Jesse and Natalie's Wedding

Sorry I have not posted in FOREVER! Or atleast forever for me. I have been meaning to post but their hasn't been a break in the partying long enough to post so forgive me, and I will try and catch you all up on what has been going on in the lives of the Paces. :)

To begin with I would like to happily announce that last Friday, July 2nd Jesse and Natalie got MARRIED! The whole day was wonderful and so fun with all the family around. The night before the wedding Mckay's mom and two of his siblings slept over at our cute LITTLE apartment. So it was an interesting experience getting ready in the morning but we made it work and it was so fun to hang out with them. They got married at 10:oo a.m. at the Logan Temple. The ceremony was beautiful and I was just SO EXCITED that I was able to be at the actual wedding this time. Here are the cute couple as they come out of the temple for the first time as Mr. and Mrs. Pace for time and ALL eternity!
And ofcourse everyone has to give hugs and greet the Bride and Groom...




Luckly I was able to grab a quick picture of the happy couple before we started the picture taking marathon. So Happy! P.S. I also LOVED natalie's dress and it looked perfect on her so here is a snap shot of the back of it. Gorgous!

While taking group pictures I was able to take some too. The temple was so beautiful and even though it was alittle warm I would take that over the freezing temperatures from our wedding.
The first ones are of us waiting for them to come out of the temple.


The rest of these are while waiting around for all of the other pictures. Sorry there are so many!
McKay and James
All the family hanging out together
Preston is such a goofball!

The only downside to the weather was that it was slightly windy and it was sometimes difficult to keep my dress and hair in the right spot...For example...

And here are a few more random ones from the temple...





After the temple we all headed over to the Old Rock Church Reception center for their wedding luncheon. They decided to not have a reception so the luncheon kind of took its place. It was very fancy and the food tasted great. Here they are at the beginning of the lunch being introdued as husband and wife
Sorry their aren't any pictures of while we were eating, I was too busy enjoying the food. :) But here is our nephew by the pretty ice sculpture of the Logan Temple...
After the dinner we watched their amazing wedding video. During it, McKay said... "wow it is like a music video!" haha It will definitely be very special to have in ten years. Along with the wedding video they also cut the cake. Then when everything was said and done we chatted for a few more minutes and then they headed out for some sweet honeymooning. Lol What a great day! Congrats Jesse and Natalie!




Thanks for reading have a great night!

Welcome Home John!

Yesterday McKay's brother came home from his mission in Canada. McKay and I were able to get the day off work and meet him at the airport with the rest of the family. It was my first time meeting John and I am really excited to get to know him more. He said that he is planning on going to Utah State in the fall, so that will be way cool to have one more family member up here in Logan :) After meeting him that the airport we headed over to Chuck-a-rama for a yummy lunch! Overall it was just a fun day with family and it was cool to hear about his mission experiences. Here are some pictures from the exciting day...

These first pictures are while we were waiting for him to get off the plane.




It always seems that everytime McKay gets together with his brothers they always start teasing each other and joking around. This time was no exception...BOYS!


And then here are the pictures from his first few minutes off the plane. Sorry that some are blurry...


OFcourse at every homecoming there is lots of hugging...



Well I guess there is nothing left to say but welcome home John! Thanks for reading everyone!

Why is the real world so confusing!

Ok, confession time, and I am going to warn you in the beginning that this post may not make very much sense but I just want to write my thoughts down so that I can go back and read this when I finally understand the real world and have a good laugh.
So here it goes... Since getting married I have had to begin figuring out the real world and can I just tell you that for a shy and very inexperienced adult that can be a VERY scary thing I mean figuring out what kind of insurance to have to make sure that you have covered your bases while trying to not over spend. Whether to go with this cell phone company or that one, and don't even get me started on dealing with car problems! When our air conditioning was getting fixed in our car I just automatically screened all calls to McKay. I just don't know very much about cars, air conditioners, gas bills, clogged drains, leaky faucets, changing oil, and everything else that adults have to deal with. Every time something happens it is all whole new experience for me.
Also when you get married you have the lovely opportunity to change your name EVERYWHERE! Why can't there just be one I repeat one easy location that you can go to change everything. Nope, you get to go to fifty different places and fill out lots of different forms... Oh and make sure you go to all the locations in the right order or else you might not have the right paper work. Currently my name is changed at some places but not at others. So far I have been lucky enough for it to not cause too many problems but of course I stress over it daily. You may ask why have I not changed it everywhere? For the same reason that I still haven't finished my wedding scrapbook. It is just one more thing to do that is easily put off for the next day. Unfortunately I am amazing at procrastination. Dad I blame you. just kidding. :)
In reality I don't like situations that I don't understand and I hate asking questions when I am confused because I am afraid that it will be a "dumb question". So instead of putting myself out there I just try and avoid things as long as possible. So in the end, I have decided that entering the real world should come with a manual. But since it doesn't I will continue to slowly make my way through it one dumb question at a time. While I was writing all of my frustrations down I was reminded of the quote "don't sweat the small stuff" and the quote " don't put off to tomorrow what you could be doing today" Sounds like I just need to buckle down and just do it... Like ripping a band aid off.
Thanks for listening to me ramble and a special thanks to McKay for being by my side as I learn to grow up and be an adult, have a good night!

Oh and P.S. Tomorrow we are going to the airport to pick up McKay's brother, John, from his mission in Canada. Look forward to a post about it soon!

You Do the Math

Here is what my day looked like today...
3 teachers
10 hours of work
17 children
3 hours at the pool (three very nerveracking hours)
2 fifteen passanger vans
36 bags of chips
22 capri suns
TONS of sunscrean
1000 splashs
a couple of belly flops (I tried to warn them)
a million trips to the bathroom
some sunburned cheeks and blood shot eyes (from the pool)
...and 17 happy faces that made it all worth it :)

Today was my first time taking the kids from work to the pool, they loved it but it was A TON of work. Needless to say I am pretty tired.

Oh and here are some funny cartoons, thanks for reading!