Ashley and Ian's Wedding

Ashley Weller and Ian Brown were married in the Mount Timponogos Temple on March 16th, 2010.

Here's the newly weds arriving a bit late to their reception and running to catch the elevator to the six floor where their guests were waiting to congratulate them.

Mr. and Mrs. Ian Brown exchanging rings.

Proud parents, Dawn and Steve

It must have been a bit bittersweet to see their youngest (and last child) married!

The Weller Family

Dustin and Terra

Addie and Eden

The party was just getting started...

Six month old baby Tristen

The McFarland kids are starting to loosen up...look out!

Carson throwing rose petals on the dance floor.

Why does she always end up on the floor in her beautiful dresses???

Proud Aunt Cidny with her beautiful neice and bride, Ashley, and daughter Eden.

Flower girl Addison

Carson hooked up with this darling flower girl, Ian's neice. He walked straight up to her introduced himself, "Hi, I'm Carson", and they were together for the rest of the night.  Yup, six year old Carson's got game!  At the end of the night, he gave her a flower that he had found.  Way to work it, Carson!

When asked why he didn't go after the older sister, Quinton replied, "I like Asian chicks, Dad."

Eden loved the wedding cake, we could hardly get it away from her so that we could leave.

It was a beautiful wedding and we thoroughly enjoyed spending the night celebrating with Ashley, Ian and all of our family.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Brown!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

They're all dressed up in green for St. Paddy's Day!

Eden Goes to Disney On Ice

Eden and I went to Disney on Ice with my best friend Toni, her daughter Chatni and her grand kids.  It was my first experience taking a little "girl" to Disney on Ice. What an event it was!  Eden dressed up like the little princess that she is and we had a ball!

Here she is with her foam curlers this morning preparing for the event.

Cheeze!

Princess Eden in her Cinderella gown!

When we arrived, Eden got to see the real Cinderella!

We also got to see the new princess from Princess and the Frog.

Many of the princess ball gowns were on display.  Here's the Little Mermaid's gown.

Eden was darling and so good.  We've been talking about it for a month and she kept telling everyone that she was going to Disneyland to see Mickey Mouse. She held my hand the whole time we walked around before the show and took it all in. I bought her a light up princess wand and some cotton candy.  But, she was too amazed to eat the cotton candy until intermission.  In fact, she fell asleep during the Cars segment and rejoined the fun during intermission.

Mickey Mouse was her favorite!  Throughout the whole event she just kept asking when she would see him again.

Here's Kylee, Toni, Alissa and Aspen during the show.

Eden watching Mickey Mouse!

After the show, we got a few pictures of all the kids together.

These girls were all about "posing".  Eden will have to learn from them :-).

Here's the beautiful princess that I brought home.

Love you Eden Belle!!!

Mom's Birthday

Yes, those birthdays just seem to keep on coming, even though I would prefer forgetting them.  As in our family tradition, we went to Bonsai Steakhouse for my birthday dinner.  Eden had not been able to get her nap earlier because grandma was visiting and she's not going to miss a thing!  She had also been talking about Bonsia and the "bolcano" all day, but once we arrived she promptly fell asleep.

However, once the chef started the grill with fire, Eden decided to wake up for the party!

Eden's really getting good with chop sticks!  Even Quinton and Carson can't use them quite this well.

Quinton can, however, catch a flying shrimp every time!

Carson won't even try to catch them, because he thinks that he doesn't likes shrimp.  Silly boy!

He did join right in to bang the birthday gong for his mom!

It really was a fun evening...even if it meant that I was getting older!

Thank you, Jon, for always making my birthday special.  I love my new purse and the spring flowers.

Thank you, mom (grandma Margaret), for driving to Logan to get me that Utah State hoodie.  Its just what I wanted.  We love you for always coming to Salt Lake to celebrate our birthday's.

Thank you, Quinton and Carson, for playing along with adjusting my age and for the hand made cards.

I'm so blessed to have such a great family! 

Jon's Long Lost Cousin Cheryl

Jon received an email from a Cheryl Shinn, a McFarland cousin from Boise, in late Feburary.  She and her boyfriend Steve were coming to Salt Lake City to see a concert in March and wanted to see Jon and Jeanie.  They stayed at our house and had a small family reunion with Jon and Jeanie. 

One of the best surprises were these old photos of Cheryl's that she brought to share.  Taken in May 1973, here's a photo of 17 year old Jonnie McFarland with Aunt Virginia, Aunt Helen, his stepfather Milt and his mom, Mary (on the far right).

And yes, its a Gremlin!!!!

Sweet ride, Jonnie Boy!!!

It's a Snow Day!

We haven't had a lot of snow this winter.  So the kids really have to make those rare snow days count.  How darling is our Carson?

They buried Quinton!  When I touched is face, I could not believe how cold he felt. Brrrr!

Hurray for Snow!!!

Eden's Preschool Valentine Party

Eden at her Preschool Valentine Party. 

I loved how so many of the girls came to school dressed in Valentine outfits.  Its a good thing I had Eden dressed up!!!

They shared a delicious snack of Oreos and milk prepared by Miss Cidny.

Eden, Mia and Sylvi with their Valentine bags.

Eden with her friend Cameron Boozer.

It was a really fun way to celebrate Valentines Day!  Hurray for Miss Sharon's preschool!