Wedding bliss

I am still playing catch up in the blog department! This summer is shooting by so quickly and the last minute activities are taking over. We went school shopping the other day-ahhhh- and planned a trip to Colorado leading up to the day before school starts. What was I thinking?

Anyways, our best time as of yet this summer was at my cousin's wedding in Kansas City in June. We were all very excited for a quick getaway. We drove up on Friday and met our good friend from college, Zach. We just love him and the kids fell in love with him, too. We all went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner and then back to our hotel, which was gorgeous. It had a great pool so we were all able to sit around and catch up while the kids swam. Another one of our good friends Wyeth came over as well. They were both in our wedding and we loved the time we were able to spend with them!

My cousin, Jamie's, wedding reception was at a beautiful golf course and our hotel was on the grounds, a few feet away from the reception area. She had a lovely ceremony at a church and then we headed off to the reception. We took family pics outside first as the sun went down.



Jamie and Brent, the happy couple






Then we headed indoors for the reception. The kids had a BLAST. Big Boy has not been to an occasion like this in quite some time and we quickly found out he loves to dance, and not surprisingly, show off for a crowd.

At one point we had to pull them off the dance floor so the bride and groom could dance, and they looked on with amazement.

My mom and the mother-of-the-bride, my aunt Mary.




One of my cousin's has a boy and a girl not far from my kids' age and they were fast friends. Sissy and Abby spent the.whole.entire.night singing up at the front. The band was soooo gracious and gave them (dead) microphones so the girls were able to be up front and sing their hearts out.

Big Boy and Carter opted to put beer koozies on their hands and play "dog"...




Jamie and I, and in the following pictures we may look a tad bit rough around the edges. This wedding was my dream come true in that my hotel was walking distance away. Therefore, no driving and lots of family around to watch the kids! I may have had a little too much to drink. And Jamie and I maybe were crying a few minutes before we took this picture while talking about the fact that our grandmother (who has been deceased for over 10 years) was not there to see it. And very unfortunately, our grandfather was not able to be there as well since he is fighting cancer. :( So we were sad for awhile, but Jamie was a beautiful and stunning bride and she had a wonderful wedding full of friends and family!

With my sister, we are all 9 mos apart so we were very close growing up




I awoke Saturday morning not feeling very well. We had a little breakfast, said goodbye to family, and let the kids swim with their cousins until check out.




Our little family was having such a good time we did not want to go home! So we prolonged it the best we could. We hit Joe's Crab Shack for some lunch!

(pardon my appearance, it's been a long time since I've been that...tired)

Then we hit Oak Park Mall and the Disney store and rode the carousel




Eventually, we had to reluctantly come home. I thought it was hilarious because Sissy has been playing "Jamie's wedding" with her Polly Pockets. This is the scene on her bed, dinner and tables on the right, dancing on the left...

And then another reception area on her toy box with a stage and people dancing to the singing girls. It was the thrill of her life to get to sing with a real microphone at the wedding!

It was a very memorable weekend, we all had such a good time and we are so happy for my cousin!