Aunt Meem Came To Meet Lydia Mae!

On Wednesday June 25, 2014, Anne Marie made the trip back to Metamora to visit us and to meet Lydia Mae. Mom was out of town and Dad was gone for work reasons so Anne stayed with us for the two nights she was back. The kids were so excited!!!!

 

She got into town Wednesday evening and headed straight to meet the baby. Then Mary, Anne, and Lydia came over to our house to have a slumber party!

Sweet Lydia. Look at that crazy hair!

Lydia looks scared.

I feel like she is saying, "Are you sure you know what you are doing?"

On Thursday we had a great day. We played. We ate. We spent the day just being together. Anne went to see a few friends and Mary went home to shower while the kids and I watched Lydia. Thursday night we had a reunion with the Pizzuti girls and Jessica and Brenna. Anne, John, and I met them at Bernardi's for a fabulous dinner. It was delicious. It was so good to catch up.

 

Then Anne and I came home. We had a nice little photoshoot in the yard...

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then we went on a bike ride. Anne had never pulled a trailor with 55 lbs of kids in it. :)

It was quite the work out.

How cute are those two????

They look a BIT scared.

We continued our fabulous slumber party. Charlotte LOVES Aunt Mee Mee and couldn't have been happier that she was here to spend time with her. (Sawyer loves her too but Charlotte is OBSESSED.)

 

On Friday morning we woke up and Anne and Charlotte were in charge of breakfast.

 

yummmmmmmm.... she feels it is a delicious masterpiece!

 We ended Anne's visit with us by heading to lunch at "Mr. Joe's" place....AKA Main Street Café.

It's a crowd favorite.

Gigi and her babies....clearly Sawyer was too buy eating to be bothered with a picture.

 

Super hero Sawyer!!!!!!!!

 

Love all of these people.

The Weber girls....minus Charlotte.

 

It really was a great few days. We miss Anne so much and wish she lived closer. Sometimes five hours is just too far. We wish she was just around the corner so we could do stuff like this all of the time. Thanks for coming to visit, Anne. It was nice that Mom and Dad were gone most of the time so you could stay with us!!!

 



Mallory and AJ's Wedding

My cousin Mallory married her high school sweetheart on October 26 in a beautiful wedding in Alton, IL.

My cousin Jake walking Grandma Ann down the aisle :) We got to the church right as the wedding was starting so we had to sneak into the back. (Terrible wedding ettiquette. Sorry, Mal.)

Uncle Stinky and Aunt Michelle

The Matron of Honor (and her 9 month baby bump) and the Best Man

Sweet Kyla Margaret. This was her face as she saw Charlotte. She whispered "Charlotte" right after I took this.

The beautiful bride as the doors were opening.

I was crying at this point. Uncle Richard was crying as he gives his second daughter away :)

Seeing my uncles cry gets me every time.

She look stunning.

It was a Catholic wedding with a mass. Sawyer was actually a good boy! Busy but good.

Kyla Margaret with her Grandpa after the wedding.

Mr and Mrs AJ

The weather was beautiful, there were bubbles everywhere, it was amazing!

Charlotte loves her some bubbles...

The Weber Family

(minus John, Alex, Jeremy and Darrin...all of which at to work)

Aunt Bare and the most handsome little guy...

We headed to Target after the wedding to get a snack, a present, and some drinks.

Then we headed over to the reception....which had a beautiful view of the river and the bridge.

Charlotte LOVED the fountain. She kept finding people to take with her to the fountain.

Melia did Mal's bridal portraits. Sooooo pretty. She did them at the farm.

At first glance it does appear that she is drinking beer.

It's really apple juice. She insisted on drinking like everyone else. Who needs a sippy cup anyway?

Love that face... and my fat arm.

He played and played in the window....he even fell and bruised his cheek doing it but still got back up and played some more.

This boy and his Gigi.

Always such a lady. She gets her skills from her mom.

And Wayne is in the house!!! Poor boy was teething but he put that aside for the first 20 minutes that he was at the reception. He dominated that place!! He was into everything within minutes...and Charlotte was helping make sure he didn't touch stuff he wasn't supposed to.

Gigi and Papa and their babes.

Kyla finally was done with pictures and Charlotte couldn't have been more excited. She is obsessed with her. HOW CUTE ARE THEY?

They announced the bridal party and bride and groom. The crazies actually all took a seat while they did that.

Sawyer even clapped along with everyone else.

Heading to the dance floor for their first dance (which they shared with Charlotte and Kyla)

Poor baby Wayne. They headed home not too long after this. He just wasn't feeling well.

Sawyer loves his Uncle Cha Cha

The Weber grandkids...minus John and Eric.

Uncle Jim, Aunt Tammy, Ryan, Michaela, and Kurtis

Katie, Aunt Didi, Uncle Grant, Melissa, and Jake

The Hendricks family plus Alicia

Love this couple :)

These three are a perfect hot mess :)

And they are all so pretty....even Jake is :)

The Weber Siblings with their Momma

The core 6 if you will...

Pretty pretty ladies

This shall be continued in another post with the fabulous dance pictures :)