Candi Andi's Babyshower

My little sister Candace is having a baby. We are so excited, the end of April cannot get here soon enough. She is having a girl, and might {if we can convince Grant that it is not a dog name} name her Josie. love it.

We had a fun family shower, and got some pictures. I had a sleeping Milo in my arms and didn't get many pictures but we had a great great time. Thank you to all the family that made it, we have a wonderful family that supports us in so many ways. We love you all!

Ellen and Chloe

Lynn and Grandma Foote

My best friend Ella Grace.

What's a baby shower without a quilt? Thanks Grandma Foote, you are the best! Seriously, this lady can do anything. If it has to do with food, fabric, a garden, and a home, she can do it { and so so so much more!}

I love her hands, they tell such a story!

Apparently someone made Staci sad....

...And Saige? Must have been me.... oops.

So many fun and great presents! Just what this babe needed!

Sometimes boys come {in the form of our Dad and Grant ~the soon to be Daddy}!

Candace and Ella, funny girls!And what would a true McDonald Party be without FOOD! We love everything about it! Connie you are amazing, you do such good work!

Even Ella loves the treats, sorry Bonnie, that is how we are such good best of friends.


Thanks to everyone again, I just realized we got pictures of NO ONE but us {mostly because Milo woke up at the end and then I had time to take them, sorry} but we had fun being with our family!

Love you Candace and Grant and Babe. We cannot wait to see you!

Happy Green Day

Happy Green Day! {Saige has a hard time remembering "St Patrick's Day" So she shortened it to Happy Green Day!}

Last night we told her that leprechauns might come during the night and surprise her. She would not fall asleep, she made sure her room was spotless, and since her walls are already green that her room would be ready for the leprechauns when they come. { secretly i was so excited for her, I love her excitement with all things!}

I guess you can blame my Mother for this, but Holiday's were fun and a big deal at our house, and its is something I will always remember as a child so OF course we are passing fun holiday things with our kids.

Last night our house was visited by Leprechauns that made footprints all over our house, across pictures, the fridge, the mirrors and glass doors. Saige could not believe he made it all over and no one heard or saw him! Along the way he must have had a hole in his bag cause he dropped gold coins EVERYWHERE!

He must have helped himself to our food, as our milk some how turned Green!

He then sent us on a wild chase to try and catch him in our house with a fun message on the mirror...

Our Stops:

After a long and tiring search, with several stops to eat the chocolate in the gold coins ~mostly for Milo~ we made it to the end

No Leprechaun but we found our GOLDEN TREASURE!!!

Hope everyone has a great St.Patrick's Day, we have a fun filled day of making sugar cookies, and maybe spending some time with our Mimi, and hopefully take advantage of the nice weather out there! And hopefully getting Milo away from all the chocolate......

UP UP and AWAY...

I had every intention of posting these pictures, and for some reason had convinced myself that I had. But better late than never here are Milo's birthday pictures. He had a super party with our family! He is in love with UP and we had a great time recreating our friends on UP.

{if you have yet to see the movie, please stop by, Milo and Saige will kindly watch it with you, and the best part they have it memorized so you can hear it twice!}

Our Milo Boy, dressed as Russell.

Birthday cake, Milo loved helping to make it, I was suprised that there was frosting still on the cake when the party started!
Mr. Fredrickson pins, turned out great! And they were not that hard to make! Thanks Matt for making me the picture!

yes we have a good family!! They were ALL kind enough to dress the part. We have Kevins, Mr. Fredricksons and Russells. {dont mind the two kevin's in the back!}

Gramps dressed as Russell, thrilled I am sure. What a trooper, and Milo loved it!

Banka and Mimi dressed as Kevin and Russell, great blackmail right!?!

Con and Ty kindly came down from Logan, we LOVED having them here, and they both dont mind dressing up!

jake and macy

adam and aatalie {milo has started calling Adam Aatalie, who knows why it could be cause of his size haha}

Candi Andi and Grant, the glasses turned out to be a bit like burglars.

Ella Grace, fixated on something!! Lovely version of Russell!

Aunt Pete dressed as Kevin

Stac and Milo, his most favorite girl in this whole wide world. Any time Staci is around he will only talk to her. Always says "hey stac, did you see that!?" he loves his stac

Coast dressed up, loving it so much!matt's brothers josh and nate

Nate, Shana and Coasten gave Milo pringles (frank chips) and orange juice. HE WAS SOO EXCITED!!!


I have more pictures, more of everyone else. But they are on my Dad's camera, will get those later.

THANKS TO EVERYONE who came, we have been so blessed to have a huge family that supports us in everyway! Thanks for the gifts and for coming to Milo's party! WE LOVE YOU ALL!!

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILO!!

Happy Birthday MILO!!!

Happy Second Birthday my Milo boy. You are the funniest kid, and we are so happy to have you in our family!

Some of the things we love most about you:

-"big boy" attitude

-love for orange juice

- your love and patience with your sister, that is a special talent all in itself

-your GREAT head of hair that is by far the best in the house

-your sensitive heart

-your brave heart, you can trip, smack your head on the wall, roll over and jump right up and laugh

-how proud you are of your self when you sleep in your big boy bed

-willingness to share, wants to make sure EVERYONE has the same treat he has

-his love for all of us, each very unique but we feel very loved by our BIG BOY MILO!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, fun pictures to come of his small but very "up" party!!

LOVE YOU

Wedding, new pics and I might catch up on this blog!

Candace and Grant's wedding was December 1st, and was absolutely gorgeous! She planned it super quick, while working full-time as a 4th grade teacher, and it was a perfect representation of her and Grant! We had such a great time, and hope you can see HOW gorgeous this wedding really was. It was held at Wadley Farms in Lindon {I had never ever heard of this place, and what a great place, perfect for family pictures for anyone!!}

It was a gorgeous day, a wedding in December I am always afraid of the cold weather, it was chilly but look at that sky, no clouds or snow anywhere!

{favorite picture, all photos were taken by Scott Myler (scottmylerphotography.com)}

She had a small reception with 100 or their closest family members and some friends {sorry us McDonalds, we are a large group!} Great food, fun tablesettings, and my favorite an apple cider bar....um YUM!

For place settings, a group of great women made grape jelly in these little jars, and then Candace picked out a bunch of different fabrics and wrapped the tops with twine. The yummiest jam, i wish the bottles were gallons.

Lots of wild flowers everywhere, old fashioned jars {candace and Grant raided all the DI's around here and found some really cute jars} I really hope that they use them in their house cause they are DARLING. Grant's Dad drilled holes in this logs and they made them into vases.

Lovely.

More glass jars, more flowers.

Saige partying with one of her most favorite guys, we kind of like him too! I really wanted a good picture of the doily garland in the back, I think Conniestance has one but..., Candace had these garlands made from binding and paper doilies. I LOVE THEM, she is planning on using them in the nursery, i sure hope she does, how fun and dainty for a baby girl!Darling wedding cake made by our good friend Christina Miller, {Christinamillerscakes.blogspot.com). It was so pretty and really tasted good, I think it was the only cake out of our 4 sisters that we didnt have 100 pounds leftover!!

Fun picture of the whole wedding group, fun huh. Its great to know they have so many wonderful people behind them for such a great day!

The McDonald girls, lots of personalities, but i think our outfits turned out pretty together. Who would have thought all of us could plan things out all by ourselves and it match this well!!

Our family, we are getting big, and its becoming so much fun, i would have never thought our family could become so diverse and it's so much fun welcoming BOYS to our family!!

And last but not least here are some fun pictures of our family that we were able to take, I am sensing a trend here, and noticing my family only gets pictures done, when someone gets married, so either i need to have more weddings or we just need to bite the bullet and do it ourselves, cause i love family pictures, and Matt actually smiled, {He might be becoming a bit soft in his old age!}

My Milo boy, oh I love him!

Saige and Milo both had attitudes that day, I was not one bit suprised, notice Saige's thumb, out in EVERY picture we took. She had a small cut on it and it just had to be pointed out all day!

We had such a great day!

More postings to come, Christmas, everyday stuff, and all sorts of fun. No more crazy working and Matt got me a new nikon camera so that is going to be lots of fun!