Nik & Emma

We celebrated with the Hibbert family today another wedding. This time it was Jerusha's daughter Emma. Jerusha's family after the ceremony - 

First Hibbert wedding was Kelsey & Jared, then Xela & Trevor, then our two boys Ethan & Bella and Joseph & Eliza. Nik and Emma are high school sweethearts and have been together for 10+ years, so their families were excited that this day finally came, as evidenced by this sign as we came into the parking lot, haha. 

Our kids were excited because this was the first wedding where they would actually see the ceremony. Waiting at the Heritage Garden's grounds - 

Ethan, Bella and Alvin came. Mel and Lily sitting by them - 

As we waited, Beka and Matt joined with the other attendants giving Alvin the royal treatment he deserves. Haha, I loved this pic! That's just how it should be.

He's a cutie!! I got a chance to hold him after we were inside and Corey got this pic of me showing him off to Ashton, who is the cousin closest in age to Ethan. "This is Ethan's baby!" 

They were good cousin buddies when they were growing up. The Heritage Gardens were lovely! The girls were all excited thinking about this being a place where they could have their reception...

The greenery and lights made for very aesthetic photos. And cause no family outing is complete without kids taking my phone for selfies. 

The ceremony was at 2, and the wedding celebration was from 4-9. After the ceremony, we hung out and had a grab and go lunch, and tried to keep the kids kind of away from the candy bar. Didn't have too much luck with that. They got their fill of sour patch candies, swedish fish, air heads, nerds gummy clusters, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, hershey's kisses, and Utah truffles (toffee, mint, and dark chocolate, mmm). We played some cornhole with Neil, who we found out was the ship corn hole champ on a cruise they went on recently! Wow, go Neil!

Katharine was sad when we told her not to touch the bean bags. This photo doesn't capture it, but from my angle across the grass from her, the little frown she was making looked just like Beaker. 

We chuckled a bit at her, which she didn't like. We finished that round and then let her have the bean bags. A taco truck came to serve everyone dinner. There was a bit of a line waiting for tacos, so Lily took a dessert plate and served herself up rice and beans, which you didn't have to wait for in the line outside. Corey followed her lead, and learned that the red sauce was VERY hot. 

Corey gave Christian the Monkey and coconut problem to try and solve as they waited for tacos. Writing out the numbers on a white paper fan.

Corey let Mel know that he's struggling to find any faults in Christian. I avoided going out until Peter was feeling left out, so when we went to place our order. We stood by Natalie, who was #42. We were #60. There was a table of desserts that kept people fed, no one starved. Chocolate chip cookies, grapefruit mint cake, chocolate cakes and dutch apple pies. Tasty. Then dancing started. Most of the songs were ones we don't know, but we did request Dynamite and That's What Makes You Beautiful, so we got those two in. Other than that, we were just goofing off. Mel and I danced with Katharine by trying to follow her actions. That was fun. Outside people were playing spikeball 

and visiting.

We stayed until the 9pm send off of Nik and Emma. I think Corey found out that they are taking a honeymoon off in the mountains of Montana. Fun. They make a handsome couple and we wish them the best on this new beginning of married life!