Talbie's Bridal Pictures

The time is going so fast and we are less than a month away from Talbie's wedding!

(It sounds so weird saying that!  She still seems 8 years old to me ;)

We started the prep work the day after she got home from Rexburg!  

She went to Maddie's house and got her hair and nails done:)

 Then the next day Maddie came over and did her hair and make up before the pictures.

Maddie does good work!  We are blessed to have her help!

While they were doing hair and make-up, I went and picked up the

bouquet she was using for pictures.  It's so pretty!!

Then we met her photographer at a studio in Provo for pictures.

Man - I'm glad we decided to do them inside because it was FREEZING

last Saturday ;)

Jessie Alexis Photography is taking her pictures.

Jessie has been a dear friend and I've known her since she was 3 and I used

to babysit her when her parents were in my parent's ward my senior year of high school ;)

Jessie took Talbie's head shots for a play she was in when she was 11.

She took our family pictures

She took Talbie's senior pictures in 2014

and now she is photographing her wedding!

These pictures were all taken with my phone so you can imagine how

beautiful they will be when Jessie is done with them!

I stole this beautiful one from Jessie's Instagram account.  I can't wait to see all of them!!

Loveless Girls Christmas Party 2016

My Grandma Vivian (Loveless) died 19 years ago this December.

Every year, the girls in my mom's family, get together at Christmas and

celebrate her!  She LOVED to throw parties - especially at Christmas.

This year was bitter-sweet because my aunt Dena, died this year in July.

She is my mom's older sister.  It was hard not have all 3 of the original sisters there together.

Emmie's 9th Grade Basketball Team

Emmie decided very last minute to try out for her 9th grade

girl's basketball team.  She made it and I was so proud!

Logan also made the boy's team so we have been having a lot of fun watching all the games.

She's had good friends like Maddy and Aubrey come and support her :)

Thanksgiving 2016

Before I start posting more about our December, I thought I'd put on the

the few pictures I remembered to take at Thanksgiving this year.

For the past few years, my brother, Bret has hosted Thanksgiving at his

beautiful home in Park City.  It's so nice and roomy and we have such a good time!

Emmie, Ember, and Ally sledding

 The delicious spread - before we dove in

 The kids table :)  We don't have many "kids" in our family anymore.

 My brothers (Cody, Dustin, and Bret) 

posing in front of Bret's awesome desk he had shipped from out of the country.

(I can't remember where??)

 Grandpa and Aiden

 Maddie practicing the hover-board and Logan ready to catch her :)

 Emmie and Maddie practicing together.

The Lower Lights

This is one of the things I look forward to every Christmas!

The Lower Lights concert!!

My brother, Dustin (Middle section on the left with the guitar)

has been a part of this group since the very beginning!  

The is the most talented group of people I have ever seen!

If you haven't seen them - you must!

Our cousin, Kami Gee came with us but she didn't get in this picture with us :(

Thanks for coming with us Kami!!

Family Pictures 2016

When Talbie was here last weekend we also got some family pictures taken.

Logan's brother, Lane, is an excellent photographer and he just does it for fun.

He took these amazing pictures for us!

Talbie is Engaged!!

Where does the time go?  

When I look at my children, it doesn't usually surprise me that they have 

grown-up so much.  It really hits me when life events like this happen and I will sit

down to write about it and realize that my blog is almost 10 years old and Talbie was just 10

when I started writing it!  Then it blows my mind that she is now getting married!!

Before Talbie left for school in September, we were able to help her buy a used car

that my brother, Cody was selling.  He was the original owner of the 1999 Nissan Sentra and

has taken exceptional care of it.  We bought it the night before she left for school and she

took it with her to Rexburg the next day when we drove her down.

That was such a blessing!  Talbie has always been afraid to drive on the freeway but conquered

her fear as I drove with her to school.  Then, last weekend she drove herself home.  

I guess she just needed some real motivation to conquer her fear of the freeway.  Parker was just

the motivation she needed!

Talbie and Parker met last February/March through Tinder.  It's a social media app that

Maddie talked her in to getting (even though Talbie said she would NEVER do it!)

They talked for a couple of weeks before they had their first date and the rest is history.

They have been talking about getting married for a couple of months and went to pick out a ring

before she left in September.  Talbie didn't know when the ring was going to be ready or what
Parker had planned, but she was really hoping he was going propose last weekend...and he did!

On Friday afternoon they decided to go on a picnic up American Fork canyon.

As they were driving up Talbie said she saw this teepee set up and thought, "Wow,

someone left a teepee up here!"

 As they got closer this is what she saw and she started to get excited!

He gave her this book - a leather bound journal that he had written

and beautiful letter to Talbie in.  Then he got down on one knee and proposed.

(We kind of knew it was going to happen when she was here because

Parker had talked to Dave the Sunday before :)  We didn't let Talbie know though.

We let her stress ;)

 Putting on the ring...

 Inside the journal he gave her, he cut out the center and glued a picture

of the Provo City Center Temple on the back and placed the ring inside.

This is the temple they are getting sealed in on January 14, 2017.

 Luckily Parker let his mom in on his plans because she met them up there

and they reenacted everything so we could have these great pictures!

 It is such a great blessing and answer to prayers when your children find the person

they are supposed to be with.  Dave and I feel so incredibly blessed because Maddie and Talbie have

both met wonderful men who we love as our own children. 

Bronson Turns 18!

This handsome guy turned 18 on the 5th of October.

 

Bronson is such a great boy!  We love him so much. 

He has a great brain on him and he is constantly building, inventing, or researching

a new project.  I'm just so proud of him :)

Dave took Logan with him to shop for his birthday present and he was

able to surprise him with a new laptop that he found.  It was a truly a miracle

because he needed one so badly.  His old one was so outdated that he couldn't do much with it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRONSON!  WE LOVE YOU!!

Other August Happenings

Before September comes to a close I need to post a couple of other 

eventful things that happened in Augusts...

Emmie got her braces off just in time for school to start!

That's always a good thing!

 We took a girls trip to pick Talbie up from school.  She had about a 7 week

break between her semesters at BYUI.  It's always so nice to have her home!

 And...school started on August 22nd.  Emmie started 9th grade

And Bronson started his Senior year!

 And we can't forget Logan and Emmie's first day of picture together.

These cousins have lived as back door neighbors since the day they were each born.

When they become Seniors, I'm going to make a collage of first day of school pictures

starting from age 3 - their first day of preschool :)

(I think they are all in front of this same tree too :)