Mitch & Jamie's Wedding

This past weekend we ventured to Minnesota to take part in my sister's wedding. Jamie and Mitch dated in high school. They both went in different directions on their own paths. Last summer thanks to their 10 year high school reunion their paths crossed again...the rest is history!

I was so happy to be a part of their big day. Everything went smoothly and turned out to be just beautiful. The only exception...my toast. Talk about a sobbing mess :)

Jenna and Kylie served as flower girls. Kylie got a little nervous and never did make the walk down the aisle. Jenna ended up being escorted part of the way by my brother Conor. Nice improvising Con!

Grandy posing with the flower girls.

My favorite picture of Jamie and I.

Landrie pretty much did her own thing. Thanks so much to Grandy and Shanny for helping us keep her under wraps...made it much less stressful on us. Landrie even got to have a slumber party with Pop Pop and Shanny in their hotel room on the night of the wedding.

Groomsman daddy with his little girls.

Daddy and Kylie sharing a dance.

Mitch and Jamie's first dance. They danced to "Let's stay together."

My brother Mike and I.

All night Kylie kept asking..."Mom, can I slide on my dress?"..."Not yet" I would reply. Finally after 12 times I caved. "Fine, go for it" And she did.

Kylie was nodding off towards the end. My flash didn't go off, but this is still one of my favorite pictures of the night. She was so tired we pushed a few chairs together and she was good to go.

Congratulations Mitch and Jamie---here's to many happy years!!

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Taking advantage of a beautiful day

Today was a perfect day.

The temperature hit 82 degrees and we got a ton of things done around the house. Jed tackled the yard with a little mowing and edging. Jenna, Kylie and I washed both cars inside and out. Then when Landrie woke up from her nap they played outside while Jed and I pulled weeds and raked out the flower beds.Here's big sister giving the others a ride in the wagon.

Switch! Kylie's turn to pull.

And, just because you're small doesn't mean you don't get to take a turn. Of course, she couldn't move them, but I thought it would be a great picture.

Some sun in their eyes with some great smiles.

One more week of work until our spring break. We are crossing our fingers that our break will be filled with many days like today.

A Gymnastics Party

Saturday we got to go to Ian's Birthday party at ASI Gymnastics. All the girls had a great time. We hardly saw Jenna and Kylie because they were going a mile a minute. Landrie was also going a mile a minute, but requires a little more supervision, so we were able to snap a few pics of her enjoying herself.

She loved the pit of foam blocks. Climbed around in there for quite a while.

Here she is on the trampoline.

Black History Program

To celebrate Black History Month, Jenna's school had a program. Here's Jenna and Ian before the program.

Here they are on stage. It was a Langston Hughes poem; they did a fantastic job reciting it together. Jenna was so animated and natural. We were very proud of her.

After the show, posing for a few pictures.

Kylie and Andrew hamming it up at the program.

This is what Landrie looked like all night because if she didn't have a sucker she was yelling "Jeeennnnnnaaaa" across the cafeteria.

"Brown skin and earin' holes."

Okay...so the title may not make sense to all of you.

A couple of years ago Jenna came home from school declaring that she had two wishes. She wished that she could have brown skin and earin' holes.

This past weekend we were able to grant one of those wishes. Here she is waiting for her skin transplant...just kidding.


She did such a good job. While we were waiting we watched a 2 month old baby get her ears pierced. The lady warned me to take Jenna out of the store because that baby was going to scream, but we had a talk about how the baby is too little to know that it only hurts for a second and didn't understand how cute she would be when it was over. Yes, that baby SCREAMED, but Jenna stood strong and got up in the chair. After the first ear she gave me this look as if to say...that was it? I thought this was supposed to hurt? All of this from the girl you can probably hear getting a shot from a couple states away.

Big Smile

Landrie is getting to be such a little girl. Here she is in her little pink jumper. All dressed up and happy as can be...

Yesterday morning I was waking the girls up; I started in Jenna and Kylies room. While I was trying to convince them that it was morning and they had a great day ahead of them, I sneezed. Here's the funny part. From the next room I hear Landrie(who I thought was still sleeping)... guess what she said...I am not even kidding...she said "Bless You". It was so funny. That made my morning.

2 Flower Girls in the Making

With Auntie Jamies wedding getting close, we got the girls in to be fitted for their flower girl dresses. They are SO excited. I am sure that on April 4th they will both want to sleep in their dresses, because it was a fight just to get these off of them at the store.
This is the actual style that they are getting.

I know that it is Jamie and Mitch that are getting anxious for their special day, but I'm pretty sure that these two will think it is all about them.

The Father-Daughter Dance

Jed, Jenna and Kylie at the Father-Daughter Dance.

What a special night for these two. Having their Daddy all to themselves.