Weddings, Wild Kids and All

The last 3 days have been a blast! From helping with the flowers for the wedding, to hanging out at the reception and especially the temple and luncheon. I loved being free to visit with everyone. The decorations and food were wonderful! Stephanie's mom; Heidi deserves a big hand! I was pleasantly surprised at how many people came all the way up there to the reception! Thanks family and friends!
I did get a few pictures of the great crew that set up this place and a couple of the guests (I gave Richard the camera and had to force him to take every shot he did take) My only disappointment in the whole wedding frenzy was leaving my camera home and not getting any pictures at the temple or wedding luncheon. Luckily Jessica and James got lots of pictures! I just have to be patient to get those!
Here I am trying to hold all of my grandkids. Sydney is running wild on the floor, she is hard to get in a still shot!The cute couple cutting the cake.

Jess insisted on this stripper pose for me; I stripped the leaves off of the roses for the centerpieces.

Making the centerpieces, Nicole, Jenny and Jess. Excited to get their own flower to hold. Sophie and Tessa all dressed up and ready for the reception. Dean making an important call. One in a million shot of Sydney and Dean both looking at the camera this morning before they left to see their other grandparents. They both got sunburn at the temple yesterday. Sophie and Tessa liked to try to crawl around like Sydney at the reception. They also did a lot of dancing.

Almost there!

Back together! Hopefully never to be separated again! Aren't they cute together?

5 more days and they will be sealed!

Another busy Saturday

This day was a long time coming! After 3 times through the discussions and many sets of missionaries Nick AND his sister, Mikayla were baptized today! Congrats you two! They were very happy! There wasn't an empty seat in the room and the FIVE missionaries that were there had to stand at the back of the room with Richard and the Bishop. Of course the long anticipated family reunion was at the same time as the baptism, so I was only able to hang out for half an hour. I realized that of my Dad's living siblings, only he and his baby sister are able to get around without wheelchairs. Here's Dad and his baby sister's husband, Mel. Uncle Lee and Aunt Chaille arriving in their matching Jazzies. Uncle Glen and his wife, Charlotte presiding. Jack and Richard made most of the drive from Seattle today. Alas, Steph had to go to a bachelorette party, so Jack and Jonathan are baching it and play on his XBox. For most of the last 15 years we have had swimming suits hanging up to dry in our laundry room. Its been a little strange the last 6 months without any swimmers at the house. Jonathan surprised us and started swimming this week. The laundry room is back to normal! And the good news is that he can drive himself to the swimming pool at 5:30 am!

To Denver and Back Again

By the time I got to Denver on Tuesday afternoon, the poor Chapmans had already been to the airport 3 times that day! The girls were unnapped and worn out. Since it was the only time I'd be there with all of the Chapmans we decided to go out to dinner somewhere that would totally distract and liven up the girls. So we went to Chuck E. Cheese's and it was a BIG hit! Sophie "loved, loved, loved Chuck E. Cheese". Here's some pictures of the highlights;
Sophie helping her Dad on a motorcycle video game. The look on Sophie's face may have something to do with the accident she had shortly after on the playground. Tessa loved the horsey! A couple of princesses on their way to the ball. You may have noticed that resourceful Jessica put Tessa's shorts on Sophie and Tessa just wore her onesie the rest of the night. This roller coaster simulator was a ride for the whole family! Goofy girls in the toddler play ground.

Dan stopped and got us Krispy Kreamy donuts on the way home and they gave the girls these awesome hats. The other picture I took was even more blurry. Those girls don't like to hold still.Early Wednesday morning Jess was off to Girl's Camp, Dan was off to work and I had the girls to myself!! (Jess, I did do Sophie's hair, this is just after her nap). She was very proud of her painting skills on the Cinderella suncatcher behind her, but too distracted with the Cinderalla movie to look at the camera. We really had some great bonding time! Poor Dan was gone for all but a 10 minute dinner break on Wednesday. He had meetings to go to after work at church, the sofa to pick up, and then basketball to play. The timing couldn't have been better for the sale of the old and arrival of the new furniture, they passed each other in the parking lot! Jessica traded her old couch and love seat for this brown sofa. A totally new look for her room! It wasn't even too sad to leave the girls in Denver, they are coming for the wedding next week!!

Roller coaster family.Tessa loved this slide. I loved how she had to stop and hug the kitty after every trip down the slide.It was I love, love, love him until it was time to high five him and pose for a shot with him and then they got as far away as fast as they could saying; "no thank you". Hopefully you noticed Jessica's sweet dance moves!

Baby bumps, shower, Motorhome renovation and the Fearsome 4

Meg is showing now!! Not showing as much as Kristi is though! Meg is having my next grandchild and Kristi is having my mom's next grandchild!

Steph and her mom, Heidi chatting with some great ward members at the shower! Gotta love the shot of Lisa and her cute little Cash in the front.

This is how Grandpa enjoyed the shower...

This is Richard's new project. He's fixing up the inside of a motorhome that had a leak in the roof.

He's building a stronger ceiling that will hopefully hold the air conditioner without sagging.

I got this shot of Jonathan and his friends last week. Almost everyday Ash comes over to read "The Scarlett Letter" with Jonathan. Pretty much everytime she shows up Alex and Carson magically appear, so they don't seem to be getting very far very fast in the book. Here they are "reading" Thursday or something like that.

Family Picture

We had a family photo shoot the last day of our 3rd annual Quincy family reunion. The first time we hired a professional; Matt McFarland Photography BTW and it went well and fast. The babies AND Josh were very cooperative. The older girls were not happy. This was the last picture of the day. We had to bribe Sophie with ice cream to even get her in it. Can I just say that I love these 4 little angels!

This is the first picture. Thanks everyone for coming and smiling. I think you are all beautiful!

Wishing I could be in 3 places at the same time..

Such a Sunday! There's a mission report in our ward; Brendan Cole, which I get to attend, then I'm leaving for my nephew; Jacob Ellis' mission report, but at the same time Jonathan is playing the piano in another meeting for a farewell of a guy from his Jazz Choir ( Alex and this guy are singing a duet) AND Josh and Meg are talking in their meeting in Clearfield!!
While I'm at it.. I may as well wish I were in Denver and Houston and Seattle. Harry Potter did it didn't he?