Lynn & Scott's Wedding

Mr. & Mrs. Mellin had an absolutely beautiful wedding on April 12, 2014.  Of course, this post has tons of pics to record it!

Here are some shots when we were getting ready at the Golf Club. 

Mom (Aunt Debbi) and Daughter.

Aunt Connie and Rachel.

Erika, Amanda, Mom, and Me.

All 3 of the feisty Barlow sisters and their 5 daughters were in attendance.

My beautiful cousin!  I was almost 5 when she was born and for another 4 years we were the only grandkids in the family.  I still remember driving from Idaho to California after she was born.

My handsome little Ring Bearer.

With his cute "Here comes the Bride" sign (which he didn't wear in the end, darn!).  He did carry the cute ring box though.

With the pretty flower girls.

Having a chat with the bride.

She's so pretty!

Lynn and Scott's colors were blue and green, so the bridesmaids wore blue dresses and carried these gorgeous green & white bouquets.

Lynn's bouquet was made out of brooches.  Many were sentimental, including Granny's bling name tag front and center.  We love and miss you Wanda!

 

Lynn's parents are divorced and she was raised by her mom.  I think it was very sweet that she had her dad AND mom walk her down the aisle.

Waiting to become Mr. & Mrs.!

The sweet smooch!

The groom's fam.

The bride's dad's fam.

I can't wait to see the professional pics (especially so I can steal the pic of the bride's mom's fam that I'm in and the wedding party that Teague is in).

 

Around our table at the reception-

Mom & Poppa,

Teague & me,

Mandy & Coleman,

Jared & Erika,

 

Kris & Devin.

At the table next to us was Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Susie, & Connor,

Rachel & Brad,

and Uncle Steve & Aunt Connie, their nephew & niece, and Aunt Debbi.

All the girl cousins!

Teague fell asleep during dinner,

and missed out on the delicious cake, and dancing the night away.

Scott & Lynn- we wish you a lifetime of joy, beauty, laughter, and love!

Teague's trip

Teague got to take a special trip.  Here he is all ready to leave Canada.

Mommy was his chaperone of course.

The trip was so he could be the Ring Bearer at Scott and Lynn's wedding.

We stayed at Gramma & Grampa's.

We got to visit Uncle Coleman & Auntie Mandy,

Uncle Jared & Auntie Erika,

Auntie Devin & Uncle Kris,

and of course, Lily & George.

We sure missed Uncle Brent, Aunt Whitney, and their fam, but cousin Jackson was just born the week before!

The week went way too fast and it was time to say goodbye.  Gramma hated to see her boy go!

Getting ready to leave the Las Vegas desert, we'll be back this summer!

At the Races

These 3 boys are peas in a pod!  They had so much fun building this race track and changing it all around with bridges and tunnels, then watching the cars fly around it.

Best Friends Forever!

Meet Jackson

My newest nephew was born yesterday on his Gramma's birthday and named after his Grampa.  I can't wait to hold him and smooch those sweet cheeks!

 

Getting loves from his big brother and sister, so sweet!

New Beginnings

Even though I went to New Beginnings six times in my youth, and five times as a leader, this was my first time going as a mother, so it was definitely the most special!  Noé gave a talk on Good Works and all of the girls did a great job with the program.  Noé's favorite was Chloe's talk about having faith (in the Lord), trust (in yourself), and pixie dust to take care of the rest.  I'm sad I didn't get pics from Kaleb's Priesthood Preview, but I didn't take these pics either- thank you facebook!  Here are 3 of the 4 leaders and 10 of the 20 young women (one of my darling CTR 4's is standing in for a camera shy Laurel, so cute).

Noé and I LOVED the rainbow Jell-O salad, fruit kebabs, rice krispy treats, cupcakes, skittles, and napkins.  Rainbows are just fun!

April Fool's

Noé made a plate of "brownies" for her teacher today, "brown e's"- ha, I love it!  I asked her where she got the idea and she told me from Pinterest.  A girl after my own heart.

Today I am taking down our St. Pat's décor and putting up our Easter stuff.  Our neighbor put hers up on Sunday.  I just wish her Easter bunny was a chocolate bunny instead of a snow bunny!  Oh well, all of our snow played into Leonard's April Fool's joke this morning.  After all the kids were up and eating breakfast, he told them it was too bad they weren't still in bed since it was a snow day.  He got them good!  Yes, we still have mountains of snow, but the icebergs are *starting* to melt (it will probably take a month before we are snow free, but here's hoping we'll have warm weather soon!).

April Decor

I probably have too many Easter decorations, but since it is the most important holy day to us why not make it a big holiday?  Plus, I am a child from the 80's and I adore pastels!

The tablescape is my favorite.  These eight pictures of Christ's life by Simon Dewey are so beautiful to me!  I bring them out at Christmas too.  Even though we have snow outside, I still have tulips inside (artificial of course, but they still make me happy).

 

I love our four-day Easter weekend in Canada.  On Friday we usually clean house and prepare.  On Saturday the Easter Bunny visits us with fun baskets filled with goodies and we dye Easter eggs.  On Sunday we worship at church and usually have a new Sunday best outfit.  After church we have a fancy dinner and Easter egg hunt.  On Easter Monday we just enjoy one another's company.  This year Teague's birthday falls on Easter Monday, so we'll get to celebrate him.  I love Easter!  I love Spring!  (I hope spring will come soon.)