A picture is worth a thousand words

I have so much that I should be doing today, back to back trips starting on Thursday that I need to get ready for, but I'm allowing myself one blog post.  I love this picture!  Let me explain.

First, the most obvious, the double sun spot on Amanda's face.  Let say it is the "glow of pregnancy".  How funny is it that if you look closely there are 2 sunspots (Amanda is pregnant with twins) and it just happened to land on Amanda! Next, check out Mike.  He was such a good sport.  Sick as could be.  Trying so hard not to throw-up.  Mike helped us get the sound system set up and then just disappeared, and Dex had had about all the wedding hugs and kisses and pictures he could stand by this time.  I love their little family!  Now on to Braden and Hanna.  How awesome is it that they showed up just shortly AFTER guests started arriving?!  Good for them! It's their wedding day, it should be how they want it.  I'm thinking those smiles on their faces are for real! (wink, wink) Our pictures were a little rushed, but they tell a lot better story than the perfect pictures that I may have had in mind!  Caitlyn was awesome.  She filled in wherever she could see something needed to be done, and the whole time she looked amazing.  I love being around these people!  Such a fun time for our family!  Thank you so much for those that came and supported us and those that couldn't be here but we know are cheering for us too.

Braden and Hanna's Wedding Dinner 9-28-2012

  

 

After the dinner, it was time to put the finishing touches on the back yard.

 

What a weekend!

Sorry, this isn't the weekend you expected....

But I need to write about this, before I forget some of the details.

This is the weekend BEFORE the wedding....

September 21, 2012 I headed up to Bear Lake to do my annual ride around the lake, and stay at my friend Odette's cabin.  I know it was kind of bad timing for me with Braden's wedding one week away, but I felt it was important for me to take this time to go do the ride, which I enjoy doing, and spend some time with my friends from my old neighborhood.  I had planned to ride all the way around the lake and then come home on Sunday.  A series of strange events made for changes in my plans.  Odette, Peggy and I went for a shorter ride and spent a lot of time at the cabin with Odette's mom, Jo.  I decided to stay until Monday.

 It was so fun to just ride, no pressure, plenty of stops, and we could actually use our legs afterwards!  So now at the cabin it's me, Odette and her mom Jo, her brother Shand and his wife.  They were there in case we had a bike brake down and needed to be rescued. We took drives to check out the fall leaves, 

(yes, that's our old cabin's green roof)

took Odettes mom to see the deer in the fields.  There were so many deer out in the fields on Sunday, way more than are usually out there.  The skies were really full of smoke from the fires that were burning in Idaho.  

I rode home with Odette and Jo.  They got home early enough to get their hair done before going to a play at Hale Center theater Monday evening.  Tuesday morning, Jo died.  

I was so grateful that I had spent the extra time with Jo and Odette.  Jo's last hours were so perfect.  The funeral ended up being at exactly the same time as our wedding (more to come).  Odette was kind enough to still come to the reception later that evening anyway.  She told us what a calm feeling she had all day.
We will miss Jo.

I will post more of Braden and Hanna I promise. I let them take the cards with the pictures on them so they could choose which ones they want me to edit for them.