So now I've had a couple of days to recoup from vacation. Here's a longer update.
We left Thursday morning and headed towards White Oak to meet a lady to pick up some hairbows and an outfit she had made for Grace. We were running a little late, but so was she. We got the bows etc, and got back on the road. Getting on 42 heading towards the interstate we got stuck in traffic. It was completely stopped. So we sat for about 30 minutes and then finally got on the interstate. It was smooth sailing until we got to around Terrell. Near the outlet mall- traffic was at a dead stop again. So more waiting. My friend Jayme had called to see if we would stop and get her some lunch on the way to meet her. We were stopping by her house to pick up a power inverter and some more clothes. She got lunch about 2pm. :( But we got that taken care of and on to Dublin. We needed to make it to Dublin by 5- thats when Old Docs closes. We pulled up in front of Old Docs at 4:48. Twelve minutes to spare. Loaded up the DP and hit the road for Kerrville. Went through the black hole of Texas where our phone didn't work for about an hour and a half. We pulled up in front of our hotel about a quarter to 8. Tired, Hungry, and very tired of driving. We left Marshall at 10:30. Got settled, said hello to everyone, ordered pizza for dinner. When we got to the hotel room our door was wide open- front desk didn't care. Strike One. In the middle of the night the AC stopped working, Strike 2. When I took the girls for breakfast there were bugs crawling around the food, in the juice containers and the milk was lukewarm, Strike three, four, five......
So we started calling around, there were no rooms in mom and grandma's hotel. So we ended up moving across the street to the Comfort Suites. We got a great deal, and were even upgraded to a suite. Friday was a busy day with a bridal lunch honoring Megan, then the rehearsal and a very exciting rehearsal dinner. The plan was to have the dinner at the park. As we were setting up, the wind starts blowing and thunder starts booming. So we move under the pavillion. Turns into a severe thunderstorm complete with a very long, very loud hailstorm. Kids were petrefied because of the noise. Food was good though, and no one got hurt.
Saturday went by quickly, and we had to be at the museum for pictures a couple hours early.
The entire area was magical- absolutely gorgeous.
The ceremony was so so sweet- I don't think there was a dry eye in the house. They were married by Megan's grandfather, so it was very personal. The reception was a blast- complete with a bad dancing contest. They left by the light of sparklers to start their new life together.
Sunday the plan was to go to the San Antonio zoo, but we woke up and checked the weather and it said 80% chance of severe weather so we decided to try and do the children's museum instead. However, we didn't anticipate the museum being in downtown San Antonio, and getting lost in a very bad part of town, and it being the last day of fiesta. So we hightailed it out of there, and headed to the hotel, but we couldn't check in yet. So we ended up walking around a mall for a while until time to check in. We checked into the room and got settled, and rested for a while then walked over to Denny's for dinner. Came back to the room and ordered National Treasure 2. It was great! Its a keeper for sure. Monday was the zoo, and Tuesday we did the Alamo then headed to Grand Prairie to visit some of our best friends. We got to Grand Prairie about 6 Tuesday evening and stayed until Saturday afternoon. It was a lot of time of just hanging out, park time and general fun.
Now we are home and time is filled with photo sessions, final projects due, bills and the like.
Biggest news of all- Aaron has put in for a promotion that will move us to Richardson. We feel really good about the decision. Its something we've been praying about for a while- and while we were up there last week, it just felt right. So we're moving forward. We would probably live in Grand Prairie, and he would commute to Richardson on the Dart train.
We are really praying that he gets accepted for the job and we can move before school starts.
So thats us. I'll be posting wedding pictures soon! :-)
