Uncle Butt got Married!!

Uncle Butt and his love Amy Browne got married on a stormy day in October 2010. Love was felt all around and the stormy cool air felt warm with all the love that radiated off of the two of them...... a little mushy.. yeah but it was such a great day!


This was my first sealing since ours almost 6 years ago and I love all the things the sealer (the guy who married them in the temple) said. It was so nice to be reminded of the things we can do to make our own marriages strong... simple things like putting your spouse first. Not to lose yourself in your marriage but by putting your spouse and their needs first we can grow as individuals and as couples.



After the sealing and the pictures, we joined Brett and Amy for a scumptios lunch at an Itilian place in Henderson.


The Monday and Tuesday before Brett took over my kitchen to make his wedding cheesecakes. There were beautiful and tasted great! Kira had a TON of fun cookin' with her uncle.


She got to help him butter the cheesecake pans and she had more fun when she got to eat the butter off her hands...... ew!



While at the resturant, we got some family pictures done by the cool photographer Korie.... I'm so excited to have these... with Jacob taking pictures like he does we don't get a lot of family pictures cause he's usually behind the camera... so I LOVE these!





SO we are so HAPPY that Brett got married and that we have a new sister!

September

September was a pretty crazy month for us! As you can see by my last post. I wanted to finish up with our September adventure.


On the third weekend down we get to attend the beautiful wedding of our friends Danielle and Mike. It was a wonderful ceremony. Jacob and I took a quick picture of them to finish out our wedding gift to them.(Wish I would have gotten a picture of it) and ran to Sam's Club to try to get it printed. We needed an 11x14. We put in the order then checked to see what time it would be ready (we wanted to make it to the reception on time)and the Placentia Sam's Machine was broken... so we ran to Jacob's parent's house and I ordered one online for 1 hour photo, got Kira dressed for the reception and off we went to the Sam's Club in Stanton. Jacob ran in and I got a text that the order had not going through.... (UGH!) but the guy told Jacob that he wasn't busy and it would be 10 minutes. So Kira and I ran to CVS to buy some ribbon and a card, drove back to pick up Jacob and off we went. The reception was so fun, they had a live band and great music.





Kira danced all night and we had a great time.
Sunday we spent at my sister and brother in-laws. I made the second part of dinner, Swedish Meatballs. (My mother-in-law mixed the meatballs for me). Kira got to play with her cousins who are all growing up SO fast!!!

The next on Friday, we hit the Henderson Car Show, the weather was good ( a little warm I thought)and we had a great time walking around looking at all the cool cars. At about 4 we walked over to our friends, Ryan and Shelly's and had a "fakesgiving dinner" (just like thanksgiving but in September) and it was great!! Then we all walked back to the car show, although Jacob, Kira and I had to leave after about 45 minutes to get me to the airport so I could fly to Salt Lake.

Grayson and Sullivan (Shelly and Ryan's boys) at their first car show.

Kira taking her pony out

On Saturday morning, I was blessed to be able to go to the Ogden Temple with my little Brother to take out his endowments, (for those of the LDS faith, this just means we went to the temple to be there while Brett made covenants with his Heavenly Father) It was an awesome experience and I'm SO glad I was able to be there! I flew home that night so we could make it to church at least ONCE in the month of September. Uncle "Butt" Brett is getting married here in Vegas on the 20th at the Temple here and we are just so excited!!! We love Amy and can't wait for them to enjoy their lives together. Next post will probably be their wedding, since school and retarded computers are making blogging life frustrating... Until then!

Another Quick Update

Tom Hanks, who played Joe Fox from You've got mail said. " Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address." Well I don't live in New York, but I do get to buy school supplies cause... I'm going back to school.... again. 5th college, 3rd actually University and 58 credits to get done before I can officially get a Bachelors in Liberal Arts, History.... After that I don't know. Maybe a credential but I'll get to that later.

I'm taking 7 credits this semester, which comes out to 3 classes. A Critical Thinking class, a History class and a 1 credit History of Nevada class. I have jumped through enough hoops to make me skinny again and yet there is still one more to jump through. I have to go and prove to them that I am a resident of Nevada so I don't have to pay them 8000 dollars... Crazy but true But at least that means I only have 51 credits to get done after that!

I'm pretty sure my History Concentration will be Early American History with a Minor concentration of British History.... so off I go on the 24th to my first class. The other two classes I will be taking online so my computer will be my new best friend



And speaking of computers, our regular computer has gone to pot and is currently sitting at Fry's Electronics being "diagnosed" I'm fully expecting a it's going to cost 300 dollars call any day now. Total "dummer" as Kira would say. So I am currently using an old cpu from the days when Jacob and Tennille were Jacob Anderson and Tennille Winfrey........ a long time ago..... and it is SOOOOO SLLOOOWWW. I'm going insane and I have to write out our Primary Prgram for October (which I'm sure will be the worse one ever seen by Mormon-kind) and it's taking a long time!

Kira is doing well and will officially be 3 in 25 days! That's pretty unbelievable. She still wants to be 2 1/2 though. She has started to potty train and is doing well with it most of the time. We did our first out of the house with no diaper adventure the other night when we took the computer to Frys and I was in the bathroom no less than 3 times for a total of 30 minutes...... But No accidents so I guess that's ok.

In other news, my Brother Brett (or as we like to call him now Uncle Butt) has asked his sweetheart to marry him and she said YES! We are VERY excited for them both and the day is quickly approaching. They are planning on getting married on October 20th at the Las Vegas Temple, (which I have to say is great for me... no traveling). So their wedding date will be 10/20/2010 or in the non-american way it will be 20/10/2010... which is kinda cool I think.




So that's about it from us. I'm excited to be able to go walking again in the mid-mornings, now that it's not 100 degrees at 9am. So I'm looking forward to getting into better shape. I kinda wish I was a runner but I don't think I have it in me....any tips?

'til next time