A June Wedding!

I know! I know!  I know!  It's already August and I'm still stuck in June.  Well, just suffice it to say that sometime I just get distracted.  But I'm back and we had a most wonderful wedding in June of a dear friend Erin- who just happened to have our beautiful daughter-in-law and granddaughter in her wedding.  Now how's that for a trefecta! 
Now it was a whirlwind.  Marianne and our babes were just barely here before they were off again for the desert.  But we loved it for a little while (and PS- you're going to see a whole lot more of them on these pages because they're moving back to Cincy at the end of this month- Clint will be deployed to Afganistan- more- a lot more- of that later- but Marianne et al will spend the time here in Cincy- close to family- and friends.  The upside of a really, really, really DOWN situation!) But I digress....

What is summer without a trip to the The Root Beer Stand! With the games to play...  Gotta admit the Root Beer Stand is a favorite.  They make the root beer on site and it is very good.  Eden didn't have any trouble realizing that this was good stuff, and Hayes soon followed suit.  With her brother and cousin sampling the nector, Reeder finally decided that she might b e missing something, so she too eventually sampled the Root Beer.

But it's ALL ABOUT THE ROOT BEER!

Now this cuter than cute little blond (I asked her where she got those freckles and she said "From my Daddy"...) is Eden our "granddaughter-in-law".  And aren't we lucky! She'll steal your heart in less than a minute!

And of course there was a trip to the pool!

And a trip to the park...  Not much for me to comment in this blog except for maybe the fact that we bought this bike trailor so I could take little Anthony on bike outings.  Now Anthony weighs 25 pounds and pulling him around isn't too bad.  But now Max had me pulling Reeder and Hayes, the two of which weigh closer to 75 pounds.  To say the least, we rode very slowly, very slowly with my bike in low low gear.

But the best part of this adventure wasn't the park- now- as is so often the case the best part of life is the unexpected!  The surprise! The day was hotter than hot (we've had a lot of those this summer!) and we couldn't even go down the slide it was so hot.  So we stopped off for lunch at Gabby's- always our favorite.  And then when we loaded up to head home the skids opened...

Well Marianne picked up the babes and me- and eventually Don did manage to get the bikes home through the rain.  But what fun!

AND I MADE REEDER A PRINCESS DRESS!  OH YES!  A PRINCESS DRESS!

Last winter during our trip to the desert we stopped off at a Walmart to pick up fabric to repair George! Well Reeder found some "princess" fabric for Grama to make a dress- and I brought it home.  Well after several (whose counting) trips to the store for more fabric- didn't quite have enough- and trim- and gold thread... I MADE THE DRESS! COMPLETE WITH JEWELLS!

And isn't Reeder the prettiest princess ever?

But enough of all this!  It's time to get to the main event!.  THE WEDDING OF ERIN MORLEY AND CHRIS WARMAN!  BEAUTIFUL!  And I might mention that a grand time was had by all!

Our beautiful Marianne- with the "baby bump"..

Our beautiful Reeder...

The Big Girls...

And the little ones...

Cousins (Reeder and Eden)...

The Big Picture!

And of course there were more (and more and more and more) photos..

And Don and Marianne had to try on the flower crown...

And OF COURSE Chocolate!

PERFECT NIGHT! PERFECT COUPLE! PERFECT FUN!