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.