June Days

For Memorial weekend, the kids and I headed to Wyoming to spend a few days with our family. Even though the weather wasn't as nice as we had hoped, we did get a little sunshine and lots of playing time with cousins.

Here they are doing one of my favorite childhood activities...shaving cream art on Grandma's sliding doors.

(Grandma sure is tolerant and nice.)
And...it's a cheap way to entertain kids. Just buy a can at the dollar store and enjoy. It makes the room sure smell fresh and clean too!

Can't forget how important Grandpa's 4 Wheeler is when it comes to fun on the ranch. Remington was sure proud to be KING of the pasture hauling Grandpa's "mugwomps" around. Gratefully everyone was safe and had a good time!




Next, we headed to Salt Lake City where we joined up with all of my brothers and sisters and their family and kids to celebrate my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary. (Technically, their anniversary is actually Aug. 24th...but we wanted to celebrate it early before my sister and her family headed to Illinois for medical school.)

On Friday we met at the Salt Lake Temple grounds and enjoyed walking around the beautiful temple where my parents were married. We also toured the beautiful visitors center. I just love walking up the rounded stair case and standing at the feet of this amazing statue of our Savior Jesus Christ. It's like walking into Heaven.

Mom and Dad enjoying the beautiful scenery!

As you can see, keeping the kids out of the water fountains on the temple grounds was a little challenging at times :)We all stayed at our home away from home (Little America) since we don't remember there ever being a time that our parents have booked another hotel while staying in Salt Lake. It brought back lots of memories and we had a great time :)

On Saturday, the kids splashed in the pool while the girls finished up some last minute details. Then all the grandkids met in the parking garage to help fulfill some important assignments such as decorating Grandpa and Grandma's car with balloons and pop cans etc. They did a great job.

We celebrated the evening at the Garden Room in the Grand America across the street. It was an elegant setting with just our immediate family. Marquelle and I went over an hour earlier to set up and decorate the tables and it turned out amazing thanks to Marquelle's artistic abilities.

We had a nice quiet evening with a exquisite dinner and simple program. The kids were amazing considering they were totally out of their element attending such a fancy occasion. They were delighted to be waited on like royalty.

Words don't really give justice to the evening so I'll let the pictures tell the story!

The cake with my parent's original wedding cake top.

The place setting

More table decor courtesy of Marquelle :)

All the granddaughters got flower bouquets and heart lockets.

Our Yummy salad and appetizers

Baked Halibut

Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo

Guests of the evening included:

Mindi and Jon

Blake and Judi

Bryan and Rachel

Marci and Eloy

Note: Marquelle refused to have her picture taken!

The Grandkids...or (Mugwomps as Grandpa calls them)
Grandpa and Grandma Nield with their newest granddaughter
Taye Lynne

Cutting the cake

(I knew I could sneak Marquelle in here somewhere.)

Special Gifts:

A coloring book for the kids created by Mindi.

The Last 50 Years from Judi
(a compilation of events from 1961 - 2011)

The following book was given to each of us from our parents.

Finally, the night closed with a gift from me ...a video montage I created of our family through the last 50 years. We all got in our comfy pajamas and met up in Marquelle's hotel room which was all decorated like a movie theatre with popcorn and candy while we watched the movie.

Getting Comfy

Congrats on the last 50 years Mom and Dad.

We Love You!