Avery & Easton

In September we were at Caralyns having a pizza party for Kade's birthday. Avery and Easton are my great niece and nephew. Avery belongs to Jake and Arli and Easton belongs to Brandi and Darren. They are only about 6 weeks or less a part. It is kind of funny because Jake and Brandi were about that far apart growing up and the best of friends.

Seriously just doesn't get much cuter than this!

Tom

My girls are always catching stuff. By stuff I mean bugs, worms, grasshoppers, Hope can catch a fly out of the air with her bare hands, snakes, and frogs. Yep this isn't the first frog they have caught, or the last I'm afraid. But it is certainly the biggest. They found him in Tyms window well. They named him Tom the toad and sang songs about him.

 He was a jumper. I wasn't impressed when he jumped on me twice. I screamed like a girl.

Poor Tom. The girls kept bringing him in the house. After he got loose and they couldn't find him I put an end to it. The they would get him out of her window well and play with him. i finally told them to stop because it was getting cold and it was cruel to bring him in because it was bad for him to regulate his temperature. Maybe I should have been a little kinder. The first good frost we had tom croaked. Yep he was dead. Oh well at least he had a nice funeral.

rest of engagment

I know I posted most of these already but here are the rest. I am so thrilled Valerie has agreed to do their wedding pictures.

Sneaky Pictures

Here are some of the pictures of their engagement.
 His sister in law did an amazing job. We asked her to do the wedding and bridal pictures. she is really nervous because she has never done them before but I have no doubt they will be incredible.

 The song

Down on one knee

This right here tugs at my heart strings. What a perfect picture

 She said yes!

 The Bling. This doesn't even come close to doing it justice. It is one of the most beautiful rings I have ever seen.

A few days after she got engaged she got her nails done

finally the giraffe.

Engagement

For weeks and weeks we have been waiting for Jaron to ask Autumn to marry him. They have actually been talking about it about 3 weeks into their relationship. We kept teasing him that he needed to get a ring on it with her up to college (really she didn't even have any interest to date anyone else). He loves her so so much and wanted everything to be perfect. They went ring shopping and she picked out a few and he mad a final decision.

Autumn had always said when she gets engaged she expects the guy to ask permission first and she told him that. He also told us he had too much respect for us not to ask. He planned the perfect day for her. What a memory it will all be.

She was getting a little pissed because weeks were going by with no ring. He had surgery on his kidney stones the week before and was out of work for a week. He invited Rich and I to dinner on Wed Oct 23. He was so nervous it was sweet. Rich teased him and told him he could marry her if he would give up the Dallas cowboys for the Steelers. it was so funny. Jaron is a huge Cowboys fan, Rich is a huge Steelers fan and hates the cowboys.

He had been planning this for weeks and we were trying to keep it secret from Autumn. He was texting me almost non stop. She called when we were at dinner he said I'm at dinner with the parents. She immediately asked my parents. Stinker. He had to lie and say no his parents. He felt horrible. All week she kept bugging him because he told her Saturday to keep the whole day free. She was getting nosier and nosier and he was exasperated. She came home Fri. night and was eating the pasta I brought home for dinner. I had to tell her it was a new recipe and she kept telling me it would be better with broccoli and less  garlic. It was pretty funny. I knew Jaron might be hurting because of his surgery and he had so much planned I snuck an overnight bag in his truck because they were going to Utah and if they had to stay at his brothers they could.

The big day arrived and he picked her up at 7:30 am. She had a pretty good idea but I kept throwing her off by telling her he better not propose because he hadn't asked permission ( I was enjoying it too much).

They drove to Bountiful and his sister in law told him to go to this park.she had set up chairs and was hiding with her camera. Jaron wrote Autumn a song, played the guitar and then got down on one knee and proposed. Seriously how romantic is he. His sister in law captured some amazing pictures. after she took some other pictures of them.

They went to Salt Lake and spent the day at Hogle Zoo. She had never been and loves giraffes so he wanted to take her. Then they went to Temple Square for a while and back to his brothers for dinner and got home about 10 that night.

We really like Jaron a lot. He fits well into our family. Rich said it only took 19 years but he finally has a son. That is a huge compliment coming from him. He treats Autumn so well and they are so crazy in love it is impossible not to be happy for them. I always thought it would be harder seeing her fall in love and prepare to get married but it has been relatively painless because he cares so much for her.

Honey and I

I cant believe 24 years later I am so crazy in love with this man. Life gets better all the time.

Hope

She is growing so fast and enjoys everything about life. every time I turned around she was begging Mikey to take more and more pictures of her.