Showered with Clothes

Well, if there's one thing our baby girl WON'T be lacking when she's born, it will be clothes!!! My sisters and sisters-in-law threw me a family baby shower on Saturday and I got so many cute little outfits for baby McKinley. I am so excited to put her in them!


The shower was a blast. My little sister Amy drove down from Rexburg for it and it was so fun to hang out with her while she was here.

My cousin Hilary was in town from Seattle so she got to come too.

I always have to have pictures of the food... :)

My sister-in-law Emily made me the cutest diaper cake ever! Thanks Em!

Some of the peeps that were there...

My mom sent stuff home with Kristen from Hong Kong. What a fun surprise! Thanks Mom!

The cute little pink dress above and this blanket below were from her. I love them Mom!


Brandon's mom got McKinley the cutest little swim suit ever! This summer is going to be so fun. I can't wait.

This is an awesome blanket Kristen made for me.


And a blessing dress Kristen made back in college that she's going to let me borrow. I am SO in love with it.

Me and my 3 sisters, Kristen, Amy, and Heidi.

A bunch of people also went in together and helped us get our car seat and stroller. So we are pretty much set to go for this baby! I just need to buy a few more things and get all these new clothes organized. Not that I'm in a rush or anything. I'm going to enjoy every minute I possibly can of this pregnancy.

It's Official

After 2 and a half years of Shellee being an "unofficial" part of our family, it is finally official. I have a new sister-in-law! Dallin and Shellee got married on Friday in the Draper Temple. It was such a fun day and a fun weekend since all the family was in town.

Coming out of the temple. Man, Dallin was laying on the kisses! It was so cute.

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One of our hundreds of self portraits. :) It was soooo windy and freezing outside the temple, but the rest of the day was actually pretty nice. They lucked out for sure with the weather.

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A guy in Brandon's parents' ward catered the lunch and the food was amazing. All of the siblings told stories about Dallin and Shellee and then we watched the cutest little video of their "love story." I had a really good time. I love weddings!

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I just had to add this picture in here. Brynlee is so stinking cute and all the little girls had the most adorable pink dresses!

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Brandon and I at the reception before it started.

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Me and Bran with the bride and groom.

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Anyone that knows me knows I love candy so this table might have been my favorite part of the reception.

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I thought their wedding cake was so pretty.

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We told Dallin to keep it PG-13 but apparently he didn't hear us...

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The bride and groom enjoying their first dance. I know weddings make for long days and tired feet, but I still love them.

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Also this weekend we got to celebrate Gary's 30th birthday with him.

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And, since all the family was in town Gary and Tara decided to bless their little baby Sam while they were here. He is the cutest little thing ever, I just can't get enough of him!

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Now almost all the out of towners have gone home and we're back to regular life...which means work. Yuck. I guess I can't complain though, I have 6 more weeks of work and then a 6 week break (if you can call it that) while I figure out how to be a mother. I'm pretty sure I have no idea what I'm getting myself into.

The Latest

Just because I haven't posted on here in a while, doesn't mean fun stuff isn't happening. Life has been good and fairly busy. I haven't been as good lately at taking pictures and I don't usually blog without pictures.

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Looking back, I'm trying to think what it is we've been up to. We went to a BYU basketball game the other week, we have weekly Survivor parties at Jason and Shannon's on Thursdays, and what else, oh yeah, we spent a lot of time watching the Olympics.

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This week we had a few birthdays to celebrate. My sister Heidi and Brandon's mom share a birthday of March 3rd. Monday night all of Brandon's family got together for FHE and we watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Hate the title, thought the movie was funny. Tuesday we had pizza and birthday cake for Karen's birthday.

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On Wednesday we (well, Kristen) planned a little bowling party for Heidi's birthday. Heidi turned 26 but she's as excited about her birthday as a 5 year old. I think she had a really good time.

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The Birthday Girl...

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It had been a long time since a lot of us had been bowling. It took a few turns to remember how different it is in real life than on the Wii. :)

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We missed Summer, Mark, and Brandon at the party.
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Brandon had to go to Denver for the last 2 days for work so I made sure to get some sleepovers in. I loved having sleepovers when I was little and I haven't grown out of it yet. On Wednesday night I slept over with my sister Kristen. We could talk for 24 hours straight without running out of things to say. She helped me frame a cross stitch I made for my baby and I'm so excited about it!

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Then last night my friend Jessica slept over at my house. We went out and got ice cream at Sub Zero and then went and saw the Princess and the Frog at the dollar movies. It was pretty funny, I really liked it. And it was perfect because I know Brandon never would have watched it with me.

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Now we are just getting super excited for Brandon's brother Dallin to get married next Friday. It's going to be so fun with all the family back in town.

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Only 8 weeks left to go with this pregnancy. I want to enjoy every minute, it's going by too fast!