First Wedding!

The holiday weekend started with the boys getting to stay home on Friday with my mom ("other GaGa" as Hayden says) since daycare was closed (and GaGa wanted to play hooky from work!) along with a trip to the grocery store and some ice cream at Dairy Queen.

Saturday was the wedding reception for a friend of mine and Jason's. Jenn(ifer) Maris (who's father's name is Roger - no joke!) used to live here in McPherson and work at Hospira. We used to hang out a lot in the early McPherson days when Jason and I lived on Oak street. She and I would go on walks with Jager as well as drinking our fair share of tasty beverages from La Fiesta and Hanks!  Then about four years ago she moved to Kansas City. Two weeks ago she married Lucas Cole (who she's known for probably 6 or 7 years) in Florida and had their wedding reception in her home town of Valley Center. Since Jason had to work I took the boys by myself.

Things were going fairly smoothly til I got about half way to Valley Center and realized that not only did I forget a burp rag or two I forgot Tucker's bottle as well! I remembered an extra pair of pants and underwear for Hayden but left at home my only means of feeding the baby. Needless to say we were a little later than I had anticipated because we had to make a pit stop at Dollar General first.

At the reception we sat with our friends the Shaws and their little boy Brayden. I was banking on Hayden playing with Brayden while we were there but Hayden fell asleep on the way down and was uber shy as soon as we got out of the car. He refused to leave my side, refused to sit on any other chair other than my lap and refused to eat. He warmed up eventually but not before he spilled sparkling grape juice in my lap! Actually Hayden was something of a mess. Not only was he shy and a klutz he somehow managed to get a bloody nose as well!  Tucker was almost an angel - his only issue was spitting out half of the bottle I made as he was drinking it!  But that was probably my fault for not only forgetting his bottle in the first place but making him use a bottle with a faster nipple than he's used to as well!

As much as I would have liked to have stayed, the boys and I took off at 8:30. Hayden's hysterics over the bloody nose were a little too much for me to handle in public and deal with a newborn as well.  Hopefully the next wedding we go to is a little less dramatic for our family! :)