After Wedding Pictures...still July 13th!!

Here are a few pictures we took after the wedding. I want to remember this happy day and everyone that came.

All of LaVerl's family came to support us. Dave & Mary came from Mexico, J'net & Bryan and Rick & Paula.

Most of my family came too! My folks, Sonja & Randy, my twin sister Sherry & Steve, only my brother Curt was unable to attend. 

Luann's family were all there too.

Mark & Holly's family all came. They are now living in El Paso while Mark does he 3 year residency in Emergency Medicine.

Chad's cousin Marcie came with her 2 boys.

Bret & Becki's family.

Reed with Elijah.

Kari with her two little guys, Rivers & Eli

Chad & sister Lisa

After the wedding we went back to the church and everyone came for the luncheon. I feed about 100+ people french dip sandwiches, pasta salad, potato salad and fresh fruit. Tami & Kari made lots of homemade cookies. It was fun visiting with everyone.

 At 6:00pm we went to the reception at Heritage Park. It was so nice and lots of people came to show their love and support. We stood in line for a solid 2 hours meeting everyone that love Luann and her family. 

Gramps & Blake

 Mark & Zallen

 Tami & Colter

 Dave & Mary & Jaxon 

 Natali and baby Colter

 Chad and his happy Mom

 Cutting the cake!

Milea dancing in her pretty dress!

 It was such a happy, perfect day. A day we will always remember getting together with family, enjoying being together and celebrating with Chad & Luann!

July 13th---Chad's wedding day!!

So FINALLY I'm getting around to posting about Chad & Luann's special day!! They were married in the Snowflake Temple on the same day they met 1 year ago at a Regional Singles Activity. So here's some great pictures of them taken by Natali!

 They were both SO HAPPY!!

 The parents of the bride and groom.

 This was a day we have always wished and prayed for and now it has happened for Chad. We are thrilled that he now has Luann!

 We had LOTS of family come, thank you everyone!

 This is all our family except Kirk, he's deployed in Japan!

 All Chad's nieces and nephews, except Dempsey, she was not wanting to get in any of the pictures!

 Chad's siblings

It was a wonderful, perfect day, one that we've waited a long

time for!  Still, I'm going to miss having my Chad around, but Snowflake isn't that far away, so hopefully we'll get to see them often. The newlyweds got to stay at the Ritz-Carlton (thanks to Barry & Lisa) and then go on a 5 day cruise down to Mexico for their honeymoon!  Congratulations Chad & Luann!!

Finally- 4th of July pics! Lots of activities..

The 4th of July is always full of fun times. We had a few of our kids come home for the festivities! Chad & Luann came, Lisa & Barry, Bret & Becki and kiddos, and of course Tami & Ryne already live here! The day started off with the Parade! People were lined up all the way down Main Street to get a good place to sit and watch. The kids LOVED all the candy they got!

 Dempsey ate the candy as fast as she could pick it up!

 Auntie Lisa with Elijah

 Aunt Luann had her hand full too!

 Uncle Chad helped the kids pick up LOTS of candy!

 Kari got to ride on a float in the parade for her 10 year class reunion!

 Rivers & Blake, cute cousins!

 Clever Kingston makes a lego flag!

 Chad & Luann relaxing and watching a movie.

 Blake and Gpa enjoy the fireworks Bret brought.

 Ryne & Tami and boys

 Bret's family

 Saturday, Bret, Lisa and Kari decided that they would hike Flat Top, just for 'old times sake'. It was harder than they remember!

 Later we all joined in and picked cherries off our pie cherry tree.

 Rivers helping!

 Aunt Lisa and Elijah

 Becki helping too!

 Kari, Kingston, London & Rivers

 LaVerl didn't want to waste any of his cherries!

 Dempsey has no fear, she climbed right to the top!

 All the little cherry pickers!

From this.....

 

....to this!! Yummy jelly!

 Later we all had to have S'mores out at Gramps little fire pit

 We didn't tell Kari how many Rivers ate!!

 Roasting the perfect 'mellow'!

 Fun times!

 Lisa & Barry

 Chads lap is always a favorite place to be!

Kari & Rivers!

It was a fun filled weekend and it was great having some of the kids come home with the grandkids.