Jared and Holly's reception

Steph's brother, Jared, got married on June 1st to a really cute girl named Holly.  We went to their reception that night in Cedar Hills (right next to Alpine).

Lexi was really excited to see Holly's "princess dress."

Waiting for the slow pokes

Almost everyone was happy to see Danny and Steph...

There were other kids there, so all the kids got to run and play together.

Kaden LOVES photobombing.  He just waits until the last second and..BAM!

Cute girls

Getting ready to cut the cake

Jared's expressions killed me.

They were boring nice.

Lexi wanted to catch the bouquet so badly.  She didn't get it, but Steph gave Lexi her bouquet later.  :)

Any time we couldn't find Lexi and/or Ari, we'd check the video table.  The girls couldn't get enough of the movie.

Us and Danny and Steph with the happy couple!

Rolling down the hill in white dresses....

We all know which one of my kids ignored the roped off area first... *coughLEXIcough*

 The owner's daughter and her friend came over and made sure the kids sat nicely on the tramp.  It was perfect because there were no tantrums about getting kicked off the tramp, but no one was jumping.  :)

Quick side note: Kaden was so, so good.  We had told him (and the girls) when we first got there NOT to get on the tramp.  While Lexi and Ari sat with the older girls for a solid 20 minutes, Kaden sat just outside the tulle that was supposed to rope off the area, watching the girls longingly.  But he never complained and he never tried to get on the tramp.  Such a good kid.  I gave in and told him he could sit with the girls if he didn't jump.

Ari jumping.  *sigh*

Steph/Lexi's bouquet

 It was a beautiful reception!  It was also the last time we'll get to see Danny and Steph for a long time.  :(  The kids keep asking when we'll get to see them again, so we're gonna have to figure something out.

Thanksgiving Point Girl's Night Out

My friend, Emily, retired from her day job and now gets to be a full-time mommy! Welcome to the world of not getting paid to work!  :)  To celebrate, we all (the women in her family and me) went to Thanksgiving Points' girl's night out on May 31st.  It was SO windy and really cold as the sun went down, but lots of fun!  A lot of the stuff was free, so we made sure to take full advantage of that!

Koren, Emily's mom, got pink hair chalk!

M getting her hair done

I asked for mine to be braided because of the wind.  It looks so thick from the back!

M's hairdo

Glitter toes!

 The first "booth" we went to for glitter toes butchered the job.  It looked awful!  When Ari could have done a better job than them, you know something's wrong.  We found another booth doing glitter toes, though, and they fixed them for us.  :)  Yay!

We also all got our eyebrows waxed.

M wrapped up in the blanket

I'm so pale!  If I wasn't smiling here, I would look dead, don't you think?

Koren's turn!

Posting pics to Facebook

Crazy wind hair!

My glitter toes!

 It was a really fun night!  Thanks and congrats, M!

Park Day

Park days with friends are always fun!

Chowing down

Jordan loves his fries!

 I stole a couple of pictures from Kelly because Kaden is just too fabulous not to!  ;)

Such a ham

Best friends

Don't move, Kelly!!  Stay and play!

Last soccer game!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight was Kaden's last soccer game with the retched jamboree style!!!!!!  WOO!!!!!

Kaden didn't have a nap today, so he was extra emotional at the game.  *sigh*

I was trying to get a nice picture of him by the net, but all he did was cry about the sun, so this is what we got.

Love her expressions!

We love our YooHoos.

Finally happy after the game with his trophy!

I'm really excited to see how he does in the fall with the same coach and team every week!

Random

I need to come up with a better title than "random" because I have a LOT of random posts.  Any thoughts, ladies?

First up, Ari thoroughly enjoying birthday cake from my little brother's party.

"AAAAAH!"

 Shane sent me the pictures from his phone that he took at Boondocks while Kaden and he were doing the bumper boats.  Kaden had a blast!

And last, but not least, remember how Steph and I went to The Melting Pot and got free chocolate covered strawberries?  Well, that....inspired us.  Remember how her little brother is getting married this weekend?  Steph thought it would be cool to try and copy the tux and wedding dress strawberries that are so famous from Pinterest.  We had a day to kill today, so we baked!  :)

She did the dresses and I did the tuxes.

Not too shabby

I was just messing around with these ones.

She took the strawberries to Jared and Holly tonight, so hopefully they like them and ignore the imperfections!  ;)

Girl's Night

Before I get to my post, I have to post these pictures I found on my phone from our Park City trip.

Good morning!

This is Emma, my permanent babysitter while we were there.  :)

While Steph and Danny are in town this week, she said that we needed to do a girl's night, since it's been a looong time since she and I have done one.  Thanks to the Park City outlets, we were both sick of shopping, so we decided to splurge on dinner instead.  We ended up at The Melting Pot in Salt Lake.  :D  I've been there before, but only gotten dessert.  Steph and I got the whole shebang.  YUM!

YUUUUMMMMMMMM!!

Our server was awesome.  And she totally loved us, too.  I told her it was Steph's birthday the next day (I didn't lie! It really was!), the server said that they don't technically do anything for birthdays, but she would see what she could come up with.  She ended up bringing out some free chocolate covered strawberries (complete with a candle) for us!

It was SO. MUCH. FUN!