Okay... take a good look at this picture and tell me two things that you find "wrong" with it. It should be obvious if you look DOWN at my two oldest girls' feet. Before the reception began, a professional photographer was on hand to take pictures, but I also wanted some pictures taken with my own camera, which were taken "off in the distance" so we weren't in the way of the professional. Imagine my DISMAY when I noticed later that Morgan and Carly had taken off their shoes. AHHHHH! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! Their response was... "But mom, the reception hasn't started and our feet hurt." I gave them the "motherly glare" that I am so famous for and said, "I don't care if your feet hurt, you need to look GOOD for the pictures and wear your shoes! How old are you?!" AHHHH! But now that it's past, I look at it and sigh.... and chuckle.... ;)

The three younger girls LOVED holding the dress for their Aunt Brooklyn (my sister) who got married 3-6-09 in the SLC temple.

We had a mini Cottrell family reunion where the majority of the grandkids were there. Carl's parents are sitting in the front and are surrounded by 16 (out of 22 possible) grandkids and 5 great-grandkids. What a fun time we had!

In February, we were thrilled to see our nephew Desmond return home from his mission to Cambodia. He gave all the male members in the family a tie with elephants on it. (He's wearing one of the ties in the picture.) What an amazing young man he is and a great example to all of us.