The Wedding

Our wedding trip went very well. The traveling wasn't too difficult and the girls performed their duties as Jr. Bridesmaid and Flower-girl excellently. We enjoyed spending time with family. I know this sounds crazy, but one thing that made the trip very enjoyable was the fact that Ken was able to upgrade our hotel room to a suite. This may seem trivial, but it was SOOO nice to not be on top of each other the entire trip. Since during travel, it seems like there is never a quiet moment, it was nice to at least have some space. The trip home was especially fun, but that will have to be another post on another day!

Here is Anna with the bride (her cousin) and the groom, as well as the other flower girl and ring-bearer. It was a fun wedding for the kids because they all had kids near their age to play with. The other flower girl was a cousin from the bride's father's side of the family (we are from the bride's mother's side). This flower girl was about a year older than Anna, but they had so much fun (except the one time when Anna tackled her while trying to give her a hug). She also had an older brother, about a year older than Joel, and older sister, a year older than Carolyn and 2 older brothers approximately Matthew's age.


Anna was a cute flower girl. Initially she wanted to pick up the flowers after she dropped them, but she got the hang of it. (We didn't practice dropping flowers at the rehearsal - oops....plus right before the ceremony flowers fell out of her basket and I picked them up and put them back in, so I wasn't really a good role-model)


Carolyn took her job as Jr. Bridesmaid very seriously. She sat up at the head table and was a model citizen. She loved wearing her beautiful dress and being part of the action.


Joel definitely loves to dance. Here he is taking a short break, but I loved this smile.


Matthew didn't dance as much as the other kids early in the evening, but in typical Matthew style, he warmed up as the night went on and didn't want to leave the party (which reminds me of his dad!).


I like this sweet picture of the girls together (much better than the shot just before when Carolyn tried to pick-up Anna and they both fell to the ground :)


It is always nice to have someone around to take a family picture when we are all dressed up. Today Ken's Aunt D. did us the favor!


After dancing all night long, Anna finally sat still long enough to fall asleep. Earlier in the night, she wouldn't come near her parents, for fear they would take her off the dance floor.