Sarah Redd Haslam

Shawn's sister Sarah was married this September! She was a gorgeous bride. She married her “kindergarten boyfriend”, Jake Haslam. They have known each other for years, and they just look like they belong together. Their families are in the same ward. We all love Jake, and he is such a good match for Sarah. One would have thought it was Shawn's daughter getting married – he was so nervous for her! Nervous we were going to be late to the temple, anxious for everything – it was pretty funny! He is very protective of his little sis. In fact, he gave her an old fashioned “chastity belt” for her shower gift! It was a good laugh!! That gift came as a final gift in a long line of funny gifts that he has given to her for her past birthdays. I was able to help do Sarah & Jake's wedding video, and I also took her bridal and engagement photos. It was quite a bit of work, but I hope she liked the end result. I was really nervous (probably similar to Shawn's nervousness!) because I really wanted her to like the shots. That's something you can't go out and re-do! But her announcements were designed by my sis-in-law Brooke, and they turned out AMAZING. Sarah & Jake were married in the Salt Lake temple on a gorgeous fall day – September 22. Afterward, they had a reception in her front yard. It looked so pretty. She had fall colors with lots of twigs and branches intertwined in her flowers. I couldn't believe how she had transformed the yard! Sarah has a really good eye and vision for decorating. There were SO many people who came! I couldn't believe it. It was a steady stream of people coming through the line to congratulate them for a solid two and a half hours. After cutting the cake, the dancing began. I have never seen, and probably will never see again, my father-in-law Bryan busting a move the way he was on his driveway! It was soooo funny! Everyone was dancing and just having a great time. It was a perfect day, and we are so happy to have Jake in the family.

Hannah

If I had to summarize Hannah in one picture, it would be this one. If you can't tell what it is, it's a dried up dirt clod with a heart shape in the middle. I should probably mention that I found this little gem in my kitchen drawer. I didn't even have to think twice about who put it there - Hannah's name is written all over it. Hannah loves dirt, being dirty, smelly, muddy, slimy, stinky, grungy, whatever. She can hang with the boys and enjoys being with Chance and all of his buddies. But at the same time, she's also very girly and feminine. She loves hearts, love, peace signs, dolls, princesses, pink, sparkles, fingernail polish, doing hair, clothes, Taylor Swift, and everything else girl. Then, back to the other hand, she just checked a book out of the library about grasshoppers because she loves bugs. She's our sweet little unique gal!

Buddies

West and Rags are best friends. West will chase poor Rags around in the walker while Rags runs for his life. But Rags benefits from every scrap that West drops on the ground. Now West will purposely drop food for Rags, which is a horrible habit, but how do you correct a baby from throwing food on the ground? Rags has a very gentle bite. He won't ever chomp down hard on fingers, and never bites out of anger. Here I caught West feeding Rags.

Here I caught the opposite - West drinking out of Rags' bowl! gross!!

Here's one of their beginning bonding moments.