Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Nathan & Michelle's Wedding Weekend

I am a bit behind on this blog... I have lots of random summer happenings to post, plus vacation pictures... but I decided to post Michelle's wedding first because it was just this past weekend, and I was blessed to be able to be a part of it! We got home from vacation on Friday night, and bright and early Saturday morning it was picture time!  It was good to come home to something so exciting though! Bless Elisabeth's heart, she did my hair early Saturday morning. We went to Glen Oak Park for pictures, and all of us bridesmaids were early...that was a shocker!
Bridesmaids + little Cecily
Michelle's Family
Ellie, Me, Jenny, Michelle, Joy, Kendra, & Lena
Bridesmaids with Nathan


Such a dear friend to me -her dress was soo pretty!
Me & Kendra- Oh how I love this girl!

The Wedding Party


I'm not sure what we were doing :)

Me & Ellie
Kendra & Ellie

The Wedding Party + the ushers...everyone looks so nice, I'm not sure what's up with my smile...
Pictures went really fast... twice as fast as ours did it seemed like! After pictures, Daniel & I went out to lunch at Great Harvest with Troy, Ellie, little Cyrus and Kendra. We hung out at Ellie's parents afterwards and chatted. Before we knew it, it was time to race home and change for the rehearsal.

Rehearsal was hilarious... Shelly laughed all the way down the aisle every time. :) The dinner was in Speer, so we had a fun car ride with Troy, Ellie and Kendra. The weekend was full of laughs... so much fun. We're never all together like that!
Looking at their scrapbook


This picture cracks me up. The men of the core-4... also tallest to shortest ;)

Core 4 with the men!

These girls are so dear to me!

Bridesmaids...except Jenny. Sorry Jenny... we didn't know where you were! :)
Sunday was good. Elisabeth came and did my hair again.. don't know what I would've done without her! It was nice not to mess with it.... and just another excuse for someone to do my hair because I love when people do. :) I wasn't nervous to walk down the aisle, mostly just excited because of all the people that were there that I would get to talk to. :) It was so nice to be in a bridesmaid position this time, since the last time I walked the aisle it was myself!
Ready to walk down the aisle!

Officially married!!

Daniel & I... take 1
Take 2... :) We're not always the best with pictures.

So excited to hang out with them as married couples! :)

Good friends

Kendra, Kristin & Holly at the reception

Nathan & Michelle leaving... notice Michelle is squirting her cousins with a squirt gun!
Sorry that all of my pictures are of all the same people.... obviously you can tell who I was with most of the time...and who I love the most. ;) Just kidding..
Sunday afternoon was busy, we went to Michelle's reception for a bit, but then ran over to Kristin Stoller & Nate's reception(another good friend of mine that got married the same day!), then raced back to Michelle's so I could play the piano 2nd shift.

Sunday evening we went to Daniel's parents house because all the family was there for the evening. Going to bed Sunday night, the last thing I wanted to do was go to work the next day... After being on vacation for a week and then having such fun weekend with the wedding. But I had to get back to reality eventually!

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

What a smell!

Let me tell you about something I've never quite experienced before.... the most horrible smell you can imagine!

A few weeks ago, on a Wednesday night we headed off to church in Daniel's car. I thought it smelled when we got in, but I thought it was maybe just from Daniel's car sitting at the farm all day. Or his leftover sweat smell since it was so miserably hot that day. 
All the way to church I kept making comments about the smell. Daniel always says I have a super sensitive and good nose... so I think he thought it was just another one of my weird comments....(I don't think I go a day without making some kind of comment about some kind of smell..) He didn't think the smell was that bad, just faint.

After church, we got into our car, and the smell was HORRIBLE. Just imagine, a super hot, humid car(it was sooo muggy out that night) and the worst possible smell! I told Daniel it smelled like a rotting animal. He said "there HAS to be something in here....what is it?"
Then he remembered...... hold your breath(or stomach, whatever which you need to...)
Chicken Gizzards.

He went fishing in the morning before work with his brother David. He used the frozen chicken gizzards from when they butchered chickens this summer. Well he put them in his trunk....and they sat in that nasty heat and humidity ALL day long. 
As soon as I knew what it was it made the smell even worse. I told Daniel to pull over and throw the things out in the ditch! (Thank goodness church is in the country!) 
So we pulled over on the side of the road to get them out of the truck. Some guy stopped to see if everything was ok.... hahaha! "Yep," we said, "just getting something out of the trunk!"
Daniel waited to throw them out since there was a guy right there.... so we drove a bit with the gizzards on the drivers side floor...(don't worry they were in a plastic container). I told him to hurry up and throw the things out! He told me to toss them.... Ewwww, but anything to get those things out of the car! I took them from Daniel and tossed them right out the window.
Apparently I tossed them a little too soon. Right into someone's ditch by their house.... whoops! I was praying their dog ate them before they saw or had to smell them!!

So let me just tell you. I have never smelled something like that in my life. And I hope I never do again.
Daniel gets me out of my little box sometimes...with little things like this(which happens rather frequently), to camping, hunting, and the list goes on...
BUT I wouldn't have it any other way! :)

Camping & Canoeing

Daniel's family spent a weekend in the great outdoors in June at the Lughinbuhl's lake and woods. I haven't done that type of thing in a long time. I enjoyed it, but to be honest, I am not a camper or a "great outdoors" woman at all. :) Actually I think what put a damper on the weekend was that I was sick...I had stayed home from work sick on Thursday afternoon and all day Friday....and then bright and early on Saturday we went canoeing down the muddy Mackinaw river. I do love canoeing and I didn't want to miss out on the weekend..so since I didn't have a fever anymore I went anyway!

The group (minus Mom L)

Seth L went with us, Tmothy, Joe and Tuke the dog

Elisabeth went with us in our canoe. Us girls got to take turns sitting in the middle of the boat.
She is such a dear to me!
We went canoeing from 10am to 4pm. The water was perfect... however there could've been more sun to work on my tan. :)  Elisabeth and I may have freaked out at the flying carp in the river... there were a ton of them! One almost jumped right into our canoe! :) After canoeing we spent the evening at Lughinbuhl's pavillion by the lake. We invited Les & Judy down for dinner. They were so kind to let us use their lake, boat, gator, 4-wheeler and everything outdoors.
 

Mom L, Letty, & Judy
 




Joe made us all dinner on Saturday night!
You can call me weird, but I love fishing! (Oh, and that's their beautiful home in the background!)
Fishing with Fred & Jodi
Sweet little Letty was such a trooper camping... she did better than me! :)
Saturday night was a rough night of sleep... I even took 2 Nyquil, and I could not fall asleep. And if I did, it wasn't for long. I felt like I only got a couple hours of sleep. At 6am Sunday morning I told Daniel to take me up to Les & Judy's house, I wanted to sleep on the couch in the basement for a little while before church. Even though I couldn't sleep because of my coughing, it felt great to be in the air-conditioning and in the house! We showered at Les & Judy's and then headed to church. Robert & Mary met us at church, and then we all went back out to the lake to celebrate June birthday's that afternoon and evening.
Elisabeth & Letty
 
All the boys swam. Shiloh & Daniel
Sisters...Mary & Elisabeth
Robert & Asher
June Birthdays: Elisabeth, Daniel, & Shiloh
 
 
Enjoying Dessert
 
Les & Judy- such a sweet couple!
 
Shiloh opening his presents... he's 3 years old!
 Not the best picture of us... but this is proof that I truly felt horrible! I look so sick in this picture!
 
Birthday boy proud of one of his new toys :)
 It was a great weekend... I really would've enjoyed it if it wasn't for being sick. Hoping the next campout we go on will be better than this one! If there is another! ;) Haha... oh what I do for my husband! ;) I'm kidding...the family time was great, and I knew Daniel was having a blast, so it was very much worth it, even if I joke about it sometimes. :)

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Summer Fun

This summer has been a busy one. I am not nearly caught up enough with all of the acitivies and events we have done. It has been wonderful with Daniel not having school! We are on vacation right now... but what a perfect time to catch up. :)It's been a great week of relaxing!
One evening us "younger" cousins hung out. Jenna & Brad, Jamie, Adam, and us all went mini golfing, to McDonalds for food(gotta love the healthiness! :), and back to Jenna & Jamie's to hang out.



The group of us! Oh, and I never announced on my blog that Jenna and Brad are engaged! :) Yeah! Welcome to the family Brad! Good thing we like to hang out with you already! ;)


In other news, we had a baby shower for Lindsay and her little boy... who is already born now! Welcome to the world little Liam!
The hostesses
Linds and the little girls... just like old times. :)