I'll be getting my scrapbooking license revoked over this one...
So let's see, when I last left you we were driving to Ohio and then onto Indiana for my sister's bachelorette party and wedding. I wanted to come back with lots of great stories and pictures to share with you. But I am a complete dork and left my camera battery charger in Maryland. The battery in the camera died after I took one picture. Luckily other people had cameras so if I beg and plead long enough I may have pictures eventually. Buy some one-use cameras you say? I did! So now I have a total of five good pictures because my kids ran off with the cameras at some point. I have about 20 pictures of the cake and a few of the ceiling and dance floor. But trust me, the five pictures I'll be showing you are very good so stick around.
Wednesday: We drove to Ohio and saw Greg's grandparents new home. They are finally moving up from Florida to be closer to their children. And this is their 16th brand new home (I'm not positive they've ever lived in an "used" home, sounds like they have always had new construction). I can't imagine moving 16 times in the first place... But welcome back to Ohio!
Thursday: The bachelorette party! Downtown Indy is much more fun than I remembered. Although they have crappy parking garages with a 6'8" height limit (our van is 7 foot tall). We went to Hooters (Sarah's request, she likes the wings and chocolate cake) for dinner with everyone including Greg and the kids and Steph's husband and kids. Kyle says it's his new favorite restaurant. hehe We then sent the husbands and the kids on their way and us girls went to Howl at the Moon. They did a lovely job of embarrassing Sarah (including a bumper sticker on her butt) and we ordered lots of beer and mixed drinks. I may or may not have been dancing on the stage at some point. But ha, no pictures! Oh wait, I think my cousin may have taken a few... As Sarah would say, good times, good times.
Friday: Off to Small Town Indiana! Friday was a complete insane mish mash of running all over God's green earth. We dropped the kids off at my parents house and went to Slightly Larger Small Town Indiana to get our nails done. Greg took this time to spend $250 at Wal-Mart. Then Greg and I washed the van and bought champagne (the clerk at the liquor store had the best quote of the weekend, when asked about different champagnes as there seemed to be only one choice, she said: "Small Town" isn't really a champagne drinking kind of place). We also sent up a tent (long story) on my parent's front yard in the pouring rain. Then by that time, we had to get ready for the rehearsal. And someone should have warned me, I had a hell of a lot more responsibilities as the "matron of honor" than I did as the actual bride at my own wedding. At least the best man was charming and witty so all the "up and down" and "fluff the bride's dress" wasn't too bad. Oh, oh! I have a picture! (The one before my camera died.) Steven and Sarah with the priest
Friday night until Saturday morning at 4am: Oh God, the flowers... I didn't even have a chance to start on them until almost 11pm (after the rehearsal dinner and then putting the kids to bed). I hit the wall at about 2:30am when I had no idea what to do with the bridesmaids' bouquets. But I finally managed to finish everything and crawled into the tent at 4am. To wake up at 7am to be with Sarah before she went to get her hair done. 3 hours of sleep following a night of only 4 hours of sleep... I don't really recommend it.
Saturday: This may have been the first wedding ever where we actually stayed on the time schedule. The highlights: myself and another bridesmaid up underneath Sarah's wedding dress to pin it so her hot pink underwear didn't show (there is a picture of this somewhere, I don't happen to have it yet), Kelly spilling pineapple juice on her flower girl dress before pictures, the groomsmen wilting their hydrangea boutonnieres before the ceremony (but thankfully after the pictures) by drinking beer out of the trunk of a car in 90 degree heat, and Greg's bridesmaid almost falling up the steps to the altar (oh yeah, Greg was a groomsman but he didn't walk with me, I had the cutie best man instead *winks*). Despite it all, Sarah and Steven were happily married and we all went to the...
Reception! Finally I have some pictures for you! Here are Kyle and Kelly as the ring bearer and flower girl, Sarah and Steven cutting the cake, and another good picture of Sarah. And yes, I have a picture of myself. But I have to warn you first. We had a slight problem with the bridesmaid dresses. As in all of us bridesmaids kept falling out the top of them. Okay so that probably wasn't a problem for all the guys there. Normally I wouldn't post a picture like this but my in-laws have already seen it so why not share it with the ten or twenty of you on the internet as well... Me. Also you can see the flowers in the background, the red roses were Sarah's and the green and blue flowers were mine. Yeah, I stayed up until 4am the morning of the wedding and the only picture I have of the flowers also has me hanging out of my dress in front of them. *sigh*
So there you have it. I'm so thrilled to have been a big part of their wedding and driving 1600 miles round trip and getting no sleep was completely worth it. But thank God I don't have any more unmarried sisters...
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