Weekend (+ a Wedding) with Family

After this past weekend, I think that Todd & I have been to at least one wedding a year since we've been together (one year, we had almost 10 weddings and we were in 3 or 4 of them).  Todd's cousin, Jennifer, got married up near Youngstown on Saturday so we were able to spend most of the weekend with his family.  The wedding ceremony took place at St. James Meeting House in Boardman Park with the reception following at Mr. Anthony's.  They only invited less than 100 people to the ceremony because the venue was so small but probably close to 250 people to the reception so it was a big wedding.  Todd was able to see a lot of extended family we only see at family reunions every so few years as well as some of his high school classmates (Todd & Jennifer were in the same high school class).  Oh, and they had a photo booth which was the highlight for Lucy.  We literally walked away with close to 20 photo strips!  I'm pretty sure she photo bombed quite a few people too but who can blame her when they had so many different dress up/costume options. Girl loves to dress up and she loves to dance which she also did plenty of as well.  If she doesn't get into performing arts when she's a little bit older, I would be shocked.  There were times she'd be on the dance floor all by herself just dancing away.  She also met this little boy that she danced with for awhile too.  It was pretty adorable and I was impressed that he was even twirling her.  The reception went until 10:00 PM and I was happy that our girls made it until about 9:30 PM before we decided to head back to my in-laws for the night. Cece was so good and she easily went to other family members she'd never met before.  I wasn't sure how she'd get once it hit her bedtime but she was a champ and never really fussed---she just got really quiet and zoned out.  She feel asleep as soon as we put her in the car (and so did Lucy!)

We spent the night at my in-laws, had a late breakfast with them & my sister-in-law's family, and then made the 3 hour drive back home in the early afternoon.  Once we got home, I felt like we didn't stop until the girls were in bed.  Todd was replacing some boards on the front of our house that have rotted out and I took the girls to the grocery store, did laundry, did some food prepping, and got things ready for the week since Lucy starts school tomorrow!

Jennifer & Brian during the ceremony

Cece was really into watching the ceremony

The newlyweds!

Family photo after the ceremony before we drove over to the reception

Beautiful cake

Apparently having a cookie table is a Youngstown/Pittsburgh tradition at weddings and it was pretty fantastic

The reception before most guests arrived

The DJ introducing the couple

While we waited for dinner, we took our turn in the photo booth

Lucy got one with MaMa & PaPA and then took a TON with her cousins, Andrew & Audrey

Kid-free for a few minutes

Daddy with his girls

Cece dancing with daddy...

since Lucy ditched him for this little boy

They were cute though

Lucy said all she wanted to do was dance with Jennifer so she was really excited when she came over

Audrey holding Cece towards the end of the night (Cece was looking at a photo strip from the photo booth)

After breakfast on Sunday, we walked down the street to Todd's grandparents' old house (Lucy is wearing one of Aunt Stacey's dance costumes from when she was younger)

Lucy & Audrey are inside this old 1932 model B that was Todd's grandfather's while Andrew posed on the outside

Todd & the girls in the rumble seat