No More Monkeys!

Wedding Recap

Well, we're finally home. We have been for almost two whole days and we're still recovering. I've slept like a log for the past two nights and I'm still exhausted. Handsome Face went to bed at 7pm last night and didn't wake up until 8:40am. My kids NEVER do that. Oh, and my living room is covered in duffels, bags, and boxes, their contents streaming across the floor. I'll clean it up someday. I've given myself leave to not really do anything important for awhile. We're all just tuckered out.
Here are a few highlights from the trip. We went to St. Louis for a very quick, two and a half day visit for the wedding of my sister-in-law, Sheri.
Here the kids play checkers with Daddy outside Cracker Barrel while I cleaned out the car. This was something like 18 hours into the trip to St. Louis. It's a 22 hour drive, plus the added stops that are required when traveling with two small children. It wasn't fun driving all that way, but it wasn't awful. The worst part of going out was Handsome Face getting a hold of the Pringles while we were on our way to pick my husband up from work and then promptly throwing up. So gross. Good thing I covered the car seat. It helped - but not much. The other worst part was that the kids didn't go to sleep that night til really late.
After we got back from the Temple for the Endowment session, we found the kids in the basement, happily playing with the coveted toy car.

And here's the wedding. Cute Girl was a lovely little faux flower girl. Her Grandma does dress her up awfully well. Isn't she just cute? And I love Handsome Face's knee socks and caterpillar sweater vest. Hopefully you can get a good look at Cute Girl's hair. I didn't post pictures of it before because the wedding hadn't happened yet and it felt like cheating. She'd been running around all morning though so it's kind of tousled. Oh well, she's three, whatcha gonna do?

Handsome Face just loved his Uncle Bret. But my kids always love Bret so that wasn't surprising. He especially loved burying his face in Bret's hair. Cute Girl with Uncle Ryan. I swear these two were inseparable for the whole trip.

Handsome Face was so plumb tired out that he fell asleep on the way to the wedding luncheon. He ended up with a fever by the end of the reception and then threw up all over my dress while I attempted to bathe him. Luckily, Aunt Katie was there to help and wash the girlie while I rocked my boy and he got a blessing. He's still not feeling well. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Cute Girl hugging her first-cousin-once-removed Stori. Aren't you impressed that I know that? Stori is seven but the littlest thing in the world. Cute Girl is just as big as she is!

And I just noticed that there's not a single picture of the Rocket Scientist. He was there, I swear. But for once he had the camera and I got to be in the pictures.

I've been too busy getting ready to drive cross-country to post anything lately. But here's something finally. We did a trial run of Cute Girl's hair for the wedding on Sunday. We are growing out two layers of bangs, so her hair is kind of crazy. Here she is Saturday night with sponge rollers in her hair. She actually left the alone and she was very pleased with her little curls the next morning. She has very long hair but when curled it turns into a Little Orphan Annie bob. Too cute.

They're just too cool

Fun in the Tub

We didn't have such a great day yesterday. At least the bathtub bought us a brief period of relative calm.

Need some extra cash?

This is my favorite article of the day. And I don't have a single one of them.

Lots of flooding in Indiana. My mother's house has turned into command central for her ward. We're praying for them. And hoping that the forecasters are wrong about the rain and tornados to come.

P.S. It happened on her birthday. Now that's just rude!