As Promised

We went to a wedding in Ohio this weekend.  A 500 guest wedding, holy smokes! The brides maids, there were a bunch of the, were dressed in a royal blue, and were totally gorgeous.  The decorations were fall colors....all the flowers were in fall colors.  I've never seen brown flowers, but they were so beautiful.  It was an amazing wedding.

We started out early on Friday, we let the kids get out of school early.  Jourdan's friend Katie went with us too, which was fun for them.  It took us just over 4 hours to get to our hotel in Findlay.  The trip wasn't so bad because we have a DVD player in the the Excursion.  And, since it's like driving a Winnebago, there is plenty of room for everyone, lol.

It helps that the little ones slept about an hour each, it helped pass the time.

So, we got to the hotel (Holidya Inn Express) unloaded really quick and then headed over to Lima to meet Scott's sister Rhonda, and her family, at Fat Jacks for pizza.  It it the absolute BEST pizza I have ever had in my entire life.  Hands down, the best pizza ever!

Back when Scott's mom died, his sister Connie was such a bitch and she was the Executrix of the will.  She went through 5 years of bank statements and all kinds of other things that were really terrible and ended up dragging the family through probate court.  Scott hasn't talked to either of his sisters or his brother since then.  A few months ago, his oldest sister Rhonda sent us an email asking us to contact her.  She'd had some medical problems and it was really make her think about her life.  She missed her brother.  She didn't even know that we'd had Sami.

So, we'd been writing back and forth for several months, which was ok because she didn't really have anything to do with the whole mess that Connie created.  Rhonda just sort of got stuck in the middle.  I'm not saying she was completely innocent, but I think that Scott has forgiven her and has moved on.  It was a really hard time in Scotts life to deal with.  Both of his parents passed away at early ages and he has a very small family.  So, for the last...5 years he hasn't really spoken to any of them until we heard from Rhonda.

So, I let her know we were going to be in Ohio and we decided to meet at Fat Jacks and her whole family was there.  It was really nice because she has 3 really nice kids, and all their families were there too.  We really enjoyed ourselves and the kids got to meet Aunt Rhonda and cousins that they didn't even know existed until this weekend.  And that is a happy thing to have happen.

After dinner we went back to the hotel and hit the pool and hot tub.  It closes at 11 but the guy let the kids stay in until 12:30.  Not Sami of course, she was out by 11pm.  Saturday we shopped, and shopped, and shopped some more.  But I got alot of good Christmas presents.  Not like you can find Ohio State stuff here in Michigan!

Then, we were off to the reception.  This brings me to tomorrow's topic, but I'm not going to spoil this nice post with a shitty comment made by my loving husband.  But I'm counting on you girls to back me on this one...so stay tuned.

Lisa gave Scott a corsage so we were able to drink from the bar for free all night long.  I had about 10 rum and cokes....ugh!  Anyhow, we had a good time.  Sami went with us.  I wish that Scott would have been a little more social, with me anyways, he knew a ton of people here.  I don't mind that.  I ended up sitting alone quite a bit with Sami while he chatted up friends he hadn't seen in alot of years.  That didn't even bother me.  I  promise to tell you what DID bother me when I post tomorrow.

For tonight, just the thoughts of a beautiful fall wedding. 

Sunday we got up and the kids hit the pool quick before we left.  We stopped at Jim and Lisa's to say hi and then we were on our way to Michigan.  I think all those run and cokes did something to me because I fell asleep before we got on the 80/90 turnpike in Wausseon and I didn't wake up again until we were almost to 96 just east of Lansing.  Made the trip go real fast for me, lol!

All in all, was a good weekend.  We got to spend time with Scott's sister and our very good friends Jim and Lisa.  We miss them so much!  I got the impresssion they didn't think we would show up, and you should have seen their faces when we walked in.  I think there was mutual happiness! 

The funniest part, aside from the Bride and Groom dance, was Sami dancing and singing, "I like to move it move it, she likes to move it move it, he likes to move it move it.  Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you.  Going on a hayride, going on a hayride."  Don't ask, I have no idea where she got that whole song from.  But it was cute as hell.

Until tomorrow, keep positive thoughts and make happy memories....