Well Well

This weekend was fantastic! There was a wedding that went off as perfectly as can be expected, but I won’t talk much about that (since I don’t have any pictures of it yet). I’ll update the “Wedding” page whenever we either find someone that took pictures, or once we buy the pictures from our photographers. I will say that it must have been 110 degrees out there, because I didn’t stop sweating for 4 hours!

On Saturday, I wanted to go play golf so I got Russell to start calling around looking for places that we could go. Kimberly didn’t know what she would do during that time, so I suggested that she go to a spa and relax and get her nails done (my treat). She asked if I would pay for April to go too, which I of course agreed to. Kimberly sends Red a text message, and we didn’t hear back. About 5 minutes later, Ben calls asking what the deal is. I explain, and invite him to go golfing with us also (oh, and somewhere during all of that, we invited Aaron also).

We later found out that April had gotten her nails done two days earlier and that her and Ben feverishly tried to get all the polish off so that she could go again!!! (Lesson: keeping secrets are against Russell’s religious beliefs!) Those crazy Reds and their tom-foolery!

So anyways, one of the highlights of the weekend happened while we were golfing. Probably around hole 10, Russell tees off and hits it pretty far, but it’s off to the right. He says something to the affect of “That one went way right.”

Aaron is sitting in the cart, pulled forward a little in front of where Ben is about to tee off from. Ben gets one of the most solid hits he had for the entire day. It unfortunately didn’t go straight. It instead went directly into a fat spot on Aaron’s back. Aaron lets out a cry of agony, and I start laughing. Ben cuffs his hand to his mouth and says something like, “That one went a little right, too.”

It was fantastic!

Other highlights of the weekend include:

• Ben did the “angry fist” (Kim said April was doing it the week before)…and it was funny because he doesn’t move his arm, just bends his wrist
• Russell’s Best Man speech was incredible
• Amber’s Bride’s Maid speech was incredible
• My sister, Heather, came to the wedding from Kansas (no, they don’t live where they grow corn). Taylor (nephew) caught the guarder (ok, really just picked it up…there wasn’t much elasticity in it). Those are two great looking kids!
• I got to see several people I haven’t seen in years
• I got to skip the last dance
• The breakfast! Best breakfast ever!

I’ll make a little update post when I have the pictures from the wedding posted somewhere! Thanks to everyone that came, and thanks even more to everyone that was part of our wedding party and helped us prepare for it all! (And sorry April that we all wussed out at 9:30…but sweating for 4 hours really took the energy out of me!!)

This weekend is the wedding!  I don’t think we will have time for many things outside of those dealing with the wedding. 

I don’t think we will be having the rehearsal on Saturday (at least I hope we aren’t).  Instead, I think we are all just arriving a little early to do a quick little run through.  For all the guests, show up a little before 3:00pm on Sunday.  Everyone that is in the wedding, I think you have to show up around 12:30 or so for pictures.  Me, I’m showing up around 2:45…saying a couple of “I do”s and then heading to Shreveport.

Oh yeah, I went and picked up my tuxedo tonight.  Here is a picture of that.  Click it for a BIG version of it.

I realize that I keep changing things on this site, and the only way anyone would know it is if they went to each and every page (since I keep hiding the new stuff in pre-existing pages).  Here is a list of what I changed recently.

• Why is a 30 year house mortgage better than a 15 year?
• Daily Picture - I’m trying to take a picture of myself every day…let’s see how long that lasts
• Wedding Page Update - Pictures from the Bachelor’s and Bachelorette’s party
• Beer Bouquet - gotta see it

This weekend was pretty fantastic. Naturally I don’t have any photos from the guys’ side of the party (man code and all). We basically just went out and shot skeet and pistols all day long. It was a great time! By the time we went to T.G.I.Fridays, we were exhausted.

The ladies though have pictures…you can see them here.

Saturday

I will be leaving for Tyler between 10:00-11:00am.  I will be meeting Russell at his place, and then letting him tote me around from there.  At some point, all of the guys will be meeting up at Ben’s parent’s house to go skeet and target shooting. 

I believe after that, we are just going to be doing some socializing at our local bars.

Kimberly will be having her Bachelorette’s party in the DFW area.  Everyone will meet at our house, and from there they will have a lingerie party, and then go to Pete’s.  For any guys reading this, let me go ahead and kill the image floating in your mind.  At lingerie parties, they don’t actually try any of it on. 

I know, “what’s the point” right?  If someone bought me a pair of banana-hammock-under-draws, I’d durn well sport them around so that whoever bought them for me could see how I looked in them.  But then again, if any of my male friends bought me a pair of underwear, I would probably have other things to worry about. 

Sunday

I believe the only thing we have going on is our marriage counseling at 2:00pm.  I think our only homework was to take these personality tests and read over them.  We did that on the car ride home, and as I suspected, I have a great personality.  It doesn’t really say “great” as much as it does “Peacemaker” or “Peacekeeper.”  Kimberly is a “Powerful” person.  Maybe in my next post I’ll tell you all the ins-and-outs of being a Peacekeeper.