Congratulations, April!

For those that were able to make it to April's sealing & reception last Saturday, wasn't it lovely?!!!
For those that couldn't make it, or for those that just want to see some pictures, here they are!
(Please keep in mind that I am obviously not a photographer so most pictures contain people looking away from me.)

I love to see the Temple!
Wedding Paparazzi.
Greeting their guests as Mr. & Mrs. Alexander.
Hooray for James receiving his endowments, too!

Here's the T.N.Tippets family. (Although we look like we're dressed for a funeral. It was to make the flowers stand out better, right?)
Leah & her buddy looking stunning.
The Beautiful Castle Ranch. (Aren't we glad we have excuses to keep coming back?)


Ahh...young love.
Aunt Kathy pretending to be a statue. (Or maybe she had a loose thread.)
April's new adoring fan.
The newlyweds on their honeymoon trip to Holland. No, wait...that's just the windmill at the Ranch!
Did you get a load of that gorgeous dress???
Playing Peek-A-Boo through the window.
Austin's gorgeous baby blues.
Onlookers.
Austin getting a little assistance from Aunt Leah.
Just look at that sweet Audrey! What a princess!
Carrie & I were glad there was a stroller handy.
The decorations were breathtaking! Way to go Aunt Darice & Aunt Joni! (and their team)


What a nice new family you have!
With just a touch of silly!
Beautiful Bride & Bridesmaids.
The lovely cake.
I couldn't resist, because I'm a cupcake fan. These were citrus cupcakes. The Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting were gone before I could take the picture, but oooooh, they were good!
Their tasteful, yet fun cake feeding.What family function would be complete without a special musical number. But wait, where are the percussion instruments?

Take it away, Amy the songbird! It was just beautiful!
The first dance.
Unfortunately, by this time Spencer decided it was time to call it quits, so this ends the picture session. I only wish I got some of Uncle Reed burnin' up the dance floor! Congratulations April & Nate!

New Blog

Dear friends and family--

In honor of me staying home, I finally started my own blog. So if you're interested, check it out!

Reunion

Here's a question for all of you : Are any of you flying to the reunion? If so, what airport are you flying into and how are you getting to Tahoe from there? If I go to the reunion, it will just be me and Boedy, and as of right now, I have no idea how to get to Tahoe by plane and whatever else in the easiest way possible. Just wondering how the rest of you are doing it.

Poppy Love

Last week Grandma and Grandpa T (Tom and Lin) took Aurora and Spencer to frolic in the flowers at the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. Unfortunately, these poppies did not "make them sleepy" and no naps were had that day, but it sure looks like they had fun anyway!

Hilarious

Well, I'm supposed to be working right now..which is the reason why I hardly ever post because the majority of the time that I am on the computer is to work and it's always a race during Boedy's naps. Ah, the joys of working from home- I know, I should be grateful :) Anyways, I just had to do a quick check on the blog and am so glad I did because that Video of the musical in the food court made my day! That was SO FUNNY! It IS our family's dream!!!!! To burst out in song in the middle of nowhere about nothing! I loved it! I especially loved the reaction of the people and the looks on their face. Do you think those our the looks we are oblivious too when we are having our family reunions in public? he he

Can I get a napkin too?

They must have taken a cue from our family!

It's a . . .

'nother GIRL!

The technician tried to tell us that based on size she was due Aug 12. We tried to tell her that we like small girls and we're still saying the due date is Aug 1. Now we don't have to worry about having a boy grow up with a complex because his bedroom was pink.

Because no one ever posts and some of my friends for some crazy reason actually check this blog

I can't wait to be a SAHM and do things with my kids who say funny things that I can post on my own blog that people will laugh out loud reading. In the meantime, since mostly what I do all day is sit at work and read everyone else's blog and laugh out loud, I started this family blog. I figured that I don't have much to say, but maybe you do. Since that hasn't been the case (except for a couple of you who I thank dearly) I might just have to post a bit more about my boring life since my friends have stumbled across this blog and actually check it regularly in the hopes that I might post something! When I heard that, I was so embarrassed since nothing ever gets posted. So today, and in the future, I will remedy that and try and post more. At least until the situation in sentence one comes to pass. And maybe you, family, will be inspired to post mundane things things that happen in your lives because at least I would like to read them.

Now on to my post.

A couple weeks ago we took Aurora to Disneyland for her first visit. We debated about going because she's only a year and half, she won't remember any of it, she might not like rides, she might be crabby all day, and it's really expensive to deal with all of that. But we went anyway, because we wanted her first visit to be her special day, and with the new baby coming we didn't know when we would get the chance to go again, and we wanted to go before we had to pay for her ticket. Well, it turned out to be an absolutely magical day. She fell in love with her first pair of Mickey ears.She enjoyed almost all the rides, especially the Enchanted Tiki Room where she danced and clapped and sang the entire time. She became the star of the show because everyone was watching her instead of the birds! She was so cute meeting the princesses.
She didn't cry the entire day and didn't need a nap. I am so glad we went and can't wait to take her again!

Question for y'all???

So, just wanted to throw it out there to perhaps perk everyone up...Who's planning on going to the Family Reunion???? I'm ready to start getting pumped up for it! Show me some excitement! : )