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My Friend's Wedding

Friday Night Lego Party!

Brynn had gotten to know these two sisters, Olivia and Justice, at the HopeKids day camp during this summer. Turned out they are originally from Fergus (as is their mom) and just moved to Sabin. Since most of their old friends are still in Fergus, they had their joint birthday party there this past Saturday at a pottery shop. Coincidentally it worked out perfectly, as my friend was getting married near Fergus on Saturday and they were also attending the wedding as the mom worked with my friend (Tammy) in Fergus. Whew! I feel like that was a really complex story!

Anyway, Brynn had fun at the party on Saturday afternoon. I hawked this pic the mom had taken off of Facebook.



Once Brynn was back from the party, we started getting ready for the wedding. Of course this is the bride of whose bachelorette party I had attended a few weeks ago. She is one of my old college roommates from Fergus and we actually share the same birthday!

Grandma was curling Clara's hair while Papa was feeding her raisins. :-) 

Twinsies

Getting ready to head out for the ceremony. Thanks for the pic, Holly!


The entire wedding, including the ceremony, reception and dance, was held outside at Rockin' K Ranch near Underwood, MN. It was a short drive for us from Grandpa and Grandma's house. The rain held off for the ceremony, but started in off and on once the reception started and throughout the rest of the night. After we were done eating at the reception, we brought the girls back to Grandpa and Grandma's and then we headed back for the rest of the dance. It was a fun wedding and nice to catch up with our old group of college friends. (I didn't take any of the following pics and, again, hawked more from Facebook.)




We joke that Tammy seems to know everyone in the Fergus Falls/Underwood/Battle Lake area and then lo and behold she has Blind Joe of all people play the dance. I did not watch the show when he was on, but you might recognize him from when he was on "The Voice." He did a great job. Tammy got up there with him for one song and they had a nice little duet together. :-)


Shenanigans on the way home on Sunday.





We had a movie night Sunday night and watched 'Zootopia.' I thought it was super funny. Brynn seemed to like it pretty well. Clara said nicely for about the first 45 minutes and then she started to get squirrely and then cuddly and soon it was time for her to cut out and head to bed.


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