad and very worried about what to tell Kandice and how she would handle it when she came home from work on her break.

We hurried and got showered and ran down there to help them. We grabbed a box and a blanket as Josh didn't think he could bear to pick him up and move him. We are all so lucky to have Glen as he is the only one strong enough emotionally to pick up our animals when they die and place them lovingly in a box.

Sammy holds a special place in our hearts because he was our baby before Kandice and Josh took him home. We had his momma for 10 years. She was an adorable Himalayan named Jasmine. She was my favorite cat. She had beautiful litters of kittens and loved nothing more in the world than being a momma. She had a little red stuffed kitten out of a Happy Meal that she carried around with her and loved like a real baby. We were so excited when Kandice and Josh decided to adopt one of her kittens so we could watch him grow up. He was beautiful and I loved to see him when I went to Kandice's house.

We stayed with them for a while, comforted Kandice as she said her "good-byes" and made sure they were okay and then headed home.

It has stayed on my mind all day today. I feel so bad for the two of them. Kandice had seen hm up and playing at 4:30 this morning and then three hours later Josh found him dead. He died healthy and suddenly just like his mother did. She died in her sleep with no warning. They weren't sick or hurt. I guess that's the way to go but it sure is sad for those of us they leave behind.

Love you Kandice and Josh.

HAPPY EASTER

We had the kids up last night to have Easter dinner and color eggs. It was a BLAST! Who says you have to be a kid to color eggs and have fun? I bought bunny ears for everyone because I thought they would make fun pictures. The girls were good sports and didn't mind wearing the ears.

The boys however didn't find it quite as fun. Finally, after much persuasion, they put them on and played along.

They are both saying, "Are you serious? We have to wear ears?"

Roxy even got into the game.

Branson nook a nap for most of the coloring but woke up for a few minutes long enough for us to put ears on his head.

We filled his Easter basket with new clothes, toys and a stuffed bunny but he just wants to eat everything and rub the soft stuff on his face. He loves to rub soft things on his sweet little face.

It was great fun and so glad we had the chance to have everyone but Brian and Chels here. We missed them. Hopefully they can be with us next year!

LIFE IS NEVER BORING!

It has been a long while since I have posted. We have been busy with the wedding plans and preparation and are getting very close to having it all wrapped up. Chelsie and Brian came home last weekend and we went on and ALL DAY shopping trip to find dresses for her bridesmaids. We finally found some that everyone agreed on and I think they will be so cute! We also got all of the stuff needed for Brian's mom and her sister to put together the flowers and centerpieces. Can't wait to see it all come together.

Chelsie got her dress and veil and all yesterday. She emailed me pics last night and it is absolutely beautiful. She is going to be such a pretty bride.

I think it's going to seem weird to have all of our kids married. In my mind, I am still 26. How can I have three married kids??

My mom and sisters are on their way to Las Vegas right now to go watch the ACM award show in person. I am a bit jealous I must say. I hope they have a great time!

Brit and Jade found out that they are expecting again, and it has been quite a shocker for both of them. She was scheduled for gall bladder removal surgery and they did a routine urine test for pregnancy. She hasn't had a period since Branson was born and so doesn't know if she's even ovulated. The nurse came back and took blood for a blood test as the urine test was positive! The blood test came back positive as well. Needless to say, she didn't have the gall bladder surgery and the news kind of threw them into a tailspin for a few days! We are thrilled however and look very forward to having a new grand baby. Who could not be excited about more moments like this???


I was talking to Jade on the phone earlier tonight and Branson was giggling so hard in the background. I asked Jade what was going on and he said Branson has decided that Daisy (their black lab) is very funny to watch. We all laughed at the sound of his laugh for nearly five minutes on the phone. I could hear Brit in the background laughing. Jade and I were laughing and Branson just kept letting out belly giggles. There is nothing cuter in the whole world than the sound of a baby's giggle. I just can't tell you how much I love that sweet baby boy.

We are all so tired of snow and cold. Our yard is so saturated, muddy and most of the grass has standing water. We have had a heck of a time trying to find a place to take Roxy to play ball that she doesn't get all muddy! I will be SOOO happy for sun and warmth.

The Jazz have really been sucking it up lately and it is so frustrating to watch them lose over, and over, and over again. We have always been huge Jazz fans and were so stoked this season as even with all of the injuries they have been riddled with, they still played so well and had such energy. I don't know what's up with them this past couple of weeks, but they have gone from 3rd place in the western conference to 7th and are pushing 8th. They have been playing like they just really don't care. They play nearly all of the rest of their games (7 games left I think) on the road, and can't seem to win on the road this year. I really hope they can get to the playoffs and at least make it out of the second round. Don't know what we'll do when there aren't any Jazz games to watch. That's about the only thing we ever really sit down and watch on TV together.


Going Easter shopping for Branson tomorrow and seems so fun to go shopping for a child for Easter again. It's been a lot of years since I've bought stuffed bunnies and Easter baskets!