January 13 = WEDDING DAY!

Pictures from Matthew & Grace's Wedding!

So after my wedding in 2010, my cousins (Chad, Brooke and Josh), Zachary and I did secret shots in my parents basement- we recreated it at Matt's wedding with the addition of Aaron and Callie and Grace- Matthew gets participation points for drinking sprite in the same glasses as we used :)

October 1 = Wedding Day!!

I'm going to blame someone else for the fact that it's taken me a month and a half to write this post.  I asked my brother to send me the pictures he took of the kids before the wedding and he hasn't yet.  He's incredibly busy so I don't blame him at all.  But if I can make it someone else's fault that I'm so behind, why not?!

I decided to get Liam a haircut this morning- he needed one badly and when would have been a better time to do it than his uncle's wedding day (and when I had people around to help)?

Here are two of the pictures that Matt got of my precious little children before the big event:

So how did the kids do??  They were memorable.

Liam did make it down the aisle but promptly exited stage left as soon as he got up there.  Malia did the opposite.  I had to carry her down the aisle but once she got up there she was pretty good for a while.  She stood with Zachary for a few minutes, picked some flowers off of bushes for a few minutes, and then made her grand exit right next to Daps and right in between Matthew and Rachel.  It was really cute.

Soon after, my mom and Uncle Matt came to pick them up so Zachary and I were able to enjoy the reception child-free.

May 29 = Wedding Day!

My parents came in yesterday- they left after my dad got off work so they got in pretty late.  They're watching the kids for us this weekend so we can go to a wedding!  One of Zachary's fellow LEAD Program cohort members got married today in Norfolk, VA.  We were hoping to have some time to ride around and look at where we may be living in two years or so but we barely made it to the wedding in time.  It's Memorial Day weekend so traffic was pretty heavy.  We got this picture of Miss Malia while we were riding- she must not have gotten enough sleep last night!

We got to the hotel with some time to change but the line of people checking in was long and they were doing renovations so there were no public bathrooms downstairs.  So we had to change in the car. When we got there, we sat towards the back and didn't see any of Zachary's other fellow cohort members that were supposed to be there... they were later than we were!  They got there after the bride walked in... but no judgment here- traffic was rough.  Anyway- the wedding was beautiful.  And we were planning on staying at the reception for a little while so we could look around Norfolk and spend some time together without screaming children.  But we had so much fun at the reception that we stayed until almost 9pm!  Zachary talked me into doing karoke... we sang "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colby Caillat.  I got five weeks off from cleaning out the litter box for it.  Here's a picture of all the guys singing karoke a little later when everyone was nice and intoxicated...

And here's a better picture of Zachary with this fellow cohort members: Kayron, Kelly, Will, Brandon.