Baptism and a Birthday

This weekend we had a lot of fun. We went to my parents house in Brigham City. Jared was able to baptize my nephew Brock. It was so cute, when we got there Brock was so nervous and we were all trying to get him to calm down and he was just so scared. I told him it would all be over in about 3 minutes. He said "that's what I'm afraid of. I don't think I can hold my breath that long." :>) Silly boy, but he did great. Jared also did really well and he was so excited to have that opportunity.

On Sunday we went to church with my parents. They live only 3 houses away from their church. During sacrament meeting Paige kept telling me she was thirsty, so I told her to go out in the hallway and get a drink from the drinking fountain. She didn't want to get up and walk out so she just sat beside me and continued to complain. My neice Trinity stood up in the middle of sacrament meeting went out the side door, which happens to be in the front of the chapel. Then about 6 minutes later she came busting through the doors again carrying something in her skirt. (completely exposing her undies). She quickly came and sat down, and then we saw what she had done. She had gone home and gotten Paige (and herself) little bottles of grape juice, which she so proudly passed around during sacrament meeting. What a funny girl.

After church we had lunch and a birthday party for my mom. She was so excited she said because someone made her a cake for her birthday, instead of her making one for herself. We love you mom, happy birthday!!

Jared & Brock
Tabi & Mom

Tabi, Brock, Mom, Paige, Trinity, & Brittney

Baby Lucas and Grandpa Orin, just hanging out.I made this cake for my mom's birthday. It was a white cake, strawberry filling, buttercream frosting, pirouette cookies & fresh strawberries & raspberries on top drizzled with white chocolate.

New Blog

Well, it's not a big secret that I love to cook. My mom is a great cook and passed that on to all of her children. Even my brother is the chef at his house. I have wanted to create a recipe blog for some time now and I finally decided to just do it. My little sister Tabitha will also be posting on that blog as she loves to cook as well. I hope you all enjoy it, and at the very least get a new recipe to try once in a while. If there is a recipe that you are looking for let me know and I will try to find it for you. (The cake above is one that I did for my friend's wedding a couple of weeks ago). To get to my recipe blog just click on the picture of the cake in the right hand column of my blog or go to the link here.

Girl Scouts

MaKady has worked hard all year in girl scouts. She did great with the cookie selling and she has earned several badges and awards. She is also moving on to the older girls. She has spent 2 years in the Junior and now she has completed her bridging and she is a Cadette. Good job MaKady!!!

Kindergarten Graduation

Paige graduated from Kindergarten on Thursday. It was so cute. They had a little program in the gym. There were so many people there, parents, grandparents, and brothers and sisters. I even checked MaKady out of class for an hour so she could be there. All three of the little kindergarten classes filed in and sat on the steps of the stage. Then sang so many cute little songs. Then they were all given their diplomas one by one.

After it was over Paige wanted a picture of herself holding her scrapbook page from her teacher. On the way home she asked me why I didn't cry. I told her because I wasn't sad and she said "but you were supposed to cry when we sang that song at the end, our teacher said it would make our parents cry because it would make them sad to see their kids growing up." I told her I was excited for her to grow up and to live life. I told her that her milestones make me happy for her. She thought about it for a minute and then said "but mom, you were supposed to cry." Oh the mind of a six year old.

Forever..............

It has been a long time coming. Jared and I have been married almost 8 years and on Saturday May 16, 2009 we were finally able to have our family sealed together in the Manti Temple. It was one of the best days of my life. I am so grateful that I will have my family forever.

Thank you to all those who where able to join us. And a special thanks to Tessa for taking our pictures and Carianne for the editing.

Spring is Here...

I love living where we live. I know that the weather is crazy sometimes and one minute it's pouring rain and the next it's sunny, but it's so beautiful either way. The orchards are in bloom and I just had to take advantage of that. Yesterday it was pouring rain, but right after church for about an hour there was a clear spot and the sun came out. We ran out and took some pictures of the kids. Then a little while later the clouds rolled back in and it was raining again.

Lucas's Blessing

Baby Lucas
Me, Lucas, & Jared

Our Family

4 Generations of Mangelsons

Great Grandpa Golden, Grandpa Jerry, Jared, and Lucas

On Saturday Jared gave Lucas his blessing. It was an emotional thing for our family because Lucas is our first baby that Jared has blessed. He did such a great job, I think most of us were crying at the end. After the blessing we had a big potluck luncheon. We got to visit with our families and just enjoy each other. It was a perfect way to spend a Saturday. We are so truly blessed to have such supportive families and we are so happy to have little Lucas in our family.

HAPPY EASTER

We had a great Easter this past weekend. My sisters, Mary and Tabitha came to visit. We did all the typical Easter things, decorated eggs, had an egg hunt, ate egg salad sandwiches, watched movies, and went to church. It was so much fun.

MaKady was really proud of this egg.
Mary, MaKady, Trinity & Paige

More beautiful eggs.

Lucas just liked hanging out and watching what his sisters were doing.

After the egg hunt. They had a blast.

2 Months

My baby is 2 months old. The time has just flown by. He is growing so much and learning new things everyday. I know he is going to be spoiled but I don't care. We all love him so much. He is constantly being held. The girls just love to cuddle with him and let him lay by them during the bedtime story. I took him in for his 2 month appointment yesterday. Here are his stats:

Height: 23 1/2 inches

Weight: 11 lbs. 2 oz.

He is a very happy baby. He loves to be around people. He likes noise. When he is alone in a room he starts to fuss a little bit. He loves to sleep. He only wakes up once a night, usually around 5:00 am when I am getting up to get ready for the day and he is starting to be so smiley. We just love this little man.

Road Trip and a Wedding... Part 2

On Saturday morning we got up early to go help set up the wedding. We had to set up for the wedding and the reception so it took most of the morning. After we set up for the wedding I went over to Kole's moms house to finish the cake. Then it was time to get ready for the wedding so I hurried back to our hotel to get my family ready. We were supposed to be in our places at 2:15, because the wedding started at 3:00 but it ended up being more like 2:45. The ceremony was held at a place just outside of Kanab called Angels Canyon.

This is Angels Canyon. It's a big flat spot with grass underneath a giant rock. There is also a natural spring that runs along the base of the rock that the kids kept trying to play in. It was pretty windy that day, but the rock blocked out most of the wind and the temperature was perfect.

Tabi & Kole

My dad walking Tabi down the isle.

Me and my neice Aulene (her brother Elmo is sitting on the chair)

My beautiful sister Mary. She did all of the flowers, the bouquet, bouteniers. etc. She is so talented.

The Family

MaKady & Paige

The Bawden Grandkids (it's hard to get this many little kids to smile at the same time)

The reception was held in Kanab at Perry's Lodge Barn. It's this old barn behind a motel. It's really cool inside because the walls are covered in pictures of old movie stars that have stayed at Perry's Lodge. For the centerpieces she had real butterflies.

Inside of the barn

The wedding cake. I had a lot of fun making this thing, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. The bride and groom loved it.

They had agreed on feeding the cake nicely to each other, but in the end they went crazy. That cake totally went up Tabi's nose.

Tossing the bouquet

Brittany & Paige

The first dance

Daddy / Daughter dance

MaKady & Jared

The wedding was beautiful. I'm almost sad that it's all over with, but we have a great new addition to our family. Congratulations Tabi & Kole, we love you!!!