Congratulations Jordan and Vilja!

(This is a long post, but there's lots of pictures so it should make up for the length of it!) Yesterday our nephew got married in Bountiful. The wedding was beautiful and we're so glad they invited us to be there with them. Benjamin had a good time outside the Temple with his Uncles Evan and Mike. His favorite thing was to go up and down the elevator and up and down the stairs. He had such a good time that he didn't want mom or dad to take him back when we were done with the Temple ceremony!

That cute little girl is Jonathan's second cousin's daughter- so she's related to us somehow. :) I'm not very good at naming relatives after second cousins...

Here's the happy couple...

After the pictures at the Temple we tried to put Benjamin down for a nap at a family member's house nearby- it didn't happen. We met everyone for the luncheon at Marie Callendars and Benjamin did really well considering he'd been awake since 8am and it was 4:30pm by the time we were done with lunch. We took him to Mike's house (that's Jonathan's brother) and on the way....

This is HUGE because Benjamin has not fallen asleep in the car since he was 6 months old (except for 1 long 14 hour car ride from California to Utah). No matter how tired Benjamin is, he refuses to sleep in the car and I have no idea why. Anyway, he woke up when we got to Mike's house and refused to nap again... lovely.

That night was the reception, and that was fun! Jonathan had a good time dancing with our niece, Savannah. He was nice enough to save one dance for me :)

And Benjamin had a good time dancing with his Uncle Derek.

Oh, why is Benjamin naked from the waist down and wearing a completely different shirt? Let me tell you... actually, let me SHOW you...

That was a relatively calm point in the whole splashing escapade. This was the result:

He is such a boy!

Overall, the day was wonderful and we're so happy for Jordan and Vilja. Benjamin fell asleep on the car ride home, but he put up a good fight for the first 20 or 30 minutes before finally zonking out. There is hope that in the future he may actually decide that sleeping the car can be a good thing. I hope he figures that out before our trip to St George in a couple weeks!