Our trips to Mexico and Canada…

Oh, and Paris 18 months ago. Almost forgot that one! If only we could remember these amazing trips! Apparently we used Aeromexico airlines for our most recent trip and when we went to Canada we visited Vancouver.

18 months ago our bank caught some strange charges in Paris and we immediately realized we’d…well, basically been hacked, robbed, you name it. So we put an identity theft protection thingy-ma-bob on our “credit reports” and thought that would help.

….until we went to Canada a couple of weeks ago and Mexico yesterday. Man, with all of this traveling we are busy people I tell ya’! Sorry we didn’t get any photos taken to post for you to enjoy!

The good news is that the identity theft protection deal is working a little. It protected myself from myself. As you can probably imagine we are working on trying to purchase a new home and the loan officer we are working with where we are moving called me this morning and asked about our land-line phone number….a number that hasn’t been used in probably two years. It is there purely because it has to be for internet.

To protect myself from myself and to prove to them that I am who I am because of the identify theft program we have set up I have to answer the phone to that number~WHOA, that almost sounded like a Dr. Seuss rhyme! We’re gonna have to go buy a phone just so we can buy a house.

But boy oh boy…Paris, Mexico and Canada rocked!!!! (in my dreams!!!)

Linden & Jesse’s Wedding Rehearsal Party

Linden & I

After the rehearsal we had a humongo party for everyone that was in the wedding but also everyone that had come from out of town for the wedding so we had about 150ish people. It was so great. One goal Linden and my brother set out in the beginning is that they didn’t want us to work. It was wonderful. This allowed us to enjoy EVERY moment of the entire weekend without having to worry about getting whatever needed to be done next.

Brother and "his girls"

kudos to my Mama....she came up with all of the decoration ideas, etc....she thought of EVERYthing!!

All the nieces and nephews were there. There was music. The food was amazing. There was an open bar and my mom ordered stuff in from Montana to make Huckleberry Margaritas! Even now I wish that night was three times longer. I actually danced and danced and danced with Jesse and Linden and their friends. I had decided to try to keep up with these young ‘uns and it was very very fun.

Our nephew (and my Godson), Jackson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 But. I will say that at about 4am when I arose to use the ladies room for some reason my knees were killing me. It was then that I realized that maybe dancing barefoot for hours might do that when you are not a young ‘un??

At any rate, the rehearsal dinner was truly wonderful. Jesse and Linden are a classy couple and I love them both dearly. Adam loved his groomsman gift….of course baby brother being who he is, gave all of his guys a share of Berkshire Hathaway stock (Warren Buffet). The guys were all pretty stoked!

....a little stock anyone?

One final thing…remember when I said my Mom thought of everything? Well, check out the inside of the port-a-pot at the rehearsal party: wedding TP and candles!!!

Wedding Festivities

So, baby brother got married to a beautiful girl August 7th. They are in Fiji now and the four day wedding celebration was fabulous. I have much to share and many photos to show and as you can imagine am also just a teeny bit busy so as I can I am going to do a post here and there about it. I also want to still share about our time with the girls. They were here for several weeks and it was a hoot!

To start with, EVERY wedding must have some sort of bachelor/ette gathering, shan’t it? Where you go out and make fools of yourselves. I remember for ours Adam went and played paintball….after they had a few drinks. He was a big ol’ bruise on our honeymoon. Real smart, dear. I wasn’t real involved with either of the parties rather had a very nice girls only supper at a nice restaurant with a cousin, my aunts, sister and sister-in-law and mom. Loved it. We did know, however that the guys were able to get a big ol’ fancy schmancy limo and the girls did NOT.

So. Being the girls that we are, we thought…..that just IS NOT FAIR. No sirree. What to do, what to do? We split up in two different cars and decided to search for the limo. We knew the guys had to be in a bar or some other guy-type of place and let’s be honest, one cannot hide a limo that easily. It took awhile but guess who found it?! Yep: Mama of the groom!

Mom shortly after confiscating the limo

...some of the rest of us...

We hijacked the driver and took the limo to where we knew the girls were. I love this picture of Linden! I also sent this to the guys per cell phone to let them know we had their “ride”.

Now, while I hate to admit that my brother is even out of grade school yet, let alone of age to drink or be married or…whatever. I have to include this picture just so you can see the t-shirt he had on.  note to reader: cock head to left to read. (Oh, and Adam got in BIG trouble when he said…game over? Don’t you mean the game is just starting?)

The most purchased car of all time is:

the little tykes “cozy coupe”. NOT kidding. I read this a long long time ago and told Adam about it and we thought it was hilarious. It just came back to me because I read that it is it’s 30th Anniversary. Amazing. Truly amazing, yes?  Sad thing is, the thing is probably better looking than a lot of cars most of us have driven over the years! It’s at least happier anyways.

In 9 days…

…these two cuties will be with us for AT LEAST two weeks!!! And, we are going to have sooo much fun just being together plus some other fun things Uncle Adam and Aunt Shana have planned like Worlds & Oceans of Fun, Henry Doorly Zoo, Painting pottery, chinese fire drills, shopping, getting facials, swimming, pedicures, and more and more and more….Hurry up nine days!!!

Our nieces: Brienna & Heather