Days before the BIG DAY!

These are a bunch of random pictures taken days leading up to Kelly being married. Chris, Seth and I drove down to Salt Lake City on the Sunday before. We were orignialy going to leave on Monday but after hearing about a bad storm coming our way decided to leave a day early and it's a real good thing we did because this storm was a doozy! We had 4 days with Kelly before she became a Mrs. on Friday March 8, 2013!




MONDAY

On Monday the three of us went to see her new "apartment" (a converted garage) and because Kelly is going to school to be a Medical Assistant she needs to practice taking peoples blood pressure so here she is taking Chris's. The picture of me is down at the end of this post (it got mixed up when I was downloading the pictures).

After getting the A-Okay on our medical status we went to eat at FireHouse Subs. It blows Subway out of the water! And the drink combonations were crazy cool!

Before Kelly and I went swimming in the Hotel pool we were playing Hay Day on our Ipad and Iphone. Her head is on my shoulder (hope she still does that after she becomes a Mrs.) and we had a great time chatting in the pool and hot tub (she didn't want to get out!).


TUESDAY

The next day Kelly and I ran some errands and had an early lunch at Kneaders.

This Joy Of Cooking cookbook has become a tradition in my family. Kelly is the fourth generation to get one. She was very happy to get it! One of her best gifts she said. Mother knows best!

We stopped at to get some candy for the Open House in Lethbridge. I love See's Candy. Especially their lollypops!

Later in the afternoon Kelly and I walked a long ways down State Street to get to the place that Kelly set up for us to get manicures. It was alot of fun and such a treat! Perhaps Kelly and I can make another tradition.

Mother/Daughter hands! Ha!



WEDNESDAY

Kelly made her Bouquet and the Boutonniers's for Scott and Sue (Dallin's parents) and Chris and I. She did a great job. They turned out perfect!

Kelly was trying on her wedding dress and shoes for one last check to make sure she was all ready to go!

After making sure everything was ready we still needed to run to Walmart for a few last minute things for the reception and of course to have a quick lunch at MacDonalds! The 3 of us love MacDonalds!

Oh, my golly they are so cute together!

After attending the temple that evening Scott and Sue took us to to Benihana's for a nice dinner.


THURSDAY

The day before the BIG DAY.....Kelly is packing for her honeymoon to Lake Tahoe!

Looks like everything is all ready to go!!!

After  a few more errands (do errands ever really get done?) we headed over to the church in Sandy to start decorating for the reception. This is what Kelly saw when she walked in. Ahhhh....Dallin!

A bit of a story with the tablecloths but it all turned out well in the end. Nothing that a little ironing couldn't take care of.

Guess lee lee had a phone call to make amongst the flower assembling.

Almost brother in laws! Seth and Dallin. It's pretty exciting to have a new member of the family.

Kelly and Dallin made these cupcake platters to hold the cupcakes at the reception. They did a great job!

This arrangement was on each table. The theme was Vintage.

More flower making.

Scott and Sue gave Kelly and Dallin this Pistachio green Kitchen Aid....their first officail gift!

After all the decorating was complete we all went to Mo Bettah' Steaks for Hawaiian plate lunches.
Teriyaki Chicken, 2 scoops rice and macaroni salad. And don't forget the Hawaiian Sun drinks!

Here is that picture of Kelly taking my blood pressure that was suppose to be the first picture in this post. Oh well.

And here is another picture of us eating at Mo Bettah' Steaks. Thank you to the Cahoon family and daddy/grandpa for your help with the decorating!

Be on the look out for another post all about the BIG DAY!

Christmas 2012

It was a different Christmas this year. We only had Seth home with us. Sean and Caleb weren't able to join us from B.C. and Kelly was spending Christmas with her boyfriend in California. Although all the kids couldn't be here it was a great Christmas but we are hoping that next year will be different! On Boxing Day Chris and I (Seth was working and couldn't get the time off) drove down to St. George to visit daddy, see Kelly on the way back home in Salt Lake City and to meet her boyfriend Dallin. Funny thing though when we met him for the first time he wasn't Kelly's boyfriend anymore. He was our future Son-in-law! He had popped the question the day before!

The Sunday before Christmas we drove out to the Cahoon's (Lee Lee's) for dinner and yes you see Rudolphs nose and antlers on my car. Just being festive and fun!

Mark and Clark taking the turkey out of the oven veeeeery carefully (had to get a shot just in case it dropped because it was sitting on a wobbly cookie sheet). Ha!

 Lee Lee's Christmas table always looks smashing! 

 

 

It's always fun to take those "Christmas morning" pictures right? As you can tell Chris had been awake for awhile and Seth had JUST BARELY woken up!

No picture of me (those are my legs though) but here in one of my favorite gifts from Lee Lee. Yep, pink M&M's printed with our "picture" and "best sister" and "twins forever" on them. It kind of feels funny to eat them but I do anyway because I LOVE M&M's! The picture below is the ever traditional Christmas morning cinnamon rolls! I have FINALLY pefected the gooey sauce thanks to one of Kelly's friends!

I gave this CD to Chris for Christmas and we listened to it a lot on our trip to Utah. The group is from Newfoundland and it's loaded with upbeat music and positive lyrics with a celtic flare!

We saw this SUV in Idaho Falls and thought it was kind of fun. It's even more festive than my Rudolph car! Great idea.

On the day we arrived in St. George there was a concert at the Old Tabernacle and so Daddy, his friend Nikki and I went. The picture below is of the inside. Interesting story about the Tabernacle: Brigham Young asked the saints in St. George to build it 1871 and interestly enough this is where Lorenzo Snow delivered his talk on tithing. Apparently St. George was in real trouble because there hadn't been rain for a very long time so after Lorenzo Snow's talk the people started to pay thier tithing, the rain came and St. George was saved. Lorenzo Snow was living in SLC at the time and had an impression to go down to St. George. He didn't know the reason until after this happened. Cool eh?

The ever beautiful St. George temple. As soon as the Old Tabernacle was just about complete Brigham Young then said, "I think it's time we build a temple here". It was completed in 1876.

We had a great Christmas season this year! We had a great road trip just Chris and I and Kelly got engaged! Hard to beat! Until next year though when all of our kids will be home for Christmas. No pressure.....just trying to be positive! :)

Kelly is engaged!

Kelly met the love of her life in a class at the LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dallin asked Kelly to marry him at the Oakland Temple on thier way to San Fransisco for the day and I have NEVER seen her more happy!! It's been fast but "when you know, you know". And they know! They will be married in the Salt Lake Temple on March 8, 2013.

We are very excited to have Dallin Walker join the family! Congratulations you guys!!!

And Then There Was One.

So 7 years ago Sean officially moved out of the house when he was 18 years old (it was a little tramatic for us because Chris and I had gone out to see a movie and when we returned home Sean's bedroom was COMPLETLEY empty). He moved in to his own apartment in Regina and then in to a house downtown with some friends and then in the summer of 2007 he moved to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Tofino and then Victoria.

Although Kelly has been away to school at BYU Idaho and lived in Virginia for a summer it has been almost 9 months since she officially moved out to SLC, Utah.

  Yesterday Caleb moved out and left for British Columbia following in his big brothers footsteps but living outside of Vancouver in a city called Richmond. Caleb has rented a 4 bedroom house with 3 friends and will be working for Vivint. He worked for them up in Edmonton last summer and did quite well installing alarm systems but wants to try his hand out in selling the alarm systems. He is happy to start a new life in B.C. and we know he will do well.

And then there was one.
Seth is still at home with us and we are happy to have him around. Shhhhhh....don't tell anyone but he is our homebody. Our homebody boy.

Good luck Caleb and don't forget to visit once in awhile okay?

November the 2nd = Seth's 18th Birthday!

It's hard to believe that our youngest child is 18. No really. It's crazy! One day back in 1987 when I was pregnant with Sean I remember seeing a lady who was close to having her 4th baby and thinking to myself, "No way". I just couldn't imagine myself having 4 kids! Well.......never say never!!

I just love this picture of Caleb and Seth back in 1996. We were living in Camarillo, California at the time and I was making our famous chocolate cake. Look at Seth's little hands. By the way, I still use those exact bowls, measuring cups and still use that recipe book for our famous chocolate cake. Oh, and I still have that robe. But, I don't have that mixer anymore.

Here is Seth on his 2nd birthday. No chocolate cake. Just a dumb old cupcake.

Seth had asked if he could have a birthday breakfast this year and I said, "sure"! So he requested BL's. BLT's with out the tomatoes.

And the morning of his birthday he left this note on the counter for me to see when I woke up. Just one more thing for his birthday breakfast. Sure!

Just like his 2nd birthday Seth still looks down at his cake. Or is it becuse I'm not very good at timing my picture taking? No matter.

Happy Birthday to our youngest boy whom I told so many times never to grow up! But he did.