Thursday, October 27, 2011

Adventure on Grandma Ruth's Land

The next day after Billie's wedding, Mark, Laina, Sutton, and I went for a walk while Bodie took a nap. Here's what we explored.

Mark's putting a painted turtle back in the water that we found up on the hill. He was also yelling at Chester to not try to dive into the creek after the turtle. :)

I don't know why this picture keeps being sideways....









Rides from Daddy!

The beautiful landscape









After we got done playing on the bales, we headed back to Grandma's. Sally met us on the way back with Boji. And we walked the rest of the way back, discovering sparkly rocks and round rocks and white rocks. It was a great walk!

The Wedding

Here are the wedding pictures that I have...not many...at all. Not even any of the wedding..... or the wedding party.... I need to get some from Mark's parents.... I'm really sorry....I was so busy getting keeping kids entertained and putting beads on skirts and making sure all the flower girls had what they needed and feeding kids....it was busy. Then during the ceremony, Mark (up front by Billie and the other best man) couldn't find the other pillow with the ring on it and was motioning to me at the back of the crowd to find it. So I spent the next what felt like forever trying to find it when it was already up in one of the Maids'-of-Honor hands. Also, Bodie was taking a nap at Kelsea's parents' house, so I went back a couple of times to check on him. It did make it a lot easier to have him sleeping.

All righty, here's what I have.
Waiting before the wedding....
This is Hallie (Mark's cousin's daughter)
The Wedding....

Nope....
  Then the reception afterward..... sorry!
My Little Laina
 


 My Sut-Sut :)

Our Family Picture - I didn't mean to match but it worked out. :)
 A couple of the centerpieces - all the tables had different ones

 Daddy and Laina dancing

Mark giving his best man speech...hehehe
He did a very good job. It was really funny with enough sentimentality. It was great! I wish that I had a video of it.

Well, that's all that I have. If I get some from Mark's parents, I'll post them. :)

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Billie and Kelsea's Rehearsal

The Rehearsal
It was in a field right across the street from Kelsea's parents' house.
They found these windows salvage and put in the stained glass. It was just beautiful.
The "pillows" on the ground were actually cast in cement. The couch was for the flower girls to sit on during the ceremony.
Kelsea's dad made this ramp and background. It was so pretty and the whole seen fit perfectly. It was all just elegant in it's simplicity.


Hallie (Mark's cousin's daughter), Sutton, and Laina

I don't want to look at you. It's too bright!

Pastor Mark, the officiant, and Bille, the groom. hehe

Sally (Mark's mom) and Matt (Mark's cousin Kim's husband) and Bodie (Mark's son - I had to say it)

In the background is Lacee (not sure of spelling) and Paul - Mark's cousins' kids.
Sutton, Arena (the little girl) and Landry (the older one) - both are Billie's neices.

I should have taken the older girls, too, and not cut off their heads. hehe. I was just thinking about all the flower girls. There were six! Four were related to Bille and two related to Kelsea.
I realize that I didn't get any pictures of Kelsea. Sheesh. I was so busy with trying to figure out what the flower girls and ring bearers were supposed to do that I wasn't very consistent with pictures. Sorry about that.

The Rehearsal Dinner
At Bill and Renee's
The chuckwagon - the jugs were filled with cooking vegetables.
The musician - he played all sorts of instruments.

The Barbeque pit - Look at all those steaks! YUM!!!!

The brands for the steaks.


Bill and Renee's beautiful house (On the left, that's Mark with his A Sarah, A Susan, and cousin Mollie)


Inside the house, Renee had tables set up. Each chair had a napkin with a saying and Kelsea and Billie's names and date on it and we had lemonade or tea in glass jar mugs also with the date and names on it both of which we got to keep. The tables were beautiful. Oh, that's Erik, Mark's cousin Billie Rae's husband. I wasn't meaning to get him in the pic and didn't realize until later that he was in it. But at least he's smiling! hehehe

The stagecoach that gave rides.

Waiting for our stagecoach ride.

Just another view of the cooking. That wooden thing on the right is a big trough type thing that all the food was put in to keep warm and the servers gave us food out of it. Soooo good. Besides the steaks and veggies, inside was bread and then peach cobbler and ice cream for desert. All the food was homegrown. SOOOO good!!!!

We had such a good time! I wish that I could have gotten some more pictures. I meant to get some from Mark's parents when they were here, but we forgot! I wish I hadn't done that!! They had some other pictures that would have been nice to have and show you.

I will continue with the wedding later. I really don't have many pictures at all of that since I was somewhat in charge of the all the flower girls and my ringbearer and Bodie. I was slightly busy. I didn't even get a picture of Kelsea in her beautiful dress. Sorry about that. She really did look beautiful.... but, anyway, the wedding is coming up next. :)