Wedding

After our pit stop at Niagara Falls, we drove down to Rochester, NY on Thursday afternoon for Joey and Marie's wedding. The wedding activities started on Thursday night, with a family/friends BBQ at a park. The kids ran around like crazy, which was just what they needed.

The wedding was on Friday in the Palmyra Temple. Makenna was lucky enough to be a flower girl, and was SO excited about her fancy orange dress. My cousin Lisa, who also happens to live in Rochester, made an adorable little matching bow tie for Hudson.

Marie with her bridesmaids and flower girls

The entire wedding party

Our attempt at a family photo. I guess Makenna decided she was done smiling nicely.

Hudson LOVES anything that makes loud noise and has wheels, tractors included.

After all of Makenna's 'official' wedding party photos were over, she decided that she wanted to take some more pictures. She went around asking me to take pictures of her with all of the other family members. Here are just a few.


Uncle Dan

Grandma CeCe

Grand-Da

After leaving the temple, we headed straight to the reception, which was a lot of fun. I was able to see and visit with my cousin Lisa and her husband Chris, and also spend some more time with John's brothers and their wives who we don't see very often. Hudson kept trying to escape outside during dinner, but as soon as the dancing started, both kids were well entertained. Makenna loved dancing with Marie, and we all had a great time.

We are so glad that we were able to make the trip out to NY; (even if it was 2300 miles and 4 days in the car!) it was well worth it to be there, and be a part of Joey and Marie's wedding.

Niagara Falls

Last week we had the chance to travel to Rochester, NY for uncle Joey's wedding (John's brother). Since we were driving...yes, driving...all the way to NY, we thought that we would take the opportunity to go and see Niagara Falls since it is only an hour away from Rochester. John had visited once as a kid, but I had never been before, and was very excited to see this amazing landmark. We arrived at our hotel on Wednesday evening, and after spending 2 days in the car, we happily walked down to the Niagara Falls Park.

I was so impressed with the falls and thought they were amazing, but the kids were more interested in playing with the dirt right in front of the guard rails!

On Thursday morning, we decided to take the kids on the Maid of the Mist boat ride that goes right up to the falls. We thought it was a good idea...

The before

The during

The after

The poor kids were terrified when they started getting sprayed with water. They both cried the whole time we were getting wet. I did feel bad for them, but John and I also thought it was pretty funny. They recovered quickly, so I don't think they were too traumatized. Afterwards, we took a few more pictures before jumping in the car and driving to Rochester.

Update

Wow, a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks. Here is a quick recap.

First, I celebrated my 27th birthday. We were in the midst of packing for our move to Omaha, so my birthday was pretty low key, but John and the kids helped to make it special.

Next was our move to Omaha, which happened on the 25th of May. We rented a big truck, loaded up all of our stuff (with the help of some awesome, really strong guys!), and after saying some tearful good-byes to all of our wonderful friends in Bloomington, we were on our way to Omaha. Since I had the kids in the car by myself, while John drove the truck, we broke the drive up into two days.

We arrived in Omaha on Thursday the 26th, and the next morning, we closed on our very FIRST house! We are so excited to finally be home owners.