Wedded Bliss

Yes, my kids are stinkin' cute! We spent our weekend wrapped up in wedding festivities for our friends, Jorge and Amanda. (Jorge helps D coach soccer. He takes stats during the regular season and then also helps with summer and indoor teams.) Anyway, Kenson was asked to be the ring bearer and D was a groomsmen. The wedding was at site of these immense historic columns some of which are upright and some of which are laying on the ground. The upright ones are just off to Kenson and Conleigh's right. You can see that Conleigh had decided that she was unhappy when I tried to get a good photo of her with Kenson. She was unhappy because she thought the tall columns were going to fall over on top of her. Ah the joys of 3 year old thinking!

We really did have a busy busy Friday and Saturday. We had a quick, light supper right before the rehearsal at 7, then we headed to the rehearsal supper around 9 but didn't eat until closer to 10. Then home around 11. On Saturday, we woke up and we all started getting ready so we could eat lunch by 11. Then I took the kids and tried to get them to fall asleep for a quick nap before the pre wedding photo shoot. I ended up enforcing complete silence for the last 20 minutes of the drive to the wedding locale as they were both singing as loudly as they could trying to fight taking a nap. Kenson finally fell asleep; Conleigh never did. D drove separately so I could take the kids home early from the reception if needed. Photos were at 1, with the wedding at 3. The reception and dance followed and we were home around 8. Conleigh actually fell asleep during the father/daughter, mother/son dances.

Kenson did great and walked down the aisle with no problems. He passed off the rings and was supposed to come sit with me right away but did try to do a few spins at the front. What an amazing thing for a kiddo who used to be very shy and unsure of himself. He followed all the directions and cooperated with the photographers and his parenst. Most of the time....we did have to move from the front chairs at the wedding because he would not whisper. We only had one moment of near disaster when Conleigh almost licked the top tier of the wedding cake which the cake people had set on the head tables, in front of the bride and groom. Why it was sitting there during the dance, I don't know. Of course, once we got in the car to leave, we had major tears and screaming but all things considered, in the car, out of public view is okay by me.

And for the record, D did his job just fine too. Followed the direction, obeyed his wife, cooperated with the photographer...