Kyle's 14th Birthday Celebration

It has been such a day!

As we were getting ready for church, Gramma started feeling her defribillator going off, had chest pain, shortness of breath and was very confused.

She looked at me with pleading eyes to help her.

We called 911 and had the paramedics bring her to the hospital (even after having spent 6 hours in the ER on Wednesday only to be sent home on more antibiotics for her UTI).

This presented me with some difficult obstacles...Jonathan and I had temple recommend interviews with the Stake for mom and Jim's wedding on Saturday and we were having the family over to celebrate Kyle's upcoming 14th birthday tonight.

I proceeded to the hospital, and Krisi joined me there.

We stayed with Gramma as they ran tests on her and Krisi stayed with her until April and Tim showed up, so that I could make it to my temple recommend interview.

I returned to the hospital. They admitted Gramma for Urosepsis. I got her settled in and rushed home to join in the birthday celebration for Kyle.

I was so grateful to be able to be there for Kyle. It's so important to him.

Kyle always chooses Ice Cream Cake as his birthday cake. It was a big hit with the kids

Andy and Amy smooching on my couch.
It seems to be popular for smooching lately ;)

London

Brooklyn riding on Luke's back

Britain swinging

London swinging

Jenna swinging

Brooklyn and Kyle

Vivi getting tired and ready to snuggle with Aunt Maria

Mackay

Will Richter's Baptism

The Richter Family
Mike, Tiffany, Will and Madison

"Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, by one having authority, is a true principle, because Christ taught it; Christ obeyed it, and would not fail, for anything, to fulfil it—not that He was sinful and needed to be baptized for the remission of sins, but He only needed to do it to fulfill all righteousness, that is, to fulfil the law."

Will and Mike

Mike and Will in their whites

Baptism cake, Tiffany made for Will

Congratulations Will!

Krisi's Bridal Shower

We threw Krisi a bridal shower to celebrate her upcoming wedding to Sean Vadnais
This is Krisi's wedding party (minus 1)
Maria Simons, Mary Grycza, Melissa Vanderhorst, Shauna Newbold, Divya Shetty, Karen Grycza and Chrissy Batdorf

Krisi's seven peas in a pod

Besties!

God made us cousins, because He knew our moms couldn't handle us as sisters ;)

Mary Krisi and Karen

Krisi Shauna and Divya

Shauna made these flower pens and flower pots...they were really cute

We celebrate you!

Krisi, Aunt Cheri, Shauna and Divya

Krisi got lots of gifts from loved ones...I didn't include all of the pictures...you would've been here a while

It was super hot and we were slowly, but surely melting...but we still managed to laugh and have a good time

The groom!
Sean, Thanks for realizing what a fabulous woman Krisi is. May you two have many, many years of happiness and great memories

Mackay's 3rd Birthday Party

Today was Mackay's 3rd birthday, so we had a family celebration
The Cady's and Hodgkins eat Swedish Meatballs

Introducing...
Vivonne

London

Laura and Jeremy Hodgkins

Mackay

Sailor

Linda Cady

Addie

Britain

and Brooklyn

Mar and Grampa Cady holding Vivi and Mackay

Grampa and Vivi

Heaven help me if I ever get a picture of Jeremy where he is looking at me.
He likes to avoid me and the camera :D

Lovebirds

Mackay LOVES Parker

Mackay begins opening her gifts

Sam and Carly play

Dylan with his handy dandy notebook...what would he be without his writing and art materials?

Umbrella!

More gifts!

Gift from the Simons

Grampa and Mar gave Mackay her very own watermelon...
she loves watermelon and was so very excited!

Mackie loves elephants...so Tiffany made her an elephant cake.
She loved it!

Birthday girl...Happy Birthday Mackie!

♫♪Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you ♪♫

♫♪Happy Birthday dear Mackay, Happy Birthday to you ♪♫

May all of your wishes come true

Sidenote: After we finished with the birthday festivities, the kids headed outside to play. Dylan was showing some of his fight moves to Addie and Parker...when Nicholas walked up behind him and got elbowed right in the eye. Nicholas is now sporting a black eye. Dylan felt horrible!