The Wedding

Glad I caught this sisterly moment at church the other day.

  Lydia was so excited to write her letter to Santa! After she finished she walked to the mailbox with me and sent it. She asked him if he could bring a doctor kit this year. Don't worry, I really know how to spell Santa Clause. Claouse. Claus.

  Last weekend we went to the Nibley City Christmas party.  Lydia was so excited to see Santa then when she sat on his lap, wouldn't say a word.  Silly girl!

  Loren and I received the best present from my parents for Loren's birthday.  They sent us to see Nathan Pacheco's Christmas concert.  I can't remember the last time Loren and I went on a date, just the two of us.  It was so rejuvenating! Nathan has a beautiful voice and was the just the thing we needed to get into the Christmas spirit.  Such a thoughtful gift!

  Lydia's last day of dance was last week.  Parents were invited to come watch what they do during a typical class.  It was so cute! I feel bad she's not doing it next semester but it will give her a chance to try some other things.

  Last Friday all my family was here for Emily's wedding the next day so we decided to have our family Christmas party.  Mom, Em, Brayden and Todd sang a beautiful song.  Those four can harmonize so well! I always love to listen to them.

 
   Lydia and Loren performed Feliz Navidad and then Mary and Greyson with I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. Then Nate ended with a few punny jokes.  It was so nice!
  After that was the nativity.  Greyson was Joseph, Lydia was Mary and Allie a sheep.

  After opening our gifts from each other, we headed over to the church to start decorating it for Em's reception.  Kiana and Nate were champs at figuring out these lights after we blew a fuse.  After hours of re-stringing and driving around finding extension cords, we finally got them to work.  Hopefully everyone really enjoyed them! A big thank you to Grandma Swan for letting us borrow them.
  Mary was the inspiration behind it all.  She made the beautiful centerpieces, all the decorations, the wedding cake and so much more.  Can I say how grateful we all are to have her in the family?? It was gorgeous all thanks to her and everyone else that helped.

  The morning of the ceremony was crazy! Loren and I didn't leave our house until nine and the ceremony was scheduled to start at 9:15! Add to that, it had snowed the night before which made the roads super slick.  I was a nervous wreck and praying we'd make it in time.  We made to the temple at 9:20, and everyone had already gone up to the sealing room.  I was frantically asking any temple worker I could see if they knew which room Em was in.  They couldn't figure it out and I was almost in tears and ready to bolt up the stairs to find them myself.  Just then I saw a worker walking quickly towards us asking, "Are you the Pecks? Please come with me!" Thank the heavens! The worker led us up to the sealing room and we slipped in the door just after they started.  I'm forever grateful that we made it, it was such a tender mercy. Apparently my family was frantic and Nate tried calling me from the temple phone and when that didn't work, found a worker to come find us. Thanks to Nate, we made it!  After a beautiful ceremony we waited for the happy couple to make their appearance outside.  They looked so happy and Em was absolutely gorgeous.  Such a beautiful couple!

  After pictures we made our way to the Nibley Stake Center for the luncheon.  It was beautiful and delicious!  Brayden put together an amazing slide show of Em and Tyson that we watched after we ate. He's very talented with those kinds of things.

 Had to get a picture of those lights.  It took way too much work not to document them.

Lydia, Loren and Allie, Cam, Nate and Kiana

From left to right: Rachel, Aunt Shelli (my mom's sister), Sierra, Jason's girlfriend, Jason, Trevor, Uncle Greg

Uncle Alan (my dad's brother), Aunt Leslie, Jay, Liz, Sam, Brad, Angela, Sam

Grandpa, Grandma, Laura, Erin, Lindsay, Hailey, Aunt Jalyn, Uncle Scott (my dad's brother)

Alyssa, Jon, Missy and McKaylee Murdock (our next door neighbors and close friends from Hyrum)

Uncle Farrel, Aunt Stacey (my mom's sister), Uncle Mark (my mom's brother), Aunt Dana

  Cute kiddos!! Allison (17 months), Greyson (3 years) and Lydia (4 years)

  All of my fancy brothers! And hubby :) Nate, Todd, Cam, Brayden and Loren

Pre-reception

  Cutting the cake Mary made.  I heard it was incredible!

  Of course Em had to have a dance at the end of the reception! Here was the daddy-daughter dance.

  Grandpa cut in.  He can still waltz just as amazing as the rest of them!

  First dance as a married couple.

  Mary's beautiful work again.

  Even Lydia and Greyson got into the dancing spirit!

It was such a beautiful and perfect day! Though the morning after, we had to take our post-wedding hangover pics.

  A couple days later I went shopping and took a picture of Allie stacking the cans.  I was amazed when Grandma Peck sent me one of her doing the same thing at Allie's age! What a fun find!