More Wedding weekend

So here is more of the summary from our vacation:

Thursday - drive 9 1/2 hours from Ashburn, VA to Cincinatti, OH, where Mario is working. Spend the night there.

Friday - drive 4 hours from OH to Ann Arbor, MI. Went to rehearsal for Steph and Matt's wedding and then the rehearsal dinner. I had the boys with me by myself, and Mario drove his rental car after work...he got in about 8:30pm Friday night. The boys were great at the rehearsal. I told MJ this was a special day at church so he was able to bring toys. The dinner was a bit trickier as it was getting late and feeding 3 people is always tricky for me. But we managed. We stayed at a Fairfield Inn.
Saturday - We went to Steph and Matt's wedding and gladly used their babysitter for the ceremony. I did a reading and Mario videotaped the wedding, so we definitely couldn't have the kids with us. This is an excellent idea for all of you planning weddings out there... especially if you'll have a lot of out of town guests with kids. It's hard to find someone you trust to watch your kids when you are traveling, so even if you just find a few people you know, it is helpful to offer that to guests. After the ceremony we checked into the Holiday Inn (where the babysitter was watching other kids so we wouldn't have to move them far at night). Then we had a fabulous kid free time at the reception. The whole wedding was great... Steph and Matt look so happy. It was fun to see all our old ND friends (and some I didn't even think would be there).

We met Emily and Jeff's baby Joseph (who was 7 weeks old and sooooo cute!) Here are Jeff and Joseph.

I didn't have a picture of Emily and Joseph, but here are Emily and Steph (Emily was a bridesmaid). Can you believe she had a baby 7 weeks ago! She looks great!

Sunday morning, they had a brunch at the hotel. So we checked that out. We tried to get a few pictures of our boys with the bride. This is all we could come up with.

They are having a serious discussion.

Sunday we drove our seperate cars back to Cincinnati. Mario took MJ in the rental car (the Saturn Vue). Mario sometimes gives MJ car brochures, and one of the most recent ones was the Saturn Vue. So MJ was very happy to ride in that car. It was a little silly that we drove seperate cars to the same location, but it would have taken longer to drop off the rental car and then pick up a new one. We checked into the hotel (our 4th new hotel room in 4 nights). I'm glad Mario suggested that I stay in Ohio Monday. It was nice to relax and do nothing (and be in the same place 2 nights in a row).