Monson Family: est. 8.15.09: What a weekend!

Phew! I am glad that weekend is over. I dont think we've had so many big events in one weekend ever before! It will make for a long blog today haha :)

Event 1: Davey's wedding
So Andy's brother Davey got married Saturday morning at 11:30 to his girlfriend Moraima. It was at Wapato (i think that is right) park in Tacoma under these really pretty arches. Andy was the "best man." It was a very small ceremony, but it was beautiful because everyone they loved was there. They looked so happy that you couldnt help but to smile the whole time, too. The only problem was that it was like 90 degrees. Everyone was getting faint. I was sad because we bought Sawyer that awesome sweatervest and hat as shown on the last blog for this day, and he was getting so hot! The worst part was there was no shade so the poor guy was just out in the sun the whole time.

Afterwards, we drove over to the institute building in Tacoma, which was luckily air conditioned. Andy made a nice toast about how Davey used to pick up junk on the way home from school and bring it home, but this time he figured it out because he was finally bringing home a "treasure". They even had live fish in the bowls that were centerpieces.

Event 2: Jay's WA reception
After going home for a few minutes, we went to Jay and Chantel's reception at the church building downtown. We were happy for them but didnt really want to run into a bunch of people there lol. It was really cool because they had a beach theme and used the live fish for their centerpieces, too...they just added some shells and stuff. Someone did a hula for them and taught them it as well. Funny story though: Andy and I were assigned to make the punch and water bowls. There were ziplock bags and store bags of ice in the freezer. Andy asked what to use and his mom grabbed a ziplock bag of ice and said "you have to smash them like this" So he smashed up the bags of ziplock ice and put them in the bowl. I said "why is it white? is it because of the cracks?" (there was white on some of the ice. Andy said that it must be. Well a few minutes later someone came in and was like "Why did you use salt water?" Well turns out the ziplock bags were from a ward activity making ice cream! If you've ever made your own that way, you know they salt the ice to make it colder. We used the ice cream ice on accident! I dont know who would put that back in the freezer though. We had to redo the ice water but Andy just added more juice to the punch because people didnt notice it as much in there HAHA! I dont have pictures of this one because i left my camera at home.

Event 3: Cruzans/Grovers staying over
That night Andy's aunt Kristi and uncle Ben and the kids (5 altogether- 2 older and 3 little kids) stayed overnight. Talk about chaos- those kids are loud and crazy! After they went to bed Bonni and Pete came over and we all talked with Kristi and Preston. It was really fun and we had the funniest conversations. It might have been a little too "adult" for Preston because he kept saying "oh my gosh" and his mom would try to embarass him a couple times. The next morning was so loud too but we all got off safely haha.

Event 4: Sawyer's blessing
The next morning was Sawyer's blessing at church. We are so glad that his aunts Kristi and Kelly and their whole families, my parents, both sets of andy's parents, andy's grandparents, Julie and Kailee, Pete and Bonni, and Erik and Destiny all came. Andy's grandpa did it and it was very touching. Andy said Sawyer was smiling the whole time :)

Event 5: Erik and Destiny's wedding
At 3:30 my brother and Destiny- his long time fiancée (well as long as a 21 and 22 year old can be engaged) got married. Andy was the best man here too! It was very pretty- in Destiny's parents backyard in front of a waterfall. It was very small- only immediate family members were there, but i loved it. Her sister is a photographer so i will have more pictures when i see those, but she was in the wedding so hopefully her other sister got some good ones of that. It was also very hot, but went quickly. Everyone looked so good but were all sweating lol. They plan to have a big wedding next year- this was just more to sign papers so they might have a better chance of adopting Cooper being married. We had to skip out before the dinner though because of the next event

Event 6: Our anniversary
We left the wedding and dropped Sawyer off in Olympia and Grandma and Grandpa Monson's house. After a quick stop at Kohl's and Target for a few items i forgot, we were on our way to Westport. I should have also bought a sweater. About a half hour away from Westport, we drove into a cloud. Like literally- we could see the cloud. The thing was, we never came out. It was 90 degrees and we were overheating the whole time, and it quickly turned to 55 and drizzly. It never stopped! We got to our bed and breakfast (which smelled soooo good because she was cooking some cinnamon-y breakfast bars. We went to the beach right after and froze. We found a little shelter though that someone had made out of driftwood and i sat inside and andy pulled out a present- new diamond earrings! They are so pretty! They are a bunch of little ones in a square shape and i love them! We went back and ate our wedding cake that we had saved. We only that that bite we fed each other at the actual wedding so we were anxious to try it. It was so good! Still moist and everything! The next morning we had a delicious breakfast with 2 other couples at the dinner table and went into town. We got waffle cones in my favorite flavors- rootbeer float and bubblegum- and went to the beach. It was still hazy but the haze was burning off and it was somewhat warm. We watched the surfers until i got cold and went back to the pier to get lunch. I had a crab sandwich (actually very good) and andy had tuna and chips (also good). We then left for home.

Event 7: Mocha
We got sawyer then headed to the tacoma mall's build a bear. We made a bear for our anniversary and gave it to Sawyer. His name is mocha and has a hoodie and undies on :)

Here are a few key pictures of the events of the weekend!!!