Wedding!!

January 23rd my baby sister go married!! We are so blessed that she found Bobby. He is an amazing addition to our family. And their day was amazing!

They chose The Pinery for their big day. SUCH a great choice! Highly recommend them to anyone wanting to get married in Colorado Springs. The coordinator and her assistant made the day so stress and wrinkle free. They have their own florist/decorator in house and she was fabulous! It was so much fun to work with her and dream up the perfect Winter Wonderland theme. And the DJ kept the reception jumping and fun but on track (and our track was tight!). He was amazing!

The big day started with all of us bridesmaides at the hairdresser. We love The Edge! They did such a good job and it was such a fun and relaxing way to get te day started!










After getting pampered I finished up the cake and left to go set it up while the girls got ready, got Starbucks and got down to The Pinery for the wedding!!





The brides and grooms rooms are amazing! They are such nice places to hang out, get ready and try to relax. They gave us some yummy fruit, cheese, and deli plates, water, and champagne. I think I was the last one dressed as I helped Shanna with her dress, then got Mika dressed, lol.











Finally it was Wedding Time!!

Mika did such a good job of walking with me and throwing her petals out! I did let her keep her binky so she would have a "comfort" measure, but it worked! (She had been starting to freak out in the brides room, so I was worried!) We had a "backup" of Grandma, who of course was sitting up front as Mother of the Bride, who had snacks and toys, just in case. However, the ring bearer ended up standing with us instead of the groomsman (his mom and dad were both in the wedding) so he kept her plenty occupied. (They're the same age. I think Logan's like 2 weeks older than Mika)

Shanna was so beautiful walking in! I was wishing I'd stuffed a tissue down my dress! The ceremonly was short, but gorgeous, just like Shanna wanted. And a good thing too! Mika and Logan were having TOO much fun. Everyone said they were great entertainment, but Kaidi (Logan's mom) and I were scared they were going to knock something over. And they almost did knock a big pillar of flowers over, so our fears were justified!!

After the ceremony, all the guests went to the banquet room for finger foods while we got some pictures done. Again, short and sweet, which was nice. Then Shanna and Bobby had a few more done while the rest of us got qued up and the family went into the banquet room. Next was the "grand entrance" and let the reception begin!! The food was AMAZING. I've been trying to recreate their sauteed vegi's ever since. Prime rib cooked perfectly. Ok, now I want to go back in time!

The DJ kept us hopping with things to do. I was in the reception the whole time with my "maid of honor duties" while some of the other bridesmaides and groomsman got the limo all packed up. I got to dance, give the toast, help with the money dance, and try to give my poor husband a break from our antsy son! We were all exhausted afterwards, but it was amazing! Shanna and Bobby left amid a ton of bubbles, and then cleanup time. Many hands make light work, though, and we had all the cars packed with everything in no time. (Notice I didn't say it was ORGANIZED in our cars, lol)

Congratulations, Shanna and Bobby!!!

For more pictures, you can click here, or go to my facebook page and I have it linked from my profile. Enjoy!

The 5 Days That Became 3 Weeks

We had an extended vacation to visit our families this summer! Although, it wasn't planned to be as long as it turned out...

We planned on staying for five days. I had to tell my mom that we were going to be spending most of the time with the Brost family, since we hadn't had a lot of time with them since Christmas. She understood, but was bummed, of course. The reason we "had" to leave was because Zarik had to be at work. So after our five days were up, we go to the airport. We went later in the day because the loads looked decent. Well, unfortunately, a flight was delayed and screwed everything up. So we were stuck for that night. On the way home we decided that the kids and I should stay for another 3 days to a week while Zarik went to work, and then he'd come get us. When he came back, we went wakeboarding with his brother, and Zarik broke his face.

Do I have your attention now? Hehe!

What happened was Zarik fell hard - on the handle or just the water, we're not sure - but didn't know he'd really hurt himself. Later on he went to equalize the pressure in his ears (you know - plug your nose and blow) and all the air escaped his sinuses and went under his eye!!!



After calling around to Stara and Flene (who are both into medicine - Stara has her EMT licence and is looking at Physical Therapy while Flene is a Physicians Assistant), my mom's eye doctor, and Kaiser, we determined that what had happened was his eye was tramatized, but it displaced the trama to the bones around his eye. This cracked the ethmoid bone which allowed air to escape the sinuses. We decided it would be best to go to Urgent Care because it probably wouldn't be good to fly with this injury and Zarik would need a note for work. Sure 'nough, he was grounded for at least another week! Since he had about five days off after he was cleared to fly again, we just stayed for a week after that, too! It was a total God thing that Zarik got the injury he got, with no complications (his sister was all "I'm glad the air bubble didn't go to your brain!"). We couldn't think of any other injury that would totally trap in California, and yet not really limit his fun.

So here are some snippits from our trip:

We all drew "tattoos" on eachother


I keep trying to convince Zarik he needs a real one


Swinging on the Rope Swing at Kidd Lake


Hanging on my parents' pontoon boat


Mika swimming with Mommy


Urijah swimming with Daddy


Sleepy Boy


Sophie!


Cute couple, if I do say so myself. :-)


Lion Towel


Mika turned 2! Mommy made her cake!


Hanging with Mommy


Janis, Jackie, and Kailah dancing on the pontoon boat


We got lots of Grandma time in

Fun With Family

A couple of weeks ago we went to Breckenridge with my family. It was a ton of fun! Here is our trip in pictures:

When we got there it was Kingdom Days which is Breck's celebration of their heritage. We got these fun old time pictures of everyone but Zarik. Zarik unfortunately had to work, so he wasn't with us for the first 3 days.



Mom and Jon played a little plastic horseshoes.....



While Mika played in the sand.



Shanna and Bobby were lookin' cute...



As was Brittany who was playing with Sophie.



Oh, and did I mention we watched Outhouse Races? But we never found out who won because we had to leave early due to rain.



We waited out the rain at (where else?) Starbucks, where Mika got a chocolate rush.



Back at our condo, we discovered a family of foxes lived under one of the decks!



A couple days later, Shanna and Bobby had to leave us, and I had to come back for a meeting, so Jon and Brittany joined us and we went to the Zoo! Jon had fun rockclimbing...



As did Bobby.



Brittany fed the giraffes...



As did Jon.



Near the end of the week we drove through Rocky Mountain National Forest. Jon and Zarik pose at the highest point in the road.



Wow! Zarik and I got a good picture of the two of us!



This is what Mika thought of all the driving this day...



But Urijah was cool about it all.



And we got to enjoy some wildlife along with the view!