A Morales Minute

Happy Palm Sunday.  General Conference and Easter Sunday are next week. Now that the church recognizes Easter Sunday the same way as the Sunday before Christmas, we only have sacrament meeting on Easter Sunday. However, this year with Easter on General Conference Sunday we only had sacrament meeting today on Palm Sunday in observance of our Easter Sunday. The Easter program for the meeting was wonderful. And since we won't be attending sacrament meeting on Easter Sunday, we got our "Easter Sunday" picture today. :)   

Jaime stopped to show Tyler one of the Monster trucks parked nearby for fans to see. The truck show is this weekend so they've been parked at a few places. Tyler LOVED monster trucks when he was little. He still thinks they're cool and he was excited to see this one up close.  Another wedding = new suits! What a handsome looking bunch. Gosh I remember dressing the boys up in suits when they were little for their Aunt Bel's wedding. Aidan was the ring bearer. Now my little boys are young men. Gosh, I miss their little squishy cheeks. :)  

Mom and Dad stayed the night after the shower so they could have a shorter drive to the temple today. Because I had so many at the house I decided to make use of the many hands.  I got out the wedding announcements and had everyone help stuff and lick envelopes! It got done super quick with all the help.  Then we packed up and headed to Moses Lake since the Columbia River Temple was closed for two weeks for maintenance. Olivia was actually really excited to go to the Moses Lake temple since we went to the open house.  It was a good experience for Olivia. She felt she was well prepared and felt the Spirit while there. I hope she felt as good as I did when she walked in to the celestial room and was greeted by all her family.  Emily, Jeremiah, William, and Rachel drove all the way from California for this! They won't be able to make it to the wedding so they made the effort to come for this weekend. It was a fun surprise for Emma. We didn't tell her they were coming. ?...

My kids came home! The girls and Isaac and Chaz came home for the weekend so Olivia could attend the temple to receive her endowment and it made the perfect time to plan to have her bridal shower. I just can't express how much I loved this weekend. Having family around and a house full of people was just so fun.  Lindsey helped plan the shower. She did a great job on the invitations and games! Everyone thought the games were so fun. Some were new ones that I'd never done before.  You can't tell by this picture but there was 30 people here for this shower! This is just a portion of the gifts she received. The others were still on the table. She just opened a few at a time and then Lindsey would bring more gifts over for her to open.  The cutest bride to be! She received some great gifts and there were quite a few gifts that she won't be showing her dad. 😂 I took care of the snacks. We had a delectable array of sweet and savory choices. The marshmallow fudgy cookies are ...

We were invited to a VIP sampling at Castle Event Catering. Jaime and I went thinking we'd have little bites served but boy was I wrong. It was a full course meal! We first stopped at the bar for cocktails and then were escorted to our table set for us with our name card on the table. Everything was set up so beautifully. It made me excited to see everything set up for Olivia's reception since it'll be at the same venue.  The waiters walked around to tables and served bite sized appetizers.  Then we were able to go walk up to the salad bar to try four different salads All so yummy.  Look how cute this set up is! After salads we walked downstairs to try the menu of sides and entrees. I didn't take pictures of everything but on this plate is the barria taco with consommé, barria ramen, and barria baos. Yum! It was so good. I was so glad we could try the barria since that is one of the meats we will be serving at the wedding dinner.  I loved the barria bao with the jala...

Mom has been wanting to do another theme movie night with us. A day this week suddenly came available since basketball games were done. I told mom we could do it this Friday and she was on the go getting things ready for it.  Her themed foods were so cute. Look at this porcupine! It was a yummy dinner and then we watched Harry and the Hendersons. Aidan and Tyler had never seen it and it's been years since Jaime and I watched it. So it was a fun movie to watch. The boys said they actually liked it, like they expected not to like such an old movie. hahaha.