Emily's Wedding: Wedding Day, Reception, Bonfire

After our water play, we headed to the salon.

We got pretty,

and got free drinks.

We took self portraits

and then surprised Emily with a gift

I don't have any pictures of the wedding, because Marcel was playing the guitar and couldn't multi-task.

We had some seafood appetizers,

ate delicious cake, but not until after dinner, of course!

The "hip" crowd took a celebratory shot

We enjoyed reminiscing about our own wedding 3 years ago.

Then we headed back to the beach for this awesome bonfire:

And then when we took Matt & Emily and a few groomsmen to their respective hotel rooms, Marcel got pulled over.  Nothing like a run-in with a cop to end your vacation, especially at 2:30am!

Emily's Wedding: Rehearsal & Dinner

Friday night we had a wedding rehearsal.  In the rain, because that's the only way to do things in Oregon.

Then we went back to our beach house and had a delicious dinner, courtesy of Matt's dad.  Apparently there were no good pictures of the dinner part, but we had ribs, pulled pork, and beans (a side dish may have escaped my memory)

And then we took pictures:

Burkdoll Wedding

On August 5th, my baby, but grown-up, sister, Hannah, got married.  Her and Matt spent a whole week in town and we had a blast:

Monday night, we had a bridal shower, but somehow managed not to take a single picture.

On Tuesday, we went go-carting,

and played mini-golf

and "drove" race cars

Wednesday night, we threw Hannah a Bachelorette party at my mom's house, because her i.d. was lost the night before

(it was found again the last night she was in town)

Sisters!

Could we look any less alike?

Presents

We were kinda sad about not being able to go out, but we had fun nonetheless!

Thursday night, we had a rehearsal and dinner

Bridesmaids

The soon-to-be Mr. & Mrs.

After the rehearsal the girls all stayed at my house for the night so Hannah and Matt didn't see each other before they took pictures.  Friday morning started early, with the boys playing golf and the girls decorating.  I kept saying how unfair that the boys do fun stuff while the girls work all day, but it worked out, because Hannah was up getting her hair done by the time the boys got back.  Mariah, Hannah's second grade teacher and the official photographer was great at capturing Matt's first look at Hannah!

 SISTERLY LOVE!

The girls!

Not the official one, but we needed some for facebook right away :)

It was such a beautiful ceremony.  I cried as soon as I saw her walking down the aisle, but having to look into Matt's tear filled eyes made it impossible to stop!

The next day, we watched them open all their gifts.  Most people were very considerate of their wishes of no gifts because of having a 20+ hour drive back to Kansas, but they still got some great stuff and it almost all fit into their car.

We're so happy for you two!!