{50th Wedding Anniversary Party}

On Saturday April 21 we headed up to Idaho for a surprise party for my grandparents' [dad's parents] 50th wedding anniversary! We had a surprise dinner with them and most of the family and my dad made a nifty slideshow of their lives with music and whatnot. It was lovely to see family and spend time with them.

After dinner we went outside to take some pictures and hang out.

Grandparents with their 3 great grandchildren!

Grandparents with their kiddos

Grandparents with their grandkids!

ERM! Emily Rose McIntosh with Evette Rose McQuay :)

Cousins! Photo bomb scott and dad..

The whole gang!

Cousinly love

Work it!

{Graduation!}

Once upon a time the husband graduated! Hallelujah! He majored in International Relations from the Kennedy Center and minored in Business Strategy from the Marriott School.

The family [his parents and sister and my parents] came in for the occasion.

Here we are at the big old ceremony with everyone. Grandma Laurie playing with Evette for the first time since Christmas!

 

What a studly man!

Waiting for the ceremony to start!

Gotta love those brothers!

Waiting for the husband to walk across the stage...

It was a great ceremony! They had great speakers, great dancers, and great music. It was also pretty short. That sounds like an equation for success if you ask me. Evette was very well behaved during the whole thing.

I made Miss Evette a little graduation cap and gown to wear with her Daddy. The husband wasn't sure about walking for graduation but after my graduation last year and seeing little babies dressed up in graduation gear he was set on it. Thanks to a free x-large BYU t-shirt I got and a pair of scissors we got us a graduation cap and gown baby-sized.

All grown up!

Thanks for the photo bomb, Dan!

 

The husband with one of his favorite professors!

It was a long day, but wonderful!

So proud of my babies!

After the graduation ceremony we went with the family to a brunch at Magelbys. It was great to celebrate with friends and to say goodbye to some family - we left the next day for our vacation.

{Tulip Festival}

Thanksgiving Point has a wonderful Tulip festival and we wanted to go to it last year but the flowers didn't bloom before we headed out to Chicago so it was for sure on our list for this year.

I'm so glad that we made time to go! Evette loved it as well - she's such a little trooper!

They had a cool little exhibit of sculptures of Christ. Eventually they are are all going to be life size - it was amazing!

Look at that smile! Augh - they melt my heart.

She's such a great little explorer :)

{Be prepared}

Well then! I'm sitting at my parents house watching a movie. The little family and I said goodbye to Provo, went  on vacation to Washington state, and are the process of moving to Dallas. I've been away from the computer for a while and have some serious blog catching up to do. As this is the family journal I need to get it all down before I forget and it gets too far gone. Here goes nothing...