Today is labor day and it's been a busy one, but the real reason I wanted to come and write today was to remember the weekend we had. On Friday we headed to Boise for Brooklyn and Cooper's wedding. It was just such a great weekend. We left at about 8:30 after Layton finished his morning cross country practice. We headed to Boise, and got there just in time for the sealing. It was so awesome to be in the sealing room and see so many friends and family and familiar faces. Their is definitely a special spirit in the temple and specifically in the sealing rooms.
Brooklyn looked absolutely perfect and we had a great time taking pictures and sharing memories together with everyone. I was able to meet Cooper's family and they are great people.
After the wedding and pictures and everything they had a catered lunch. They served Costa Vida and I just thought it was an awesome idea to make it so simple. It was so tastey and everyone loved it and it made it way simple. Everyone just visited and it was great.
After that we headed to Teija's. We all just hung out and that night we did smores. It was great to catch up with all the Hutchins girls. They are so wonderful and fun and just a light. I know each of them have been through some pretty tough trials in their lives, but they are strong and positive and just really really great people.
We stayed at a neighbors house that no longer lives there. Tyanna, Janae and I and our families all stayed in this house. The boys all slept in the tent trailer, the girls stayed in Teija's basement, and then we all had rooms.
Saturday morning we headed over for breakfast which was pancakes! Teija is such a wonderful host and everyone just had the best time. She was such a gracious, thoughtful and awesome host. The day was spent just visiting and chatting and hanging out. In the afternoon we started setting up for the reception. The reception again, was just so well thought out, simple but beeautiful.
They had the reception in the back yard. They had string lights, white table cloths and I actually kind of headed up the flower arrangement for the center pieces. It wasn't something I thought of myself doing, but Emree and I were tasked with cutting the flowers from the garden and then we just started arranging haha!
The centerpieces were beautiful and I absolutely loved that the flowers were all from Teija's garden. We had zenia's and sunflowers and then the real floral girl showed up with baby's breath and dalia's and all in all it was great.
They had a cake table with a white background and then a big sign with "The Wilson's, 9.1.2023" which is where Brooke and Cooper stood. They had finger foods, that were mostly bread and spinach dip and then bean dip, cheese dip, and cowboy salsa and chips. It was yummy. They also had pumpkin bars.
All in all it was a wonderful and just such a positive and refreshing weekend. Late that night we loaded up Dad's truck with all their presents and Mom and Dad brought them to Rigby for Brooklyn. Mom and Dad were coming this way anyway because Dad is working in the area and Mom is watching Ezra's kids this weekend.
Today is labor day and it's been busy. We went to Idaho Falls today. We went to Walmart, TJ Maxx, Home Depot, Sams Club and Winco. Just got a bunch of stuff to finish installing things like hardware in the house and finish some things in the apartment. We left around 10 and didn't get home till close to 3. Everything just takes longer than you think it will. Seriously, it's kinda frustrating. When we got home. Mom came with all the Gwilliam kids. They all just hung out. Mom helped with some cleaning and emptying some stuff in the apartment. She is always so helpful when she visits and we sure appreciate her.
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