Camden and Hannah's Wedding

Rick and I decided to come up north for Camden and Hannah's wedding. Camden is Chris's son. I was glad that we came. It is a long drive, but it was nice to be there for their big day and see lots of family. Rick and I both commented on the way home how much we enjoyed spending the weekend together. We visited Janika and Brandon and their two boys on the way (see previous post) and then went to Shane and Alicia's house. We carpooled to the wedding with Shane and Alicia and my mom and dad, so it was nice to have that extra time to visit. 

The wedding was at Red Butte Gardens by the University of Utah. It was really beautiful with all of the trees, flowers, water-fall, bridge, pathways and so forth. With their wedding being on May 4th (May the fourth be with you!) they really integrated the Star Wars theme throughout. 

They had a nice ceremony outside and thankfully the weather and temperature were perfect! Then they had a full sit down dinner inside. The building for the dinner had full length windows and one whole wall was open to the outside and so the ambiance was really nice. They had speeches from family members during dinner and then cut and served the cake and had a dance party afterwards. It was really fun! 

Unfortunately, Chris's wife, Kim's son, Aaron and his fiancé also chose this weekend to get married in Florida! So they had to split up with Chris coming to Camden's wedding and Kim going to Aaron's wedding. That was sad because they both would have loved to go to both and felt so sad missing one to go to the other! 

Here are a couple of pictures we snapped before the ceremony. It was an "unplugged" ceremony and so I didn't get any pictures of Camden and Hannah and will have to add some later when they post some. 

After the wedding we stayed at Shane and Alicia's. We visited with mom and dad for a while and talked finances since mom has really been studying up a lot on finances and retirement and so forth and listening to a lot of podcasts and watching YouTube videos. She said that she was learned so much! So she was teaching us what she had learned. 

The next morning we went to church with mom and dad and Shane and Alicia's family. Then mom helped me set up Josh's ROTH account now that he is 18. We grabbed something to eat and then headed back home! It was a quick trip, but well worth it! The kids seemed to do fine without us while we were gone -- at least as far as we know!! They announced Josh's mission call in church and Josh met with the Bishop after church to get his temple recommend renewed. 

Our neighbor, Brother Larson, and his son came over with a Korean popsicle for Josh. He had gone to Korea on his mission and was really excited about Josh's call. We invited them in and he talked to us about Korea for about an hour. It was very interesting! We figured we could count that as our Come Follow Me to today, ha ha! 

Happy 80th Birthday, Grandma Westra!

My mom turned 80 on Monday! She looks and acts way too young to be 80! I emailed all of my siblings and suggested that we do a dinner for her to celebrate. Everyone thought it would be a great idea and so we planned on tonight. I had the farthest to come since everyone else lives up North. I left Friday morning (after helping set up flags in our neighborhood for Veteran's Day) and then drove four hours to Janika's place to visit with her and Everett for a couple of hours before heading to my mom's. My family all met at Asian Star for a nice meal and then mom and I watched a movie and then did an exercise swim the next morning. I was able to go see my newest grandbaby, Eli on the way home! It was a quick trip -- but worth it! Happy Birthday, Mom! 

Red Robin

After visiting Jase and Ellen's place we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Westra's house for a little visit and I found a bunch of photos on my phone afterwards and so apparently Jenna was doing a little photoshoot, ha ha, making memories of their home before they move. We were able to see all of the changes that Scott and Amy did fixing up the basement into a living space, and then we met up with some of the others for dinner at Red Robin!