Catching up

Kathleen & Peter's Wedding

We went to Florida last week for Kevin's sister's wedding. We left on Wednesday and stayed with Dad and Dianne. The boys loved swimming in their pool, and I was relieved that Kamryn did so well in the water too. Maybe those swim lessons at Lifetime Fitness helped:) She was not afraid of the water at all and loved sitting in the little ring.

One of Kath's friends and I had a shower for her on Thursday night. It was fun to get together for a girls night before the big event. We had lots of great food and she got really nice presents. For favors I had made little cards up saying how to flirt with fans and then attached them to Chinese fans. (that's why Kamryn had scissors the other week, she wanted to be like me with scissors) I also ordered fortune cookies with custom fortunes inside all about love with Peter and Kathleen's name and wedding date. Kamryn loved eating these cookies and the Asian sesame mix that Lynn had out.

After the rehearsal dinner we went to Margaritaville at Universal. Then Kathleen and I stayed at the JW Marriott for her last night as a single girl. While we were chatting, we noticed these bird sounds and to me it really sounded like an owl. The room overlooked the pools and there were lots of trees too. When we tried to go to sleep, neither one of us could since then we started hearing other sounds too like crickets. I felt like I was camping inside the Marriott. After a night of restless sleep, while I was in the shower, Kath searched for the tv remote and found that our alarm clock had nature sounds on it and it was on . . . all night long . . . what idiots that we didn't notice that at bedtime.

Kamryn was the flower girl and she RAN down the aisle at the wedding to get to Kevin sitting in the first pew. (At least she made it down without me carrying her.) Since she was running so fast, the rose petals in her little basket fell out along the way. During the procession out of the church after the wedding, she walked with me and the best man and we almost tripped over her as she stopped quick in her tracks to pick up every single petal that had fallen out on the way in. Everyone was laughing because she was so cute.

At the reception, it was more like a cocktail party rather than a sit down dinner. Good thing because the 5 of us were sitting at the table eating, and Kamryn took her fork and started running it through her hair. What made her think of the little mermaid movie at that particular time, who knows. Dinglehopper no, fork yes. (anybody know what I'm talking about? The little mermaid finds a fork in the ocean and her friend bird tells her it's a dinglehopper and humans use it on their hair.)

Kamryn loves her Aunt Kathleen and although this was the first time we've met Peter, she really bonded with him too. She loved being held by him and playing with him. We're all so happy for the happy couple, they really are a match made in Heaven. Friends Visit


Two weeks ago, we drove halfway down to Indy to pick up Julia and Sarah and then brought them back home with us for a few days. The boys were very happy to have them visit. We went to the skate park many times, and they all loved it. We went to this pretty cool restaurant all done in trains. The food is even delivered to the counter where you are sitting by a train. Kamryn loved it but I was informed by the older kiddos that it was too babyish. When we drove back halfway to drop off the girls, Sue gave us the book that Julia wrote in 4th grade so we could copy it. It's called "Moving Away" and it's all about the boys and the friendship that they all share. The book made me very weepy as I was reading it, and I just hope that we all continue to get together so that our friendship stays strong.

Guinea Pig Update

Since we boarded the piggies at a local pet shop during our time away from home, I wanted to make sure that Scooter was indeed pregnant and everything was okay before we left. So Matt and I took her to a different vet the day before our trip and he did a very thorough exam on her. She is still pregnant and doing okay. Doing the math now, I guess she got pregnant while in our care by Brendan's piggie Razor. So the pet shop was wrong, they were not both girls. I was kinda hoping that she would give birth while she was at the pet shop, but no such luck. She's back home now, so hopefully everything with the birth goes okay since it's got to be approaching soon.