Museum of Natural Curiosity with the Johnston's

At the beginning of March, Jon's beautiful niece, Emily Fairchild, got married to James Cutler.  We have been so excited for Emily & James and looked forward to this weekend!

 

Jon's sweet mom, Diane, came into town the weekend before and we loved having her with us for the week.  On Tuesday night, Jon's sister Beth & her 3 boys flew in and stayed with us and then on Friday night, Jon's sister Rebecca drove from Oregon and also stayed with us for a couple nights.

 

Our kids had school on the Wednesday & Thursday that the Johnston's were here, but on Friday, our elementary school kids had the day off.  So, we went to Thanksgiving Point and went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity.  The kids had a great time exploring.  It's a great museum - the only problem is that it's always SOOO crowded and during the morning, there were jr. high kids there on a field trip.  They were generally pretty good about being careful of the littler kids, but I did see one kid try to spit on a kid below him in the ropes. 

 

Jon, Jack, Kyle & Kate all did the ropes course and I think really liked it.

 

 Hailey

 Hannah

 Tyler, Hannah, Kate & Jared

 

 Beth's boys - Tyler & Jared with Kyle in the background

 

 Jack, Kate & Jon on the platform above

 

Cute Kyle on the ropes

 

 

I don't know what is wrong with me, but I just didn't take my camera around with me to any of the wedding stuff.  Duh!  On Friday night, they had their reception at a ward in Lehi - it was gorgeous and their theme was Popcorn! How fun is that??!!   Emily was gorgeous and it was fun to visit with family and the Fairchild's friends.

 

Saturday afternoon was the sealing in the Salt Lake Temple and then a family dinner at the Lion House.  My mom let us drop our kids off to her during the sealing, so we just went and picked them up afterwards.  Everything was absolutely lovely.  Jon's sister Anne (Emily's mom) and her husband Dave were able to fly home from their mission in Africa to be there, so it was fun to see them again too.

 

Unfortunately, Beth & Tyler got sick on Friday/Saturday and ended up missing all the activities on Saturday.  I know Beth was so, so disappointed so we wish that hadn't have happened. 

 

It was a beautiful weekend and we're so happy for Emily & James!