Wedding weekend...

Jackson and I had a VERY busy weekend. Friday night we spent packing for Indiana i.e. packing dog treats for everyone's 4-legged family members. Saturday morning we were up at 6 to get MacKenzie to Camp Bow Wow and ourselves to the airport. MacKenzie screamed when we left her at camp. :( The airport's parking was PACKED and we had to park in the $18 a day garage. $18 a day?! Are you kidding me?! Is this lower Manhattan?! Los Angeles?! Bah! I was not pleased. The airport ended up being kind of dead. The DNC people had made their way out of town by then I guess. Good! So we ended up waiting at our gate for an hour. We hate that. We much prefer to be running to plane-that way we know we have not wasted any of our time. It normally works well for us. :) Anyway, our plane was a bit delayed due to an extremely rude flight attendant having no idea how to run a full flight. Flying is no longer a service it is a pain in the butt. I am learning to hate it (I know however that they have me by the preverbale balls as there is no better way to get across the country). Anyway, we landed in St. Louis. Their airport is like a ghost town. It was the most empty airport I'd ever been to. We scurred from there to get our rental car. As luck would have it, Budget had over-booked their Ford Focus or equivalent cars and only had convertibles left. Cha-Ching! I love the wind in my hair and sun on my face. We were so pleased.

It was about 2:30 when we left St. Louis and the wedding was at 5:30 in Evansville- 180 miles away. We were sure we'd be fine and we were. We rolled into the hotel at 5:03 and just enough time to refresh (we'd be in a convertible on the interstate for hours) and change clothes. The ceremony was lovely. Kylie looked great in her dress. Nick wore a white tux. The bridesmaids were in brown. It was kind of odd that I didn't know a soul in the wedding party except my sister. And Grant, of course, who did a great job as the ring bearer. He's so cute. Kylie had a huge number of people there and it looked like everyone was enjoying themselves. My dad and step-mom made it to the ceremony- so that was nice. Everyone had a nice time catching up, I think. It was my grandparents last day in Indiana so I was happy to see them before they headed back to Southern Florida. We loved seeing all of the family. (Sorry Cort, I have no photos as I forgot my camera but she looked great!)

Jackson's sister, Kathi, lives in the greater Evansville area as well so we stayed at the lovely Coomes Inn and Suites. They have this lovely little hostess, CeCe, whom I adored. ;) They also have world famous sweet tea that keeps me coming back each time I'm in town! ;) Jackson's mom came into town to hang out with us too. We stayed up far too late catching up and didn't get much sleep. The next day we went to Cracker Barrel (something CO does NOT offer-grr) for breakfast. It was so good. Yum! Then we went to Justice to do some shopping for little CeCe. She goes to Catholic school so she only needs weekend outfits- can you imagine?! If school wasn't so expensive Kathi would be getting off cheap! After that we said our good-byes and headed to a luncheon at Aunt Jara's. We were so not hungry, but excited for the company. I got to hold the newest addition to the family, Claire Coe, she is just precious. She is only the 2nd baby I have ever held- the first being one Miss Kate Coe...her older sister! How funny. Kelly is too trusting. ;) Claire was a great baby. I want one. I will wait though, start breathing again Jackson. We then had to head back to St. Louis to catch our evening flight. I cried. My baby steps plan made it even harder to be here in Colorado. Boo.

We drove with the topdown all the way to St. Louis in an effort to get some final summer rays. We were successful! I'm a little red in the face as is Jackson. We loved having the convertible. Bless you, Budget, and your poor planning skills! :) We caught our plane and got to Denver early even! We headed to Qdoba for a quick dinner then headed home-finally. It was a lot of traveling, but we had a nice time.

Today, Labor Day, was anything but. We picked up MacKenzie first thing then came back to bed. Besides doing some laundry, dishes, closet cleaning and vaccuuming we didn't do much. We ran a few errands and finished Jackson's art project. (photos to come) We tried a Carabou Coffee while we were out and I hate it. Starbucks only, please. Gossip Girl returned to TV tonight so that was nice and The Hills was on. We loved it. We took Mac for one last walk and now we're preparing for bed.

Tomorrow is my first day of grad school- ahh. Jackson has been less than helpful on what to wear. Typical. I'll keep you all posted on how all of my fellow tax nerds are doing once I get home tomorrow. ;)
I hope you all had a nice weekend. :)