Action-packed 4th
I am determined to not let July get away from me without writing about it!
This is just the FIRST weekend....
Bridal Shower
Saturday the 2nd my mom helped with a bridal shower for Miss Kelsey Jones and it was hosted at our house. Kelsey is my brother's age, and I think the first one of his real close friends to get married. Pretty fun, plus we love the whole Jones family.
Anyway, my mom was nuts for offering to host two days before she was hosting a wedding, but she stuck by it being a good dealine for everything to be done. Plus there was so much help there everything was clean and spotless less than an hour later.
In the middle of the shower while Kelsey was opening presents we noticed Buster (my mom's mentally challenged/clueless cat) just lounging in the middle of the room with 35 noisy ladies around. I have no clue why she didn't seem to mind since she normally doesn't like being pet even. But it was fun and we all had a nice laugh about it.
Rehersal Dinner
Saturday afternoon, moments after the house clearerd out from the shower, my Uncle Steve, his Fiance Amanda and all the family and bridal party crew all came over for a Rehersal. It took a few hours to get all the music cued, everyone in places, and get everything running smoothly.
After they rehersed we headed to my cousin Corri's for barbeque. Her husband Lino is a master at the BBQ, and we had tons of hot, hungry people (probably 100 outside at the time). He did not disappoint. It was delicious.
Though poor Ev didn't get much rest. He does bring it on himself, but here is a snapshot Kati got of the "dogpile" on him:
Blessing/Birthday
Sunday was Ian's baby blessing and Bree's birthday party (two of Jaimi's three) so we all went out to their ward in Clayton and went back to their house for brunch and birthday cake.
During church my mom brought her trusty silly putty to entertain the 13 grandchildren (I guess 11 if you leave out the 2 babies). Taite got to sit next to me and we sent this photo to Travis!
Here is the birthday girl in the new backyard chair my parents got her, she loved it because it was pink!
Ev and I got her a sprinkler toy, Jaimi sent me this picture of them playing the next week:
And this is my blackmail photo against Ev if he ever tries to tell anyone he doesn't like kids. This is him playing with Kennedi and baby Mallory at the party. (and loving it)
Mr. and Mrs. Halverson, July 4th 2011
Seems like a pretty easy anniversary to remember eh? My uncle Steve had the right idea. Steve is the only boy with 6 sisters, so the 5 living sisters gathered their families and went to work. It went off so well, everyone seemed to have a great time, especially Steve and Amanda. I was running around and got to hang with baby Ian all day so I didn't take any pictures but stole this cute one of the flower girls: Kennedi, Vienna, and Bree
That night I went back to the place we are housesitting for a nap (Seriously the best thing ever to be housesitting during this madness weekend, got some well needed relaxing time!)
We went back out for the Fireworks in San Ramon. My dad loves fireworks. He said, "I don't see any reason to stop enjoying the things I enjoyed as a kid" or something along those lines... So my dad, my uncle John (from Australia, to celebrate the American holiday :]) Ev and I all went out and had a great time.
We have a system, and it rocks. We are super close to the fireworks and we beat most of the crowds. If I shared my secrets on here they wouldn't be secrets anymore so you'll have to take my word that it rocks :]
So it was a crazy/busy/fun/exciting/stressful/tiring/lovely weekend. If only that was the end of the action.....
