Soccer Games, Triathlons & Trunk or Treats!

It was a busy day for our family! We went to Luke's very FIRST soccer game! It was so fun to watch him and he is SUPER good at dribbling the ball! Katelyn participated in her very first Triathlon today in St. George-- super proud of her for all the hard work and training she has put into that! Tonight, we topped of the day by going to Megan and Todd's ward Trunk or Treat. It was such a beautiful, cool evening! It was so fun to see the boys as Mario and Luigi and watch them play... they are such active and happy little guys! It was such a fun night-- we saw a lot of people we know and it was fun to visit with Mark and Christy Lee, who's daughter Morgan lives in this ward now, too! Morgan and Megan were good friends in high school. What a fun night!

 

Brooke & Ben's Open House @ the Israelsen Home

We spent the entirety of our morning into the afternoon helping the Israelsen’s set up for the open house. We had the family party first from 3-5 and then the actual open house from 5-7:30. It was such a loooooooong day! BUT Uncle Doug and his wife Kathy came and it was so fun to see him and to meet Kathy for the first time. They are so cute together! Uncle Doug looks so good and so happy! Marilyn and Jim, Marla and Kyle and their family and Amber came from Bill’s side. Aunt Tommie Sue and Uncle Craig also came and it was so nice to visit with them for a bit too. I met a lot of Ben’s family and close friends and they are all so neat! He has a really close family and they are all so friendly!! A lot of them will be at the wedding. All of our family was there too! I’m so grateful for kids that support our family activities! Megan and Katelyn threw Brooke’s bachelorette party last night and apparently they went all out and made Brooke feel so loved! It was fun to be there with the boys today, as well! We kinda ducked out at 6 for the kick off of the BYU v. Utah game! It was such a great game and we ended up pulling out another awesome win! 7-0 baby!! Woohooo!! Go Cougs!! Our family was pretty much all downstairs watching the game— oh and Kaden came with Katelyn for all the activities too. They are getting asked a lot of questions about when their wedding is going to be.  Overall it was a great open house with beautiful weather and I am now officially tapped out socially!  It was fun but long!!!

 

Brooke and Ben's New Digs...

Brooke is moving into their new apartment this week. She showed me these 2 pictures on our facetime call today. It is so dang cute!! I can't wait to see it. Things have just really fallen into place for these two! It's located in Sandy, which is so much CLOSER to where they both work... so that will be a lot less time and traffic on the road. They are having the bachelorette party here tomorrow night-- she moved in just in time!!!

Utah for Mary's Wedding!

This morning we went to the Payson temple for Mary’s DeGraffenried's sealing! Met up with Katelyn and Kaden for the sealing and saw family members we haven’t seen in a while! It was a beautiful sealing and day!! (Brooke had to work, so she felt badly she couldn’t make it.). After we took pictures outside, we took Katie and Kaden to get some lunch at Costa Vida. They couldn’t come down to the reception in Delta because they had tests and homework… The luncheon was so nice! They had a really nice roast beef dinner. I didn’t realize how hungry I was and it tasted so good! The reception was so beautifully decorated! Mary and Seth are such a great couple and come from such amazing families!! We love Jenell and Owen and their family so much! We left the reception early and were so glad we did! On the outskirts of Provo-- before getting in to town, we ran into a MASSIVE lighting and rainstorm! We could barely see as it was dark and we were going about 20 mph with our hazards on! It was pouring rain!!! Kaden and Katelyn wanted to watch the BYU game with us so we went to Kaden’s house where they were. It had been delayed due to weather down in Tucson as well!! (Rain with lightning!) It was a crazy game and we ended up winning in double overtime against U of A! We were all on the edge of our seats— Kaden’s roommates, us and a friend who sold pest control with Kaden who isn’t a member was visiting from South Carolina! Her name is Sydney and she’s going to church at Katelyn’s ward tomorrow! She was super nice!! It was a fun group to watch the game with and I was glad we got to spend a little more time with Kaden and Katelyn! It has been a great day!!!

 

Brooke & Ben's First Look & Bridals!!!

These pictures are GORGEOUS and Brooke looks so happy and beautiful!!! Tia did such a great job on them and I'm so pleased with the final product... WOW!!! They took these pictures at a place called Guardsman's Pass in Utah. It is such a magical place to have pictures... I love all the Aspen trees! Their special day is coming up quickly and I am so excited for them. They are so happy!!! Here are my favs out of 280 shots!!!!!!!!!