She's married!!!!!

Kara and Taylor were sealed on June 17th in the Salt Lake Temple. It was a beautiful day and everything was just wonderful. Here's the happy couple emerging from the temple.

Kara and all her sisters as bridesmaids! Aren't they darling?

the beautiful bride!

June is gonna be....WONDERFUL and CRAZY

Yes, by now you all know that we have TWO weddings happening in our family in June....Kara and Taylor on June 17th and Sloane and Ty on June 30th. We are just THRILLED to be adding another daughter AND another son (Kirk and Ty won't be in the minority around here!).

But I must admit some days I feel like this! Completely overwhelmed!!! Thanks to wonderful family and good friends, my burden is light!

good news

wanna guess?

Thanksgiving--Part 1

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving this year! All the kids were home and even Grandma and Grandpa came! Kara showed all the girls how to make these cute flowers out of fabric.

We played lots of Aggravation!

Kara led the girls in another craft project...folding our dinner napkins in the shape of a lotus flower. They were darling!

Grandpa enjoyed seeing Koa again...and thoroughly spoiled him rotten!

These were our uninvited Thanksgiving guest...yes...all five of them! They enjoyed all the willows and berries around the house and then headed for the pond.

Birthday Girls!!!!

Yes, these two beautiful girls share a birthday! October 19th...Kara turned 22 and Sage turned 13. How many people can say they got a baby sister for their birthday? I know...what are the odds?

I had just attended a 50th birthday party and so I "copied" the decor for Sage's birthday celebration.


My newest teenager!!!!

ALWAYS an oreo cake with mint chocolate chip ice cream!!

Working girl Lea bought this cute journal for Sage...all on her own!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS....WE LOVE YOU!!!

Final countdown...

Kirk and I are headed back to Ca today after he came home for the weekend. He has only 8 treatments left to do! Let's hope for the machine to work everyday... The girls are all back in school and everything has gone very smoothly. With a senior, three freshmen and one new middle schooler, I am amazed at how nice this school year has begun. Join that with 2 volleyball players and two swimmers and it makes for one very busy household. Ty and Kara are back at BYU, where Ty is set to graduate this coming December. Lea is working full time now five days a week, three hours a day.

Saturdays

Most Saturdays we are busy with chores.  The snow is melting ever so slowly!  When it does, we rake the area so everything is ready to grow again.  Ty and Kara came home last week.  Ty on Monday and Kara on Thursday.  It is great to have them home again.  Ty will be leaving to go back to Provo on Monday to attend Spring term.  This is our "garden".  I know it doesn't look like much, but this is how it goes here in the "north" country.  I've got a couple of tomato plants (check out the tomatoes I've already got!), an artichoke, and I planted radishes, turnips,cucumbers and zucchini.  It's still too early here to leave them outside, so they travel back and forth from the garage daily.