With three birthdays (Chris', Kent's and Ethan's), Father's Day, and our anniversary, we had lots of family get togethers and picture taking opportunities.
On June 16th Kent and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We stayed at Nanette and Chris' house after Chris' birthday party on the 15th and spent the morning of our anniversary playing with Ethan and Logan and being lazy. Nanette made us "beanie weanies" for lunch that were delicious. (At least I thought so. Kent could do with only having them once a year.) Then we went to the hospital to visit our niece Stephanie and her husband Josh and their new baby Parker who had been born the day before on Chris' birthday. (People share a lot of birthdays in our extended family!) Parker is such a cutie and fun to hold and we are so happy for Steph and Josh. Then it was on to the Ogden Temple, the place where we'd been married for eternity 25 years earlier. Afterward we went to the front of the temple because I wanted to have our picture taken. There happened to be a couple there and we asked them to take our picture. Surprisingly they were celebrating their first anniversary of being married in the Ogden Temple. I wanted to say to them, "This could be you in 24 more years with 6 children and 3 grandsons." Next we went to the Maddox restaurant to eat. I was so excited because they had rainbow trout!
Kent had fried chicken:
We found out the next day that I left my temple recommend at Maddox. It fell out of my purse when I pulled my camera out. Maddox called our bishop who called us. Our awesome kids gave us a getaway package to Park City for our anniversary. We just need to find the time to go now!
My beautiful anniversary flowers.
This is what Dane's countdown board looked like on June 16th. He's scheduled to come home in less than 4 months!
Katie and Braiden.
I made Braiden and Aaron matching neckties.
I was sick on Kent's 49th birthday and I feel bad that I wasn't able to make his day special. Thank goodness Katie and Naomi were here to shop for me, wrap the presents, bake and decorate the cake and play "Lost" with Kent, Nick and Caleb. Katie documented the Father's Day barbecue and Kent's birthday on her blog.
Saturday was Ethan's 3rd birthday. He was so excited for it to finally be his birthday. It was a hot day at the splash park but a lot of fun. Katie made a "Thomas the Tank Engine" cake.
We gave Ethan a bike and helmet.
I wasn't sure how he'd like the helmet, but he liked it so much that he insisted on wearing it to Village Inn when we went for dinner. Here's a picture of Aaron modeling the helmet:
Ethan had had enough pictures taken for the day.
Well, that's my novel for June. Hopefully I'm better at posting in July so I won't have blogger's remorse!
