Wedding photos

Just a few of my favorite wedding pictures for Mr and Mrs A!  Enjoy!!!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 51

What an exciting week!  We had a wedding!!!  It was perfect!  We only wish more people could have been there--we were limited to 16 at the ceremony, but it was wonderful and could not have gone any better! Will do another post with professional pictures.  Wish you a very Merry Christmas!!!  Take a look at our week...

Making our traditional gingerbread cookies for a Christmas activity tonight.  

Turned out yummy!

On the plane flying out for the wedding.  First time on a plane for Mr J!

Wedding prep!  Sisters getting her ready for her big day!

On the way to the wedding!

Right after they were married!  Lots of smiles! Let us introduce Mr and Mrs A!

Getting lots of pictures done, just snapped this real quick.  These are all my kids now!  I have a new son!  So excited to add him to the family!  Welcome Mr A!! 

Display table at the wedding luncheon

Awesome room where we had the very small wedding luncheon.  There were about 20 there.

An exciting day for us!  Sure love this guy and so happy to have him with me as we go through this thing called life!

Thanks for visiting!  Will post some wedding pictures soon.  Wishing you a Merry Christmas!!!!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 50

We have had a good week.  Enjoying the Christmas season and doing some fun things at home.  Everyone is healthy and prayers we all stay that way!  Hope all is well at your homes too!  Take a look at our week...

At school in band class they were going through old instruments and they found a soprano sax.  Mr J plays the tenor sax, and his teacher was excited to find this and wants him to start learning how to play it.  I had never heard of a soprano sax, so it will be cool to hear how it sounds.

Doing some house cleaning and rearranging to get ready to have everyone here for Christmas.  Moving things around....but they found a temporary home in the entry while we figured out where to put them.

Went to a live performance--all socially distanced and masked and lots of other safety protocol in place, but it was so fun to see and listen to this Christmas concert!  

Getting ready for a hot chocolate night with Lucky Charms marshmallows.  Thought that was a fun idea for hot chocolate!  It was pretty yummy!

Ben reading a Christmas story to us one night this week.  I will forever and always love picture books, but especially Christmas picture books!

My girls had a fun evening together this week as they have a short break before finals begin.  It was fun to see them together!

They went looking at some cool Christmas lights!  Excited to see them all soon!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you all stay safe and healthy this holiday season!  What a crazy year, for sure!  But we sure still have a lot to be thankful for!  Have a good one!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 49

It was a good week.  In some ways it seems like December is just flying by.  I think I feel that way because with the wedding coming up and trying to get ready for that and Christmas.  All good things, but lots to do!  We are healthy and safe and prayers that continues so we can all go to the wedding which will only be 16 people allowed, but still so important!  Take a look at our week....

Finished up our Thankful tree for this year.  So much to be thankful for!

As a service project, our church was recording people singing or playing songs, reading stories or poems to be complied into a video to be sent to a local nursing home since they will not be allowing groups to come in and sing and entertain as in the past.  I thought it was a good idea, and I read The Night Before Christmas story.  Love that poem!

Kicking off December with a Lego advent calendar for Mr J.  He was excited!  Being the only one home has its advantages.  

Went exploring around a lake on some hiking trails we had not been to before.  It was a beautiful day to be out and explore!

Screen shot from an impromptu family call this week.  Fun to see everyone.  Miss O had just done some impressive baking and wanted to show us her turtle shaped bread she made.  Fun stuff!  Amazing what technology can do to bring you all together when you are all over the place!

Instead of plates of Christmas cookies or a homemade cheese ball for neighbor gifts, we decided to do Christmas countdown candles.  Ben's dad makes them and has done that tradition since Ben was a little kid.  So we made a bunch (and now really appreciate all Ben's dad does, because they are not easy and ours don't look anywhere near as nice as his) and got them out to our friends and neighbors this week. A fun tradition to share that I hope people enjoy this year!

Another tradition we do each year is cut out paper snowflakes.  It isn't a big deal, but we all enjoy it and finding different patterns to try.  We always hang them up in our big kitchen window after.  These are our snowflake creations this year.

Thanks for visiting.  Hope you are all staying safe and healthy!  Have a great week!

2020 Blue Jeans Week 48

We have so very much to be thankful for!  As I heard recently "counting our blessings in far better than recounting our problems" from Russel M Nelson.  So true!  Thanksgiving this year was very different, but it was still nice and we enjoyed it.  I am thankful all my kids were able to celebrate in a safe place where they felt welcomed!  I am thankful we are all healthy and well at this time.  I am thankful we have a job, a home, cars, food, and never go without!  So much to be thankful for!  Take a look at our week....

Sunday we had church online which is different, but it was a special large area meeting, so it was done virtually.  Church at home today.  So grateful that we are able to worship again!

Enjoyed a fun hike one day this week.  Sure love hiking on the trails near our house.  We are so grateful for them and the ability we have to quickly get out into nature.

Piano recital this week.  Mr J did a great job on his solo.  So proud of him!  We are grateful for music!

Mr J also did a duet with his friends.  They did Scott Joplin's The Entertainer and did an awesome job!  So grateful for the beautiful church we were able to have the recital in, masks on and socially distanced, hand sanitizer and temperature checks, but so glad we could have it!

Thanksgiving prep, this kid tried his hand at a homemade apple pie, and it was soooo good!  

Happy Thanksgiving to us!  Just us 3, but it was still super yummy food and a great day with lots to be thankful for! 

Miss A and Mr A were at his family's for Thanksgiving and had a great time!

My other two girls went to Ben's sister's for Thanksgiving since they could not come home.  So grateful for her and making them feel so welcomed!!!

Day after Thanksgiving is always Christmas decorating day at our house.  We got up our crazy big 12 foot tree and get the house all decorated.  It is an all day project!

Saturday we did the outside lights and then worked on neighbor gifts.  We normally do some homemade food, but didn't feel that was appropriate this year, so we decided to make Christmas countdown candles which have been a tradition in Ben's family since he was a kid.  His dad makes them every year for all the family, so we decided to share that tradition this year.  Ben is melting crayon and using that to write on the candle.  We are thankful for family traditions and that we get to share them this year.  

Hope you all had a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!  So much to be thankful for!  Stay safe and healthy and well!

2020 Blue Jeans Week 47

Lots of pictures from my college girls this week.  After Thanksgiving some of their roommates will be gone and everything that was in person, which was very little, will be online until end of semester.  They had a bachelorette party for Miss A which was fun with her, her sisters and a dear friend/roommate.  Life is good.  We are healthy and safe and have much to be grateful for!  Here is a look at our week....

Miss E and her awesome roommates which have been such a blessing in her life this first semester of college which was so not normal for anyone!

Miss O and her roommates which have also been a big blessing in her life!

Miss E made these cute towels last year for Christmas, and I was excited to get them out--not to use, they are too cute to actually get dirty and use, but to admire this year! 

My girls up at my grandparent's cabin in the mountains.  So glad they can get away there!

What do college kids buy for food for a weekend at a cabin?  ABC chicken nuggets.  Yum!

Miss A's bachelorette party--a very tame, but super fun affair with my 3 girls and Miss A's awesome friend.  She gets married in less than a month!  So exciting!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving week even if it looks way different than normal.  Ours will be so different than what we normally do, but it will still be good!  So much to be grateful for!  Stay health and safe and have a blessed Thanksgiving week!