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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Reunion and Wedding

Ok I am finally finding time to blog about my trip home. I had alot of fun at my family reunion and the wedding. Here are some pics.




Here are pics of the Nielsen Family Reunion. I haven't been able to go for the last few years and it was great to see every one. We went on a hike, had a pot luck, visited. I also played in a horse shoe tournament and me and my dad's cousin's son's wife (no joke), Daisy won the girls tournament.


top left: Robby, Heather, and Lana

top right: Playing in the river

lower left: Mom and Grandma Bates

lower right: Mom and Heather trying to get a signal up in the mountains.... yeah right.






Because the wedding was late on Saturday we had a wedding dinner on friday night. It was at a park in Fruit Heights. It was really windy and we had a hard time setting everything up. But everyone we invited came. It was fun and casual. There was toys for the kids and Robby's sister and brother in law own a sno shack so they brought the machine and made snowies for everyone. I was so excited because in Cali they don't have the little sno shacks/snowie stands on the side of the road like they do in Utah.


They got married on August 16 in the Bountiful temple. Here are some pics of the temple. The ceremony was good and she looked beautiful.

top left - Heather/Rob w/parents and grandparents

top right - Heather and Kaiden

middle left - Dad and grandma and grandpa Bates

middle right - The whole fam

bottom left - Heather and Robby

bottom right - me with my sisters






The reception was held in an awesome backyard of someone Robby's family knows. It was beautiful. If you can't tell her colors were bright pink and black and white polka dots. I don't even like the color pink and I really liked it. The yard has bridges, ponds, fun toys for the kids. There was a continous stream of people coming all night long. Here are some pics