What a Wonderful day

Weddings are so lovely and this one was extra special since it was Meg's. Meg and Chris were married on May 29th. It was a wonderful day filled with love and excitement. All of us girls were together again, with us having to be adults now we aren't together to often but when we are it is so much fun, I love our time that we do have together. We had Meg's wedding shower on Wednesday, the rehearsal on Thursday and the Wedding on Friday. It was a busy couple of days. I also got to do the wedding flowers. It was so great to have the opportunity to work on my skills again. Meg was a great bride and just let me do my thing with the flowers. Meg and Chris had their wedding in a beautiful old church and then the reception at the Red Lion Inn at the Park, in there amazing ballroom there was great food, good music and lots of dancing. Tory was the cutest little flower girl ever and enjoyed the dancing too. This is Meg's Bouquet

This was Chrysta's, Hannah's and my bouquet

This is Meg's mom's bouquet

All of us at Meg's Shower.... More pictures to come

Girls you look Lovely

Hair and Flowers that's what I do, and once again it sure has come in handy. I got to do Jordan and her friend's hair for prom this year. I also did Jordan's and Hunter's prom flowers. Tory and I went and spent the weekend down at mom's so that we could be there for the prom festivities. My mom made dinner for everyone and their dates and then we severed it to them.

It was so fun Mom and I decorated the table and used Great Gram's China for the table settings. We had extra orchids so we used them for the center piece on the table. We even had time to give Tory a little up do. It's hard to believe that this was Jordan's last prom, she has grown up so quickly. She is such a beautiful young lady and I adore her.

Naughty Tory

Yet again my little monkey found something to climb onto and explore. Never a dull moment at our house.

Easter Sunday

On Easter Sunday we took alittle road trip down to my Aunt and Uncles house where my family was all getting together. We had a little Easter egg hunt were the competition was high to find "the Golden egg". Kaid was the lucky one once again to find it. The rest of us cousins decided that she is band from searching for it next year. Then maybe Tory will find it.

Bag Balm

Bag Balm has been a staple in our home ever since Tory was born. She has horrible sensitive skin, when she was newborn a doctor told us to use it instead of desitin or A&D. Needless to say it has been a mirical for all our skin issues. Lately Tory has figured out how to open the tin and then stick her hands in the balm. She thinks that this is great fun and I am forever forgetting to put it up after we use it which leads to more hands in the tin. I have found her covered from head to toe in it, in her hair, on her face and all over her jammies. It seems that she like to fling it once it is on her hands which leads to it flying on to our new couch, Carl's prize TV and of course our carpet. So once again today I was not thinking and didn't put it up after use and what do you know, Tory was being ever so quite which is never a good thing. I walked in to our bedroom and there she was fist deep in Bag Balm yet again. Do you think that I'll ever learn. One thing is for sure though.... as I was wiping off her hands she kept pointing at the tin and saying, "NO NO." So she knows that it is naughty, I just think that it is just to much fun to play in so she keeps going back when I leave it where she can reach. What will it be next.....

Sunshine

Tory's cheeseburger smile---what a goof ball Dinner at the Happy Hound, we were thinking that Kaid wouldn't get that huge hamburger in her mouth but..... we were wrong.
Once again Tory and I were spoiled and got to go the California with my mom and sister for spring break. I have to admit that this is such a treat because usually there isn't very much sun here but there it is so warm and sunny. We met Jimbob there, he had to work most of the week, so that left the days open to shopping and the evening to having family time, expect for Thursday Jimbob didn't have to work so we had the whole day together. Tory was such a good traveler, and the trip was just wonderful.



Mom and I were out walking one day and went down this street, I feel in the with the houses there and continued to walk it quite a few more times that week. It was really close to the hardware store, so it was easy to put Tory in the wagon and go for a quick stroll. These houses were like something you would see in a painting, they were perfect in every way. With flowering trees lining there walk and perfectly manicured lawns with a white picket fence.

While we were there the store got an order of baby chicks in, Tory loved to see them. She even got to sit in their little box with them for a bit. She was so excited to be able to hold them.

This was the most amazing chocolate truffle I have every eaten, it is from an organic farm along the coast that we stopped at. They were selling strawberries, jam, artichokes and all kinds of treats this was one of them. This truffle was made from 4 different types of chocolate and had pieces of Logan berries in it. It was to die for, and I wish that my fridge was full of them. So yummy.

Hair Do or Maybe a hair DON'T

Auntie Jordan gave Tory all her old barrettes while we were home one day. Tory some how got Jimbob to help her accessorize her hair. This was the out come. So nice wouldn't you say!

Welcome to the Family, Mali

On April 14th our family expanded by one more, one more four legged member that is. This is our new puppy Mali. She was 12 weeks old when we got her and she is a lab/retriever mix. She is the most sweet and easy going puppy I have ever been around and we love her. So here is her story of how she became a Baisden.... We were at a dinner/auction for my sisters senior class graduation night. We had gone to the one for my brother a couple of years ago and it was crazy, Carl ended up buying one of my brothers friends hair. It was long, gorgeous curly hair and if he would shave his head Carl would buy it for 100 dollars. Needless to we ended up with a bag of hair. So this time Carl and I talked and decided that we would have a budget and not go over it with expensive bags of hair that's of no use to Carl:). We agreed on an amount and went to the dinner/auction. But then there was Mali. We had heard word that there was going to be a puppy auctioned and my heart kind of sank, I don't know what I was thinking puppies are alot of work. I don't know why I even toyed with the idea but I did and then we saw her laying on her blanket. We took Tory over to see her and she feel in love. She was so excited with her. She gave her loves and the puppy was totally laid back about everything that Tory would do to her. I can remember looking at Carl and him looking at me, with those eyes of ... oh she needs to be part of our family. Jordan had told us though that there was someone else interested in her. I got Jordan to find out how much they were willing to bid on her.... there max was 300.00. I thought Oh No! that's over our agreed budget. Carl and I continued to talk about her and play with her. The longer we were around this sweet puppy the more we loved her. I kind of got a little anxiety about the situation and went for a quick breather. (this will sound silly to some) I had a strong feeling like I needed to pray about the situation. So I did and I felt totally retarded praying about such a silly matter. I ask Heavenly Father to help me know if this puppy was meant to be apart of our family and if she was to help me be alright with it and not worry about it, that it would all be OK. I said Amen and went back to Carl and Tory along with the rest of my family. Then it became time to auction off the puppy we and the other group started bidding and Carl ended up giving Tory our bidding number she thought that is was great fun waving it around. The amount just kept going up until it got to 300.00 and the other couple said that would be as high as they would go, so we bid 310 and then and older gentleman put in a bid. All I could think was oh no it's going to go even higher. Just as Carl was saying 315 the auctioneer said that the puppy was Tory's and the gentleman wanted to buy it for her. I couldn't believe it, this sweet old man was going to by this puppy for us, well for Tory. Right then I knew that Heavenly Father had heard my silly prayer and answered it. The puppy was suppose to be with us and it was going to be alright, we were going to be able to stick to our agreed budget. I am so grateful for sweet people like this man. He will probably never know how much his generosity really meant to us that night. Once again my testimony was strengthened by one of Gods great creatures. I'm happy to add that Mali has made a great addition to our family her big brother Chance adores her and her sweet personality is so wonderful. Her and Tory will get to grow up together. In the past six weeks we have been reminded of what having a puppy is like all over again, from eating my rose bushes and chewing up our swing. I have to remember though that she was sent to us for a reason and I am grateful for her. So that's our Mali.



Tory was playing in the kitchen towels and thought that Mali needed to be tucked in for her nap

Back to February

In February my monthly goal was to tie up all the loose ends that I had undone for Young Women's since New Beginnings was fast approaching. Thankfully I did get everything finished. The picture is off all my projects done. Also Tory is constantly finding new places to hang out and get into trouble. Her favorite now is the fridge, she can hear you open the door a mile away. Once she hears it she tries to get to the fridge as quickly as possible before you have the door closed. On this particular day I indulged her fetish and let her take her time checking everything out while I got the camera. She is so silly and constantly keeps me smiling.

Here is another example of our little explorer

A Saturday together

Last weekend we had plans to attend Jordan's Senior class dinner and auction night. Since we had to come to town I convinced Carl to make a day of it. We started the day out by running to the flower wholesale house, I needed to get some flowers for Relief Society's Birthday dinner. Then we went to explore Cabelas, since Tory and I had never been there and well Carl just loves to go there. Tory had a great time exploring and seeing all the animals. I think her favorite was the fish and the moose. We ended our day out with feeding the ducks and geese over at the dike road. I remember doing this when I was little with my dad. It was so much fun to take Tory, the geese come right up to you. Tory was a little afraid at first, and after a bit she realized that they wouldn't get her and she got more excited about it all. I feel like when we moved my heart stayed in CDA, it just feels like home to me. So it always feels so good to be back there.