Some of these might be repeats, but I will always love candid photos. I know people hate them - hell when they are of me, I sort of hate them too because I always look like I am mad, or have my eyes weird or my mouth hanging open or something. I still love them anyway. Showing people living in the moment.
Sunny - Preston' s girlfriend. We really think she is a great girl and we enjoy when she comes around with Preston. We can tell he is pretty crazy about her. She is sweet, and funny, and polite and we like her coming to family things and hanging out with us. She reminds me a lot of Spencer - they tend to take care of my boys. Quietly making sure they are safe, and taken care of. As a mom, I appreciate this more than they will probably ever know.
Mother/son dance is an emotional roller coaster. I love my son. He was an absolute joy to raise. He was that kid who had a million friends always crashing our house, was always building something crazy, broke all the house rules, but never got in trouble because he was always so dang honest about it, scared us because he likes speed and adrenaline, kept us running to sporting events, and when he was a baby, I remember sometimes going to pick him up and hug him because he was always so happy, that sometimes we almost forgot he was there. As long as his belly was full, he was happy as he could be. He really made parenting easy. I miss having him at home because he is also my kid who loved to do outside work. He was always happy to clean the garage, or mow the yard, or weed wack or work on a car. He has a heart for working and staying busy. I love the man he has grown into, and I am forever thankful that he is my son.
I also love the woman he married. Spencer is all the things that Colin needs for balance. She is driven, and works hard, she definitely can keep up with all his craziness. She also makes sure he does things correctly and safely. She is sweet, and smart and funny and works side by side with my son to build a life together. I think they are going to be very happy for a lifetime.
Spencer was excited about their photo booth. I have to admit, it is not something I would have thought to do at a reception, but it was so much fun. My "girl cousin" photo. A lot of family drove in for this wedding, and I was so happy to see them all!
Did you ever watch the movie "Dirty Dancing" with Patrick Swayze? If you haven't, you need to rectify that immediately! Best movie! At the end, when Patrick Swayze dances with Baby - and she runs across the room and flies at him and he catches her.....most iconic scene ever! My boys, my nephews and Travis tend to try to reenact that at every single wedding they go to. Is it safe? Nope. Is it hilarious? Yes! These photos may be hard to tell what is going on, but it is Colin - who stripped off his shirt for this event, and Gavin catching him. I think it is nice that Cameron, Travis and Preston were spotting him, so he didn't get a concussion on his wedding night!
Colin's new father-in-law did tell me that when he took his shirt off, and then went to adjust his pants, he thought for a minute Colin was going to go naked and panicked a little bit! He kept his pants on thankfully! I am not sure that he stuck the landing, but he didn't hit his head or get hurt so that is a good thing! I bet the next time that DJ gets asked to play "I had the time of my life" he says no!
We all had a great time dancing the night away and using the photo booth!
Cameron did a great job on the Best Man speech! It was funny and touching.
It was an amazing weekend. I loved every minute of celebrating Colin and Spencer.
That being said, I am also a 3 day traveler. I spent 4 days in Wichita trying to help where I could, attending things and being around people. If you know me, you know that even though I was having a great time, about day 2 I am ready to go home. By day 3 I am antsy. For me, there really just is no place like home. We stopped by Colin's house to drop some things off and then hit the road. I was excited to get here! We got the car unloaded, stepped inside the house, and got hit in the face with what seemed to smell like dragon breath, mixed with dead poop, and a little bit of something I can only describe as what the hell. It smelled awful! Quincy said that we had forgotten to take the trash out and Ollie had shredded it everywhere after the neighbors put them in for the night. Needless to say, she had to do some clean up, which I appreciate, but the smell was still bad! We managed to get it stomped down a little bit, and I decided it would help if I went out and got some more basil from the garden and dried it.....basil will make the house smell better! So I put on my shoes, and trudged out to the garden. I found that being gone for several days, I had more than just basil to grab. I had shirt being used as a bucket - and had a bunch of stuff balanced in there. I headed over to check to see if there were cucumbers I could cut up for our dinner. And that is when things got a little crazy!
Maude might have actually saved me from a catastrophe! See, we have border collies - they poop in one spot in the back of the house - they hardly ever poop anywhere else. And Carlos - his poop is tiny and he also tends to poop in the back yard. But Maude - she poops everywhere! She is doing a bit better on potty training, so as long as she poops outside - I don't care where she goes! I am not trying to train her to poop in a certain location. But because she poops everywhere, I tend to walk with my head down, watching my step. As I headed over to the cucumber area, I thought - ohh step around that pile!
Only to realize that it was NOT DOG POOP!
I quickly backed up a few steps! Because that was....
A small copperhead! It is a good thing I was watching my step because it was literally right in my path! I do not like to kill things, but copperheads generally would be an exception. I did not kill this one however, because I didn't have anything on me to kill him with, and I had my whole shirt full of vegetables and basil! I did call Saige out, because she had been wanting to see a live one. She actually took the bottom photo with her new phone camera - which is so much better than mine! He is still out there, so we will definitely be stepping a little lighter! Interestingly, as we were coming up the road on the way home, someone had killed a fairly large rattle snake. I mentioned to Jim that I had not really seen any venomous snakes this summer, which is unusual where we live. Guess I should go buy me a lottery ticket today!
