Super late post about this past Christmas but oh what a Christmas! Lately I have been seeing over and over how sometimes you just got to go with the flow and expect the unexpected. Our Christmas plans were turned upside down this year when my little sister decided to get married with a one week notice (she was getting married in April so insane but not so insane). Everyone freaked out for 24 hours but then shifted to supportive family mode and started planning a memorable wedding for them. The first thing my awesome family did was buy plane tickets for my little family to fly back to Utah. Sadly, Stephen could not come. He barely started his job two weeks ago and is working pretty intensely at training. After crying all night and almost canceling my flight because I couldn't bare leaving him alone, he convinced me to go and dropped us off at St Louis and back to Utah we went. And what a trip it was. I feel like we packed a months worth of activities into one week. We would wake up early in the morning and go nonstop until late at night. We all had our doubts about the sudden wedding, but they were all erased by just looking at Raquel on her wedding day. She had that bride to be glow that made her look even more beautiful and precious than she already is. My little sister is one of the most humble sincere people I know and I am privileged to call her my sister.
After playing the -I'm a mom by herself with a toddler who hates plane rides please give me the best seat possible- card, I got to sit on the front row with the A list members. I had this huge space in front of me were Isabella could play which gave me some free time so naturally I eavesdropped on the conversation of the two guys next to me. One of them was obviously very wealthy. He was so charming and intelligent he could have been running for congress for all I knew, lets name him rich guy. The other one was an older version of Stephen. Basketball shorts, Nikes and baseball cap, lets name him buff guy. I never imagined this two being able to talk so much but somehow they managed to talk about nuclear physics, molecular biology, why gas prices are so low right now, what type of car to use for a certain type of gas, and video games. At one point they started talking about money and rich guy went of about investing in the stock market and how to make tons of money and all the stuff you can buy and buff guy went really quiet. By now I liked buff guy better but here's were he takes the cake. He looks up and tells rich guy, "I don't know much but I've learned in life that no matter how much money you have, if you don't have friends and family you don't have crap" I almost high fived him but I wasn't supposed to be listening so.....well the sad thing is rich guy went all quiet and I felt bad for him. I don't know for sure but I imagine there are family relationships he wished he had or could fix. The reason I told this story is because it explains exactly why I made this trip. I hated hated leaving Stephen behind but we will have many Christmas seasons together but Raquel will only have one wedding and I wanted to be there for her and the rest of my family. For this next year I want to discard all the worthless things in my life and focus on what matters most and to me that is family. ALL my family.
I cannot believed how much my little tyke has grown! She went from being a cute little baldy baby to a gorgeous blonde kid in just one year!
Wedding day reminded me of Seattle. Rainy and cloudy which to me is kind of romantic.
This picture describes Isabella's relationship with Raquel's new dog perfectly. By the end of
the trip she new how to say Dexter and skypes with him atleast once a week.
We threw Raquel a pretty cool bridal shower. This pic is from the after party when everone had left and we just wanted to keep dancing and use the stuff again but I just love it because it shows how much fun my mom and sisters are (Paola is technically my cousin but she is like my sister).
Such a sweet post. Family truly. Is the best. And you have such a cute family
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