Joe and Jessica get married.....

So on October 23, 2011 my baby brother Joe married his soul mate Jessica. It was a great day.  Here is a photo run down of the event...(I forgot my camera so I borrowed pictures from my family, Thanks guys)

The day before they had a rehearsal and Angel caught this picture of Joe having a beer with my parents.  I so love this and Joe looks just like my dad....minus the tattoos and piercings ;)

Here is Joe on his big day, he cleans up rather nicely doesn't he? 

Here we are the oldest and the youngest of the siblings... 

My other brother Charles and I..my bothers are so handsome! 

And speaking of handsome, check out my grandson Jax! 

Here is Joe and my mom... 

The cake...topped with a Zombie bride dragging the groom. 

They had cupcakes topped with coconut and hazelnut,

with your choice of brain, skull or knife...

Here are the cutest and craziest kids ever passing time until the wedding starts.

Cambria, Gunner, Braxton and Trevon 

Angel took this of  us all waiting for it to begin.. 

Mom and Joe coming down the aisle with Dad right behind them.. 

Mom and Joe.. 

Father and Son....

The beautiful bride.. 

Joe giving his vows... 

Jessica's vows... 

Sealed with a kiss! 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Williams!

I have never seen my brother look so happy, and yes, I cried.... 

Their new daughter-in-law... 

Look at the smile on my brother's face!

The cake was cut with a machete (what else?!) 

It was a beautiful fall day and everything went without a hitch.  They served chicken salad croissants, with fruit and carrots and celery and of course the cupcakes.  The yard and everything was decorated with a Halloween/Zombie theme including fresh graves with bones sticking out.   Everyone received a little goody bag for coming.  In it was a skull sucker, an eyeball ring, an eyeball bottle of bubbles, Halloween stickers, and some candy.

The people watching was awesome (I'm sure Joe and Jessica's friend thought the same thing of us).  The best was when The Joker walked in.... 

Gunner is a HUGE Batman fan so on the way home I was asking him about the Joker and why didn't Batman come.  His reply was: "Dramma, that wasn't the real Joker."  I asked him how did he know that.  He replied: "The Joker doesn't wear shoes like that and the Joker doesn't wear glasses."  Of all the things his shoes were the LAST thing that I even thought of looking at, but that's Gunner for you.

The Ogden River Project......

Ogden has taken on the task of rejuvenating the Ogden River area.  They are cleaning up and landscaping along the banks, putting in trails and parks all along the river.  It is going to be really nice when they are done. 

Last Friday was a volunteer day on the River.  Everyone came out to help weed, and plant and do their part to help the project along.  Since our store has a section of the river right out our back door we joined in.

The day was cold and rainy but that didn't stop us from working and having fun in the process.  We just bundled up and headed out.

Our first task was to pull weeds.  Jeanell and I were wondering how we could get the volunteers to come to our houses, because we have lost of weeds to pull too.  The rain made this job pretty easy.  The down side, the creepy crawlies that we happen upon while pulling said weeds.  There was one spider that Jeremy found that's body was as big around as a quarter.  I quickly moved from that area and found a different place to pull weeds.

We were shown what plants we were NOT suppose to pull.  One of them was mint and Josh our store manager said that if we weren't sure whether or not to pull it that we should bend over and smell it.  If it smelled like mint, leave it.  If it spelled like dog s--t, pull it.  That's why he is the boss......

After we got all the weeds pulled along our section we got to plant some trees and bushes that they had so kindly placed  in the spots they were meant to be planted.  Now one thing you should know about the soil in northern Utah is that it is very rocky.  We are not talking about little rocks but big rocks and you tend to hit one each time you push the shovel into the ground.  So digging holes is very labor intensive. 

I was working with Dave and he had dug quite a few holes so I told him to let me dig a few.  Well he was more than happy to give me the shovel (which I found out was broken, it was a wonder he could dig any holes with it).  While I was fighting with yet another rock, Dave thought it would be funny to start throwing rocks back into the hole I was trying to dig.  Dave was the only one who thought that was funny......

After all the projects for our area were complete we all headed back to the store.  Our shoes were so caked with mud and we were trying to scrape it off any way we could.  We ended up washing them in the maintenance sink. 

Then our store was providing sandwiches, chips and drinks for all the volunteers.  So we drove up to where that was happening to have some lunch.  They had all kinds of booths about the river and the things you could do on it.  They even had kayaks and were letting people go down the river in them.

Here is a picture of our little volunteer group..

Front: Erin (ICS) Neil (Pets, Paper & Chem) Paul (Asst. mgr) Josh (store mgr)
Back: Val (Frozen/Dairy) Jammie (HBA/Cosmetics) Jeremy (OTC) Regina (Assist. mgr) Me, Dave (bike builder/assembler) Jeanell (personnel) Sarah (ZMS)

When it is all done the Ogden River will be a beautiful place to be.  It will be fun to watch it evolve.

So here it is....October....I really need to be a better blogger.

I have a new way to waste time website that Leslie introduced me too.  It is called Pinterest.

It is just  a website that you can browse and it has recipes, quotes, decorating ideas, craft ideas, and it just goes on and on.  Then you can create boards to "repin" your favorites to so you can access them easily. You can even follow what your friends are "repinning" and they can follow your "repins".  It is amazing as to how much time I can waste spend on this website.

So here is a sample of what I found on Pinterest and for lack of anything better to blog about, I'll just share this.....


And there you have it....food for thought.