Saturday, June 7, 2014

Week Twenty-One: Another Weekend, Another Wedding

Our family <3

This weekend we traveled to New Ulm for a wedding. One of Mike's cousins got married so our family, his sister, and his other sister and her boyfriend all headed down and stayed with his parents in Mankato.

I'd love to take you on a little journey that is the ridiculousness of getting to this wedding. First, we were running late. Not for any particular reason...everything was just taking longer than it should have as we tried to pack and get ready Saturday morning. We finally hit the road, later than we had planned, and realized that this was much harder than getting out the door for the last wedding we went to. Then it dawned on us: daycare. For the last wedding, daycare took Owen for the morning while we packed up the car and got everything ready! What a huge difference that made!!

So, we're on the road. Late. And then we realize we need gas. We decided to just go as far as we could on what we had to see if we could make it. {Spoiler alert: we couldn't make it on what we had}. So we're driving along when BAM! We run over something that appeared out of nowhere on the highway. It clunked and was LOUD. So Mike is yelling and swearing about that and wakes O up from his nap. Super duper.

O fell back asleep as we continued and Mike watched for any sign that we had a flat tire. We were good to go. A little further down the road he was worried that it might have been pulling a little so we decided to exit and stop at a gas station to check it out.

We checked the pressure on all 4 tires. All 4 tires were great. We got back in the car, and hit the road again. About 3 minutes after we were back on the highway we both looked at each other the way Kevin McCallister's parents do when they realize they forgot kevin. WE FORGOT TO GET GAS. We were at a GAS station. Seriously.

So we stopped at a *different* gas station a little big closer to Mankato. We made it in time to get to the meat market before going to the wedding {beef sticks. yum.} and made it to the pews before the music started. Score.

Mike and I stayed in the pew for about 3 minutes before O noticed that his voice echoed in the church. So we spent the remainder of the wedding in the little crying room {for our happy, talkative guy- no tears involved} and/or outside walking around.

A dapper young fella on the move.

The reception was very pretty and aside from a no-nap ninja's efforts to be a crab pants {we eventually drove him around for a 30 minute nap before dinner was served} everything went pretty well from then on. O was a big boy and used his fork to eat most of his meal, and was a dancing machine. I can't wait to see some of the photos the professional photographer was snapping of him dancing with a little girl on the dance floor!

Woo!

So happy for Hannah and Jesse! Also happy we snapped a couple {very color coordinated} family pictures before O drooled half his sippy of water and a cracker he stole from another kid in the crying room all over himself.

-H

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