Day 4

This morning we had my sister-in-law Kristen's baby shower. She is expecting her 2nd child, baby Alex, next month. Next to her on the couch are my awesome cousin Crystal (the host) and my cute Grandma. Love her.



Me with my gorgeous cousin Heather and my favorite sister, Lorie.

After the shower, my mom had to go back to California. :( Lame. I miss her already. I wish she would move to Washington.

After a rousing yard-saling trip, here are Heather and Lorie giving into the urge to sing and dance to "New York, New York." (remember how I said we're big geeks?)

After playing lots of games, we had a BBQ in my aunt's amazing backyard. Afterwards, some of us went on a lovely 5 mile walk.

Here are Marilyn and my cousin Crystal's oldest boy, Cohen. He is such a cutie! (Makes me miss my Addy-pants)

We watched Sherlock Holmes in my aunt's theatre tonight, and well, it was awesome. Then Lorie, my sister-in-law Christina and I played catch phrase and laughed our heads off... and why am I still up? I don't know.

Tomorrow: fun and games, and going home.

Day 3

Today started out with doing touch-ups on my aunt's house where the reception would be tonight. After that, my mom, my aunt and I went on a quest to find Amy a new outfit. I desperately wanted a cute dress. I have been either nursing or pregnant since 2002, I've lost a ridiculous amount of weight and it was high time I had a cute dress to wear. Am I right?? Sadly, my quest was rather disheartening. Such cute stuff, but absolutely nothing in my size. Halfway through our quest, my aunt found herself a new dress, so that worked out well. After the 5 millionth store, we found it. And oh how I love it. But then of course I also needed new shoes.

After that, we went up to the wedding in Salt Lake. It was beautiful. Gavin and Emily are so in love. Gavin was basically ready in his suit since the moment the sun came up. Slightly anxious to get married. Emily, of course, was just gorgeous.

Here is the happy (that word doesn't even cover it) couple.

This was kind of hilarious, after the initial pictures, Emily went over to talk to her sisters, and 2 of my brothers came running over to Gavin squealing stuff in high-pitched girly voices like "Oh my goodness, congratulations!!!" "OOhh, I'm so excited for you!!!" "Let me see!" and then Gav flips out his hand and shows off the ring. Yes, we are a bunch of geeks. But it is way more fun that way. You should try it.

Me and my gorgeous favorite sister, Lorie. (and my new dress and shoes)

Don't say I didn't warn you we were geeks. Lorie insisted on a picture with "jazz hands." Apparently, I have a lot to learn.

I didn't get a picture of the cone of silence (you've seen Get Smart? well you should), but fear not, more to come on that. I'll steal the pictures from Lorie's camera tomorrow.

And then here is my super cute niece, Serra. I love her! She is a funny girl.

After that was the lovely reception at my aunt's house. I did an encore performance of the song I wrote.

After the reception, we watched a movie in my aunt's movie theatre. It. was. awesome. My uncle even popped us popcorn at their snack bar. So cool.

On tomorrow's list: my sister-in-law Kristen's baby shower!

Day 2

Another fabulous day. I did a lovely workout this morning in my aunt's gym, only I wanted to die because apparently a change of over 4000 feet of altitude makes a huge difference in how well you can breathe. Hopefully tomorrow's will go better!

Then I spent the next few hours working with my mom and my aunt on this beauty:

My nearly sister-in-law designed it. I did most of the detail work. Oh, and that's my daddy in the background. :)

And remember my post of last week where I was flipping out over how excited I was about something? Well now I can reveal it. I've been working on and off for the last few months on a song for my brother and his fiancée. I told them I was working on something for them, but needed a little more information from them before I could finish. I emailed them separately, asking for their engagement story, when they first met, when they knew they wanted to get married and anything else they wanted to throw in. Emily wrote me back almost immediately and I was able to finally put words to this song that I had written. I had the first line, but that was it. Gav wrote me back only a couple days ago, but you know. It still worked out. So here is what I was excited about. I printed it up and took it to Staples and asked them if they could make it look like real sheet music, and they did! It turned out SO well! That Staples guy has not seen the last of me! I've already taken more music to him to get printed. It looks AMAZING. I would post a picture of the inside here, but I need to protect my work. So if you ever want to see it, just ask!

Tonight, we had a family dinner up at Emily's aunt's house in Park City. That place has an amazing view! After dinner, I gave Gavin and Emily their gift and played it for them, and they were so excited. (and so was I! phew!) Gavin wants to learn to play it now. I'm so relieved they liked it.

Inside the music, I also included a copy of each of their responses to my email. I thought they'd like to know what the other one said!

Tomorrow's agenda: The wedding!!!

p.s. Funny story: Jeremy called me last night to inform me that quote "I don't know how you do it!" Finally. And then tonight while I was at the dinner, he called my phone, then called my mom's phone, then sent me a text that said "Call me Now", so I'm sitting here thinking that one of my kids must be in the E.R. or something. No, no. Apparently Jeremy was making the kids mac and cheese and NEEDED to know if the orange powder in the pantry was cheese sauce. LOL. Good times... That's an emergency situation if ever I heard one. ;) (I love you Jeremy!)