A whole lotta Nothin'

The day after the wedding, we went to Lake Havasu. For a whole week. It went somethin' like this.

Wake up late

eat

swim/go to lake

eat

nap

eat (at home or out)

swim

watch/ fall asleep to late night movie

sleep

Repeat 6 times.

By the time we left we felt recovered from the wedding.

Percy enjoyed his private Percy sized Pool.

The kids love it at G&G Pullmans. They are spoiled rotten, and Grammy makes the best grilled cheese.

We went shooting. D got to shoot his new/only weapon. I did too. I have never fired a gun before. It was thrilling. In fact, I totally drilled the target between the eyes on the first shoot. Enemies beware...

Zoey was quite the dare devil (again) always telling the Grandpa "FASTER!!"

Liam and my diet coke. He wouldn't let me have it back...

MOM AND LIAM ON THE TUBE!



Papa and Grammy Pullman, Toby the dog, Z, D, R, L.




After looking at this photo I though, "I'm so grateful D is a butt man..."

Yes. He is in a life jacket.

LOVE HIM!

Captain and First Mate.

What a great place to relax and unwind. Ahhh. Wish we were there right now...

Mr. and Mrs.

CHELSEY AND SETH ARE MARRIED!!! It was an incredible day. Too bad there are no photos... he he It was overcast and perfect light. Only 93 degrees. For Mesa, at the end of June, that is unheard of. Chelsey looked amazing. In the sealing room, she was so incredibly happy. There were no tears. Just giddy, school girl smiles the whole time. It made everyone in the room smile. Seth looked handsome, although I don't think he cared one bit about anything else but marrying Chels. We are so glad to have him in the family!



Don't they look blissfully happy?

Outside the Mesa, Arizona Temple

The photos at the temple were great, and I got to be a superhero. There was another bride that got married about an hour after Chels, and her photographer DID NOT SHOW. What the WHAT!? I came to the rescue. They turned out beautiful. If you want to see, click here. I was drenched in sweat by the time I wrapped things up at the temple. I felt so gross...

The Pullman Children

D, Chels, and Rylee

Keeping cool in a 20 pound satin dress

After a LONG shower I pampered myself and went to Blossom to get my hair 'did'. I love the way it looked, and it was really nice to have a legitimate reason to sit still for an hour. After that I rushed home, got the kids and hubby ready and headed to the Wright House Provencal for the reception and dancing.

At the reception we did (surprise) MORE BRIDAL PORTRAITS. Chels and Seth have more wedding photos than they will ever know what to do with. I am finally done, 5 week later... Then the rest of the line showed up and Damon helped me by pushing the shutter release after I framed the photo and then jumped in. After review of the photos I have decided that I should never go blond again.

They had a beautiful brides room

THE BRIDAL PARTAY

Striking, isn't it?

Lovely

can't you just tell he loves her!

D and I have a photo like this from our wedding, its one of my favorites

Beautiful Chels

Seth is quite the Ladies Man...

The food was great, the flowers were beautiful and sassy, the cake was gorgeous, the groomsmen were handsome, the bridesmaid's were incredibly hot ;), the flower girls were too adorable, the location was to die for, and the dancing was so much fun. One of the best weddings I have ever been to. Way to go Mom and Dad P! You bankrolled one heck of a party!


Dancin' fools

This is my favorite photo of the whole night

My chillins, practicing their ball room skills

Congrats you Two!!

Once upon a Time

How many stories could you make up looking at this photo? It's out of a Fairy Tale.

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(there is so so so much)

After the romantic getaway, we met up with Chels, Seth, Mom and Dad P. at the Arizona Temple for Chelsey's Endowment Session. It was so wonderful, and ate at texas roadhouse after. Then D left again for Nashville for some meeting. (We've been doing this for 3 years. I just stop asking where he's going... just call me when ya land babe!) So that means fun times with my family! We took the kids to the Children's Museum of Phoenix. It was awesome. There were so many things. L's favorite once he decided to stop being a bum was the vacuum scarf thing and the room of noodles. Z's was the scarf thing, the ice cream stand where she got to dish out ice cream to every one who wanted it. (Foam cones, foam balls were the ice cream, and ice cream scoops.) The grocery store was also a favorite. And the art room. Ok, lets face it. She loved it all. That museum is so impressive/ingenious. Well worth the trip.

This is the Art Room. This house that they are painting is covered layers and layers of paint! Amazing and such a great idea!

Vacuum scarf thingy. You put the scarfs in the bottom and you change the direction of the airflow and they come shooting out the top and float down to the bottom. The kids LOVED it.

Having a Ball

The ice cream stand. They screamed when we left this thing.

This was with out a doubt L's favorite thing. I spent 20 minutes following him around in this. Thousands of pool noodles hug from the ceiling, making an anemone like effect. So simple yet so genius!

INSIDE THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

As always. Full of swimming, In-n-out, Tia Rosas, shopping, and sleeping late. I took Joey out for his Birthday. We wanted to go to the picnic company, but they closed (sad) and So we went to this little bistro. We walked in and it was COMPLETELY EMPTY. WITH SPACE AGED INTERPRETIVE DANCE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND. So. Weird. It was all we could do to keep from laughing. We wolfed down our salads and left. Laughing out the door. SOO WEIRD. We also attended Cinny's B-Ball game. My baby sis is one tough cookie. She doesn't mess around. She wears knee pads to keep from getting bruises all the time. She spends a lot of time on the floor diving for balls. No joke. You'd never know we were related...

POOL FUN

I NEED TO PUT THAT GIRL IN DIVING.

One thing that I didn't take enough photos of was the Bachelorette Party. PEDIS!! PF CHANGS! The next post will be the wedding festivities. Prepare yourselves...

blogging from the road

Wyoming. LAME. The only things we have passed are gross gas stations, fireworks stands and old gross gas stations made into adult 'bookstores'. Gross

mobile blogger

I am blogging from my blackberry. I feel so cool.

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D and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary a little early. An over nighter here

A full 24 hours with no children. We did a whole lot a nothin' and it was spectacular. We went to dinner at Brio, slept late, ate brunch at the cute cafe at the Biltmore, talked with out interruption, and swam. ALL AFTERNOON. It was so so so so so wonderful. Reminiscing of our wedding and honeymoon, and drinking pina coladas to bring back the week we spent in Ixtapa, Mexico 7 years ago. Happy 7 years to us!