Our adventures

Today we attended the wedding of one of my husbands coworkers. We had quite the adventure getting out there!

We left late. The tractors in the field behind us were getting the last of the potatoes, another one was fertilizing, and another was turning the soil over. To say the least, my son was incredibly excited because there were tons of tractors in our backyard and he was entranced. Bret stood with the kids on the back porch watching the activity while I did a final feeding/diaper change with Kaitlyn.

At this point we were late. As I was getting ready to load Kaitlyn into the van and opened the sliding door, Bret asked me if I needed anything from the apartment. With my head turned to answer him, I didn't realise my son falling out of the van until I felt a thump at my feet. Bret had put him in the van, but didn't strap him inot his seat in the back row so he had been walking around in the van and had been leaning up against the door as I slid it open. I saw my son holding his mouth - upon inspection he had bitten his tongue in the fall and had 4 teeth marks on it. Ouch. Once he found a hot wheels truck the tears stopped and he seemed fine.

So we get the kids loaded and I realised I had forgotten to eat breakfast. I gave myself an hour and a half and managed to remember to feed the kids, get them ready and dressed in play clothes, bring along their dressy outfits, packed enough diapers, full sippy cups, books, spare clothes for Kaitlyn, bonnets for her as well, my mini makeup kit to touch up when I got there, etc, etc. Could I remember to feed myself? Apparently not.

The plan was to leave by 8am, arrive by 9am and help with setup for a wedding at noon. Once we got into the town the wedding was at, Alexis had to go potty. We WERE en route to find breakfast for me, but once we got off the exit and tried to find food there was none to find. So, we decided we'd go find his friend (and use the restrooms at the park) ,make sure we knew where she'd be getting married (in a beautiful park!) but thought we should call her and let her know we were in the area. But Bret forgot his cell phone - he didn't know her number off hand and she didn't have my phone number. Ack! So bret pulled a U-turn, tried to slowly go over a curb to complete the turn and wouldn't you know we get a flat tire. A tire change is called for. We pulled into a parking lot, changed the tire, and continued on our way.

Once we got to the park, we couldn't find her and Bret couldn't remember the name of the pavillion she was supposed to be at. He was pretty convinced it was the first one we stopped at, however there was no one there. So he called his work to try and get her cell phone number, but they don't store cell phone numbers. So he tried to see if he could get the phone number to his previous supervisor, who was also the pastor for the wedding. Well apparently they only have the number they can hit him with on the nextell, not an actual phone number. SO Bret asked them to pass along the message to give him a call on my cell phone, because we can't find anyone.

We finally stopped to let Alexis use the bathroom when she reminded us she really, really had to use the potty please. She's such a good sport. :) After that we went to go find food and the pastor finally called Bret back. As it turns out, the place we stopped at WAS the right pavillion, the bride was just running really behind. Of course! It brings back memories of when Bret and I got married. As I'm dressing my daughter to go to the church I realised her dress shoes were too small (with 20 minutes to spare). So my husband, well dressed and all, speeding like a demon, made it to the closest store that sells shoes and back to the church in time for the wedding. He pulled the "I'm getting married in 10 minutes, my daughters shoes are too small, can I please please go in front of you" and got the "sure, it's your funeral!" remark...

Anyway, so like I mentioned before we were supposed to start setting up at 9am. By now it's 10:30! Nothing has been set up. We made it back and started getting things going. The wedding was beautiful and the best part is that there was a great park right next to the pavillion for the kids to play on. My kids spent 5 hours running and playing with the other kids. Alexis made a new friend (Brets friends daughter), and she grew up a ton today... Using the 'big kid' swing like a pro, even riding some crazy rides on the tire swing. Andrew even rode on the 'big kid' swing and did really well. I spent most of the time watching the kids (and rescuing Andrew from his attempts at the other 'big kid' stuff that he wasn't quite ready for yet...) but was surprised at how little I had to follow them around today.

Once we got home we had 40 lb. of chicken breast to trim and package, and 6 whole chickens to wrap and freeze. Our order came in today from our local butcher and we had some beautiful, fresh chicken breasts that should last us quite some time. I brought home about 70 lb of beef on Friday and get all of that freezing. We'll be set on meat for a while! I can't wait for hunting season though. Bret is going out to hunt rabbit, duck and deer that we know of for sure. Let's pray he 'gets lucky' so we can stock our deep freezer some more. We're seriously considering breeding rabbits as a meat source for our family. I'll let you know how that develops. Rabbit is pretty healthy - good in protein, low in fat/cholesterol and tastes like chicken. Even living in an apartment I know we can have a few hutches alongside our stairs (under our back porch essentially). The rabbit poo will be nice in the garden too.

Tomorrow will be another big day. Andrew turns two on the 1st of October, but we're celebrating it tomorrow with my dad and grandparents. So we're going to visit a corn maze out by my dads house, visit the old barn I used to keep my horse at to say hi, and head over to my dads to visit for the afternoon.