Catching up Before the Wedding

My baby sister is getting married in 5 days and I leave in for Kansas City in 8 hours but I had SO many pictures to post, so I decided to catch up before I the wedding because you know I'll have a TON of pictures to post afterwards!!

A couple of weekends ago our church had a bridal shower for a girl in our church.  Everything was decorated SO cute!!  The them was 50's House Wife!!

A picture of everyone who helped put the shower together

How cute is all this!

Guest having a FABULOUS time!!

The WOMAN of the hour!!

Haylee talking to Nana

We went bowling the other night with our friends Aric and Kristin!!  It was so much fun and I'm AWESOME at bowling!!  Can you tell by my score!!

We were invited to go camping about 2 1/2 hrs away with several other families from church!!  I was a little worried about sleeping in a tent with two kids but it was GREAT!!!  They did awesome and we ALL had a GREAT time!!!

Garrett rode this bike the whole time!!  Great....pink bike and helmet!!  Sporting boy all the way!!

Garrett found this caterpillar!!  He was so proud of himself!!

Church on Sunday!!  

The fire was HOT

Homemade Ice Cream= Staple of Camping

Ashley and Haylee

 Reading the Bible after church

BUBBLES

We decided to go on a whale watching tour!!  It was HORRIBLE!!!  The waves were choppy. We didn't see any whales and Haylee got SO sick!!!

Haylee at the beginning of the ride and then at the end of the ride!!  Poor baby girl!!

Garrett and I had a GREAT time!!

Again a BEFORE and AFTER

 

There are all the pictures!!!  Now for SO many more.....next week! Can't WAIT!!!  It's going to be a FANTASTIC week!!!

Wedding

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance

A church filled with family and friends.

I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,

He said one that would make me his wife.

~Author Unknown

A couple at church got married this weekend and for some reason asked me to take pictures for their wedding.  They were unable to hire a REAL photographer, so they asked me.  I agreed because I thought it would be great practice....but it was VERY stressful as well!!  I enjoyed myself and it helped that the bride was so sweet and easy going, but this was her BIG day.  A day that will never happen again and if I screw anything up....well that would be heartbreaking.  It was also easy because they just wanted a few pictures taken....ok so I didn't succeed in that department with 199 shots taken, but hey they'll have plenty to choose from!!  Here are a couple of my favorites!!

Loving the Outdoors

We have been LOVING the warm weather!!  Today we spent ALL day outside!!  It was so nice to be in the sun and let the kids run around and have fun!!!  

Our friends Aric and Kristin don't have a bathtub in their home (they do HAVE a shower :)....so Noah hasn't taken many baths and really doesn't like it.  We decided to show him how much fun baths can be!!!

He wasn't too impressed.....

......but these are where his genes are from (we love you Aric!!)

Our friend Jerry turns 50 this month!!!  His wife had a surprise birthday party for him Wednesday!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERRY!!!!

My Children

"HULK SMASH!!"

"I promise I'm not a terrible two year old!"

Ready for Summer

We are all ready for summer and we have the bumps and bruises to prove it!!  It has been really nice here the last week....please don't look at the forecast because I don't want to hear it!!  The other day Haylee and I got a little sun on our shoulders....I even put the sunscreen in my purse!!  79 DEGREES!!!  Here is some proof of SUMMER TIME!!!

Well we have just been playing!!  I had a FABULOUS birthday week!!   You already heard all about my surprise birthday party!!  Well then on my actual birthday Garrett had his LAST day of preschool.....FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!!!  How exciting/sad is that!!  He wasn't even sad because "I'm going to kindergarten!!"  His teachers were SO awesome!!  We could not have asked for a better preschool experience!! 

All of the VOLUNTEER preschool teachers!!!

That day for lunch my girlfriends took me out to lunch!!  Some sisters from our church came over and watched the kids and we took of to have ourselves a wonderfully QUIET birthday lunch!!  Thank you guys again for EVERYTHING!!!  They even fought over who was going to buy my lunch (I had a coupon for a free entrée)

That evening Garrett's preschool had an end of the year program!!  SO cute!!!

They showed a slide of all the kids throughout the year....here are all the kids (ages 3-4) that benefited from this AMAZING preschool!!

Garrett and his four year old teachers (teacher Jenny is missing)

Today was a busy and fun day!!  Garrett had T-ball in the morning!!  SO MUCH FUN!!  We then went to the Farmer's Market!!  So crowded, so busy, so chaotic.....SO AMAZING!!  It is a crazy busy place but they produce and stuff they offer is so awesome!!  It was such a glorious afternoon, it was nice to walk around!!

   

How precious is that face!!!  She was in such a good mood today!!

  

After the market Haylee came home to take a nap (all that laughing wore her out!!) and Garrett and I headed over to a birthday PARTY!!!

We got it on like Donkey Kong!!

I guess I'm a pretty good teacher because this cake was AWESOME!!!  WAY TO GO CINDY!!!

Happy Birthday Lucas!!

Haylee has been on a Dora kick lately!!!  Couldn't resist this picture taken' moment!!

And I will leave you on that note!!