Mesa, AZ Wedding Reception

My brother got married in the Mesa, AZ temple Saturday morning, we all went to lunch at Gecko Grill and then there was a reception in a backyard in the evening. It was set up so nice I had to capture it on multiple camera, Snapchat and a FB Live in my sibling chat. Haha. I made the rounds quite a bit that evening!

Saturday - Farmer's Market & Reception

Tony , his sister Trishna & I started out our Saturday morning by going to the Boise Farmer's Market. It was crazy big - so much to see! 

Sampled samples

I'm guessing this is the Boise River on the side of this building. 

We got back to Tony's parents house around noon and what a delicious set up was on the table! Potato salad, fruit salad, salad with marshmallows, chips and pulled pork sandwiches. Everything tasted so so good. I think my favorite was the fruit salad.  I am doing a "sugar-shutout" challenge for the month of August so sadly I could not have any of the salad with marshmallows in it.

There was homemade ice cream for dessert but somehow Tony's mom magically had sugar free chocolate ice cream in her freezer so I had a scoop of that instead. Yay!

 When Laura & Rocky found out that Jeffrey & McKayla were only having cake, nuts and candy at their reception, they set to work making some appetizers. Tony & I were looking forward to floating down the river, it was hot! But instead helped Laura and Rocky out with the food. One of them being a certain peruvian flavor we had to find called "ajo amarillo" so we made calls and drove a few places to find it. Trishna rode to a few stores with us and we finally found! The ONLY place in Idaho that sells it , at least in the area we were at. I'll spare all the details though about the adventure. Tony & I put together the cheese/meat/tomatoes on toothpicks. Fun.

  Riley in his little Sunday suit at my parents house waiting to go to the reception. He is trying to kick his pants off. Lol

We finally arrived at the reception at almost 8pm because we had spent so long to get the appetizers ready (they were dropped off at the church around 7pm) , then we had to shower, iron clothes, change. Yea, it took awhile to get ready.

We didnt miss their dance

By the time we arrived , they had already cut the cake but they cut more cake together later to eat so I snapped a picture.

Table set up with drinks and slices of cake

Table for presents

Someone made sure the car got decorated even though they were only driving down the street. 

Laura, Allison & I stopping to take a picture..we were supposed to be cleaning up the cultural hall. Allison is my youngest sister and is due with a baby boy later on in August. I believe they scheduled the birth to be on the 23rd. I had not seen her at all since she got pregnant so it was a nice little reunion but weird to think she will be a mom soon!

Non-Stop Saturday!

This Saturday was def. one of the busiest we have had in awhile in Salt Lake City. Having a busy weekend out of town doesn't count in this case. 

First we started off our morning in Sandy at the REI Member sale.

LOVED this North Face jacket , so warm, fit okay but the sleeves were a bit short. Nono :( There was a rip in the top left shoulder material. Double Nono. 

Tony did buy these for reals. They creep me out.

Loved these shorts but they were coming apart at some of the seams :(

Loved that tent.

Loved the baby playpen for camping.

Those people got good stuff.

People grab what they want, then claim a spot on the grass to look over what they got and see if they still want it or not. It's a time to set up tents (Tony set one up but the frame was really bent!) , blow up air mattresses, try on shoes, etc. 

 

Loved this jacket but a) it wasn't North Face (it's on my 30 Things Before 30 list to own at least 1 North Face item) b) it was still $70 or $80. Blah. 

 

We went to IHOP for breakfast because I had a coupon for free food and we were both pretty hungry.

Tony got a crepe, hash browns and an egg.

I got an omlette - it was huge! and hashbrowns. 

Went with Tony to a grilling class at Orson Gygi in SLC. We couldnt pay rent online for some reason so we had gone to Smiths to get a money order and by then it was almost 1:30, the class was at 2 so I ended up going with Tony so he didnt have to drop me off at home.

Grilled meat as kabobs. Mmm

Grilled salsa. So good!

Then we went home and got the car because it was getting really windy and we went to Thanksgiving Point for the Scottish Festival & Games. I had free tickets on Facebook, thank goodness, we didnt spend long enough there to warrant having to buy $15/tickets (adults). It was so so windy out there that we stayed for an hour or so and then left.

A funny sign Tony saw 

 The girls' hair is blowing in the wind. It was really strong.

A lot of the tents had shut down/were being taken down even though I think the event was supposed to go until 10pm. We were going to buy a Navajo taco for dinner and they shut down before we got one!

Santa in a kilt.

 Plato's Closet was having a 1/2 off sale so I went and Tony patiently waited in the car for me. Loved this shirt but it was too big. Loved the jacket behind it - had birds all over it! But it was one size too small. Darn it. I did get a shirt, a skirt, some shoes and earrings w/necklace all for $15.

Ate at Red Corner China Diner for dinner. A review will be on my Food tab.

Went to our friend Jennifer's reception in Provo

So glad we went! We saw the Hadley's who now live in Utah and also Allison Nance and Leah Nance (who is now married. I wish we had gotten a picture with everyone. They were all in the Woodland 2nd ward a long time ago! The Hadley's, not quite as long ago ;-)

I love my skirt here but got in a rush to leave on time when Laura came to pick me up so I dont like the rest of what I'm wearing. I look like a scraggly muffin here. 

I do love Jennifer's dress though!

Went to Winco almost every day to take advantage of this sale.  A little high in the fat content but such a good price we couldnt pass it up. We bought 60 altogether.

The end! I think that was enough packed in to such a busy Saturday.