The return of the delay fish....

SO! I'm still alive! Just had the crazy busiest few months of my life i think. So here's what's been going on.

1- My sister got married! YAY JESSICA!!! Her wedding was so beautiful! This is were the busy part comes in. I made 6 trip up north in the 2 months leading up to my sisters wedding entailing: I was matron of honor, 2 Bridal Fairs in Provo to help with wedding decisions, trip up for engagement photo shoot, trip up for Bridal Portrait shoot, 2 Bridal showers (one in STG on up there), 2 bridesmaids dress fittings for alterations, designing and printing a LOT of invitatons, editing and printing engagement and bridal portraits, creating floral arrangements for table centerpieces, designing and printing a custom mini scrapbook/ guestbook, scanning old pictures and creating a DVD slideshow of the bride and groom, getting a flower girl outfit for Kaitlyn, making matching hair bows for the flower girls, making jessie a hair bow for the luncheon, making a music CD for the wedding ceremony, actually getting to the wedding with husband and 2 children alive and dressed for the occasion.

I think that's about it... give or take a few projects or so. It may seem like a lot, but it was worth it for my sis! :) Here's a few pics from the invites, showers and bridals. Wedding pics (which we hired someone to do because i was in the line) should be coming shortly.



Nextly, Alex and I celbrated our 4 year anniversary in June. We had tickets to go see Footloose out at Tuachan, which was FABULOUS. I just can't believe we've been together for 4 years! It seems like our wedding was just yesterday, but I guess time flies when your having fun right?

Alex is really lucky then way things worked out for him holiday wise. First he gets fathers day, which I made him breakfast in bed, and Kaitlyn colored him a card. Then he gets our anniversary, followed by his birthday. All 3 of these holidays fall within about 2 weeks of eachother. Not to mention that the day after his birthday is the 4th of July, which bring fireworks and all that excitement. Lucky dog. Anywho, we celebrated Alex's birthday, then the fourth of July, which was super fun. We go watch the big fireworks in town from Alex's grandparents who live in town so we get a GREAT view from thier front yard. Here's a few pics from that.




Things are staying pretty busy around here, but we're doing really well. I'm going to try to blog more often because of just some of the funny little things that happen in my life. i want to try to post them on here not only for you all to read, but for myself as a way of remembering. It's getting pretty late, and I'm super tired. So for now, enjoy and see you soon!

Wedding plans and Easter

Firstly, i apologize for not posting for the entire month of April! It was a very busy month! NOW!

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY!!!

I am very happy to say I am celebrating this event all day long! As part of my celebration, I am updating my blog, because it is a form of scrapbooking to me because it's archiving photos and memories! I am going to be out and about around some of the scrapbook stores today with all the free scrap parties i can go to and freebies if your in the store! :) No I'm not going to be shopping, because heaven knows I don't need anymore scrapbook supplies right now! And if I get any digital scrapbooking done, which I plan to later this evening, I will post those to my blog here for all to see!

SO! Here's what's been going on lately!

As I said in my last post, I took a trip up north to see my sister Jessie's graduation from hair school about a month ago, and I did a photo shoot of her model she had to do as part of the graduation. I'll just pick out one of the favorites as too not overpower you with all the pictures that will be in this post. So she styled her hair and did her make-up to go with a "Vogue" theme of the graduation. And as an added note, Jessie and MADE the hat! Way cute huh! FABULOUS!


Here's jessie and chad after the graduation! Way to go sis!

So after the graduation we went to go get some dinner with Chad's family, then went back to the hotel. Then after a little bit of sitting there, Jessie calls and asks if she can come visit us at the hotel. She her and Chad show up and *SPARKLE SPARKLE*!!!


My sister is engaged (congrats little sis), and I am helping with all the wedding plans! SO! 3 trips to South Jordan, 2 Bridal Fairs, and 1 engagement portrait session later, here i am! Haven't finished editing the engagements yet because I just took them like a week ago and have been crazy busy since, so when I'm done, I'll put a few up! :)

Next topic... We had Easter!

Coloring some easter eggs at grandmas house!



Kylie's first Easter! Look how cute she looks in her dress!


Kaitlyn got some "Pet Shop" stuff in her Easter "basket"(it was kind of a jewelery box)


Then we went up to the Gifford Easter party at Alex's grandpas feed lot.

Kaitlyn with Grandpa Dean


She is a little obsessive about the chickens up there...

So that's kinda whats been going on. and i'll have some more goodness to add later today (don't judge me if i dont!)

A hopefully LONG blog.

Okay! So I know I'm a lame blogger and because of such, no one really checks my blog. So for those few followers who have nothing new to read, this ones for you!

SO! Firstly here are some of my pictures from Christmas!

How beautiful my sister in laws tree is! I love it! SO cute!
This is my precious niece Andrea, who is about 2 months younger than Kylie. She's a very chill baby and I love her to death!
One of our family traditions which i know quite a few families that do as well, opening our pajamas on Christmas Eve so we can look cute for Christmas morning!

Me and my Ky-Pie just hanging out. Kylie was very entranced by all the shiny packages and crinkling of tissue paper.

My dad enjoying one of life's simple pleasures.... the Slinky.

K... This is one of my family traditions that we've had for as long as I can remember. This is "The Big Sock". My grandma and grandpa Anderson bring it with them from California every year and fill it with all kinds of random toys and candy and just anything you can think of really. Then it is dumped out on the floor and everyone goes mad grabbing for misc. stuff until it's gone. It's kinda random, but I LOVE it!


Kaitlyn and Grandma Bev checking out the spoils of the big sock. (I have no idea what she's holding!)
This year was our first Christmas Eve we stayed in our own house as a family. the past few years we've stayed with family but we thought it'd be fun for the girls to have Santa come to our house this year!
Kylie Grace totally mystified by the lights on our tree!

Check out what Santa brought Kaitlyn! 5 AM Christmas morning she came downstairs and saw this slide and in her sleepy, broken, 2 year old speech, started saying "SWIDE! SWIDE! WEEEEE!" I swear she went down that thing 50 times before we could get her to look at any other presents!

This cabinet was really meaningful for me to do for Kaitlyn. It used to be in my little play kitchen when I was a little girl and I thought it was gone, but my aunt actually had it and it had gone through so many layers of paint over 20 years that we had to sand it down through about 8 different layers of paint so we could repaint it. We added new hardware and matched it to the little kitchen she got for her birthday. She was so excited! which is really good because Alex was up till 4 AM christmas eve painting it so it could be ready!

Opening some gifts.

Kylie's gift from Santa! it's a "Jumperoo". Oh the entertainment!


As you can tell, she was ECSTATIC about everything!

Alex got cowboys stuff.... he's a happy camper!





Next is photo's from the christmas lights at the temple. My dad is the sole coordinator of all the christmas lights for the St. George temple. He did an awesome job this year so me and ray went to document and enjoy some of his work!



A lot of people were really impressed with the new LED lights they added to the temple grounds this year. They are super bright and look so beautiful!



Ray in all her photographing glory.... the butt sticking out is a must!


Light by the front gate! SO pretty!!

The visitor center was all decked out in christmas as well! Jesus is always in the holiday mood! :)

Please note, as part of the volunteer set up crew, I personally helped wrap these trees which have about 30 strands of lights on each tree! I got dizzy after walking around wrapping the trunks.



Now, here's some good stuff with my kids!



Big sister holding little sister! So precious!




Kaitlyn was Tinkerbell for Halloween. (Yes i know it was a while ago but I wanted to show you anyways!)

Kylie was a mermaid! SO cute!



Playing in the snow in Zion National Park.


Kylie's Blessing Day!


Slidin at Jumpin Jacks!
Kylie wanted to ride too! :)

My beautiful daughter and her adorable smile!




Let's wrap things up with a naked baby picture! Nothin like a cute nude girl to put a smile on your face!! lol :)

Well, that's about all I got for right now, it's getting late and i'm hearing a little one still awake upstairs. Hope you enjoyed the pictures and I'm REALLY going to start updating more often! Toodles for now!

Christmas and snow

Merry Christmas! Well... I'm a few days off but still fun to say. So we had a great Christmas with family and got to spend our first Christmas eve at our house! In years past we have spent Christmas eve at my moms then go to alex's parents in the morning. But we we're looking foward to spending it at home and being able to see Kaitlyn's reaction when she saw that Santa came. Video of this is soon to follow. :) but yeah Kaitlyn got a slide from Santa and a revamped play kitchen that my grandpa made for me before he died. She was so e cited and kept saying "SWIDE! SWIDE!" (her L's tend to suffer) . It was so fun!

Besides the fun christmas stuff, St. George got a bunch of snow recently! May not seem like much to most people, but we actually got a snow day for schools which hasn't happened for ten years! It was really fun... But also cold and scary to drive in!

I will post pictures soon since I just discovers I can't do it from my phone; by until then Happy New Year! :)