Wesley's Wedding

Wesley and Kristen Bedford, married July19, 2008 in the San Diego Temple. This is my only picture of the lovely couple together from the weekend taken at the dinner the night before they were married. I hope someone sends me some wedding pictures soon! They are now living in Phoenix area- Wes will graduate from the Tempe police academy in August and Kristen just started working at a children's museum.

Emily got to be the flower girl during the ring ceremony. She did a great job looking cute and walking where she needed to. Thankfully she didn't fall into the small lake during the ceremony, although she was making me nervous. She loved being a helper to the bride with the dress' train and getting them napkins after cutting the cake. Her favorite part of the whole event was getting to dance with her daddy for a long time. I ordered a second dress for Ashley so she could feel beautiful too and they were both adorable. I rented their dresses online which was way cheaper and they had tons of color choices- www.gagas.com.

California Fun!!

I think we just had the best family vacation! We went to southern California for a week, mostly for my brother Wes' wedding. I think what made this trip so different is that Bryan didn't have to work while traveling. We left Monday afternoon, traveled 5 hours and stayed in Las Vegas. We went swimming that night and then on to CA the next day. We got to have dinner and hang out with my longest known friend Kristy Pilawski and her husband Jason in Long Beach. They loved watching our girls do their thing and we loved hearing about their adventures in aeronautic engineering.

Wednesday morning we slept in and then cruised over to the beach. We saw lots of dolphins swimming and sand crabs while we made our sand castle. Ashley got over her dirty hands issues fairly quickly and the only downer was my sunburned back (currently in the itchy, peely phase).
Thursday we went to Knotts Berry Farm- Maegan, Bryan, Emily, Ashley, Grammy Holly and Garrett. We spent probably 8 hours there and had a great day. We took turns staying with the girls and the other adults went on rides too. Garrett made us all go on some crazy rides for which we were all grateful we didn't lose any lunch. Emily said her favorites were the balloon and airplane rides and Ashley loved the merry-go-round horses. In this picture they are on the balloon ride with Grammy; while mom, dad and Gar were on the Supreme Scream- 252 foot drop straight down.

Pioneer Trek

So we made it! We went on our stake's pioneer trek on June 30- July 3rd. We were part of the support staff and ended up being bus chaperones, Bryan was in charge of microphone set up, I conducted the group singing and we were actors one day. We had a great time. We slept on the ground, walked a total of 24.5 miles and endured hot and cold temperatures. Because were in the staff area we did get a tent and all kinds of good food whereas the other trekkers did not. The first day we walked 13 miles, including a women's pull and we finally stopped around midnight. The last full day we had some solo time where we had two hours to ourselves and got to reflect on life and important things. I think that was the best part for Bryan and I. The kids' testimony meeting was held that night and it was so wonderful to hear all the kidsfeelings and to know that they are such good kids with awesome potential. It was a great trip. Thanks to my mother-in-law watched the girls for us. I took away an amazing appreciation for the pioneers who did not have anything but their faith. I also love modern technology- liquid soap! shampoo! A/C!