Wedding Weekend

This past weekend my dear friend Rachel Clary got married. I had the privilege of standing next to her as she and Jeff exchanged vows and now get to start their life as Mr. and Mrs. Palmer. I was even more privileged when she asked me to be her Matron of Honor and I was able to refuse on the basis that I may be married, but I am certainly not matronly! Therefore I became her Prime Lady Attendant (PLA as it later became). I love that I have such a wonderful friend who understands and supports my extreme detest for the word matron. Although it does describe the Batty Old Librarian well or the Lady with too many cats. Rachel and Jeff got married in Mt. Pleasant, MI and that meant a weekend trip to Papa’s for the Bontempos. We stayed with my Grandpa and enjoyed some delicious ribs and grilled corn on the cob and the boys all got to go golfing. Although it was a busy weekend it was tons of fun. Take a gander...

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*Side Note: Some of the pictures aren't that great and no pictures turned out with Olivia and Papa Chuck because our camera is on the fritz. We are working on getting a replacement.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day Weekend my Dad, Olivia and I went to our family's cabin in Northern MI. It was a great trip. Olivia had a wonderful time traipsing up and down the deck and getting into all sorts of things. Chris was in FL for the weekend. He had to go to Tampa for training with work and then he headed over to Gainesville for the first UF game. He had a great time celebrating Aaron's birthday and visiting friends, but we missed him. Next cabin visit he will be there, although we probably won't be able to go up for quite some time. Rumor has it we are going to be pretty busy in the next couple months. :)

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August Pictures

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Well, folks it happened. The first official tantrum. Not just crying because upset, no a full blown temper tantrum. Olivia and I were playing in her room and I needed to put something in her closet. She followed me in and saw her old bouncy seat. She climbed in it while I was taking care of things and then it was time to be done in the closet. So I picked her up and we left. (I know, she has a HUGE closet!) So the tears started. I set her down, she wanted nothing to do with me and then it happened. The crying exploded into wailing. She hurled herself onto the ground, rolled around. Looked back at me as it to make sure that I was seeing what a fuss she was making and then proceeded to roll around more and wail louder. Luckily this first appeared at home and not in the grocery store, but I am sure that will come in time. It was short lived as well. Honestly it made me laugh. We are transition from baby to toddler! What a way to transition.

Date Night Take 2

Well Chris and I made another attempt at out date night. And it was successful!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!! Saturday my brother, Matt stepped up as babysitter extraordinaire and we headed back out to Dearborn to the IMAX. We had purchased our tickets online and it was a good thing. This time we decided to go to a 2:00 showing instead of a later one and it was packed! The ticket line was almost out the door. We marched right up to will call got our tickets and then headed through a maze just to get into the theater. It was half cattle drive half movie line. It was great though. The Dark Knight was amazing! (Although I wanted to cry and leave in the middle, because I was so creeped out by the joker. Not a good movie for someone who doesn't like clowns!) I am glad that Chris and I finally made it to the movies. It was a great afternoon.

Date Night

It is not often that Chris and I can get away for a date night. Needless to say both of us were really looking forward to our date night tonight. (Which we planned a week ago!) My brothers came over to babysit and we headed on our way. Leaving was our first mistake.

We had headed to Dearborn, about 25 miles away, to go to the "best and biggest IMAX in the State" to see The Dark Knight-The IMAX Experience. I have yet to see the Dark Knight and Chris has seen it 2 times, but not in IMAX. So to the best IMAX we went. On the way to dinner we stopped by the theater. I ran inside to buy our tickets and to my dismay it was sold out!! SOLD OUT! We have been planning this for a week and our plan was falling apart! I headed back to the car, shaking my head. Chris was crushed. At this point we should have called it a night. We decided just to go to dinner and decide later if we wanted to try and go to the late showing.

We got to dinner (a restaurant that is also 5 miles from our house) and had a terrible dinning experience. Our service was terrible, when we got it. And Chris wasn't even happy with his food! After that we were both done. We headed home and instead of a date night we had game night with my brothers. At least the second half of the evening wasn't a total bust.

July Pictures

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