Wedding/Labor Day Weekend

This weekend was eventful and extremely tiring! Thursday afternoon my brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew came into town for my sister Lindsey's wedding. My brother is a minister and performed Lindsey's wedding ceremony as well as mine. Thursday night we went out to dinner in Garland at Babe's. On our way back home we ran into a really bad storm. My brother was following us, but we got separated in the storm. We were just coming into Allen when my brother called my mom and told her that they had just been in a car accident in front of Rooms To Go in Plano. We turned around and met them. Apparetnly a car next to them hydroplaned, side swiped the driver's side (and they had their babies in the car too!) lost control, started doing 360's, went sideways in front of my brother's car, they almost t-boned him, and then he flipped around and hit the passenger side of the car. They pulled over, and someone who had seen the accident pulled behind them. A truck pulling a trailer rearended the person that pulled over to check on them, then they proceeded to flee the scene of the accident. Someone saw them run, chased them down and got their license plate number. My brother just has a couple big dents on both sides of his car, but it is still driveable and could have been WAY worse than it was! The person who had the most damage, was the one who pulled over to check on them. Her car was the only one that had to be towed away on a wrecker. We are SO thankful that everything worked out the way it did!

Friday was pretty much uneventful. We had the rehearsal at 2:30. It seemed like half the wedding party wasn't able to be there. The venue doesn't usually have rehearsals on Fridays because they typically have weddings in the evenings. They originally scheduled it for Thursday but pretty much NO ONE would have been there seeing as how, almost everyone lives out of town but me and a couple people on Cody's side. Since they weren't having a wedding Friday, Lindsey and Cody were able to move it to Friday afternoon. After the rehearsal, I ran a few last minute wedding errands for Lindsey while she went out for dinner with her friends. The rest of us barbequed at my parents' house and waited for the rest of the family to get into town.

Saturday was the big day! My sister Leisa, her husband Don, and their 2 kids stayed at my place for the weekend. So Leisa, her daughter Emily, and I got up about 6:15, got ready, picked up Starbucks and headed over to my parents' house to get our hair done. I wasn't just absolutely crazy about my hair, but I guess it wasn't about me. My hair lady complained about all my layers and how it wouldn't do what she wanted to do. I told her, you're the one that cut the layers!! :) Anyway, enough rambling. The wedding was beautiful! I wish I had known about this place before my wedding! This is what I thought I was getting, but ended up with a crazy, bossy lady who didn't do anything I wanted her to. Hind sight is 20 20, and there's always going to be what ifs and regrets. It doesn't matter about the wedding and all the little details. Nothing is going to be prefect and at the end of the day, no matter how it happened, you're still going to be married to the love of your life. Its not about the wedding, its about the marriage. The flower girls and ring bearers did so good! One of the flower girls, both ring bearers, and the junior groomsman weren't there for the rehearsal and they did SO well!! I don't know why, but seeing those babies coming down the aisle made me start tearing up! I about lost it when I saw my sister coming down the aisle and I looked over at Cody. The only way I can describe the look on his face was love and admiration. You can tell that he truly does love her! I am so thankful she found someone who will put up with her! :) Just kidding!!!

The reception was fun. I got to see a lot of friends and family that I haven't seen in a while or don't get to see very often. The food was DE-licious! She did a really good job picking out the food. The cake was beautiful and I think everything turned out how she wanted it to.

After the wedding, we had some family come over to our apartment and go swimming. It hadn't been hot enough so the pool was pretty chilly! Emma went to bed at 9:45 that night and slept until 8:30!! She usually goes to bed between 11 and 12. Lately she's been getting up around 7:30 so I was very thankful for the extra sleep! She didn't really get a nap that day so she was exhausted!

We took it pretty easy the rest of the 3 day weekend. Pictures of the wedding to come soon! I believe Lindsey said the photographer would have the pictures ready on Thursday.