A Busy Saturday

Saturday was a busy day for us.  We started out with our annual

yard sale that we have every spring with my sister's family.  It's become a tradition

and it's something we look forward to.  The thing that amazes me is that we have so much

crap to get rid of every year!

Dave was having a little too much fun!

 Boston and Emmie - Boston was keeping a close eye on

Barney because his mom was trying to sell it!

Coming up...the Festival of Books at BYU that Talbie and I went

to right after the yard sale!

Abi's Wedding

My beautiful niece, Abi Heaps, got married the same day as

Maddie's graduation.  Emmie was a flower girl so had to be at the reception

early for pictures and such so she wasn't at graduation.

We raced to the reception afterwards so we could join in the festivities...

 Some of Abi's beautiful bridal pictures I stole off of facebook :)

 Emmie the flower girl.  Marianne made all of these darling dresses!

 Emmie and Megan at the reception.  Megan was a bridesmaid.

 Dave and his mom (every picture I have of Dave at the reception involves a fork :)

 I love this picture except for the leaf over Talbie's eye!

 This is the beautiful display they had at the reception.  They had Marianne's

wedding dress and both grandma's on display.  This is Marianne's on theleft

and Mary's on the right

 The reception was held at the Provo Library (previously known as the old

Brigham Young Academy building)

 Mary and her brother Dave

 Sunshine and Julie

 Daddy dancing with Emmie

 Emmie and Ben :)

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Maddie's High School Graduation

This is a long post - with a lot of pictures so beware!

It was a busy day for us yesterday.  We had Maddie's graduation

and my niece, Abi got married at the same time.  We tried our best to

be 2 places at once. 
Here is the graduation post...

Before graduation, we took Maddie out to one of favorite restaurants -
"La Jolla Groves"

She looked so beautiful and all grown up on her way to graduation

It worked out so well because Talbie was supposed to be there at

graudation with her new student council sweater on to hand out programs

at the Marriott Center.  They both had to be there early so they went together.

On their way :)

 Beautiful Talbie handing out the programs

Maddie walking at graduation. 

When it was time to move the tassel from the left side to the right side,

her's got caught in her hair and she had to have the girl next to her

help her get it out :)

I love my camera because I can take extreme close-ups and was able to get this picture.

Maddie and her friends.  I will miss these kids so much! 

Most of them have been around since preschool.

Spencer, Maddie, and Peter

Maddie and Maddie - bff's since forever!!

Talbie and her friend Olivia

Katie and Maddie

Logan and Maddie

Maddie and Brooke

Maddie and "The Doug's" (this is what these boys call themselves - long story)

Brandon, Lucas, Kurt, David, Sy, Maddie, and Logan

Maddie, Sam, Brooke, Sariah

Maddie and Kurt (friends since they were 3)

Maddie did pause for 30 seconds to get a picture with her parents (barely)

Heidi and Maddie

Sariah and Maddie

Bronson and Maddie

Bronson, Maddie, and Talbie -

Emmie was a flower girl at Abi's wedding so she couldn't be at graduation.

More on that post next...

Maddie, Liz, Maddie, Jessie, Aubrey

 Maddie, Taylor, and Maddie

Maddie has also been friends with Taylor since she was 3 and he was in our ward :)

 The gang

Bronson Graduates!

Our first graduation of the week...

Bronson graduated from Foothill Elementary :)

 Bronson is a clown!  This is how he had retied his tie just

as he was about to walk on stage...

 Me and the boys - Brock and Bronson

It's pretty sad when you're shorter than most 6th graders!

I even had heels on!

 Brittany and the boys...