The wedding (finally)

So I'm finally getting around to posting about Daniel and Wendi's wedding weekend. I posted all these pictures on facebook the day after the wedding, and kind of lost my motivation to post them here since most people have facebook. But for those who don't, here they are! :)

 Preparations began Friday morning at 10am at the fellowship hall. There was lots of help, which made everything go pretty fast. We washed and cut up all the fruit, got all stuff ready for pasta salad, and set up the tables and decorations.

 Diane and my mom spent a fair amount of time deciding which dishes to use.

 Jenna and I kept Wendi company while she finished up her reception thank you's.

 The table arranging experts. It's actually more difficult than you would think. 

 Making pasta salad

 Gotta make sure that pasta salad tastes ok!

 Pedicures on Friday afternoon. Wendi got the royal treatment and we waited FOREVER for them to finish with her!

 Breakfast Saturday morning. Adam was thrilled to be up so early.

 Wendi had been up for a while and was getting excited!

 Saturday morning breakfast group

 Mom kept busy re-ironing all the bridesmaid's dresses and looking for Jenna's missing belt. Wouldn't you know, it was on the loveseat in my parent's room, under a pillow.

 Ready for pictures! And I have no pictures of the wedding party. For those you'll have to wait until Wendi gets around to posting them.

 Rehearsal dinner. Daniel's family had it at the fellowship hall. His dad made steak and by Saturday it had been marinating for 4 days. It was AMAZING! Super tasty and so tender you hardly needed your knife. Some if his aunts and uncles served us. 

 My plate. And I didn't include the picture of it, but at each place there was a chocolate covered peanut butter ball. And they were wonderful. I ate mine before dinner even came out. And after we got home I ate Luke's. And somehow Ellie's ended up going home with my mom and dad and when I saw it at their house on Sunday night, I ate her's too.

 Checking out the scrapbook. 

 Sunday morning breakfast group. Minus the Adam and Luke who refused to be photographed again. 

 Elizabeth did Wendi's hair and did a wonderful job! I wasn't around for most the process, but I heard that it required must patience on Elizabeth's part. :)

 Ready to walk down the aisle!

 Jenna was the only one who'd never been in a wedding before and she was so nervous. 

 Katie caught the bouquet! 

 Bridget had a darling little white dress that I'd made. And about 20 min after getting to the reception, she pooped through it. 

And then they were off for a week in Cancun. I was totally jealous. After a full weekend and dealing with kids, being up super early and staying up super late and getting up at night with the kids, I felt like I needed a vacation too!

letting it go

This article was very convicting to me this morning. Not that I don't like our house, but I often find myself just waiting for the day we get the "perfect" house.

P.s. wedding pictures will be coming soon.  :)

Calm before the storm

We've been enjoying a fairly quiet week, which has been wonderful! Daniel and Wendi  are getting married this weekend, so the next 3 days promise to be absolutely crazy. I'm still working on getting everyone's clothes ready. I think the only thing left to do is to iron dresses, shirts, and pants. Then we'll be ready. I think.  :)

 Daddy and Carter reading Motor Trend

 Our front stoop is finished!! Both kids loved watching the guys working!

 The stoop. It's seriously way nicer than the rest of the house, but hopefully washing down the siding and repainting the shutters will help with that. 

 The kids playing in the "hole" under our bed. We're so thankful to have sold our bedroom set, and are looking forward to getting our new one. And are even more looking forward to our new mattress and not waking up with backaches every morning!

Carter is officially weaned, and thinks he's big stuff holding his bottle by himself. Not that he takes much of it. An ounce or two is good for him. He loves solid food, although he's still eating mostly baby food because of the lack of teeth. 

The "first" prayer

Every night before putting Bridget to bed we say a prayer with her. We say the usual things like "thanks for helping me be a good girl today" and "bless my grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, and cousins." We usually include thanks for something fun we did during the day. She just lays her head on my shoulder and listens while we pray.

Now Bridget is in love with the movie Tangled. I mean in love. We borrowed it from some friends for several weeks and she'd watch every single day and never get tired of it. But it eventually got returned and when she'd ask we'd tell her that Tangled went to Judah's house.

Judah came over last night. And he brought Tangled for them to watch together (nice little date for the two of them, don't you think? :)) Bridget was so excited during the beginning that she could hardly contain herself.

So last night while praying with Bridget, we'd just finished thanking God for the fun time we'd had playing with Judah and she pipes up "and thanks I watched Tangled."  

Tangled must rate pretty high for it to need to be her first inclusion into prayer time!

Picture Overload

Or close to it anyways. I figured that while both kids are sleeping and I'm procrastinating folding laundry, I'd just update everyone (as in all 3 regular readers) on our latest happenings. 

 Around our house we teach to like potato chips young.

About a month ago we went to Wisconsin with my family for a few days. It was a relaxing time, although had  Carter not gone through a "I think I'll be awake for 3 hours in the middle of the night" phase it would have been a lot nicer. The kids got lots of grandparent time, which they loved. It was especially nice cause they got to spend a lot of time with my dad, which doesn't happen much.

Bridget reading Father's Day cards with grandpa 

Making biscuits with grandma 

Hanging out on the island at breakfast and trying to reach everyone else's stuff 

 Watching movies...of course we couldn't go even a few days without those!

 The fish fryers

 My cousins Amber and Holly went with us, and Bridget thought it was pretty great when she got to hang out with the "big girls."

 Playing with Grandpa

 Family pic before we left. We left Wed morning and the rest of the family stayed until Saturday.

 All of us. Thankfully we had a 4 bedroom 3 bathroom cabin!

 Back at home, little buddy got closer and closer to crawling

 We had a short stint with potty training. After 2 days I decided that she wasn't ready and didn't get the concept. Either that or I just wasn't ready to train her. Maybe we'll try again in a few weeks....or maybe not. :)

 Daniel and Wendi 

 Celebrating my dad's birthday. Once again Bridget is acting in her unofficial role as family gift opener.

 Went to get Carter out of bed from his nap one morning and found him sitting up! He was pretty proud of himself.

 Bridget's forehead without a bandaid over it. Not a good picture, but she wouldn't hold still for me.

 We had some SERIOUSLY hot days.

 July 4th was one of those hot days, but we went to Eureka's fireworks anyway. And it was hot. 

 Bridget loved the fireworks at first. In between she'd say "more! more!" She eventually got a little bored of them and had a grand time running around with Adalai. 

Carter and I watching the fireworks. 

And that's pretty much our updated life. Oh, Carter is officially crawling all over as of Friday morning. And Bridget shrieks whenever he goes towards her and yells "he get me! he get me!" Between that and her screaming when he gets her things (which is pretty much every toy except for a few designated things) it's almost enough to drive one bonkers.