Alesha's wedding

Alesha & Caleb were married on Aug. 5th at the Seattle Temple.  They day went really well and they were both sooo cute together. A few fun moments from the day and some photos to share.

Alesha & Caleb Price

Alesha's day started out with my friend Susan coming over at 6:30 am and doing her, Melia and Erica's hair.  Then we were off to the temple. We entered the sealing room first and once everyone was seated they brought them in together. They were both beaming.

After brief hugs, we all waited outside for them to come out. One of the funniest moments was the minute they came out of the doors, Isabell came running up to Caleb. She was really taken with him. She just wanted to be with him all the time. I think she may have thought SHE married Caleb. Every where the poor guy went, there was Isabell wanting him to hold her. It was cute!!! Though at times Alesha really did want to be with her new husband!!

We got some fun and cute pic's at the temple.

Then we went to Izzy's to eat. Caleb's parents were providing a luncheon for family. It was decorated really cute and his mom had fun photos of the two of them growing up around on the tables. M&M's kinda became the theme. Alesha loves plain M&M's and he loves Peanut Butter. So between his mom and me, we had LOTS!!
Traffic was worse than we thought it was going to be, and it made this event more rushed than we wanted. And with all the grandkids there- pretty crazy!!! Caleb's side does not have any grandkids yet. Caleb and his two brothers got married in the last year so their time is coming.
Next we moved on to the reception. We did a few more family photos.

Doug and Caleb's dad Reynold did a little ring ceremony and talked about the two of them. It was fun as they did not have a toast or anything were people could talk about them.
I don't have many photos from the Reception as Heidi Marshall took most of those for me. I haven't had time to get together with her to get the CD.
They did cut the cake.

We had a special groom cake made for Caleb. He loves the Cubs!

After lots of mingling with guest(and Brady throwing up) , they were ready to head to their hotel-The Red Lion in Olympia.

Doug and I got to enjoy a few hrs. of quality alone time as Caleb had left all, and I mean ALL his clothes, everything he packed for trip home and honeymoon in his dad's car back up at the temple. We wanted them to go relax and enjoy the rest of the evening so we headed back up to the temple to get his stuff. They headed to Shop-Ko to get him some clothes. He had to give the tux to his brothers to take back down to Utah..... so he really had nothing to wear. It will be one of those things they will laugh about alot down the road.
The next day Doug's family joined us for breakfast and just some fun visit time.

Alli holding Riley( 6 weeks old)

Molly came out and played restaurant w/ Peyton and Isabell. Was really cute.

Was really alot of fun and we really appreciate all of them taking the time to come all the way over for the wedding and then down for breakfast. We don't get to Spokane as much as we'd like anymore as our own children and grandchildren keep us soooo busy.
It should seem weird that all my kids are now married. Especially since this last one happened so fast.
But doesn't as much as I thought it would. Guess that means it was meant to be. It all just feels right.
 We are very happy to have Caleb as a part of our family and look forward to getting to know him better. 

      

Alesha, Caleb & the Mariners

Alesha is engaged!!! Yes, we are going to be marrying off our last daughter Aug. 5th at the Seattle LDS Temple with a ring ceremony and reception in Olympia later that day.
They haven't know each other too long but, they both feel they are right for each other. His Name is Caleb Price. We got to meet him for the first time at a Mariners baseball game on June 14th.

 It was Autism awareness night, so it seemed like a good excuse to go to a Mariners game.
We had alot of fun. Nate had to work late, so we ended up taking Peyton and Madison to their very first pro baseball game.

 Madison  and Peyton. They went through a lot of food!

Erica took the kids to the play area some which helped. We also bought lots of food. Over all they did really good. We all got our free Autism T-shirts!

everyone after the game ended!

 I hit some of the Autism booths and got some good info for Peyton. Madison loved the Mariner moose. She would get so excited whenever she would see him. Peyton kept an eye on the moose too. but, I think he was making sure the moose kept his distance. He told us he was scared of the moose.
     After meeting Caleb he came back to our home for a few days to get to meet all the family.
 We really enjoyed getting to know him. Alesha and Caleb are very cute together.  We are just very excited to have him be a part of our family.

   We went out and did a few engagement photos and I've included some of them below.

look grandma -I gardening! & Melia's B-day take One

Yes, those were Peyton's words as he picked up the garden hose I had left turned on after giving Bailey a bath outside. He was so proud of himself as he stood there with the hose on, watering the lawn. He kept referring to it as gardening. He was gardening. he was so cute.

here he is spraying me!

Then I grab the water bottles I had bought at home depot( something I learned from Grandma A in Spokane) and introduce Peyton to water fights. he had a Blast. for a while he just wanted the garden hose so I attacked with two bottles.

He found the bottles were great for getting a drink of water from.

And later in the day he played w/ his grandpa and Isabell. He was very cute following Doug around with the lawn mower trying to squirt him.

Tressa generally grabs a chair so she can sit and watch the boys play.

  I've had the two boys here alot trying to help Tressa out as she gets bigger and in more pain. Her back is really bad. pain going down into her butt and legs and her pelvic-bone thing gets worse as the baby gets bigger.

   Brady just LOVES his cars. he loves to push them over things and on things. His favorite is pushing them over the arm of the couch. Outside he had 4 or 5 cars he would put into the big play car. then he would hop in w/ them and shut the door. then he'd throw all the cars out, one by one, and then he'd start all over. Funny boy.

  he loves the trampoline. especially when Peyton is not on it.

Now- for the birthday Party when my baby turned 21!!!
The big news really had to be the "birthday cake". We had fed the kids and were eating Calazones which Melia requested. All the kids were in the back playing nicely till someone discovered Parker on a stool by the Foosball table where I had put the chocolate cake. ( we had two, not everyone likes chocolate cake).

I think the picture says it all. Parker was a very happy boy the rest of the night.

The cake destroyer -AKA-Parker-All cleaned up and happy!

 Earlier in the day Doug had gone outside to finish rails on plaything. Isabell went with him and was climbing up the slide ......

Then she was falling. I didn't know I had caught the magic moment on the camera till I looked at them later!!! Peyton Loves to look at this photo. He thinks it's pretty funny.( Doug wanted everyone to know that Isabell was OK!!)
 And now for Ellie- because she is just so cute. She is almost 8 months old in photos and started actually crawling not to many days after these were taken.

new toys for the grandkids

Doug being Doug, has been building again.

 His newest creation is a walkway over a very wet soggy area in our yard.Then it got expanded to include a big sand box with a new climbing wall.

Wonder if Brady will be one of those athletes who always has their tongue hanging out!

OK- Isabell did grab a hold.

Though no one seems to have figured how to use the holds, they just all climb up the rails. It has big steps on the other side.

 You can stand on the top and be the king of the world as Alesha and Peyton are demonstrating.( though we all wonder if maybe it needs rails for safety??)  One thing Peyton and Brady loved to do, was climb to the top and jump to you. Never mind if you were looking at them. One time Peyton came flying off the top towards me. I turned around just in time to see him hit my chest and fly to the ground hitting his
head on the bottom step. Poor little guy ! He had quite the cry!

  There is a steering wheel and you can play underneath.

Then he built these really cool lights. I just love them!!!

Parker seems pretty happy about the new walk ways!

Isabell and Madison climbing to the top!

After a bit of sand and climbing they headed to the trampoline for some fun.

Also, last week I TRIED to do a photo shoot of the grandkids .It was not very successful. Brady did OK for a few shots, Madison  and Parker were not here so they don't count.

I did however  get a few fun moment photos.

best I could get of Isabell and Ellie( 2 3/4 yrs and 7 months)

After one shot Isabell was done. Peyton decided to fill in!

After changing clothes Isabell did come back for one more shot.

And I loved it when Isabell and Peyton hoped into the big trunk. Isabell got a Popsicle,(not sure why Peyton did not get one),But he asked her so cute if she would share her Popsicle with him.( for Peyton this also shows a huge growth in his development).

                                                                  She said yes!