I am married to a famous guy.....

So about 4 years ago, my brother in law, Marshall, was doing some extra work for movies being made around Salt Lake. The needed some more extras one day and he asked Nate to tag along with him. He came home and told us what the movie was and who was in it-so we waited and waited for it to come out. It was a very long wait. Then, the movie, isn't all that great----but----you can definitely see Nate in it. We got the DVD in the mail yesterday and had to go slomo through a few sequences to pick him and Marshall out, but they are there and it is pretty funny to see. I could tell Nate was excited to finally see the final fruits of that one day of unpaid standing around. It was pretty great. Then I realized, he is also in this book:

The photographers came to Russia while he was there in the early 90's and he managed to be in a few shots as well. Then he reminded me of the time his band's music made it on to Farmclub-a TV show in the late 90's. And then I reminded him of the short film he was in a few years ago that won an award at a local film fest-not a famous one, just a local one. I've been giving him a pretty hard time of it all since these things are all strange coincidence. But I am also sure I better get some autographed photos ready to send out! Love you Nate!

Congrats Tim and Vanella!

Nate's youngest sister got married yesterday! The wedding was beautiful and everyone had a really great day. We started in the morning at the temple, went to a Chinese restaurant for the luncheon, took naps in the afternoon, then decorated and had the open house in the evening. The kids were good all day. Sophie tolerated having no good naps all day pretty well. And we all were at the point of lovely exhaustion when we got home. The above is a picture of the bride and groom with the nieces and nephews on our side. There are seven more that were sorely missed.

The wedding was really refreshing after everyone being sick for the past few weeks. I am finally starting to feel normal again, and I think Nate has dodged the sickness all together. Bella and Jack had a just a touch, but Soph and I were really yucky. She had the sticky eyes and the pathetic coughs. I had the sore throat, cough, headaches, and general yuckiness as well. We are so grateful to be on the mend!

The wedding colors were blue and yellow, so Alice and I did lemon filled centerpieces. This has left me with about 15 pounds of lemons, so send me your fresh lemon recipes!

Microwave-can't seem to live without it...

So the day after we bought our van, our microwave stopped working. We were not at all surprised, usually when we get something new, something old dies, and the microwave was almost 11. I took this opportunity to get the space saving over the range microwave. We went to H. Depot to buy all the stuff we would need to put an outlet in the cupboard, only to be strongly discouraged from doing so by the H. Depot salesman. He really thought we should just use an existing plug. We came home a bit dejected-well, I did at least-and started looking at the installation instructions and planning what to do when Nate said-hey, this can't be plugged in below it-the cord can only go up-we were both a bit peeved with H. Depot man as this seems obvious about all over the range ovens now, if they are to be flush against they wall, how would you snake something behind. So we took the plunge and cut holes all over the wall and cupboards, no one got injured or electrocuted. And the microwave works just fine to boot. Pbbbbbtttt to the H. Depot man.