Wedding Weekend

We welcomed a new member to the family this past weekend. Lacy and Britton were married on Saturday in Woodbury. Family began arriving on Wednesday evening and the last of them left Tuesday morning. Friday it was windy and cold...VERY cold for the rehearsal dinner that was planned for the outdoors, but we were die hards and did it anyway. It's amazing how many clothes people can "find" in their cars when the weather calls for it! Saturday was a beautiful sunny, mild day. The wedding was beautiful as were the bride & groom. Congrats Britton and Lacy!

Sorry, these are in no particular order... Aunt Diane looking at pictures with the kids.

Grandpa, Grandma, Great Grandpa Bob, & Grandma Bonnie.

Grandpa Bob & Grandma Bonnie with the kids. It took MANY pictures to get this one but it turned out pretty good!

Grandpa Bob helping Carley and Kyra get their dunking technique just perfect (something he has taught ALL of his newest grandchildren and great grandchildren over the past 7 years!

Reagan dunking her cracker. She looks so proud.

Carley and Reagan snuggling - I think they might just be a little tired.

Great Grandma Wolf with the kids.

Second (or third, not sure how that works out?) cousins - Wade and Reagan playing in Grandma's flower bed. Shhh...don't tell her.

Little mother hen Kyra helping Reagan along.

A relaxing Sunday in Claremont.

Tyler, Gavin and Nick. Gavin LOVES spending time with these two!She thinks she is hot stuff.

Great Grandma Miller.

Reagan hanging out with Uncle Mike and giving Great Grandpa a "burner" hand slap.

By 10:30 on Saturday night this is what all of our kids looked like. I can't imagine why...after 4 days without a nap, late bedtimes, early rising, and much visiting with relatives!!!

#4 down for the count - Reagan snuggling with cousin Meghan.

#1 down (even though his eyes are open - he is "down" - he was out less than a minute later). Snuggling with Aunt Sharon.

#2 down. Okay, so Kyra isn't down yet. But she went from dancing all over the reception venue to "dancing" in uncle Britton's arms for her last 4 songs that she "danced" to. Thanks for the lift Uncle Britton! We put her in her carseat when we left and she was asleep before we got Carley strapped in to her carseat. A matter of seconds!

And #3 down. Carley was the first to go. She got too heavy and too hot to hold, so I found a nice quiet place by the head table for her to rest.

Gavin and cousin Tyler hanging out.

Lacy giving a speech. Britton giving a dance move?! Not sure what he was doing, but looks like he is having a good time.

Cousins - Joe, Wade, Reagan and Jason with Grandma.

Daddy and Kyra having a rest time.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Sharon with Reagan.

The Wolf Family - Jason, Brandon and Stacy.

Britton and Lacy being escorted to the reception by Bryon and Jacque.

Uncle Bryon, Gavin, Carley, Uncle Britton, Kyra and Aunt Jacque - good looking crew!

Reagan catching some zzz's after the wedding.

They were all dressed up and hair done - I had to do some "yearly" photos to update my picture frames.

Kyra

Carley

Gavin

Grandma and Grandpa.

Buddies - Uncle Mike & Carley.

The ceremony: The kids did great - everyone walked down the isle and they looked so darn cute!

A new family photo. Yeah! Great Grandma Miller, Grandma Wolf and Reagan.

Carley, Kyra, Lacy, Britton and Gavin.

The guys. The girls.

The brothers checking out the rings.

Beautiful Bride!

The grandparents - Bonnie, Bob, Lacy, Britton, Betty, Audrey.

Britton and Bryon before the ceremony.

Little Miss Reagan.

The girls enjoying the smell of the freshly delivered flowers. Aunt Sharon pinning Gavin's flower on.

Many times people think these two are twins when we are out and about - not so far off when you dress them alike!

3 good looking gals - Carley, Jacque and Kyra.

The VERY chilly rehearsal dinner at the park.

Checking each other out. Grandpa Bob and Reagan.

Grandpa Bob reading Amelia Bedeila with Carley.

Reagan and Jason giving Aunt Stacy a run for her money! :-) Grandma Bonnie playing Twister witht he kids.

Grandma aka "wonder woman". She has 80 people to feed the next day but she makes time for her grandkids - snuggling with Kyra and Carley on the living room floor.

Oh No She Didn't...Oh Yes She Did...

Finally took some more pictures of the kittens. They are growing fast. They have their eyes open now, drank their first bowl of milk yesterday and are starting to walk and venture around the garage a bit. The kids cannot stay away from them - they should be either as tame as ever and nothing bothers them or they will be wild as can be, just to get away from "little people".

So, today I thought Carley was upstairs but after not hearing from her or seeing her for a little while I figured I better check on her. Come to find out she had snuck outside. So, as I open the door to the breezeway, she is sitting on the rug playing barber with the kitten. Yes, she did in fact give the kitten a hair cut with her little kid scissors. Now, I would have normally been upset about this (and I still pretended to be upset with her because no, I do not really wanting her giving the cats haircuts) but in reality I was thanking God that she used the scissors on the cat instead of on herself (especially since she is in Uncle Britton and Aunt Lacy's wedding this weekend). So, thank goodness for small favors. The cat has a shorter look but Carley is still normal looking. I am locking all of the scissors up in our house. I thought we were past the hair (of any kind) cutting stages.

Gavin Turned 7!!!

Gavin turned 7 on August 14th! Ever since going to kindergarten he has decided that sports are a big part of his life and he is very loyal to the MN teams - Twins and Vikings. This year he wanted a baseball themed cake. As you will notice, the cake wasn't the only baseball going on for this party - I am definately seeing a theme! After the big party day, Jed and I were tucking him in to bed and he said, "you know, I think this is going to be my favorite birthday ever." And what made it so special you ask? He said "because I got to go fishing with Grandpa". (Besides Twins stuff he got a new fishing pole that he and Grandpa had to go try out after the party - must be a good one, they caught some fish)!

Happy Birthday Gaver Man! We love you.