Graduation!

A big event in our lives happened this week, Scott graduated from school! We attended the graduation ceremony with Grandma and Grandpa Salmon and Alita. Little David and Lydia were excited when they would spot dad in the sea of people. Whahoo!!
The After-Graduation social

David and Lydia stole some attention away from Scott, or maybe I should say drew some attention to Scott. There weren't too many other children in the crowd.

Scott has worked hard and we are very happy for his accomplishments. He has done well in school even with a family to distract him from his work. With the many many things required of him these last few years, he always put his family first when we needed him.

Thank you for all your support everyone, especially our parents. We love you!

Happy Birthday

Alita loves us so much that the only thing she wanted for her birthday was to come and visit her favorite brother and his family :) We were excited to celebrate her special day with her and did so by visiting the Chicago Botanical Gardens, it was so beautiful and luckily the rain passed us by. Can't have a birthday without a cake
The tulips were in full bloom

The landscaping was amazing, little David and Lydia enjoyed every minute with these two great people, affectionately known as Grandma and Grandpa.

Our two little cuties

Lydia and Grandpa Salmon (Scott and David in the background)

Scott, David, and a dinosaur Happy Birthday Alita, hope you received everything you wanted!

Wedding

The last week and a half we've been visiting family and getting ready for my little sister's wedding, the last of 8 kids to get married. While there we took a drive to see all the baby animals in the area, lambs, calves, alpacas, deer, colts, etc. We attended baseball games and then had one of our own on my parents new front lawn.

The beautiful newlyweds. The bouquet froze in the fridge the night before, when we pulled it out at the temple it was dead, brown, and slimy. My sister-in-laws rushed to the local florist shop and had this one made up in 5 minutes, just in time for the bride to come out of the temple.

The cake. I actually had a lot of fun making it when no one was watching me. It looks a lot like the one I did for my cake class, okay it is basically the same one, with just a few additions. We went through 7 cake mixes, 12 lbs of fondant, 7 lbs of powdered sugar, and a lot of time and help from the whole family. My dad make the cake pillar's for my older sister's wedding- only she had 5 cakes. I think I'll have to work up to that challenge.

This is the bottom layer, almost every flower disappeared when we started cutting it, the grand kids couldn't wait to finally see what they tasted like.

The middle layer- Chocolate with raspberry filling- my favorite

Me and my sister (obviously) The funniest part of the the whole week was this conversation with David when I noticed that he had Oreo cookies smeared around his mouth:

Me: David, who gave you that cookie?

David: I don't know, I found it by Grandpa's bed, then Heavenly Father said, "Eat that cookie, eat it!"

How do you argue with that one???