Brian and Lucy

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Utah (Jared’s wedding)

Brian’s youngest brother, Jared, married Deborah, in the Draper temple on November 14th (Brian’s birthday!) It was such a wonderful and fun day!

Elna with Grandma Fae and Uncle Jared after he came out of the temple.

The entire group who was at the temple.

The Harris side—family and friends.

Do we look cold? We are!

I had dreams of having family pictures taken this day with Georgia out of the pack…but it was so cold and Brian packed her to keep her warm, and so we just decided to take a few anyway, and they turned out well enough we decided to use them for our Christmas card. Thanks to Heather for taking the pictures!

My girls and the happy couple!

Jared and Deborah with all of their Harris nieces and nephew.

Harris family picture.

Brothers—not in age order. Brian (#4), Chris (#1), Jared (#5), Nathan (#2), and Daren (#3)

The 5 boys did the hustle—my favorite wedding tradition. It reminds me of our wedding 6 years ago. The fact that Brian is doing it with Georgia packed is very attractive to me. He’s just such a great husband and dad, and seeing him dance with Georgia was just too much!

You can see Elna and Hattie watching from behind.

Seeing Brian’s dad get up and try to dance was a pretty special moment that night. He was the guy who taught the 5 boys the hustle to begin with, so it was fun to see him dance.

The girls were either at this table coloring or on the dance floor most of the night.

Elna, Callie, and Jace. Harriet is missing from most of these pictures. She spent a lot of time at the kids table drawing.

Stealing a dance from the groom.

Dancing with my Hattie girl.

And dancing with both girls.

I just love this twirling picture of Elna. She LOVES to dance and really danced the night away, and I loved watching her!

So much love between these two!

A very blurry picture of the birthday boy! There’s just something about a man wearing a suit and a baby. We had such a fun day full of wedding festivities and birthday celebrating. I will never stop being grateful Brian Harris came into my life!

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Utah trip (pre Brian)

Driving solo with my 3 little ladies to Utah. 3 hours in (and halfway to Boise where we are staying the night) and the girls have been perfect—bless each one of them. I was so nervous for my sanity, but prayers are being answered and we are having fun and making memories. I hope this is the first of many girls trips with my babies.

Check out that great bedhead! After staying in Boise for the night, we headed the rest of the way to UT. We stopped in North Ogden to visit our good friends the Stevensons, then on to Sandy, UT to visit my aunt Diane and Uncle Ray. We stayed two nights with Ray and Diane and had the best time with them! I lived with Ray and Diane when I was pregnant with Clark, and I count them as some of my dearest blessings. I don’t think I could have done any of it without them.

At church with Ray and Diane. I loved catching up ward members I knew during the time I lived there.

My girls with their second cousins, Andrew and Rachel. Sunday evening Beth and her children and my cousin Ray and his wife came to visit.

Rachel and Georgia.

On Monday I drove down to Utah Valley where I stayed the rest of my time at my dear grandparents house. I spent most of Monday visiting my aunt Amy’s house—I had the best time catching up with Amy and her kids. She has the sweetest children—darling and just so sweet. Amy was a good support to have a very full house that day—Annie and her girls came over to visit and so did my cousin Laura, with her children.

Harriet and Diana—Diana is my cousin, Laura’s daughter, who is the same age as Hattie.

Hattie was EXHAUSTED by the end of the day, and fell asleep in Amy’s lap.

My grandparents are the most wonderful people I know! They were such gracious and loving hosts for our family—we stayed a week at their house and had the best time.

They read lots of stories.

Tuesday we spent the day at Annie’s, in Santaquin. We love her and her girls and had such a great day together! Elna loves her newest cousin, Marian!

Jody and Elna with their baby sisters, Marian and Georgia.

Sweet Marian!

Eloise (Laura’s oldest daughter), Hattie, Elna, and Jody snacking on apples. Laura and her kids, and my aunt Ann, came to visit while I was at Annie’s.