The Reception!

The best part of course! Rece was a little freaked out by the dj's loud noises at first but in no time he was jammin'! We left at about 11:30 and Rece was wide eyed the whole time until he hit the carseat.

Daddy and Carmine both looked like they had been drinking (only one of them had!)

If you ever need to pick up girls take my son, because he had every single young pretty girl at the wedding/reception pick him up at least once through the night. EVERY SINGLE ONE!

This is the best picture I have of the two of us in a long time. This was in the car as we were getting ready to leave.

I have video of Rece dancing that I will try to get up here. Overall we had a great time and we also got some pictures taken of the 4 of us by the photographer. And the next day Keith and Hope headed to Italy while we watch their dog!! for 14 days!!!

The Limo Ride

My mom drove our car over to the reception with the kids so that we could ride over in the limo. I would have been ok driving over, but I know Hope wanted the whole wedding party to ride. We got some cute pictures.
me and Anupa

The Limo Ride

My mom drove our car over to the reception with the kids so that we could ride over in the limo. I would have been ok driving over, but I know Hope wanted the whole wedding party to ride. We got some cute pictures.

The Ceremony!

Rece did awesome!! He got to follow daddy, so we had the person waiting with him just tell him to go get daddy. He ran up the aisle carrying the pillow. Then he was so good while the ceremony was going on. We had smarties as bribe candy for him. He only had like 3 of them and he didn't even eat them, he was just playing with them. Which was actually better except he did have to crawl after a couple of them. He sat on the step at the alter, he crawled acrosss it and played a little but he didn't even attempt to leave the alter or go play on it where the pastors were. Tony only had to pick him up once and that was only because Hope and Keith were going to light the unity candle and he didn't want them to trip on him. Then afterwards he ran back down the aisle. He was pretty good for pictures afterwards but we will have to see how they turned out. And of course Carmine looked super cute in his tux!
my little piano man!the groom and his godson

The Rehearsal

These are some pictures from the rehearsal, pretty self explanatory. Tony was best man, I was a bridesmaid and Rece was a ring bearer! Rece was tired, but he did pretty good. I had high hopes for him for the next day!!

Bachelorette Party!

Part 1 in a series from my brother's wedding! The bachelorette party was actually last weekend, but it has obviously been a busy week.
We had a lot of fun. We started out at the bride's parents house for a passion party and drank and played "Never have I ever..." then we went out to a couple of bars and then we went to Steak-N-Shake. I didn't get home until 4:45 am!! YIKES! I was exhausted the next day. Actually I am not sure if I have recovered still. But we had a lot of fun. I drank a little bit before we went out (there were two DDs) but I only had 2 shots while we were out. Actually no one really got drunk. Well except for one girl, but it was a friend of a friend. The bride had fun and she had a little spinner button that we had guys spinning. Nothing too crazy, just "dance with me", "flirt with me", "give me a buck", "tell me a secret", etc. My legs were actually sore the next day because of the dancing. It has been a long time since I have gone to a bar like that, actually about a year.
Hope and her mom playing with one of the "toys"

a group picture minus me at the bar.

me and Anupa dancing

taking a shot with the bride and my sister.