Once upon a time my baby brother got married and it was one of the happiest days ever. Of course we took the trip to SLC for the beautiful celebration. The next few posts are going to be all about our trip and the wedding. And I'll probably do even more posts later once we get the photos back from the photographer. I mean - this trip had all of my favorite things - family, friends, marriage, true love, beautiful things all around - so of course, there'll be lots of posts with lots of pictures.
We left on Saturday the 16th at 3am and drove and drove and drove the whole way in one day. We left so early so that the girls would be asleep through a few solid hours at the beginning of the drive. It worked! The girls were champs during the drive. Singing, books, naps, ipad. It was great. We stopped for breakfast and lunch and made it to UT in time for dinner. Every time we stopped we would do "exercises" to stretch our legs - this meant that we'd all run around the restaurant, do some jumping jacks, some yoga stretches, it was great.
We stayed at Matthew and Judy's house (Sean's aunt and uncle). They are such wonderful hosts and we enjoyed being able to spend so much time with them.
Of course we spent some time with G&G Binns
We had Sunday dinner with them and Auntie Caitlan and then we took a walk to the temple.
This is how I want to be when I grow up. Silver and walking hand in hand with my true love to the temple. These guys are stalwart. I love them.
This girl loves her grandpa!
On Monday we were also able to spend time with my grandparents down in Heber. I always love visiting them there in the mountains. So peaceful and beautiful - I love walking around outside with Grandpa out in his gardens, having him show me all the things that he's working on.
Unfortunately, this is the only picture we really got while visiting there. We went across the street with grandpa to go explore the ditch in the neighbors yard. Evette and Miriam were fascinated. Evette even got brave enough to run and jump over the ditch all by herself.
We also took a trip to the Monte Bean Museum! I have a soft spot for this place - I love it! I went there when I was a kid, Sean and I went on quite a few dates there, I took Evette there frequently when we were at BYU - I love it. The last few times we've visited the area they've been remodeling it. But this time, it was finished and we were so excited! They did a beautiful job! It was so fun going with the girls. They had so much fun, but probably not as much as me!
We finished up our Monday by heading to Tom and Noelle's house (my aunt and uncle) for a family gathering. So much fun. Evette was thrilled to have little cousin buddies to play with.
It was my mom's birthday the next day so we had a little birthday cake while we were there, too.
On Tuesday, we got to spend some time with my dad, too, before the wedding day. It was nice for the girls to be able to spend time with him and have him read books (because, that is the one true way to Evette's heart) together.
I can't remember if it was Saturday night or Sunday night, but, one of those nights. Miriam woke up 4 times to throw up, so that was awesome. She ate some Twizzlers before bed so it was this lovely bright red sticky nastiness all over her and her hair - 4 times. Awesome. She woke up the next morning totally fine, so we thought she just ate too much sugar combined with too much traveling.
Well, on Tuesday, Evette woke up and threw up about a dozen times that morning, so that was even more awesome. This is the day before the wedding and my child couldn't go more than 30 minutes without throwing up. Joy. Well, we had plans to go to the temple to do some
sealings with bride and groom to be and some family. So, the wonderful, heroic, Auntie Caitlan babysat the girls and helped clean up sick-o Evette while we were gone. After we came back, Evette took an afternoon nap and woke up completely fine. Running around, jumping on the trampoline, eating, no problem-o.
So I don't know what was the matter with my sick-o girls, but I'm glad they got it all out of their system (literally) before the wedding.
Going to do sealings with the family the day before the wedding was so wonderful. In temples, forever families are made. When a couple gets married in the temple, they make sacred covenants to God and if they are faithful to those covenants they will receive numerous blessings, including the promise that our family relationships will continue for eternity. Such a blessing. I always love the opportunity to go and do sealings in the temple for those that have passed on, so that they can have the opportunity to have a forever family too. It helps me remember the promises that I have made and the beautiful blessings that I am receiving and will receive for my faithfulness. Life is hard, but the temple gives me the right perspective, everything falls into its proper place.
