and we're off...

we're all packed up in a budget truck and we're headed south to our new home...which i haven't even seen yet (yikes!). internet access may be scarce for a while..see you on the other side.

i do shoes

happy birthday, bevie!!!

we miss you and love you and are so sorry we are so far away...five more days and you'll be wishing we were far away again ;)

and something fun for the rest of you, here's stevie bevie at age 3 (26 years ago).





isn't he the cutest?

nose-picker

jack

have

i'm already failing at the picture-a-day thing. but i have a really good excuse-my parents have been here. they stayed after the wedding junk was over to help me with the kids, since i had four different appointments on three different days in salt lake (reminder: i don't live there any more so it's now a commute). one of those little appointments came with some really great news. it was my six-month tysabri follow-up. i had MRIs and labwork done two weeks ago in preparation for this follow-up visit. i wasn't expecting much; when i first started on tysabri the doctor told me that it's not that common to see lesion reduction, especially not until after at least a year of treatment. and lots of people never see any reduction (for those people tysabri just stops progression of the disease). well, i have had "a significant reduction of lesions" and have "no active lesions." i'm actually getting a little better!!! and i feel a million times better. let's just say monday was a great day. so great, in fact, that i decided to celebrate with a chick-fil-A sandwich + honey mustard dressing. the chicken wasn't worth it, but man, that dressing...

emmy + nate {open house}

emmy's open house was on saturday. i'm still recovering from all the hard work. i think it turned out pretty fabulous, but i was so tired by the time it happened that i was pretty lazy about the picture-taking.

details:

• nate & em made homemade ice cream (pistachio, mango & vanilla) 
• chocolate-dipped waffle + sugar cones with sprinkles, nuts & rainbow chips 
• key lime + cheesecake filled cupcakes, 
• chocolate dipped cookies 
• lemon + cucumber flavored waters. 
• twinkle lights + tissue pom garlands + japanese lanterns 
• an intimate dance party at the very end.

now they're back in arizona doing the newly-wed thing, apparently still in love ;) and we're returning all the crap we didn't use + getting ready for the final phase of our move to las vegas in two weeks (where we'll reunite with bevie). i can't wait to be with just my little family and have nothing to do but be together...

brother + sister

a few notes:

• they are so* related.
• nash is swimming! this is a big deal. something that warrants its own post (coming soon).
• i love these two.

*use of the word "so" dedicated to my dad. 

and tonight we party

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one-a-day

for the rest of august i'm going to take a cue from sheena and post one picture a day. we'll see if i can handle it, but for today...this is (one-third of) what keeps me going:

mr. funny-groom

just editing photos and came across this one...he thought he was pretty funny. okay, we all did. for some reason the pigeon-toe thing just isn't cute on dudes.