My little sister got married!!

I'm so happy for my little sister. She got married on May 14, 2009. She married Garrett Southworth, so she is now Makell Hansen Southworth. I'm so excited for them. And excited that I now have a brother.

What an exciting event. All the typical wedding stuff took place. She had engagement pictures (I took a few), bridals, I came and watched (and took some, not very good ones), a couple bridals showers (I helped plan one), and then the wedding dinner, marriage in the Salt Lake temple and reception at Eaglewood. It was fabulous!

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Some engagements (she had a professional take more than this, I just took a few for fun)

Bridals/Groomals

This is the dork she married... ha ha ha kidding Garrett, we love you!

My mom and I got a little bored... sorry Makell. We had fun playing with Makell's veil and...

Smelling the flowers...

...and taking pictures of ourselves. We are so funny ha ha ha.

Makell's bridal shower. She matched the colors of the shower by accident, but still so cute.

Lots of yummy food :)

I made her a garter, and an advice book, and I’m still working on a recipe book for them.

Wedding dinner at Noahs in Lindon

They are so in LOVE!!

Mom and Dad

Makell with her best buds

Garrett with his mom and dad

I don't have any pictures of Darrik or me at the dinner, but here is a picture of my cute fat baby with Cortney.

Kacie, Paige and Cort


The temple. I didn't take very many pictures after her temple sealing because I had the video camera.

A little windy

Say cheese!

The happy couple

Did I mention GORGEOUS?!

The cutest baby ever!!... Seriously.

Crazy sisters

Paige and her boyfriend Phil

Uncle Jeremy and aunt Peggy

Brock with GG

One of Garrett's friends with a mohawk. WOW!!

All the planning paid off. It was a crazy couple of months getting ready for it all, but it turned out so AWESOME!! Her colors were chocolate brown and lime green. Gorgeous!! She was so meticulous and planned every little detail. She did such a great job. Congrats you guys!!! We love you.

Wheeler Farm, Swimming and some other pictures

This is how this post was going to start two months ago:

I need to take this opportunity while all three kids are sleeping to do a quick post. On Thursdays I babysit my friends two kids. Lindsey is 2 and Talmage is the same age as brock, almost 6 months. It is a miracle when they all sleep at the same time.

As you can tell from my lack of posts in the last little bit, they woke up... ha ha ha. There have been many other things that have interrupted my posting lately besides babies. Busy, busy, busy. Ill go over these pictures real quick since this post has been waiting to be published for quite some time, but I will tell you all about what we have been up to in my next post.

On March 21, the first day of spring, we went to Wheeler Farm. Brock was a little bit young to really enjoy himself, but I still think he had a good time. We went with a bunch of our friends and we decided that this should be our yearly tradition. We will go to Wheeler Farm on the first day of spring. The weather was perfect. We had a lot of fun.

Brock all ready to go.


Just looking at the horsies.

So intent. He really liked looking at the animals. They were so intriguing to him.

Horsie eating hay.

All the kiddos. Lily, Brock, Evan, Lauren, Max, Carson, Colby, Taven and Ryker.

Colby driving the tractor.

Cute cousins, Colby and Carson driving the tractor. They loved this thing.

Baby lamb.

Big ugly pigs, oink, oink.

This pig totally wanted to eat my baby. He kept getting closer and closer.

Brock was fine until he got this close. Look at his face... poor little guy. The big pig almost got him. Ha ha ha!!!

Brock was pretty tired by this point. He wasn't too thrilled to be sitting on this pile of hay.

Our friend Lily.

This is our friend Michelle. Carson broke her glasses but she still wore them. You can't tell from this picture, but they were pretty crooked. It was so funny.

Plumb tuckered out.

This cow really needed some milking. Look at those boobies.

Out for a hay ride.

This is Brock's first time in the pool. You can't tell by the look on his face, but he LOVED it. He was splashing and blowing bubbles and smiling the whole time. We dunked him a couple of times and he held his breath and was a little bit scared, but then smiled really big. He did really good. We hope to get him into swimming lessons soon.

Sarah, Lily, Rachael and Max.

Ceara and Drake, Lisette and Talmage, Amy and Shaylee, Kami and Brock, and Michelle and Colby.

Same as above plus Candice and Hunter on the left side, and Marie and Carson on the right side.

Look at that crazy red hair. Love it!!

Hi my little drooler.

Hit Me Baby One More Time!!!

If you guessed Britney Spears, you guessed right! There are many other posts I should catch up on right now, but before I forget I wanted to document this moment.

My wonderful friend Nicole invited Marie and me to go to the Britney Spears concert with her Tuesday night. I'm not a huge fan of Britney, but I don't hate her either, and I heard her concerts are SO fun to go to. And I do like a lot of her songs and I love to DANCE!!! So I was all for going to the concert.I have to admit though, when I heard that others were going to this concert before I got the invite and I made fun of them... ha ha ha. Shame on me!

My husband kept making fun of me saying, you are so excited aren't you? And I'd sheepishly half smile and say yes. I love going to concerts. We got a lot of flack from our husbands about going to hang out with a lot of 15 year old girls. But we didn't care.

ANYWAY... so we get there and found our seats up, up, up about 10 rows from the top and hung out to watch the Pussy Cat Dolls perform. They were super tiny on the stage. We seriously needed binoculars. They did a decent job and we danced and sang along. We did the best we could to see them from the nose bleed section. But we were having fun none the less.

This is us. Sitting UP with the nose bleeders.

In between the PCD and Britney there was a short intermission and we saw this lady walking up the stairs with a badge on and tickets in her hands. We started freaking out, I don't know why we thought we could, but we started screaming 'take us down there, take us to the couches, pick me pick me!!!!!' Seriously FREAKING out!!! She said, 'how many of you are there?' We said three. AND THEN SHE TOLD US TO COME WITH HER!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! We didn't even hesitate, we grabbed our stuff and ran down the stairs after her. Marie even forgot her umbrella.

We went from this:

Enter portal DD (which is upstairs) row 11, bring your binoculars, see the ant show.

To this:

Center ring, row B, on the stools, smell the sweat, feel the heat ENJOY THE SHOW!!!

This was our view from the floor. You can't even see where we were sitting. Those people paid about $500 a piece to sit there. SUCKERS!! Ha ha ha

We got VIP wrist bands and ticket sot sit on the stools right behind the couches right behind the stage. There was the stage, then row A (the couches) row B (US on the stools) a rather large walk way.... then row 1. We were on row B!! Our own private little section to sit if we wanted to or to stand and dance in this little area, actually quite large for dancing. I was already excited, but this was seriously so cool! Stuff like this doesn't happen to me that often.

Our wrist bands. Not a very good picture. Both of our camera's died, so this is taken with my phone.

Britney did a fantastic job. She is a really good entertainer. Of course she was a little scandalous, which was to be expected. It's Britney Spears for crying out loud. She didn't wear much, basically lingerie. But I think her dancers were worse than she was and the intermission movies/songs made me want to look the other way. But overall I had a really fun time. I danced a LOT! and I loved that. We were seriously so close. WE got some really great pictures. No zoom, or very little required.

There was this crazy kid, so I got my picture with him. I wasn't quite ready... nice face :)

Thanks Nicole for a great night!