Our Honest Boy!

I just have to share a moment that makes any parent proud. Yesterday David & I were at a store in Lynden. While browsing in the store, a customer was paying for her purchases and then left the store. As we were being waited upon David noticed something on the floor right in front of the cash register. It was a $20 bill!! Promptly he said "Mom, we need to see if that lady is still outside"! At first we couldn't find her and was looking in the cars. The store owner was helping us look for her too. She suggested we check the bakery. Lo and behold, there she was standing in line. I was able to return the money to her. She was rather stunned! $20 to any of us means a lot of money but this sweet lady looked like she was in her 70's so I'm sure it meant a lot more to her than we know.

We're so proud of David for his wonderful choice he made! So I took him to Starbucks for his favorite ~ A Vanilla Bean Frapachinno and a cinnamon roll.

A Few Easter Photos

Thought I'd finally getting around to showing our "table" Easter shot. We were blessed to have the newlywed couple visit with us. It was their 2nd dinner that night.

This always used to be the trick egg that never could be found. no worries, their plastic with candy inside.

But this year David remembered to ask Rob to get it down. The one egg that couldn't be found was really right in the open. In the living room, on the floor next to the computer desk and stereo speaker. It took them forever to find it!!

A Little Driving Music!

So if you DON'T want to speed then don't listen to this song!



Yes! I was listening to Bon Jovi nice and LOUD while driving to the church building in Everson tonight. Let's just say it only took me 2 songs to get to my final destination. :O)Oops!

A few more of little Miss Lizard!

One of my favorite photos of some of my favorite people!!

Uncle David was getting some good laughs out of Lizzie. I just love the look of love coming from Lizzie's face. She loves her Uncle David.

And Amber had some play time with Lizzie too.

And of course I got in some snuggle time too.

One of my favorite photos of Lizzie

Well, okay maybe 2. How about 3? Not much time today to post here. Go take a peek here to see some of the "crafty/scrappy" things I did for the wedding.

Look at those little feet!!!!

Sleeping in Grandpa's arms

And look what Lizzie was doing to Rob's thumb while sleeping. Just way to adorable! I think I'm going to have to enlarge that one for a scrapbook page all to itself.

Enjoy the day!! The sun is out!

Wedding Slide show

Starting to feel semi-sane again! (Extremely long post)

I'm actually seeing the living room floor again! But of course there is LOTS of things packed in wonderful Rubbermaid containers. I also LOVE Space Bags!!! I can't believe how much tulle I was able to store in those little suckers.

Now to talk a bit about the wedding! WHEW!!! Were we ever tired. It was just non-stop! But the BIGGEST surprise was that our Grandma Vicki was able to fly in last minute on Thursday night. We learned about the trip on Wednesday night and we decided to keep it a total surprise for Tabitha!!! It took some work to not spill the secret because we were SO excited but we did it. It was great!!!

She was starting to suspect something was going on as we were delaying leaving for the church. That and I got my camera out.

As Vicki walked around the corner out of the laundry room!


Tears of joy
Hugs of love

We all went over to the Church at 9:00 pm and stayed until 1:00 am decorating. We got the majority of it finished. Woohoo!!! We did come back on Friday and add more lights and straighten up. I tell you, I could not have pulled off the beauty of these decoration without the help of Laura MaCarrey and Celeste Mergen's. These two ladies were and are INCREDIBLE!!! THANK YOU MY DARLING FRIENDS!!!!!

Laura working her decorating magicCeleste directing the work on the drop ceiling
Practicing their prom pose!


Friday was very, very, very busy. Our photographer, Cassie and her assistant Tina flew in and Cassie whisked Tabitha & Josh off for a photo shoot. I caught a few sneaks on Cassie's computer and they were awesome! Vicki and I took Tina to Homestead to check-in and had to wait for 45 minutes for the stupid room to be ready. I was NOT impressed with the staff. Lucky the rooms were very comfortable. But by this time poor Tina was ready to crash as they had been up since 3:00 am OKC time. Robert & Jessica's plane was delayed almost 2 hours. BIG hooray's to Tom for picking them up. Another one we couldn't have done without his help. Vicki and I did the final shopping at Costco picking up the sheet cakes, fruit & veggies. Many people stared at our carts and were very curious about what we were doing with all that food. And they were only seeing half of it!! And literally, every time we turned a corner we saw someone we knew. GO FIGURE!!

Saturday we woke up at (what we lovingly call) the "butt crack of dawn". And it was literally downpouring rain. But we were okay with that!! Really, I just didn't want it to snow! We were prepared for the rain. I had about 5 umbrella's - 2 golf size. So BRING IT ON!!! But by the time we got out of the temple the rain had stopped and it was the most beautiful NW WA sky with big white puffy clouds and blue sky. But it was windy and cold so the "Belle" cape we rented from Ashley (Celeste's daughter) really came in handy and well as looking so beautiful. See the post above for the slide show of some shots that Kim took for us.

The happy couple were at the temple for pictures and video a lot longer than we had planned but, hey, that's okay. Really, we wanted them to get as many shots as they wanted. Cassie and David worked wonderful together and we can't wait to see the proofs of the photos as well as David's video. As soon as their work is posted on their websites I will let you know. Here are a few more that Cassie sent me.




We were only about 45 minutes late to the wedding family dinner. We ate at Pastazza in their private banquet room and it was PERFECT!!! A great time to just relax and be with people we love. And of course get in a little of Lizzie holding time while Jessica & Robert ate wasn't bad either.

Tina & Cassie relaxing a little.

Lynette, Vicki & Seth

Grandma & Grandpa Frick (Josh's grandparents), Amber & Chris (Josh's brother)
Leslie, Sarah (Josh's sister), Brittany (Josh's cousin) & Jim (Father of the groom)

And off to the reception!!! Arriving right on time at 7:00 pm. I did want to get their a bit earlier but I KNEW I had the best people heping get everything set up and ready to go. I made my heart swell with love as I walked in as saw so many of my friends pitching in and doing what was needed to have things just right. The reception went PERFECT!!! We had the LHS Jazz band for our entertainment.

Amber plays the piano in the band
and she got to WOW her big brother (she followed in his footsteps with an Anderson on the piano) with her playing. Robert also took a turn "tickling the ivories" with "his" song ~ Cleveland Rocks (from the Drew Carry show). If you've ever seen Robert play this song, you KNOW why it's "his" song. His piano runs and the reach of his hands on this piece are AMAZING!!! And it was such a little thing but it meant the world to Tabitha for him to play it.

Then there were the tradition dances:

Bride & Groom ~ ALL for Love by Bryant Adams
Bride & Daddy ~ I'll Always Love You by Whitney Houston
Bride & Brothers ~ Thank You for Loving Me by Bon Jovi

Oh boy, were the tears flowing!!! What was the best though was during the brothers song. Josh was just getting ready to cut in on Robert and Mr. David just ducked right underneath Josh's arm and literally slid right in between and got Tabitha! It was just too funny. But then the emotion of it all hit David. He literally started sobbing while dancing with Tabitha. It was just pulling on those heart strings. You could easily tell how much David LOVES his sister. Cassie even got a few shots that I hope came out. But I have that photo etched in my mind FOREVER!

We got the bride & groom off at about 9:30 or so. And then the clean-up begins. We had some small problems with not having enough space for people and stuff but had WONDERFUL help in Mary Hancock, Christian (the best man) & Lynette. And we got home around 11ish with a living room overflowing!!! And sweet little Lizzie did pretty good with all the people.

Sunday Tab & Josh & his family came over for food and watching them open their gifts.





Lizzie had a bit of a hard time that day but Rob & I just took turns loving her and taking her away from the crowds.

And David even got some belly laughs out of her. But I'll save those pictures for another post later. Lizzie's so cute in these that she needs her own post :O)

12 Days since the wedding!

Well, the last wedding guest left on Monday (my brother) and now we've really started heading down the "let's crash & burn" hill. Our living room is STILL filled with wedding stuff that I'm slowly getting into boxes to store in the attic. Yes! Call when you need tulle (blue & silver), vases/hurricane globes, or all things wedding.

Anyway, I just got back from here! Thanks to Tabitha for my gift. Boy, I'm one very relaxed, happy momma right now.

Give me a few more days and I'll blog about the wedding. But if you want to see a few sneak peeks go see our awesome photographer put up on her blog. I'm going to go broke buying pictures!!! Here's a teaser photo taken by "Auntie Kim".