it's already thursday night and i haven't posted about our weekend yet! we've had a lot of exciting weekends in a row, and i've been so busy planning and getting ready for the next two weekends (devin's birthday party and our anniversary trip) that i haven't had time for much of anything lately! i'm glad i had already prepared most of this weeks blog every day in may posts because i would so be losing right now if that weren't the case... anyway... the weekend...
i don't remember what we did friday night, so i'm thinking that devin was probably at work and i just bummed around (because that sounds about right!)
saturday was such a crazy busy day. we were all over the place! first stop: tibble fork. our long time climber friends, Jed and Nicki are engaged and we took their engagement photos up there saturday morning. This is when coop learned to swim! I love that place and it was fun to spend the afternoon photographing such a fun couple. We had such a good time and it was quick and easy!
next we needed some foooood! we were down in provo now, so we decided we were overdue for some Slab, our favorite pizza! it's as good as ever. the waffle love truck was parked across the street, and we couldn't just not give it a try! verdict: it was pretty good, but it's sub par to our bruge's. the waffle was overcooked and dry and the creme fraiche wasn't nearly as good, but we still enjoyed it and are glad we tried it! plus, how cute is that truck?!
part 3 of our afternoon was the open house at the masonic temple. our good friend, Matt is the Chief Worshipful Master, and we were both a little curious about the masons. we learned so much and i was blown away with how cool the masons are. I am so glad we went. It was such a cool experience! Did you know that Masonry isn't a religion? It's a fraternity. A brotherhood. Matt said they're "glorified grown up boy scouts, without the camping" - i think that was the perfect way to put it. They basically come together and form this brotherhood, this group of men who are there to support each other. Who are tolerant of all religions, and give to charity, and learn and teach and practice being better men, brother, husbands, sons, and community members. It's so cool! About half of the latter-day prophets were Masons, and so were a lot of presidents and celebrities! I'm a fan of these guys. They do a lot of good for their communities. I think more people should have gone to the open house!
after the open house, devin went to his parent's house and ran a few errands and I went with my mom to my cousin's baby shower. my aunt kathy threw it and it was a lot of fun! i won one of the games we played where we had to unscramble baby-related words and a few of the girls were giving me such a hard time about it, i just didn't understand! they kept saying stuff like "well, why don't have just have mrs smarty-pants tell us all the answers, since she thinks she has them all" --- uh... wait a second. is this third grade? weird. whatev. i guess i'm good at word games! my cousin mckenzie is have a baby boy and she's due next month! i'm so excited for her and she looked so cute! we got her some diapers and a little dinosaur print sleeper. baby boy clothes are the cutest. i sometimes ask devin if we can buy them when i see cute stuff at target. he always says no... i wonder why?! anyway, the shower was a lot of fun and had the cutest little spread! i forgot to take a picture until the food was about half gone, but it was still cute!
last stop of the night was devin's parents for a barbecue celebrating jason's birthday and benjamin's blessing that would be the next day. devin's parents had recently put up a new playground in the backyard and the kids are crazy for it! they had so much fun trying to get cooper to climb up the slide and he was getting so frustrated and anxious when he couldn't get up! they also got a kick of him going down the slide, which he loves. and those ashby's know how to barbecue! it was delicious!
on sunday, we slept in as late as we possibly could before heading down to springville for ben's blessing. it was awesome to see all the people that came to support sean and chloe! and i'll just tell you - sean is the sweetest dad. he is so smitten with ben and is so careful and fatherly. it's the cutest thing. you could tell he was a little nervous to give the blessing, but i don't blame him! he did such a great job, and chloe was told that ben smiled the whole time! it was fun for me to watch devin participate in the circle and get excited about how the next baby blessing he is a part of will probably be for our own child in a few years! he'll be the greatest dad, i just know it :) devin and i somehow ended up at one end of the bench with kayla kaden and addi. they all behaved pretty well! addi sat on my for the first half of the meeting and played with my hair and read the hymn book quietly - she is such a sweetheart! for the second half of the meeting, she cuddled right up in devin's arms and fell asleep. talking about melting my heart, it was the cutest thing i've ever seen! every time something was loud, it would wake her up a little and she would just squeeze tighter to deving and go back to sleep. it was adorable! after the meeting, we had delicious food and sean and chloe's (your guys' yard looks AMAZING by the way! when we buy a house, will sean plant all of our shrubs and trees?! because seriously. it's so great!) ben was the life of the party and so was their friend's cute little girl, Tabby who was all about Moses! i don't know how I managed to get ZERO pictures of ben in his cute little blessing outfit (the same one brandon sean and devin wore 25+ years ago! so cute!), but it happened. just know he looked very handsome and very happy! he had the cutest little moccasins on but they wouldn't stay on his wiggly little feet! it was such a good sunday to spend with family!
