Red Butte Gardens

The reception was beautiful!!  Sarah had the most beautiful dress and I loved the color scheme.  There was a cellist playing during dinner and the food was exquisite.  Salmon and sushi.  I couldn't be more pleased!  The only thing worrying everyone was little Sadie.  She was losing steam fast.  She needed to be in all of the pictures so we couldn't just take her home.  Chase and I asked her to be brave and try to get through just the pictures and then she could lay down as long as she wanted.  In the mean time a sweet friend of the Ngo family went to Dans to retrieve some Tylenol. 

She was very mellow and pretty dazed but she got through the pictures. She just wanted me to hold her and that's all I wanted to do.  Like I said before, worse timing ever!!

 

Good news is Jack was having a great time!!  His main concern was to water the flowers.  Have you seen Red Butte Gardens?  There are flowers everywhere!!  He spent a lot of his night taking his cup to the water spout and taking it out to water some of the million flowers outside.  He was very lively running all over the place and smiling to everyone who greeted him.  Happy little guy!

 

George was passed around because no one could resist his squishiness.  One woman (I have no idea who) held him for quite a while while we took pictures of the flower girls. 

My favorite pic from the wedding is the one below.  I love that there is complete chaos all around the happy couple.  Pops seems to be yelling at the photographer, Connie seems to be settling him down.  Holden looks like a fly just buzzed in his ear, George is most likely sounding like a regular yellow canary, Sadie is expressing her misery and Jack is "along for the ride" as always.  Who knows what I'm doing.  All I know is it's not the most flattering picture of me.  Amongst all the turmoil Chad and Sarah are totally in "la la land" and couldn't care less about the craziness all around them.  Just look at those two.  Have you ever seen such bliss?

 

 

After all the pictures Sadie had earned her prize.  It was her turn to lay down and lay down she did.  Sadie passed out in our reclined stroller for two hours.  Mostly she just missed everyone eating and chatting.  When the music started playing and everyone started getting down on the dance floor Chase decided it was time to wake her up.  The Tylenol  and two hour nap had worked wonders.  She was thrilled to be dancing around with her daddy and uncles.  It was a great way to end the night for her.  I would have felt so bad if she missed the whole thing.    

It was exhausting, beautiful, delicious, joyous and exciting all in one night.  Congratulations Chad and Sarah!!  We are so happy for you and so excited to have a new sister in law!!