Get Me to the Church On Time

The celebration for Megan's wedding started lat Tuesday when we all went and got pedicures at USA Nails (I recommend you never go there). My stubby purple glitter toes are easy to find in this picture, they are the only ones not French tipped

The night before the wedding most of the family gathered together to help setup for the reception that took place in the Fergy backyard.  Phoebe got to spend the evening playing princess with her friend Cassy while the twiners came with us and crawled around in the backyard, until we put them in mom's new, never been used yet, fire pit.  It was the uncles/daddies idea because they thought it was funny. Don't worry, they only sat in their for the duration of this picture, then I went and retrieved them.  After setting up it was time to head home and prepare for the next day, which included putting Phoebes hair in curlers for the night.

On Saturday Meggie and Blake got married in the SLC Temple at 9:40am. The same sealer as Ashley and Luis had performed the ceremony. Afterwards it was time to head out for TONS of pictures.  Here is my little "Shirley Temple" with the Megan the beautiful bride and with her uncle Dennis.  She refused to take off her "sunny eyes" aka sunglasses because it was too bright for her outside.  As for the twins, they had to be woken up for picture time and were still a bit groggy, so Daddy and uncle Luis carried them around  for pictures.

I thought these two little girls, Phoebe and cousin Emma, walking hand in hand with curly hair was really cute.

Here are the cute newlyweds posing for their pictures on the stairs of the temple.

The luncheon was in a beautiful reception hall called the Canterbury Place.  It is a redesigned old LDS church house that now caters to weddings and parties.  It was really pretty inside and this picture doesn't nearly do it any justice.  

Here are a few snapshots of the backyard ready for the reception before ny of the guess arrived.  Megan's colors were yellow and black and her flowers were Calla Lilies which really made for a beautiful and elegant look.  Her "cake" wasn't a ckae at all it was a large Rice Krispy treat which was beautily decorated.

Right as the photographer arrived it began to downpour, so we had to pose in the front yard under the big redwood tree.  Luckily, the rain only lasted for about 15 minutes then the sun came out and it was beautiful again, so we could move outback and resume pictures as large groups where we had originally planned to take them.  

Here are all the Fergy clan dressed up and looking beautiful in their yellow and black.  Below is Grandma&pa Fergy with all 11 of their grandchildren & a picture of Phoebe insisting on carrying Meggie's train around for her.

Once the reception started and after a brief nap here is how the twins spent most of their time, sitting on cousin Afton's blanket playing. Cami didn't even try to crawl around that much because she hates attempting to do it in dress. As the evening wound down Megan and Blake cut their Krispy cake and then Megan threw her bouquet while Blake threw the guarder. After that the couple said a few short words thanking all who came and then quickly changed and then were off in their stinky decorated car.

After they left it was time to quickly clean up and head home ourselves. All the kids were great troopers, it had been a very long day from 8:30am-10:00pm on the go with no naps. Packing up to go home, Phoebe insisted she still wasn't tired, but after 2 second in the car on the way home she was asleep.  She was in fact so far gone, we were able to change her into her pjs with her barley even stirring. Everyone had really enjoyed themselves and partied themselves right out.

Packin' in the Fun in the beginning of August

On no now we are in trouble! Both the twiners are crawling and this little girl now can stand and has tries to master the art of stair climbing whenever we forgot  to put the chair down. Unfortunately, she even has experienced some stair falling too.

Since Cami is instantiate on growing and not staying permanently small like her older sister, I had to try to get  a cute picture of these two in their matching dress since they are my favorite and Cami is about to grow out of hers.  I couldn't get both to cooperate at the same time so here is the happy medium of them both. 

Last Monday, our complex had a big BBQ. We met at our new playground/basketball court and had tons of great food. We also had the mayor, the police department with sidekick crash dummies and the fire department who gave tours of heir truck, if you came to see the truck you also got a sticker which Phoebe was sure to cash in on.

Last week our neighbor lent us their pool which excited Phoebe to no end. She loved the pool and wanted to spend all day in it and also lay down nap in it too. She went between the pool and chalk drawing all morning.  Phoebe prefers to draw with the chalk when it is wet, I guess that it draws with more vibrate color then. The next day as I filled the pool up in the morning so the water would be warm at noon Phoebe was too impatient to wait and she went right outside and got climbed in in all of her clothes. She then came back inside to show me as if it was something I would be happy with, which brings us full circle to why we no longer own a pool.

Back in April when grandpa/ma Potts came to visit they brought Phoebe a sunflower kit to grow herself. The seeds in the pot never grew because Phoebe wouldn't leave them alone, but 3 sunflowers of the sunflowers hat we planed in the yard are now beginning to bloom. All three are now in bloom, but the picture below is one of the first days that  the first one opened up...my mom and I laugh that these sunflowers grew to be about 4 ft tall and yet they cam in the smallest 1 in clay pot to plant them in.

Pizza, Pop, Pjs & Princess Picnic

Last Saturday we decided to try and make dinner a bit more fun by having a pizza, pop, pj, princess movie picnic in the living room.  Phoebe was excited to have the pop part and as you can see Josh was thrilled about the pizza part.  I have never seen Josh scoot so fast to get something and yet when we let him have it, he didn't even really like it.  Oh well, the rest of us had a blast having our pizza & pop picnic while watching Anastasia in our Pjs.

The Melting Pot

Last Night Cory and I went on a group date to one of the more expensive restaurants in SLC, The Melting Pot.  We had always wanted to go there, but it was too pricey, however, last week I got an email from a friend that they were having a group date deal and it was only going to be $25 a person, so we jumped on the opportunity to go.  Little to say things didn't pan out exactly at that price, but it was still some of the most fun I have had in a long while.  

The meal took about 21/2 hours to get through all 4 courses and at the end of it the guys were ready to try dipping anything in fondue, including lemon wedges in chocolate topped with pecans, which was described to be bitter sweet, but still good. This was one of our dessert fondues of dark chocolate and passion fruit infused white chocolate, DELICIOUS! The Fondue was called Yin-Yang and we thought it was cute that they designed it as such. That banana isn't suppose to be there, but dopey Cory was foolin' around and dropped it in there right as I was trying to get a picture of it...Husbands, can't live with them, but I would have to go get a job of my own without them.

Cory took the table's challenge to suck out the last of the chocolate sauce with a straw. He said it burned, but that didn't make us stop from making him do it twice to get a good picture of it.

If you can do the math you can see that it was a bit expensive for the 6 of us, but definitely worth it.  I would recommend to anyone, they have them in most states, to try it at lest once and especially as a group date!

9 Mos Old

I can't believe how fast these two chunks are growing up; they are 9 mos already!  Earlier this week we took them to the doctor for their check up for weight and height.

Camille Cossette:

Weight: 18.11lbs (97% for girls)

Height: 29in (90% for girls)

Joshua David:

Weight: 19.15lbs (93% for boys)

Height: 28 in (50% for boys) 

This Months Achievements:
This month Cami learned how to sit up and crawl & has a total of 6 teeth.  Josh learned to sit up get up on all fours briefly & has a total of 4 teeth.

Sew Determined: June & July Editions

For June's sewing project I took a sewing class for rag quilts at a local shop and final made Josh his baby quilt. I know there are a million free tutorials on how to made this blanket, but it is always nice to have a set time where someone will sit down with you and give you a hands on lesson. The quilt I was suppose to make was enormous, so instead I made two smaller quilts and if you are one of the next ones to have a boy you could be the recipient of an identical beautiful blanket. I love the looks of these blankets and they are very forgiving, but there is just a ton of snipping, so I think Cami will get a slightly modified rag quilt in the near future.

For July's sewing project I took another free sewing class at a different quilting store in town. I learned to make a tote out of place mat, make box pleats & sew on handles. In the near future this will become Phoebe's new scripture/ Sunday bag. I know it is a bit big, but I am sure she will fill it with other little treasures or just use it as a purse.

Look whose Thirty, Flirty and Thriving Now!

On the 24th of July Cory made the jump to join me as thirty something.  We started the day a bit later than normal since I hadn't wrapped anything and/or decorated.  It was a bit crazy still since we had only been back from our Oregon trip of only a 1/2 day, so after I made Cory go running and shower we had it all ready to start the party.

This birthday, Phoebe finally got the who gift opening concept so daddy got a lot of help opening his gifts, in fact she opened most of them for him.  After gifts we went to grandma/pa Fergy's house and had a family breakfast as we always do.  Grandpa even got the "pop cycle" down for Phoebe to ride.

These two twiners are so cute in their princess crowns and old man ID tags.

After lasts year's disastrous us ice cream Oreo cake, I vowed never to make a birthday cake for Cory again.  So this year I made a doughnut cake, an idea I got from the genius Emily Alder last year.  Not only did it look prettier than last years cake, but it tasted might delicious too!

Cory and Dave were born 20 minutes apart, I know quite a separation for twins, but Cory refused to come out after Dave and so he had to be an emergency C-section.  Which leads us to this scene where Cory was jumping around and dancing because Dave was already 30 & he was still only 29.

After the cake we went next door to have a delicious dinner with Jonny, a professional cook, pictured above.  He was throwing himself  a party because it was his birthday as well.  After the delicious BBQ and the sun went down, $1200 worth of illegal fireworks came out; this was Jonny's gift to himself.  The fireworks wwere the professional grade ones like the kind that stadiums use.  The show went for 1 hr and after that we were really done with seeing fireworks.  We loved how pretty they were, but we were sick of having ash & bits of wrappers rain down on us. All-n-all it was a fun day, but  we were ready to go home because we were one bunch of very tired Fergys!