The Bryan Family Sampler

Matt's Senior Pictures/Announcement

We asked T if she would help us with Matt's senior pics. She was very willing and went out with us one evening with her fancy camera. Matt only wanted to go to Baxter's Hill in Mt. Sterling which is his favorite spot. I suggested we get some in town as well with some buildings. He indulged me. We started at the church just north of the tabernacle. I thought the red door was pretty fun.

Then we ran over to the tabernacle...

By the time we made it to Baxter's Hill, the sun had set and we thought we were probably too late but we went ahead and took some pics anyway.

The clouds ended up being really cool through the lens and we got some pretty good shots.

It was cold and windy :)

Matt really wanted sunny pictures there so he and I trekked back a couple of times (the first time was too windy to get anything...his hair was just whipping all over the place) and the ones from the second time ended up being too sunny to really use.

When we had a minute to run up he was already dressed up for something else he was just coming from so I had him stay in his nice clothes to get a few like that.

I wish the shadows wouldn't have been so harsh :(

So we ended up just choosing from what we had. T was gracious enough to take our favorites and touch them up a bit.

Matt's favorite picture ended up being in front of the red door. He designed the announcement on the right and we ordered a bunch of those...some for him to give away and some for me to send to family. When they came he realized he probably needed more to hand out to friends and so I gave all of the first order to him, designed a new one (trying to keep most of his elements) with my favorite picture on the front to send to family :)

May Odds and Ends

Abby invited me and Josh to come up Blacksmith Fork Canyon with her for a walk before she left to go back to Provo.

Abby curating her collection of flowers...

It was a very pleasant jaunt with my two oldest!

And speaking of flowers...

We had a super busy 2nd week of May as it was Senior Ball for Ridgeline and Mother's Day...they always end up on the same weekend and I have asked Matt to pass along to his connections that they should do the dance a different weekend in the future. We'll see if anything changes next year :)

Here are a few of my favorites...

Below left was Gracie Wiberg's...they asked for the pink with turquoise and to make it a little western so I added in the rope and wheat accents.

Macy Young and her date on the right. I think this was the first one I've done for the Youngs...they usually make theirs or order somewhere else I think.

Messy background but this is one of my favorite Mother's Day arrangements I did...

I think either T or Jo caught this pic of Ben waiting at the window for our Sunday visitors to arrive.

If he knows someone is coming he will literally wait for hours so I try to not let it slip sooner than necessary when family and friends are coming.

Ben had a neurology follow up at Primary Children's in May.

They had a fun "aquarium" in the waiting area that he thoroughly enjoyed.

I got a new phone the day after my birthday. Matt's was dying and mine was 8 years old and we had also found out recently that Andy needed to be added back onto our family plan. So the best deal was to add a line and get two brand new Samsungs so that's what we did.

I was outside enjoying the pleasant weather a week or so later and saw this fun critter and decided to experiment with my awesome new zoom capabilities.

Josh is 22!

Our awesome Josh had his 22nd birthday!

(We did cake and gifts on Sunday since the next evening, his actual birthday, Matt had closing night of 'Honey, I'm Dying')

He asked for and was pretty excited about getting a Minecraft soundtrack vinyl record.

I asked everyone to gather around the birthday boy and they started doing awkward poses...

They're so cooperative :)

And this was Ben's position...

We did an early dinner the next night so Matt could join us before he had to rush off. Josh chose Firehouse for dinner since they had recently added an Aggie Blue Mint FH'zzookie to their menu. It was fun having his bosses and coworkers come out and wish him a happy birthday and talk about what a good employee he is.