Poppi's Wedding

We drove out to Reno at the beginning of September to attend my Dad's wedding.  We left Thursday night after work and just drove as far as Elko.  The kids were pretty fussy and Liv I think got carsick and threw up, so it wasn't the best drive.  The boys finally fell asleep just as we were arriving in Elko then promptly woke up as soon as they realized the excitement of staying in a hotel.  All the kids ran all around the room, jumping on the beds and could not settle down.  It brought back childhood memories of staying in hotel rooms and jumping across the space between two beds pretending there were alligators in between.

Derek and I were exhausted.  We laid all the kids down and turned out the lights.  Carter kept climbing out of his crib (as soon as we got home from this trip we moved the boys into toddler beds) and running around the room in the dark bumping into things.  Camden kept crying because Carter was out of his crib and he wanted out too.  Liv was actually the easiest just laying quietly next to me probably wishing they would just go to bed just like me.  Eventually, everyone fell asleep.

In the morning, we had breakfast then let the kids swim.  Surprisingly (or not so), we were the only ones crazy enough to use the pool at 8 am.  The kids were much happier on the drive on Friday.  We made the usual Winnemucca McDonalds playplace lunch stop.  Then shortly after that, we got a flat tire!  We stopped at the side of the road and Derek got to change it out for our spare.  Then, we stopped in Fernley at a tire store that didn't have the right size tire and couldn't repair the tire.  It was right next to a dollar tree so we let each of the kids pick one thing while we waited for them to figure out they couldn't help us.  Then, we stopped again in Sparks.  We got to buy 4 new tires (an unplanned expense)!  Luckily, this tire shop was right by Scheels, so Liv and I rode the ferris wheel, we looked at the fish tanks, let the kids play on the indoor climbing gym, and had a free sample of fudge


Then, we pretty much drove straight to the rehearsal dinner.  Derek got to hang with the boys while Liv and I "rehearsed."

The thing I have learned to love and hate about weddings is that it seems to gather all your family members in one place and often family members that you hardly see.  However, you are usually so busy that you don't even feel like you get to spend any time with them.  That's how this wedding was.  My aunt Kathy, whom I haven't seen since before I had kids was there, and all my siblings that I don't get to see nearly enough, and Grams, but I feel like hardly got to talk to them at all.

Saturday before the wedding, Kylie arranged for Liv and I to go horse back riding with her boyfriend's Mom.  Derek took the boys to target while we rode.  I guess the lady at the target food court gave Derek a second bag of popcorn for free because they were so cute.

Liv was in heaven, and she loved to go fast (reminds me of myself...I got bucked off a pony once because I kept kicking them trying to get them to go faster). 
Liv really wanted to walk the horse herself, so we let her.

The boys got a turn too.

The wedding was nice.  Cowboy theme.  Liv was ecstatic to get to be the flower girl.
The boys were so cute, but sort of terrors. Not that I would know, Derek did a fabulous job of keeping them contained.

Then, we made it through pictures and a late dinner following the wedding.  Lynn had this cute little kids table set up with tons of snack food and candy and stickers and coloring books little toys.  The kids were soooo good.

Then, the next day we drove the whole way home.  The drive home was uneventful and the kids did great!