A Wedding to Remember..

So, here it is the wedding to remember. Christopher & Mikel. (Is this the twins name? I say no!)Long story. It turned out so beautiful! We had a great turn out. I think 200 people showed up. It was so busy. It was perfect for the two! I secretly like hosting and putting things together and trying to make things look perfect. But, I realized that it completely exhausted me from doing that or maybe because we just got back from the family reunion on Friday night at 11pm and Saturday was the wedding. Not to mention every chance I got I kept looking for my lost camera!:( So, again I thank my little sis Natasha for sharing pictures with me to post this great event. Congrats to Christopher & Mikel!

Here they are just the two of them. Christoher & Mikel.

Cole, Bryce, Chad & Cameron. It was so blazing hot. The wedding was at 5pm.

Cole is the ring bearer. So dang cute!

The bishop with Christopher and Bryce; his best man. Bryce and Christopher have been friends since they were about 5 years old. We were next door neighboors with the Westcott's in good O'l Monticello.

This is the "OLD FOLKS" table. At least that is what the told me. Gpa & Gma are here! It was so good to see them.

This is just a little of the setting.

I think the two are already sick of taking pictures! Still cute though!

The Groom. I think Bryce is giving him a toast!:)

Alayda, Meryn(already for bed)& Saydee.

Cole like his father got half undressed.

Christopher & Mikel the first dance....

Looks like a party to me.

Chree, Nyc & Mikel looking at Ashton (the picture below) We love to dance!

Ashton loves to dance..as you can see.

The COOK! This is my cousin Tobyn who is really close to us. He cooked all the steak.

Yes, It here it is the traditional picture that is taken of us. My 4 sisters. We were running the show. It was such a busy day!

Bear Lake Family Reunion

We had such a great time at the Lyman/Boyce reunion. Boyce is my mother's maiden name.It was a Bear Lake. We had this huge cabin with lots to do. We have been here once before and I am thinking it might be a favorite. We did a lot in 3 days from ping pong & pool tables playing games of settlers and some couple game, art and craft's one afternoon for all the kids.A day at the lake with beach volleyball, jet skiis, and tubing. It was so good to see everyone we had a great time....EXCEPT I lost our camera!! So entirely SAD! So, thanks to my little sister Natasha taking pictures of everyone I am able to have some history of the event. Thanks Tasha!

Little sis Amanda with her family.

Olivia, Sammy and Meryn

This was a big hit just playing in the water. Meryn and Olivia.

So you can see the Azure & Ashton were tired!

Bryce & Cole

Cole's day at the lake...........

Alayda with her art....

Cole trying to balance

Alayda and Uncle Chad during arts & crafts.

Dad, Uncle David and Christopher at the cabin playing ping pong. This is a big deal with the Lyman's. I grew up with a ping pong table and my dad and brother's are really good.I like to strut my stuff sometimes. But, I don't play much.

This was the best seat on the deck the kids just loved it. Meryn, Sammy, Ashton & Azure.

Sammy & Ashton

Summer Time... dutch oven

We went up to American Fork canyon and for a dutch oven with my parents. It is such a beautiful canyon we always like to go up there. It is getting harder to find any spots any more due to so many people out! We decide to go into a camp ground to cook. There was one spot left and we took it for a couple of hours. We were greatful no one claimed it until we left! Um, maybe we will not be doing this again at least on a Sunday afternoon.

Okay, so we had to get creative in entertaining the kids while our dutch oven cooked so we gave each of the kids a spoon to dig with. They loved it.

Azure, Ashton and Cole digging with their spoons.

Dad and Bryce playing cards while the dinner's cooking.

Neighborhood clean up...

We decide to have a neighbor hood clean up for the poor house that is across the street from us. It has been vacant for about a year. As you can see the grass is dead and if you even walked by it, It would start on fire. The weeds took over and it just looked so sad with no love at all! So, we decided to have a clean up over there for FHE we even turned on the sprinklers... you have to do it manualy so that is one of Cole's jobs now. We had such a great turn out! Thank You everyone for your help. You too Brandi Hawkins!(She came early in the morning to pull weeds because she was not going to be there in the evening).

Our neighboor Mike Sandstrom & Bryce

Christina Rolapp cleaning away.

The Barlow girls taking a break.....

Stevie, Laurel and Brother Asay.

Shirlene Barlow & I; yes I am a cheese ball!;)

Bryce and our dear neighbor Shawn Moon

Laurel and Aleyda entertained the kids.

The end result! Thanks for all the help.We have such GREAT neighbors! We love you all!

Boating at Utah Lake

You can not see how much fun Wendy & I are having, we had a blast!

Cole & Karly enjoying the ride. He is a die hard just like me!

Randy, Meryn, Karly,Gabe and Alayda

Boating with our friends The Youngs we had such a great time we are going to have to do go again soon!! The Crew!