Janelle's Bridal Shower

On April 21, 2012 my Aunt Margaret put on a way fun bridal shower for my cousin, Janelle. She is getting married May 12, 2012...this Saturday! Since so much family was in town for graduation, Nolan's homecoming, etc.... we all got to get together for a bridal shower that week too! So much went on that week. It was soooo fun! 

Kimbri and I got a ride with Janelle, her fiancee's mom and Catherine. Kimbri had fun playing with toys on the floor while we all got to visit, eat delicious food, watch Janelle open her gifts and hear her tell her love story:)

Kimbri loved those plastic balls! 

We gave her some glass Pyrex bowls with lids
that she had registered for at Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Kimbri enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper:)

These pans were so cool! They had her future last
name, 'Nygard' on the bottom of them!

She got a dutch oven too! And lots of other things
that I didn't take pictures of.

It was soooooo fun to be at Janelle's bridal shower! I'm super excited for her that she has found the love of her life and that she's so happy ;) Yay for marriage!!

Graduation Fiesta - April 19, 2012

 So Thursday night after the Convocations for graduation everybody gathered at my parents house for a big dinner, dessert, and a whole lot of fun! It was so fun to get to see everyone, chat and catch up with family I haven't seen in a while and to just be together! It was a fun celebration! 

People that were there (I wasn't able to get a picture of everyone because I forgot to get my camera out for the first half of the night): Doug and Kathy, Janelle, Catherine, Camille; Matt and Dixie; Lincoln, Megan, Baby Bevan; Landon and Rachel; My Parents Lyle and Tammy; Dawson and Stacie, Oaklee, Bridger; Nolan, Zach, Wyatt, Olivia, Enoch; Grandma and Grandpa Haycock, and my wonderful in-laws and most of their family, Mike and Sundee Stone, Jessica, Cosette, Mindy, Levi, Mitch, Wesley, Preston, Nicole, Megan and Cody! We had quite the crowd!! Sorry if I missed anybody... oh and of course my amazing husband and daughter, Rick and Kimbri, were there with us:)

Here are a few snapshots I took to document the fun event:

Nicole LOVING her horse ride!

Cody popping bubbles

Kimbri having some Grandma Haycock time :)

Landon and his wife, Rachel

The dessert was phenomenal! Haha...they got the favorite pies of all the graduates. How nice of them:) There were so many different dessert options! They got banana cream pie in my honor, which was greatly appreciated, but I ended up going with the cheesecake with those delicious-looking berries on top. YUM!!!

Dan, Judd

Ben on the horse and Dawson. Dawson was so nice to give all the little kids horse rides!
 

Mindy pushing Bridger on the mini 4-wheeler

Kimbri wearing her BYU bib in honor of the graduates....haha :)

Olivia holding Bevan (Lincoln and Megan's baby)

Megan riding Blaze, the horse.

Oaklee and her Daddy

Oaklee on the horse

 

I had to beg to get a picture of Mitchell ;)

Kimbri sitting in the princess chair

Rick and his littlest brother, Cody

So when Kimbri first met Nolan, and for several days after, she would burst into tears  and would NOT let him hold her! This is one of many terrified looks when Nolan tried to hold her.  Since then he has given her a lot of food and because of that, she likes him now. HaHa! :)

A beautiful sunset to end the night! I love sunsets!

I'm so happy to be graduated and done with school so I can focus more on my family! Thanks Rick for being such a supportive husband so that I was able to finish school and graduate. I love you!!

Graduation!!!!

So the next day, after Nolan got home from his mission, we all got to celebrate the graduates in our family! My dad and his two brothers each had a child graduating from BYU this year. My two cousins, Janelle, Landon, and I all got to walk and graduate together! Landon and I finished classes in December and decided that we would walk in April so that we could all be together! Since there were three of us a lot of family came to town to join the celebrations that we had last week.

As Rick, Kimbri and I walked up to the Marriott center we stopped to take some pictures just Southwest of the Maeser building on campus. I had noticed on a run not too long ago that the flowers were all in bloom and it was so pretty. Ever since I had wanted to take some pictures there with Kimbri. So we stopped and got some really cute pictures with Kimbri :)

Kimbri and her adorable smile! I can say that because I'm her mommy :) And I loved how this picture turned out with all the colorful tulips in the background!!

We stopped again the next day on our walk up to the Marriott Center for Convocations. I love this time of year when all the flowers are out and the world is turning green and beautiful.

After Convocations on April 20, 2012, we all went outside on the Marriott Center lawn and took pictures. It was such a fun day. Here are some pictures that were taken with my camera, but once again, I'm missing a ton of other pictures that other people took on their cameras that I still want to get. Like the picture of me with all my immediate family and with just Rick, Kimbri and I, etc.... So I'll just have to update that later.

Jessica, Me, Rick, Kimbri, Sundee, Cody, Megan, Mike

Sundee, Me, Rick, Kimbri, Mike

The Graduates!! Janelle, Landon, Me

Brandon (Janelle's soon-to-be husband), Janelle,
Rachel (Landon's wife), Landon, Rick, Kimbri, and Me

Me and my Grandma Haycock

The graduates and our Grandma!

The extremely beautiful and incredibly good smelling roses
I got for graduation. Thanks Rick! I love you!!

It was such a good feeling to graduate but I could NOT have done it without so much support and help from all my family. Thanks to Janelle I was able to go to my biology class while she tended Kimbri out in the hall ;) And thanks to my amazing mother-in-law, Sundee, for coming to watch Kimbri on Thursdays when Rick and my school schedule overlapped. And a huge thank you to my parents, Lyle and Tammy Haycock, for supporting me with all of my goals and dreams. Thanks to the both of you I was able to go to Spain for a semester and really fall in love with the language, the culture and the people and because of that amazing experience I learned what I wanted my major to be. So thank you for helping me to have such a wonderful opportunity like that!

Also, having a baby last July when I was doing summer classes and still had fall semester to go was hard but I am sooooooo extremely grateful for all of the family that helped me and supported me, and especially for the love of my life, Rick. I am the luckiest! 

Nolan Came Home!

Last Wednesday, on April 18, 2012, we got to go pick my little brother, Nolan, up from the airport! He  had been serving in the Georgia Atlanta mission for the past 2 years.

It was one big family get together! It was the first time since Dawson's mission farewell that our entire family was together since Dawson and Nolan's missions overlapped by just a couple months. 

Sooo..... everyone loaded up in the big white van and we were on our way to the airport! All of us...my Mom, Dad, Zach, Wyatt, Olivia and Enoch and also Stacie, my amazing sister-in-law (Dawson's wife) and their two kids, Oaklee and Bridger. They were out here visiting while Dawson was still in Nebraska working, but he met us at the airport so when we first got there it was a fun reunion for their little family! They were so excited to see him :)

 

In the airport on our way to see Nolan! Kimbri was being entertained by many different people while we were waiting:

Zach letting her stand on the side of the flat escalator thing.

And I believe this was Wyatt's hat. She was trying so hard to get it off her head but the more you pull down at it the more it's gonna stay on! (Also, I can't get these pictures to be centered...? Oh well.)

  But I think she was loving the attention :)

   

  

And she also loved Zach's old stuffed lion animal!

We waited and waited for Nolan to come down those famous escalators. We were surrounded by so much family! It was the start of a crazy busy but amazing week. So much of our extended family was in town because of graduation for two of my cousins, Janelle and Landon, and I. So Nolan got quite the welcome! 

I was busy holding Kimbri and she was starting to get pretty fussy while we were waiting for Nolan so I didn't get any pictures when we saw him for the first time but maybe I can find someone else that got some and upload them later....

I did manage to get one picture when we arrived back home. It's with all our siblings, except Dawson who was still on his way back from the airport. And I guess I accidentally turned my head right as the picture was taken...oops!

It was soooo great to see Nolan and to have all our siblings all together again!!