OUR WEDDING ~ Getting Ready ~

On the morning of my WEDDING DAY! I had to get up really really early at 7 am to meet our makeup artist for 8 am. I quickly shot out of bed, was weird not having to get ready before I left at all, I don't even think that I had brushed my hair. I met my cousin Sarah (bridesmaid) at her hotel room and she began to curl my hair and pinned the curls to let them set. The longer they set the longer the curl will stay. After that Mom finally had come up to the hotel room as well as the makeup lady. Since I did not want to sweat my makeup off first before the wedding, we decided that mom would do her make up first. Maria was great with my mom and gave her tips on everyday make up that she can do herself. Maria made my mom look super hot. She could have found me a daddy the day of the wedding if I do say myself! It was funny though because as Maria was almost finished with my mom's makeup and then she started to tear up. She would almost be finished again and then start to tear up again! Haha It took awhile for her to be completely done with her wedding! After that she decided to do Sarah next, and even gave us the bonus option of getting Saphire's makeup done for the wedding! That whole morning though was just chaotic, from ordering Jeremiah (Sarah's man) to get stuff done for us that day, such as trying to get us food, getting us drinks before the wedding, etc. Basically he was our lifesaver that whole day! Couldn't have done the day without him! It was extremely hot in that room too, we had to open the window and prop the door open with a towel it was hot! It was so disorganized too! It looked like wedding stuff was vomited all over the suite!

The whole morning I was pretty quiet, everyone kept on asking how I was feeling because I was so quiet. I honestly was not nervous to get married. I was just excited. Finally when my make up and hair were ready it was time to get into the dress. We had already agreed that Sarah would get me into the dress because I knew she would be ruthless with the thing and make sure that it was tighter than anything. I had to hold onto my mother's hands to make sure that I wouldn't fall over, still almost did haha. But with the photographer he wanted to make it look like my mother still got me dress so after Sarah was finished he made it look like she was lacing up my dress and got photos of that haha. When that dress and all that were done...with only 15 minutes to spare...it was time to get married.
Getting into the elevator Sarah made sure that no one would see me in my dress before Jesse, so when we got out the elevator she would go out before me and give me the cue that the coast was clear. Then it was time to line up...to get married...

TO BE CONTINUED....

Brock and Angel's Wedding

Brock and angel had gotten married August 13 2016, she invited us to their wedding along with my mom and grandma. Mom wanted for us to come especially so we could drive them to their wedding to drive grandma there since no buses went to Grande Cache. We left earlier the night before to drive all the way down to Lethbridge. 

The next day we decided to visit with Holly in Brooks. My mom and grandma finally got to meet her and get to know her a little bit since she is Jesse's family. The visit with her was great, grandma and mom were really impressed with her. After the visit with her she had told us to take the scenic route up to Grande Cache going through Jasper. We thought it was great idea, but in the end it was great for Jesse and I, not so much for Grandma and Mom which are not the best road trippers. It took us about 8 hours to get to Grande Cache and once we got there we were really glad. 

The next day we met up with Uncle Ron and Aunt Diana and we went together to the camp grounds that Angel and Brock were to be married. We met up with Brock there and chilled out for awhile until their wedding. We left grandma and mom there and Jesse and I decided to go back and get ready for their wedding and explore Grande Cache. It wasn't that difficult to explore the town of only 3 blocks pretty much. Not much had changed from what I remembered when I was a little girl going there every summer. 

When we went back to the campground, I got to see my Aunt Diana's brother Uncle Andy, he would also spend the summer's with us sometimes and it was good to see him and catch up with him.

Angel was quite late for the ceremony, about half an hour and the weather was going to be coming to them. The clouds were quite dark and you could hear strikes of lightning and thunder in the distance. Once Angel was there. It was beautiful, it was hard not to cry from the song that she chose to walk down the aisle to "A thousand years" by Christina Perri. her bridesmaid dresses were different shades of purple and she had about 3-4 flower girls with little tutus and crowns. It was absolutely beautiful. And then she emerged...beautiful being walked down the aisle with her stepdad and brother. She looked stunning, her dress gorgeous with organza flowers on the bottom of the dress, bling around her waist and neck. Absolutely Gorgeous. Not only was everyone else crying but we took bets to see if Brock would cry when she walked down the aisle. Brock was crying as she walked down, completely bawling much like his dad. Tough on the exterior but a teddy bear inside. Their vows were beautiful too, she promised to love him and that she had met him at the right time after they had both been through hardship. For his vows they were a bit more frisky than hers haha. He had promised to always pinch her ass and protect her and the most important vow of all "to ride her as hard as he rides his harley" haha. After they were pronounced as husband and wife his group of biker brothers gave them a proper send off, roaring their motorcycle engines echoing into the moutains. It was beautiful, and glad I got to see my cousin get married. 

After the ceremony it had poured rain! Completely downpoured, since it did we decided to go back to the hotel and relax. When we came back it was about 7pm. Their reception had started so late due to the rain not ending faster. Their wedding was completely outdoors and they had originally had tents but couldn't find them on the actual day! Crazy! 

We had missed the dinner but we went but we came back for the speeches. It was great all the speeches and love that was in those mountains that day. Her step mom had photoshopped a photo of her getting ready with her on her wedding day since he had passed which was beautiful to see all that emotion.  We got to congratulate the Mr and Mrs and got to take a shot with my Uncle Ron and party with my bridesmaid Sarah. It was a great time! 

Wedding prep!

Two days before the wedding we had to drive to Edmonton to get Jesse to the airport to pick up his niece. Jesse had to fly all the way to winnipeg to pick up Saphire and then bring her back here on the airplane in order for her to attend our wedding. Since Jesse's side of the family was so scarce we of course had to have his niece! While I was in Edmonton already, I decided to meet up with my bridesmaid Sarah and my "cousin-in-law" for some wedding prep! 

We decided to meet up go to Sally's get some hair dye because I wanted to look like the little mermaid before the wedding. It was also the perfect chance for wedding nails! 

We decided to go to the nail salon with Angel and get my nails did! They did not have what I originally wanted for a design but they were great. They were sparkly silver tips and Sarah's nails were navy blue with the ring fingers silver as accent nails. Angel didn't get her nails did with us but instead decided to get a pedicure done! My nails were done before Angel's so I decided to sit in the pedicure chair and have a little massage. Angel was making fun of me for how short I was because I put it the chair on lower back massage when it was actually a whole back massage for me haha. We went to lunch and had a great time getting prepped for the wedding, and the best part was picking Jesse up from the airport with Saphire! She was so cute and so excited to be our flower girl! 

Wedding shower!

Nancy from work decided to throw us a wedding shower! She had a really cool idea about doing a pie bake off, which meant that she would have the pie crusts ready and she put all the ingredients that go into making an apple pie in the centre of the island. We split up into three teams. Barbie, Julie and I were on one team. Garth's wife Leighann, Amy, Connie and Nancy were on the other team. Lastly all the boys were on the last team...I know a co-ed wedding shower!?! It was great fun, Connie showed Julie and I how to properly roll out a pie crust onto a pie plate. We all had a bawl doing that, played around with the flour a bit. It was truly a great bonding experience and a great way to begin to celebrate Jesse and I getting married.

While we were waiting on the pies to bake we ate wieners, explored Nancy's house and property, which was gorgeous of course. Her house is beautiful, old country style with lots of antiques. It was cool to see what she had done with the place since we had been there last, she created a greenhouse and moved the firepit up the hill. Her husband created a pathway around their property and he made a scavenger hunt for the kids to go and explore. One of the greatest places in her house was her grandkids playrooms. She had antique toys, a foosball hockey table, air hockey, etc. It was fun. The boys had more fun in there with the toys there than with the actual adults. Mark and Jesse went against the kids and little did they know that Jesse don't let anyone win at all and that includes kids.

When the pies were done we all tried each others pie. Nancy's team had the most beautiful pie, my team's pie had the most gooeyist pie and Jesse's team won with the best pie! Out of all the people that could have won we couldn't have believed that it would be the boys! Everyone's pie had something unique about it! After that we opened presents and were showered with gifts in celebration of our love, which Jesse and I were not expecting.

We are truly grateful and appreciative out of everyone that came and for our hostess that put on this great fun time in celebration of our love! It was the best wedding shower I have ever attended! 

Levi's birthday party!

In August it was our friend Julie's son and husbands birthday! They both share the same birthday and Julie decided to throw levi a birthday party! She had rented a huge bouncy castle for him at her house and had a bbq. 

At the last minute a lot of kids cancelled but that didn't put a damper on his birthday! I think the adults had more fun in the bouncy castle than the kids! But man jumping on that castle took a lot of work! Even Jesse bounced in the bouncy castle! I couldn't believe it. Jesse and Mark their main goal for that bouncy castle was to deform it about as much as they could it drove Julie crazy but they didn't care they had too much fun! 

At one point in the day Mark and Jesse decided to deform the castle and give kids rides on the beam that held the top of the castle up. The kids completely loved that and had so much fun with that! Later on that evening they had put up Levi's big birthday present a pool! We had a massive water fight with that as well!

We really all had such a great time! 

Stag and doe!

Our friends Mark and Julie threw us a stag and doe in July, since our wedding is in september. They basically decided that they would throw a bbq for us and we would play some drinking games. The games that they decided on was Beersby - where you take three bottles on each side set them up on posts and you throw a frisby to get the bottles down - and heads up - a game on your phone. 

Julie had invited a few of her friends to come, whitney and josh a couple that had just recently gotten married and another couple Mitch and Michelle which were her friends for quite awhile. My boss Audrey also came and my coworker Nancy. At first the boys were outside already getting beersby set up and the girls were inside having a chat. The boys were playing beersby the proper way where if you knock a bottle down then you chug a whole beer so they were beginning to get drunk quite fast. When the girls started playing they changed the drinks of choice from beer to taking jello shots every time the other team knocked over a bottle. Which was fun but got you quite drunk fast. Nancy even got up later on during the evening and tried her shot at beersby! 

After other couples decided to leave and go home just Whitney and Josh were left and we decided to play heads up. It is a game on your phone where you place the phone facing your teammates while they act out the word that is displayed on the phone and the person holding the phone has to guess what the word is. This game was so hilarious it was boys against girls and the boys were so good at it. One of the words was a stripper and mark was the pole and Josh was the stripper it was so funny! 

But all in all it was a great night, a little bit fuzzy but a great way to spend our bachelor and bachlorette party! 

Another eventful weekend in Edmonton!

We have been trying to go up to Edmonton as much as possible because Jesse's mom is going to school there for 2 months. We decided to go up the weekend after I was on call to go see her again. This weekend was very eventful we did lots of things like mini golf, going to a movie and watching Jesse's mom weld.

The first night that we were there we decided to go do some mini golf to let Gord out so that Karen could study for her schooling. The golf place that we went to was Monster mini golf, it is attached to a bowling alley and an arcade. It was the coolest experience ever to go to this bowling alley, it is in the basement of the building, it is glow in a the dark, blaring music, it was basically like a night club but for all ages. There was so many teeny boppers there it was crazy! The arcade had a ton of games, some that were from when Gord was a kid. The few games that we did was they played old school pin ball, a shooting game and I decided to go into a tornado simulator! Jesse and I also had our first photobooth photos...awww.

After that we decided to go down to the mini golf, again it was glow in the dark. It was the coolest mini golf we ever saw too! It was all halloween/monster themed. They had these cool prosthetic monsters that did interactive things. The actual pars on the course had little themes for it, whether it was zombies, clowns or anything ghoulish! It was a great time! Gord was plastered as f*** Jesse and I were laughing there was really good loud music playing. It was so much fun! After we were finished playing a magician showed us a mini show. It was just a lot of fun altogether.

The next day Karen needed to practice her welds so we decided to go Gord's shop he was currently working at and watched her practice her welds. One thing I noticed right off the bat about welding is that you need a crap ton of patience, and a very steady hand. If you do not have either you get a very bad weld. They let me put on a mask and see what she was doing right up close, I never saw that before! Got some good photos of Jesse too *wink wink*

Later on that evening we decided to go to a movie, we went to go see Captain America. It was an ok movie. It was nice to go do something along with Karen instead of just hanging out with Gord or more babysitting Gord so that she could study and not have him distract her.

It was a great weekend and we haven''t had that much fun in a long time! Good drinks, good people and relaxation! What more could we have needed?