Jenny & Kyle get married!

Yesterday, my cousin, Jenny, and her best friend got married.  It was a gorgeous event with lots of family, including some I had not seen since 1995!!!

The wedding had a wine theme, which I LOOOOVED!  Too cute!  Can't even tell you how many awesome details were wine related from the border of the seating chart to the guest book!  It was fantastic.  Here are some of the awesome details:

Wedding Cupcake Table

Seating Chart

The most awesome guestbook I've ever seen

And I was tickled pink to see a "Where We Came From" table with a picture of my great-grandma beautifully displayed!

Some Table Details

Head Table

I also was quite pleasantly surprised to see some of my own wedding vendors pop up!  Music Box productions for their DJ and Shutterbooth for the photo booth.  We took some funny pictures in the booth, but I don't know who ended up with our photo strip, lol, so I can't post it here. 

The wedding reception started at 6:00 pm, wedding party made their grand entrance around 7:15:

Then it was immediately time for cake cutting!  Jenny's dress was gorgeous - take a look at the back here:

Anyway, back to cake cutting!  I was in a terrible spot for when they were actually cutting the cake, but I got some cute ones after it was already cut:

Then was time for speeches and toasts:

And of course, a picture of the happy couple!

During dinner, which was a delicious family style meal with lots of choices, we took the opportunity to take lots of family photos!  If you're not family, this part might be boring :)

I think this might be the only shot of me from last night, lol:

Then came the time for first dances!!!  Father Daughter:

Mother Son:

First Dance as a Married Couple!

And then it was time for dessert!!!!

Maddie thoroughly approved of the cupcakes :)

After that everyone took to the dance floor for some fun!  I didn't get any pictures of this part, and left soon after to take Maddie and my grandma home.  Ryan and the rest of my family stayed to close the party down!

A huge thanks to Pete, Janet, Jenny & Kyle for inviting us to their special event!  We had such a wonderful time!  Best wishes to Jenny & Kyle for many, many years of happiness! 

Bemidji - Post 2

On Monday, we went over to Jerry's to hang out for a while before heading to see Jayne's for Nate's performance.  He was nice enough to offer to put on a bit of a concert of everyone at the home!

While we were waiting, Trina, Nate & Ben put together a solar system.  I have to say it was hilarious listening to them discuss when ball should be which planet.  It made me giggle.

Around 1:30 we left to go to Janye's for Nate's show.  M was still sleeping so Ryan and Jerry stayed back at the house to wait for her.  The turn out for Nate was pretty awesome!

I had some battery issues with BOTH of my cameras, so I didn't get to video tape as much as I would have liked to.  But, here's a little snip-it of one of the sing-a-longs that Nate did!

After Nate's performance everyone stuck around chatting for a while.  Charlie, Lori and Wimpy had just gotten into town, so it was great to see them! 

Tuesday was a great day!  The boys went and brought Jayne to Jerry's house.  We ate outside and the kids had a blast running around with family and riding on Grandpa's golf cart. 

While we waited for the boys to get Jayne, Trina made a game to entertain the little ones.  Essentially, it was a homemade trampoline out of a half deflated air mattress.  Cohen and M had a BLAST getting bounced on it!

After Jayne arrived, it was time to sit down for some lunch!

Babies with Popsicles!  

 Wimpy chasing babies!

 Golf carts!  M conned everyone into rides with the whole "Ride!  Please!  Ride!"

 Jerry's lake property!

After Jayne went back to the home, everyone went downstairs for some pool!

It was pretty late when we all decided to head home.  I went upstairs to get M and move her to the car.  It was as we were going downstairs that she decided to hurl all over me.  She had spiked a fever.  And this lasted for a couple days.  Pics for the rest of the trip are lacking because we were laid up with a sick baby!  But, there are a few more pictures for another post!