Saturday

SATURDAY

Saturday morning we all woke up and Rich and I got ready for the wedding. My youngest sister and her boyfriend were watching my kids and my sisters three kids at the hotel while we attended the wedding at the Temple. It was a beautiful wedding. After the ceremony my sister and I and our husbands (Rich and Jacob) went back to the hotel to pick up the kids and bring them over to the Temple for pictures. Nancy and I made a quick bouquet with some flowers my mom had bought the day before, while our hubbies got the kids changed and into the cars. We didn’t take too many pictures because it was unbelievably hot… 105 or something like that. Then we went over to a luncheon at a church building. The kids got to run around and play a bit more and we could relax in the air conditioned building.

We left St. George around 2pm and drove up to Midway Utah. There would be a reception down in Orderville, Utah for my sister and her new husband that night, but we were going to be going to the reception the following Saturday up near my parents house, so we skipped that reception that night. The drive from St. George to Midway was 4 ½ hours. In Midway we went and got some McDonalds for dinner and let the kids get rid of some extra energy in the play area. Angela had a blast climbing up and going down the slide over and over and over and over again. Then we went and meet up with Rich’s parents and sister Sharon and her family over at the house we had rented for the whole family to stay at.

The house was a great house for a reunion. There were six bedrooms. One master bedroom with a king size bed, four bedrooms with queen size beds in them, and one large bedroom with three daybeds in it. Under the daybeds was another mattress that we could pull out and we had six twin size beds in that room. There was a good size kitchen/dining/living room upstairs, and a large game room downstairs with a pool table and fooseball table and big screen tv. Rich’s brother showed up and the kids all loved playing with their Uncle Dave until it was bedtime and we got them all in bed. Alex and Ashley and Elijah (Sharon’s oldest) got to stay up a little later, but when it was bedtime they still had to be reminded a few times to be quiet and not to talk. Three of our kids and three of Sharon’s kids all slept in the room with the six twin beds. The best part of renting a house and all staying together was in the evenings. We would get the kids in bed and we could sit up and talk or play games and have some adult time together.