Now that things are finally starting to settle down a little more, I realized I should get back to updating the blog.  After all, the whole point is to keep everyone updated while we are living so far away!  Seriously, send me reminder emails if you feel like I'm slacking!  

Our wedding week was crazy busy but wonderful.  We ran around finishing last minute errands, freaking out that we didn't have enough time to get it all done, and visiting with family and friends as well.  We really enjoyed having most of our family and friends staying in the same hotel.  Came in very handy! Plus, it made it a little easier to throw together a last minute margarita night!

We rehearsed. 

We ate BBQ and cake!

After the rehearsal dinner the guys went out for drinks and to shoot pool, while the girls in our hotel met up for margaritas in my parents room.  Mom was all set with her margarita machine, and my very tired Dad was awesome and went to wait out the party in my sister's hotel room.

The morning of the wedding, Mom and I left early to go get my hair done and then finish a couple last minute things at the reception location.  By the time we got back to the hotel the humidity had pretty much killed all my curls.  By the time it was time to go to the church the sky was scary dark and it had started lightning like crazy.  Mom and I didn't even make it to the church before it started down pouring. We waited in the car for a bit, then gave up and made a run for it. Jamie ended up having to almost completely re-curl my hair, but by the time we were ready to start pictures the rain had stopped and the sun was out in time for the ceremony to start.

They say rain on your wedding day is good luck, so we should be good for awhile since it poured!

Pretty much everything else went wonderfully.  My favorite moments of the ceremony (other than ya know, the getting married part) were when Father Jeff realized I had purple tennis shoes on, Ethan running across the front of the church with flowers, and Owen telling me "Auntie Kate, your dress is on the floor".  Those little guys know how to make everyone laugh, which was fun. 

The reception was so much fun. We did Dean Martin/Frank Sinatra type music during dinner, decorated with mostly candles with purple accents and green apples, and had rock candy favors that said "Love Rocks" on them.  The food was delicious, the last minute cafe lights were gorgeous, and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves! 

At the end of the night we headed for the car and found this:

Which was actually really funny watching Cody figure out how to get the doors open and all the cling wrap off!  He also got slimed by the goo on the door handles. Every single window had something written on it, and NONE of it came off in the rain!  It was kinda funny to have everyone wave at us on our way to Michigan and Texas.  We also got free happy meal toys and a wine bottle opener (I know odd combo) thanks to our window paint.  Plus, we met and chatted with a bunch of people at the wineries who would come in looking for the newlyweds. We finally hit a car wash in Texas and it still didn't all come off!  We need to scrape it off, especially since the guy who tinted my car windows asked me today "yo, what is this stuff all over your windows?"

Once we get our CD of images from our photographer I'll post some more pictures from the wedding day.  I will also try to post about our honeymoon soon!