Family Pictures

Andy and Annie were in town the weekend of Graduation, April 25, so we decided to take advantage and get some family pictures. They turned out just as wonderful as last time even though it was so much colder than it looks. Also lets all give a giant round of applause for Julie who willingly took family pictures even though she was 7 months pregnant. That is one confident woman. And yes, she looks that beautiful in real life too.

 

All I can say is that I married into a beautiful family with some of the most cheerful people I have ever met. They make everything so much fun. I have been so blessed to have been able to live by them for so many years. I feel as comfortable around the Wings as I do my own family. I am so lucky that I found the them.

Park City

The week after graduation, Ethan and I left Kelsey with Gramma and headed to Park City for a mini vacation with our friends. We have made some amazing friends in the program and are all moving away to different parts of the country soon so we wanted to do one last hoorah before everyone left.
We left Monday afternoon on April 27th and got back Wednesday morning on the 29th.Everyone from the "click" was invited : the Apkers, Ablemans, Palmers, Berretts, Morrises, Salmons, and Wings. Because no one brought their kids (except baby Madison and baby Blythe) we were able to play and play and play. We did lots as a group but lots by ourselves too. It was so relaxed.
We slept in, went running, had a tournament of champions on the air, pool, and ping pong tables, watched movies, went shopping, played tons of games, and of course ate tons of food.
The trip was definitely worth it and completely exceeded my expectations.

We all took a turn with a meal and the night the Berretts cooked was so much fun! It was called raclett cooking. As a group we put meats and veggies on top of a skillet type pan, melted cheeses and eggs on little dishes under the skillet, and then passed around potatoes to eat. Once it was all cooked, you took things off the top and out of the trays, mixed it all together and enjoyed.

Payson Temple

At the beginning of May we were able to go to the Payson Temple open house. We didn't have tickets but were able to get in the lines anyway. I have seen a lot of temples but I can honestly say that the Payson temple might be my favorite to date. It is GORGEOUS!!!! I have never seen such stunning architecture.

Kelsey hated putting the booties on like usual, but overall did pretty good. Something that was new to me was the presentation in the sealing room. Once you got to the sealing room, they had a couple explain the marriage ceremony. Kelsey is really into weddings and marriage lately so it was really special to show Kelsey where me and Ethan got married. On our way out of the sealing room, Kelsey knelt at the altar and exclaimed that it was so beautiful. I'm glad that we can have opportunities to show our kids the temples. I love the temple and hope that they will grow up to feel the same way too.

 

MBA Graduation

On April 24th Ethan graduated from BYU with his MBA and we are so proud of him. He put so much time into his school work, the internship hunt,  finding the right job, and I never once felt neglected. There were times that he was busier than others, but he worked so hard to be around me and the girls. I just can't believe that its over. I knew that it would go fast and it did. It went so so fast! We have had such an amazing experience with some lasting memories and friendships. Although I am ready for the next step in our adventure that we call life, I am really going to miss our school years. Graduation was a wonderful celebration filled with family, friends and great food. I am so proud of Ethan. He is such a great man and I just know that our family will always be in great hands. Congrats Ethan! You did it!!! 

Can we all acknowledge how high Ethan threw his cap?!

 These are the husbands of the "Craft" night girls group. A very good group of friends

Dallin Salmon, Drew Ableman, Brandon Lake, Mark Apker, Scott Barret, Joe Palmer, Jake Morris

These two might be Ethan's closest friends in the program: Jake Morris and Dallin Salmon

The day of actual graduation was really fun. We sat really high up and both girls fell asleep so we were able to actually enjoy the ceremony. I am really proud of Ethan and his accomplishments. He is so amazing. I just can't believe that its already been two years and that we are now done!

This graduation was super cool because Hannah, Andrea, and Jed also graduated. It was a big deal for the Wing family.

Snacks

As Kelsey gets closer to being a kid, we have worked really hard on snacking. If she's hungry we want her to eat, but we also want her to learn to eat and like better things. Lately I have seen my efforts pay off. This is rare so I took a pic.  Instead of asking for a fruit snack she asked and ATE two whole carrots! Although the picture is super blurry this is one of the prettiest pictures we have of Kelsey. I totally love it

Craft Night

We have been super fortunate to have an amazing support system while in school. We have some incredible friends that we will miss terribly. Every Monday the ladies get together and have a craft night and the gentlemen were starting to feel left out so they started having their own "craft" night. "Craft" night at our house included basketball games and McDonalds. We are really gong to miss these people.

Dallin Salmon, Scott Barrett, Jake Morris

Easter

Easter was super simple but really fun at our house. On Wednesday, MBASA put together an Easter egg hunt and we spent all our time iat the park with Ralphie obviously. 

On Friday we died Easter eggs and then on Saturday the real fun began. 

 Dying Easter eggs was like the best thing we have ever done with Kelsey. She was totally into it. We got some glitter eggs and she loved putting the glitter on after. But lets be honest she didn't even need the glitter. She colored and recolored the eggs so many times. It was a lot of fun.

We went up to Gramma Wings house and had a fabulous Easter egg hunt. I had to much fun and was so impressed with Diana's organization. She put toys in the eggs instead of candy, some of the eggs had tickets inside of them for bigger toys that were not egg sized, and then she color coded everyones eggs so it was completely fair. GENIUS! Kelsey had pink, Harper purple, and Holden basketball eggs.  It was such a wonderful weekend.

This year Easter and Conference shared the same weekend so there was a lot of this going on...

but there were also some really cute girls

Sunday morning we exchanged Easter baskets and like everything else that involved candy, it was a major hit.

Basically what I am trying to say is that it was a great weekend with lots of great food and even better company.

 

The only tragedy was that Kelsey fell down our stairs on the way to car right before we left for Bountiful. It actually was really bad and so sad to watch. She got her foot stuck in the rail and then hit two stairs with her face :( I almost cried. We were totally blessed thought because for as bad as it was we didn't need stitches and totally could have. Poor Smooch