2014 Family

2014 Family

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Endowment, Theatrics & Cousins


My nephew Justin went through the temple for his endowments this year!
Here are some pictures from that wonderful night:
Aaron surprised us with a visit! He moved in August to Grenada...an Island. His wife Nicole stayed behind with the kids so she could deliver her baby here with her parents. Aaron is attending school there in Grenada. It was awesome that he was able to come down for a visit!
 Justin, Autumn and their parents
 We went to Applebee's for dinner after the session. Nephi and Autumn are not endowed but they came to Vegas to be there for Justin and enjoy a family meal afterward.

I went to Provo to stay a month with Sterling's family after that. We enjoyed a relaxing month. Story time and Preschool time at the library was fun. We had a few playdates with Sylvia's Monsivais' (Sterling's aunt who is about our age) children. Attended Maria's wedding. I visited one night with my cousin Felicia...at The Spaghetti Factory. Made two baby quilts for Athena...with mom Roundy's help. She tied one of the quilts in a matter of a few short minutes while I was helping my boys get some food. It makes them more special that grandma helped make them.
We spent quality time with Jon and Emily and their children. That was fun.


 Pictures:
November 7

 Ben taught Luke to play Chess




Going back to Logandale for just a few weeks before our move to South Dakota. Nicole brought her kids over to Logandale one Sunday ...I was able to meet baby Hank. He's so small...it's hard to believe they are that small and that Athena will be.

Ezra, Lincol, Lachoneus and Tiberias:

 Autumn played Rachel Lynn in the high school production of Anne of Green Gables. Mom and I went to see it one night along with Autumn's family. Tereasa helped backstage so she never sat in the audience for the production.
Autumn is really good at acting. She's fun and dramatic.



Alissa and her baby James came out and played one day. James is walking now!  Alissa and I went to Vegas and attended a friends' wedding reception. Alissa went to the wedding as well. And Ty came with me for the reception. It had been raining for three days! But somehow Luke didn't want to come with me to Vegas to get out of the house. Ty came and we stayed just a little while at the reception. We brought a card for the bride and groom, said Congratulations to Trinette (Blake) and Tom (whom I was friends with one year in high school.  He's Alissa's age and was Alissa's friend).
We said "hi" to some friends, Alisha Reed/Larson and Crystal Blake/Houston. We sat and ate with Alissa a little while then left. We got shakes from Inn & Out to eat on our hour drive back to grandma and grandpa's house.

One night Tereasa, Mom, David, Jacob, Justin and I went to meet a group in Vegas at the Cannery theater to see Catching Fire (The Hunger Games). They have a new luxury theater! The seats reclined and were spacious and there was tons of room in front of each row of seats. So amazing! And the movie was amazing! LOVED IT! Everyone loved it. A fast 2 hours and like 25 minutes. It was during the rainy days and so the drive back to Logandale was in the rain.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Maria's Wedding


On November 7 Maria Roundy and Matthew Montano got married in the Draper, Utah temple. It was a windy day!! The temple was beautiful though and there was a nice big group of family there to view the union. 

The reception was held at a reception hall in Orem and it was beautiful. Mom Roundy and others did a fabulous job with decorating the hall and supplying the cheesecakes and pumpkin pies.

Sterling was not able to leave his training in Biloxi, Mississippi to come for the wedding. But my boys and I were there and had a wonderful time.

 Pictures from the reception:

Trevor and Simone, who got married just in May this year. They are holding Jon and Emily's baby Lucy.
 Valerie and Jack Russel
Diane Wilde holding Jack

 The bride and groom with Luke, Ty and their cousins; Ben, Sarah, Lucy, Spencer
 George and his wife, Josh, Allison, James and Charity West
 Bride and Groom with parents.
 Maria tossing the bouquet
 Maria with brothers who were able to attend : Josh, Trevor, Travis and Jon
 Maria and Hannah
 Maria getting ready in the Bride's room

They had some of the M&Ms personalized and placed as decorations on the tables
 Little boys who wanted so much to just eat the M&M decorations
 Bride and groom with mom and dad Roundy
 Emily with baby Lucy
 Father of the bride taking Maria out onto the dance floor
 Dad Roundy holding Lucy

The cake! Matt and Maria both start with "M" so their cake was decorated in M&M's.
 Talking about the cake
 Matthew removing the garter. Notice their purple tennis shoes!
 Mom helping with dress issues
 More with the kids


The bride and groom's car at the end of the reception

Tuesday, November 5, 2013