Our whirlwind trip to Maryland for John's wedding (Scott's brother).
Last weekend we drove from Illinois to Maryland to Scott's brother's wedding. It was a quick trip. The kids are in school so we wanted to miss as few school days as possible to minimize make up test and work. They ended up missing one day. We left Thursday right after school and immediately drove right into a very ferocious thunder storm. If it had been me driving I would have pulled over and tried to wait it out. We ran into the storm about 20 minutes after leaving the house. And the storm was with us most of the way to Ohio, where we stayed for the night. I generally don't mind a little rain, but this was something else. Visibility was the major problem. Also there was heavy rain and strong wind. Scott drove right through it all, no problem. Although it was not a relaxing drive - very tense.
Here you can see the edge of the storm. We eventually drove out of it near Terre Haute, Indiana. We thought the storm was going north and we were heading east. Unfortunately the storm was apparently going northeast and caught up to us in Terre Haute, where we had stopped for dinner. So more bad weather driving...this time in the dark. Boo. Luckily we made it to Fairborn, Ohio (near Dayton) where we stopped for the night with no accidents.
Here's Anna playing the spinning toilet paper game
Most of us ended up playing that...so dizzy!
Anna recovers
We played some other fun games...and then tried to get cookies from our foreheads into our mouths. Some people actually did it successfully. Not so much me.
And onto the big day. My parents watched the little people while we were in the temple at the ceremony. It was in the 50s or low 60s I think. Balmy for this time of year. :) And warm enough to be outside.
Anna and her cousin Olivia. They had so much fun playing together. They were the only girl cousins at the wedding, so had to stick together. They are only two years apart, so as they get older they will probably have more and more in common and more fun playing together! Cousins are the best!
Selfie of Scott and me
Got my guy back!
Borrowing a swanky hat from one of the groomsmen
Does he look like the Monopoly Man?
Matthew thought he should have his picture taken on the steps of the temple too!
And at the ring ceremony.
Anna and Lulu (Olivia) waiting and looking cute.
Some ring ceremony pictures. Sorry, all my pictures turned out bad from this weekend. Luckily there were lots of people taking good pictures.
At the end of the ring ceremony
At the reception and ready to eat.
Matthew and Anna spent a lot of the reception dancing.
Here are some blurry pictures of that...
They had a great time. And all of us got up to dance at some point. Some more than others.
Anna refueling on cookies at the end
Grandma Keeler and little John Guptill waiting to send off the happy couple at the end of the reception
Matthew looked like he wanted to go along with them.
Sorry, I know, blurry. Sooo, we had lots of fun seeing family and hanging out with everyone. And I don't have pictures of a lot of our fun times from the weekend, but oh well. Along with a lot of Scott's family and extended family and my parents, we also got to see my brother John who was out from LA for the week. So our weekend was packed...and lots of fun. And before we knew it, we were headed back to Illinois.
We drove the whole way back - 12 1/2 hours ish - in one day. It was a long day.
And we did run into snow and rain on the way back. Although not as bad as what we hit on the way there.
We made it out of the storm around Indiana. Very pretty.
And we got home pretty late at night. Phew!
Glad we got to go, see lots of family, and made it there and back safely.
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