A Beautiful Day

We always love going up north to visit family, but we especially love going up north for very special occasions.  The end of April we headed up to Logan for just such an event:

Marlene and Jesse's 

Wedding!

We had a good day to play before the big celebration.  Jacob and Ty headed out with the boys to do all sorts of cattle wrangling.  The girls stayed back at Grandma's house to enjoy some cherished time with COUSINS!  If the boys were going to be out cattle wrangling, the girls were going to do some puppy wrangling.  Poor little things.  I'm talking about the puppies:

Kenna loved that this one was so snuggly:

Allie just loved having something to pester:

And Lexi wasn't quite sure about a nippy little puppy.  Which is best because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take much for the puppy to get annoyed with a nippy little toddler:

I am pleased to say no puppies were harmed during the filming of the puppy wrangling.  Mostly.  Probably just emotionally scarred.

Now on to the BIG DAY!  

The heavens were so thrilled for the newly created eternal family, they were weeping.  Literally.  Yep, it was a bit rainy.  Okay, fine, it was really rainy.  But even rain can't damper such a beautiful event!  Here we are waiting for the happy couple to come out of the temple:

Kenna and Grandpa trying to stay dry:

Jacob and Seth taking shelter.  Look Seth, you made the blog again!  You handsome fella, you!!  Attention all single ladies!!

This dapper young man is available and quite a catch, so get in line!  He he he.  We love you Seth.  Not so sure you'll feel the same after that (insert big smiley face here).

 Not even rain can get Aunt Julie down:

These wonderful ladies all have smiles too.  And take note of Grandpa who is so darn proud to be standing there with all those wonderful ladies:

Here they come!  Such a beautiful bride!

Hooray for a beautiful new family!  And new cousins too!

After a few quick pictures at the temple we all headed down to the Coppermill for lunch and some more (dry) pictures.  Here are all the siblings...

...minus 2.  Andrea and Ben came down for the big day but ended up in the hospital with sweet little Aleah who had a nasty virus making it difficult for her to breath.  Second was Elder Benson who is so dutifully serving down in Mexico.  But have no fear, we still got to love Uncle Benson a little bit too!

Uncle Benson has done a really good job randomly moving about the house and giving everyone a good scare now and then.  


We love you Marlene and Jesse! (Shout out to G&G Otte who took Lexi Lou back to their house for a nap.  It really was best.)

Ty Man and Mommy waiting for some of that delicious Coppermill grub:

Marlene is known for being such a giving person, and her wedding day was no exception.  She had a little thank you to hand out to everyone.  She doesn't ever stop!  All the kiddos loved helping to pass out her sweet little gift:

 

 All in all it was a perfect day. 

C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S to the new eternal family! 

We were so grateful to be part of your beautiful day!

A New Post

Wow.  I am so impressed with my extremely creative title for this entry.  That one is going to pique some serious curiosity.

I'm not sure I'm quite convinced that it's already May.  Not to mention that May is nearly half over.  The past month has passed at mach speed and once again, I need to update!  I have a LOAD of pictures and all sorts of excitement to catch up on like a wedding and a trip to Hawaii (yes, I know it's awesome!), but I guess I have to go back to Easter....


Behold the yearly egg dye:

A few things to note here:  First, Lexi is not a part of the egg dye.  That is called nap time strategy.  Second, Ty and Allie have their glasses on upside-down.  Don't ask questions.  I sure don't.

Back by popular demand was an Easter scavenger hunt.  The debate is still out on who exactly the Easter Bunny is and just how much interaction occurs between Mom and the Easter Bunny.  I do not divulge.  But when there is candy and a scavenger hunt, sometimes you just have to be satisfied with the fun of it all! 

Yes, Kenna has a basket on her head.  Once again, sometimes you just have to be satisfied with the fun of it all ( I remind myself often of that).


Maybe the biggest Easter surprise came later that afternoon when we got a new arrival at the farm.  We proudly introduce to you the new horse, Lightning:

And of course a beautiful Easter Sunday.  I am really digging the backdrop of the chain link fence.  I have some mad photo skills.  I'm just glad they all are looking at the camera.  That is picture success to me!

This was the other option:

Ha!  Good thing they're so darn cute.

I also need to document Kenna's performance for the Second Grade Talent Show!  And thanks to my lack of arms, I opted to use the camcorder so here is the only measly picture I got.  But now we can forever remember Kenna played the piano at school on April 22, 2014!  She did a great job.