Jackson and Mindy

 

July 28, 2012

Wedding of

Jackson and Mindy

A perfectly, beautiful day!

The anticipation of seeing the bride and groom come out of the temple doors was just killing us!  

 So happy!

 We are so thankful that Mindy and Kelsey are part of Jackson's life and of our lives too!  We love all 3 of those kids and have loved seeing the cuteness that is Jackson and Mindy!  LOVE THEM!!!

Jackson and Mindy were married in the Denver temple, the same temple that Matt and I were married in 12 years ago.  

We had to get our own family picture there.

We were weeks from having baby Isaac, so we didn't make it back to Laramie for the reception the next week, but we sure had fun at the little luncheon right after the wedding! 

 What could this conversation have been like?  :)

The clean up crew was pretty cute!!

 Kierra could not stop staring at the beautiful bride!  

I hope Kierra and all of our kids will always remember the special feeling of this day at the temple.  

I hope that they will always remember how special the temple is and that families can be together forever. 

S. piritually

M. inded

I. s

L. ife

E. ternal
(2nd Nephi 9:39)

 Caught red handed!  Oh those sweet innocent nieces!  :)

 Ready to drive off into eternity! 

We knew that Jackson and Mindy were ahead of us on the drive back from Denver to Laramie.  They were going to stop off in Laramie and then leave for their honeymoon.  Well...when we all pulled into Laramie and walked into Grandma and Grandpa's kitchen this is what we found!  These silly romantics...for their 74th date...decided to redecorate Grandma and Grandpa's house!  :)

 The sunset as we all left Laramie was absolutely stunning.  It was the perfect ending to a perfect weekend!  Congratulations to J,M,K,D,C!!  We love you soooo much!!

Thomas turns 3

 

Thomas is the KING of our house here!  His 3rd birthday (July 13th) was such a big hit for him and his sisters!  We all love to spoil our little man!

 

We had a small party for him here at home...

...before we decided to make a last minute trip to Laramie (without Daddy) for my 15th high school reunion.

We celebrated his actual birthday in Laramie with Daddy on the phone and lots of cousins! 

 Uncle Jackson even gave Thomas a new hair cut.

I wish I had been a little bit more picture happy on this trip.  I only took one of us looking at Grandma and Grandpa's new house.

And this was the only picture I got of my reunion...this was in my van after the fact when I realized I didn't take any of the night.  I think a couple of friends took a few the next day on the parade float.

And on our way out of town I thought I'd drive by our old apartments.  There were people sitting on the porch of our 1 bedroom, so I thought I'd better not take pictures of them, but here is our 2nd apartment...where we lived when Kaylee and Taylor were born.  

 It was a quick, last minute trip, but fun to get away!

Once we got home there was another present waiting for Thomas.

 We hope he had a fun birthday!  He really is the king of our house!  I LOVE how much the girls love him and want to do everything to make him happy!  I love how he makes us all laugh with his boyish ways!  I always used to hear people talk about the old cliche of how instinctively different boys are than girls.  This boy really does make everything into a sword or a gun....and his sound effects!  He is definitely his daddy's boy!   Happy Birthday Thomas Jay!!  We LOVE you!!

Uncles

 

We had a couple of uncles around our house quite a bit this spring and summer.  Uncle Dale (the youngest in my family) was working at the Lagoon Amusement Park all summer long singing and dancing.  We drove the hour up there for his dress rehearsal, and then we got to see him in between Kaylee and Emily's dance competition that they had up there in June.  If I hadn't been so pregnant we would've liked to have actually gone to the park for rides and everything and see him again, but we had fun the couple of times we did get to go.

 

He even made it on to Fox News!  Click HERE to see Dale dancing as a baby!  :)

 

And here is a little clip of him singing too!  

Also in the early summer we had Matt's brother (the oldest in their family) stay with us during the weeks.  Their family was in the process of moving from Heber City up to Rexburg, Idaho.  He still had to finish up work in Salt Lake so stayed with us during the week and then went to his new home on the weekends.  The girls had a blast hanging out with him for Family Home Evening and hopefully he had fun sitting in on our craziness...especially during Lehi Roundup Week.

We don't have immediate family very close anymore!  We do have some cousins, Aunts and Uncles close that we get together with every once in a while.  Matt used to have 2 brothers living here in the valley, but both of those families are gone now.  :(  Matt's parents are the closest...2 1/2 hours away.  We miss having family around, thus the reason we travel up to Wyoming as much as we do!  We do love those times when the Uncles pull out the guitars, or make our kids laugh!  We miss having the cousins all get together!  We do make the most of it when we are together though...that is for sure!  Thanks Uncle Dale and Uncle Ryan for hanging out with us a little bit this summer!  :)