Road Trip

This past weekend we had the pleasure of attending one of my cousin's wedding up north a little before San Francisco. The wedding was on Saturday in the afternoon, so we decided it would be easier to make a weekend of it and drive up on Friday. We traveled with my parents and G-mama in two cars, so we were able to split up the kids. Kyler went with Grammy and Granddaddy and the babies with Jason and me. My friend Kim from work so kindly let me borrow her car DVD players, so the kids were fairly entertained the whole way up there. We made pretty good time, even though we stopped several times to let everyone stretch and eat.

We arrived in Dublin (or maybe Pleasonton) right about dinner time, so in true vacation fassion they first thing we did was eat. We headed to the local "Town Center," ate, window shopped, actaully shopped and then had dessert. I had never been to Coldstone before, and I now know what I had been missing - yum, yum! Everyone was pretty beat from a full day of driving, so all slept very well.

We had a lot of time the next morning before the wedding, and since the hotel agreed to let us have a late check out time, we found a nearby park to the kids run around and play at. We spent about an hour there, and then it was back to the hotel to get cleaned up and pretty for the wedding.

The wedding was outside at a small residential clubhouse park. It was warm and sunny, but did get shady at the end of the ceremony (of course). It was a sweet and short ceremony. I had a lot of family in the wedding party, and every looked so great. The bride, Jessica, was a true princess, and Danny my cousin was just so happy and proud. For the reception we headed over to the reception hall, had a yummy dinner, listened to some heartwarming stories and speeches, and visited with friends and family.

We decided to try to drive part of the way home that night, so that we wouldn't get in so late on Sunday, since we had to schedule in church. After getting to the wonderful town of Buttonwillow, we decided to call in quits. We went to Bakersfield for Sunday morning services. It was nice to see some of our out of town friends and then drove the rest of the way home.

It being Mother's Day, we didn't really have any special events going on. Normally, when at home, we head over to our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch on Mother's Day. Since we were not there for lunch, after evening services we figured it wouldn't be Mother's Day without our Mi Casa fix, so at G-mama's request we went there for dinner.

It was a long weekend with lots of driving, but I am so happy we were there for the wedding and just to "get away" for a day or two.

Janelle

P.S. I included some of my favorite shots from the weekend. Kyler was so cute and insisted he have his picture with the bride, Jessica.