Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A Wedding Weekend

This past weekend we traveled to San Diego for my brother Kevin's wedding. He and his bride are a match made in Heaven and they had the wedding of their dreams.....literally!

Kevin and Amy
Kevin, Amy, and their 3 fairies
Eric, Adam, and Tessa
A thrilled Katy! She really isn't going to flip anyone off. I think!
Mom, Char, Tami, and Kathleen
Kevin and Char

Tessa was showing off Aunt Katy's corsage. It took up most of Tessa's arm. Katy was glad to give it up:)
Parents of the groom
Adam and Ares
My cousin Robin and her boyfriend David
Grandpa Lemley
With the fairies again!
Amy's bouquet that her mom made for her.

Vanessa, David, and Dee. We were so happy to see our Bakersfield cousins! I wish we saw them a lot more!!!
Richard and Debbie
Adam caught wind of my siblings plan to decorate Kevin's car (which they were forbidden to do) and has been so excited to help ever since!

Their first dance to Sleeping Beauty's "Once Upon A Dream".
Mom and Kevin
Tessa danced the night away! She couldn't get enough!

Tessa and Ares danced and danced and danced!


Our little family plus our tummy baby (3 months down!).



Tess had fun dancing with Uncle David. He leaves next week for Brazil!

Kevin did not throw a garter...shocking, I know. Instead he threw a frog prince. Adam caught it thanks to some help from Vincent. Adam was thrilled and has named him "Hopper".
The kids did a great job on the car! They put post-it notes all over the car, then plastic wrapped it, then covered it with quotes, scriptures, balloons, and other random things they had.
My favorite part of the evening was when my children decided to slide across the church floor. Tessa was running to me and fell. Her dress was satin, so she slid a bit. When she saw how far she slid, she stood up and said, "That was fun!". She then ran back to her starting place and purposely fell and slid again. Adam saw what she was doing and joined in on the fun of sliding across the church floor. It was pretty funny to watch and I would have been mortified until I saw the bride's dad and step-mom dying of laughter as they watched them attempt to slide into the bride and groom. I let them have a few fun slides before I stopped them. It wasn't appropriate at all, but it was highly entertaining for all who saw!
We are not even half way through everything we have going on this month, but are grateful the traveling is over with. Now on to David's goodbye party this week!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Welcome Home Elder Lemley!!!

Our Mattman returned home tonight after serving faithfully for 2 years in Houston, Texas. We are so glad to have him home! We missed his noise! His flight was delayed 4 long hours, so we were pretty anxious by the time he finally arrived.
Adam has been so excited to see him! Although Tessa can point out his picture, she was only about 10 months when he left. So they have some catching up to do.

Uncle David, Adam, and Uncle Ben
Aunt Katy and Tessa
Katy and Andrew tried to keep the kids occupied by teaching them how to play "Down By The Banks".
Aunt Katy told Adam some stories.
We had another poster ready for Matt, but Katy changed it to "You're Late". We thought it was fitting and Matt thought it was funny.

Adam was so excited to see Matt and show his sign that he refused to stand back with the rest of us and had to stand right next to the hallway. People coming off the plane thought he was very cute.
Our returned cowboy!!!!
Mom and Matt
Adam and Matt
David and Matt
Katy and Matt
Ben got a good brotherly shove for being taller than Matt before he got a hug.

Eric and Matt....Eric was still working the video camera.
Aunt Dee and Matt
After Adam saw Matt and got to hug him, he burst into tears (he's his mommy's boy! We cry over everything....especially happy things. Sorry buddy:) He was embarrassed for crying and didn't want Matt to see his tears. It was super cute!

Tessa showing off a sign
Our grown up Mattman!
Matt and his "little" brothers
The boys (minus Kevin who is in California preparing for his wedding on Saturday),
Mattman and the girls

Matt, Ares, Adam, and Tessa
Mom, Dad, and Matt
We are so glad to have him home. The poor guy doesn't get to relax much because first thing in the morning we are off to our next adventure for the month! At least we get to bring him along for this one! Welcome home Elder Mattman!! We love you!!!