The big day

Layton and Lauren are married! It was such a perfect day full of family, celebrating and one amazing couple. 

It's been fun to watch someone fall so deeply in love with my little brother. 

Lauren is full of light, spirit and sweetness and it's a blessing that she is part of our family.

A few of my favorite pictures from the fabulous day

Things that made the day memorable:

The weather was absolutely perfect.
The ceremony was sweet and profound.
Owen wet his pants outside the temple. Darn it. He was sad for a minute, but then ran around and aired out.
The evening included so many friends and family members and lots of fun.
A sitter came to get the boys from the reception so Treavor and I could be care free and dance late into the night.
The love birds drove off in a cool, classic getaway car.
Lauren was such a gorgeous bride, radiating light. 

Happy days ahead for Layton & Lauren Bell

Good thing he switched

The other day Owen was putting his shoes on. I noticed they were on the wrong feet and told him he better switch. 

His response while chuckling: 

"ya cause then I'd have to stand like this all day!"

A few of the perks

There are many perks that come with living with Grandma Kat and Grandpa Dennis. 

Here are just a few to document. 

A digger came to make a whole for a new pool! The dirt and the equipment have been heaven for the boys. 

Also 5 huge cottonwood trees had to be removed and for a few days there was a giant pile of stumps to clime on.

One morning Owen woke up to personalized superhero cupcakes and got to eat them for breakfast! 

Thank you Grandma! and aunt Telisa  for designing those awesome toppers.

Lewie loves helping Treavor and Grandpa in the yard

 And browsing catalogs with Grandma

I'm feeling very blessed, and obviously the boys couldn't be happier. 

celebrating our mamas

It makes me so happy that these two sweet Grandmas are such a huge part of my boys' lives.

So lucky.

My mother's day was full of sweet reminders of how blessed I am to have my squirmy little boys.

My favorite part of the day was watching Owen sing with the primary in church. He was on the front row, didn't sing a word and covered his ears with his hands the entire time. I was  simply proud that he went up there. So proud that tears rolled down my cheeks.

There are two types of people in this world...

Those who wash their face before watching a weekend night movie and those who don't. 

I am the latter. I'm a procrastinator. Have been for as long as I can remember. Obviously I have been affected by the consequences of putting just about everything off in much bigger ways than simply being mad at myself because it's late, I'm extremely tired and there's nothing I want more than to crawl into bed, but I have to wash my face. I'm not sure if I procrastinate out of habit, fear or just plain laziness. I'm working on it. And I hope to someday have mastered the art of being excited to do things, rather than waiting til the last second. Because I do LOVE the feeling of checking things off my list. I blame the procrastination in me that Owen is 3 and three quarters and we just began potty training.

Here he is feeling proud in front of his sticker chart. 

I came across this picture

and remembered how happy it made me to find Iron man sleeping in my bed in the middle of the day.

We took a St. George trip

** Thank you so very much to my sweet husband for the birthday post, and too all of you for your kind comments. It made my birthday a very happy one! **

We had a blast!

Owen played with Claire and spent lots of time in the water.

Lewis spent lots of time all up in everybody's business. Oh ya, and he fell in love with Jaydia and had his first kiss.

 Treav went golfing with the guys and well...did guy stuff.

I had fun shopping with the girls, hanging out with my family and trying to keep Lewie out of everybody's business.