Oquirrh Mountain Wedding

Brett's oldest nephew, Alex married this darling girl, Laura this weekend in the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple. We were lucky enough to go down and be a part of their special day! Brett and I got to attend the ceremony. What great examples they are to our kids. We just love them!!!
Here's some of the Seamons clan waiting for them to come out of the Temple:

Look how happy they are!

I love this shot of them pinning Lori & Lou with flowers. So sweet!

I got a few pictures of the Rasmussen siblings (missing Jake since he is serving his Mission)

Here's a few shots I managed to get of the Wedding Party. Gorgeous people!

I also took a few photos of others at the Temple. Justice kept photo bombing us! Silly boy! Shauna brought her Hulio to meet the family. (His name is not Hulio but that's what we call him. LOL)

One cute side note: 

Zach has grown up so fast! I remember him just a little boy when I first met Brett. Wow! How time flies! In 1998, we were at the Arizona Temple with the Rasmussens. Zach insisted on being in a picture with Brett and me. I even have it on the side of the blog cuz it's so cute! So when Zach was with us today, I made him get a photo with us! Holy Moly! Look how this boy has grown. One good lookin' guy!

After the Temple, we had an amazing luncheon at a Church by their house. Seriously!!!... Lori came up with this cute "Box Lunch" idea. It was AWESOME!!! We ate and then helped set up for the reception.

They had an afternoon Reception. Brett's sisters pretty much did everything for it. They are so talented. Cheri and Shauna did the flower arrangements and the dessert table. Shauna and Jill did the Wedding cake. Lori did the rest of the decorations for the walls and the tables. Char, Janet, and Jill (maybe others) made mini cheesecake cupcakes. [I excuse myself if I missed anyone or anything} It was so impressive!

Another sidenote: 

A couple of Brett's aunts and Uncles were at the reception- Aunt Cheri & Uncle Brent and Uncle Don & Aunt Melissa. We got a chance to catch up with them. We probably haven't seen them for 9 years. Aunt Cheri, Melissa and I decided we are now best friends. LOL Mostly because they are into family history and they love my blog and blog book idea. I told them to come visit in Helena and I would teach them how I do it. ;)

Towards the end of the reception, Brett took a bunch of people out to buy things to decorate their car. Pretty funny!

Good Luck, Alex and Laura. We love you!!!!

What a great day to spend with family!

After the newlyweds left, we stayed with the rest of the family to clean up, fly kites and do a bit of dancing. Fun times! ;)

Summer Fun to Treasure

We've been enjoying our Summer sleeping in and doing things in our Treasure Box.
The kids did face painting one day.

Played Color Tag in the backyard with neighborhood kids

Picked Flowers:

Attending the Summer Movie Club House at the Theater. We get to get out and go to the movies every Tuesday morning. One day we stopped for lunch at the Creperie. The kids also love to climb on the rocks.

Made home-made Fudgesicles:

Borrowing the idea from Shelley (thanks lady! You're such a fun Mom)- we watch a movie on Mondays and then do something that reminds us of the movie during the week. One time, we watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Then we made Tacodile Supreme for dinner.

And just being silly Armless Monsters:

Gotta Treasure the Summer while it lasts!

A Can of Paint

I've gotten a little carried away lately and a can of paint/stain has been my best friend. Here's a few of my projects I have been working on.
We have this outdoor storage bench that has been pretty beat up.

Well, I added a little primer:

And a special textured stone paint that I found. It is amazing!

 Here's the little bench that goes with it.

Remember our Eagle we got for Brett's birthday a couple years ago? Well it needs to be better protected with a coat of spar varnish. And we wanted it to look more like a Bald Eagle so I did a little stain magic. Wallah! We are in love with it!!!

 

I also went over one day to help a friend paint part of her house. They are changing it from blue with white trim to red with grey trim. Man! I love to paint!!!

I still need to redo my seats for my new kitchen bar but haven't got around to it yet.

Holy Crêpe

Liberty took a Foods Class at school this last semester. It has made her quite the cook. She made us some pretty awesome crêpes tonight for dessert. We laughed because a few of them would end up being hole-y. We kept laughing and saying "Holy Crêpe!" We're sooo funny!

Mangum Grad Party

It's funny how different communities celebrate things so distinctly. 

Growing up in UT, high school graduation parties were thrown by the High School as an all night party at the local fitness center. You sent off announcements and if people felt inclined they'd send you a gift. 

In Fargo, it was a different ball game. Graduation parties were crazy! Huge receptions with dinner or treats, photo displays, possible speeches, dressed fancy graduates and everyone brought a gift. It was completely like a wedding reception. Insane! But everyone did them!

Here in Helena (at least in our ward), the Mangums throw a party for all the graduates. They let people hang out in their backyard, visiting and playing volleyball and serve their famous Peach Cobbler as well as other Dutch Oven yumminess. Delicious! It was rainy but a lot of fun!

Seamons SuperHeros of America

We got our Seamons Family Captain America shirts done today. They are AWESOME!!! 
We decided to do a little family photo shoot so that we can frame a picture of us for another Father's Day gift for Brett. We took everyone out to our property to take pictures. It was crazy muddy but we had a lot of fun!
Here's some of our favorites:

And I had a bit of fun in my Scrapbook Program.

Our American Captain's Day

Brett is the BESTest Dad and Hubby anyone would ask for. We are so lucky to have him in our lives.

At Church, the RS Presidency got to serve the Priesthood men beignet {to quote Brother Snoddy- "They're a donut without a hole"}, home-made cinnamon rolls (a BIG momentous occasion for Shay NOT making hockey-puck rolls. LOL), juice and chocolate milk. It was very sweet to serve the awesome men in our Ward family.
In Primary, the kids made a special treat for him as well. He shared the chocolate with them and they thought that was awesome!

Back at home, we made him fresh salsa and ate leftover rolls.

For gifts, we like to spoil him. But it's not that he's hard to shop for. If it is red, white or blue- it's perfect! ;) We made her gift certificates, got him some Captain America attire and ordered him a RED natural gas BBQ. Oh yes- and some mini Cadbury eggs we had saved for him.

We also made him a delicious rib dinner which we never took a picture of BUT it was GOOOOD! For dessert, we had cheesecake with cherry and blueberries on top. One happy man, he was!

Love you, Honey! You're the most wonderful man I know!

Sage's KickBall Party

Today Sage turned ONE! We were lucky enough to spend some time celebrating with her and her family. We all adore her!

Happy 
Birthday 
Sage!

The last month, the Andersons have been putting in their fence and their grass. Brett and Justice have been out there helping a bit but it was fun too see it all done! Brian spray painted the lawn so that everyone could play kickball. So fun! It had been raining off and on all day so they had to move the party into the garage. But it stopped long enough to enjoy a game. 

The good-lookin' "CHEER" team:

Opening Presents:

SSA Kid Day

Every year our Family celebrates KID DAY. It's a made-up Holiday for our kids that let's us celebrate them like you would for Mother's or Father's Day. Special meals, gifts, love notes, appreciation- that kind of stuff! Several years back, we decided to celebrate on Flag Day- that way it's the same day each each. It seemed appropriate for our patriotic named children and also gives us an excuse to put up the flag in their honor. ;)
This year, Mom got a little carried away. But it turned out way fun!
Brett got up and made them a big delicious breakfast. Yum!:

Usually we just do a gift certificate to Walmart but this year, I went all out and created SPY KITS for everyone. I totally got out of control but they are freakin' awesome! They kids have seen me putting them together and they couldn't wait to get them.

Each kit got a "briefcase" [art bin painted black] to hold all their stuff. Inside I included:
* World passport that looks real
* SSA ID Badge {Seamons Spy Agency]
* Official Detective flip badge
* Top Secret Notebook with pen
* Lipstick tazer
* Flashlight/ Laser Pointer with bungee bracelet
* Binoculars with compass and mirror
* Several Mustaches for disguise
* Dark sunglasses
* A cell phone/ calculator
* Black Flashlight
* Magnifying glass
* Lifting tape for fingerprints
* Speciman swabs
* Gloves
* Rope
* Elastic bands
* Light gun
* Invisible ink pen
* Yellow Caution Tape

We also are in love with Ty-Dying. So we did a little combined Kid Day/ Father Day activity. Our Captain America shirts are going to be amazing!!!

P.S. The kids all pitched in and bought this locking box to keep their communal Spy equipment. It's awesome!
{I had bought several things that they could share as well as their individual kits.



Things like:
* Stealth Walkie Talkies
* Spy Door Alarm
* Laser Defense Network
* Dissolving Spy Paper
* Lock Pick Kit [Just a small screwdriver kit with some bobby pins]
* Real Handcuffs
* black phone holder
* Voice Scrambler
* Spy Science Book with fun ideas
* Color Code Message kit
* Criminal Profiling Kit
* Fingerprinting kit
* TOP SECRET stamp
* extra disguise
* and an amazing spy computer I made. Oh yeah- I'm awesome! ;)

For Security: On the outside of the briefcase

 The Inside of the computer: