Keri & CJ's Wedding: The Big Day

Saturday morning came very quickly and before I knew it we were at the temple by 10:30.

All of the girls were dressed and ready to go.

They had to wait and wait and it got a little bit boring according to Bailey.

Finally, the now married couple came out!

I don't know what it is about people getting married, but little kids just flock to them on the wedding day.  All of the kids rushed the staircase as Keri and CJ came out.  It was really cute!

Now it was on to picture time:

The wedding party.

We could not resist a construction hat picture because, unfortunately, the temple was still under construction and covered in scaffolding and tarps.  I'm so glad my mom brought the hats because it is a great picture.

Bailey wanted to get in on the action.

While all of the pictures were going on, the little kids were enjoying running up and down the big hill.  I thought for sure one of them would fall down, but they were injury free.

Here's what Toni and Aaron like to call their fake family photo with borrowed baby :)

The wedding party went down to the beach for more pictures, but we went home to finish setting up the house for the big party and most importantly to put the kids down for a nap.

Kate and Bailey took to the dance floor right at 6:00.  Grandpa Mosher joined them and gave them each a dance on his feet.

There were three things that made Bailey really happy during the reception:

One: a mouth filled with chocolate covered marshmallows.

Two: Hanging out with Kali Wilson.  She was so happy to see her and Kali did such a great job of playing with her and making sure she didn't get into trouble.  I sense a great babysitter in the making.

Three:  Dancing with Trisha Wilson.  Bailey was in heaven to see the Wilsons and Trish was nice enough to dance with her for a long time.  Thanks Wilsons!

The pretty cake decorated by Shelly before it was eaten.

Right before they cut the cake I informed CJ that  we would quickly kick him out of the family if he shoved the cake in Keri's face.  I'm pretty sure he didn't need the warning, but I just had to do my part of big sister.

Kate, Bailey, and Owen wanted to dance during the daddy-daughter dance.

Cute Grandma and Grandpa Mosher.  We love them so much!

Here's Keri getting ready to toss her bouquet.  Our cousin Dani caught it much to the dismay of Brittany and Toni.

After the bouquet and garter toss, the real party began on the dance floor.

Bailey need to take a break from dancing with Brian.  Even Brian got out on the dance floor for a bit--go Brian!

The grandkids were all gettin' down with Grammy!  Bailey was super fly with her feathered pimp hat.

At 9:00 the dancing stopped and the sparklers came out.  Once they were lit, Keri and CJ were quickly gone.  I didn't even get one last picture before they left, but I know they had fun.  We also had fun playing with the leftover sparklers.

So did Kate and Owen.

It was a great day and a really fun party!

The next day we could not let the dance floor go to waste so I held a dance competition with kids.  Kate and Owen were really into it and showing me their best moves.  Bailey was more interested in having a tea party.

Here's Kate's best move coming straight from an 80s Jazzercize video.

Owen could not pass up the opportunity to show off is award winning smile!

And all Bailey wanted was a cup of tea!

Keri & CJ's Wedding: Part I, II, & III

Keri and CJ got married last Saturday!  She looked so beautiful, they are so happy, and it was an amazing party.  I think that weddings should just be a really fun party with all of your family and friends--mission accomplished for Keri and CJ.  We've been planning this wedding all summer, so it's kind of weird that it's actually come and gone.  It was kind of a week long extravaganza, so here's the week of wedding:
Part I: Temple day on Thursday

Thursday night Keri went to the temple, so Toni, Brittany, and Ty stayed home with the kids.  They had a picnic  outside and craft time inside.  They all, somewhat successfully, made a beautiful necklace that they are showing off in this picture.

Ty and Josie took a well needed nap for a while.

The girls look like they were caught red-handed eating the box of cereal.  It's really hard to get mad at two cute faces like this.

Part II: Prepping the yard and decorations on Friday

Friday was game time!  We had to get everything done, put together, and ready to go for the big day.  Our biggest task of the day was blowing up, tying, and putting on sticks 100 giant yellow and white balloons.  We were prepared for this to take most of the day (which it did), but we became really good at it.  Thanks goodness we borrowed the air blower from my school to blow all of the balloons up or else we all would have been passed out on the floor.  These balloons were Keri's vision for her wedding and it ended up looking awesome!  I'm really bummed I didn't take a picture of the final product of them lining the driveway, but I have plenty of pictures along the way.

The kids wanted to play with the balloons all week long; surprisingly, they only popped a couple of them.

We stored the blown up balloons in Tera's room all day long.  By the end of the day, her room was filled from floor to ceiling with balloons!  It looke awesome!

Of course with my family we always have to turn everything into a competition, so we started racing to see who could blow up and tie their balloon the fastest.  Kyle's method was to coat his hand with lotion first to help tying the balloons; he thought it was quite successful.  All of our methods joined together got us through, what we thought would be the hardest part of the day.

Once all the balloons were filled we then had to attach them to the poles and put a bow on each one.  Here's a shot of the balloons in their final stage before they went on the driveway.  We didn't put them up until Saturday afternoon to avoid having them warp in the sun.

The second biggest task of the day was the flowers.  We're so lucky that Shelly was able to come down to be our flower coordinator for the wedding.  She did the flowers for my wedding too and they are always beautiful.  We went to the flower mart in Carlsbad early in the morning and bought everything we needed.  By the end of the day Shelly turned this big pile of flowers into...

this!  She added more yellow gerber daisies on Saturday to each bunch.  That way the daisies weren't wilted and sad looking.  Isn't she amazing?!  She even let us help and try out our flower arranging skills.

Before the flowers could go in, we had to fill the jars with lemons and tie blue bows.  Keri did an excellent job with preparing the jars.

While flowers and balloons were getting done inside, lights, lanterns, toole, and tents were getting done outside.  We hung about 24 strands of lights across the yard and hung paper lanterns from them.  These were some of the last lights to go up and Kyle was the man in charge of making sure they worked.  It truly is a whole family and friends project to put on the party!

Part III: Taco Time Party

By 7:00 Friday night, we were ready for the pre-party; CJ catered a dinner for about 50 family and friends.  It was Taco Time!  We had yummy street tacos, rice, beans, and the best part--churros.  This is the rehearsal dinner, but we don't really rehearse anything except eating and having fun.  It did give us one more night of enjoying the amazing decorations and the yard.  Here are some pictures of the party goers:

Here's my dad enjoying the feast!

Keri & CJ's friends (Roxanne, Brittany, Richelle, Mike, Sarah, Becca, JR, Brady, and Brittany)

CJ's family (mom, Laurie, Nick, Milo, Keri, Bailey, and CJ)

Aaron, me, Brian, and Tera

Shelly & Bodie

Mom with CJ's brother and family

Tami & Eric

Aaron & Bailey (she was a little on the crazy side Friday night)

CJ's friends

Toni & Aaron

Emily and baby Josie

Brittany, Keri, and Sara

Mom & Dad

Keri's friends

SISTERS!!!

Miller Family picture (minus baby Josie who slept like an angel during the party)

Once the party was done, there was still one more task to finish: bouquets.  Shelly whipped these bouquets together in no time.  They looked awesome!  Keri's is the big puffy one and the smaller ones are for the bridesmaids.  I think we finished around 11:00 and then headed off to bed to get ready for the WEDDING DAY!!

I'll post Part IV tomorrow with pics of the big day :)