Wedding Pictures

Ok, so I finally have the wedding pictures cropped and uploaded. There is one picture of the whole wedding party, but mostly it's pictures of John with his cousins, John with his uncle and cousins, John with Mark, well okay I will admit it I like taking pictures of John. I'm sure one of the others will come along with 'real' wedding pictures at some point, the photographer is the same one who did the engagement pics so they will be wonderful when you get to see them. For today, here is John at Wyatt and Brooke's wedding.



















In the end he mostly just wanted his dress clothes off and his shorts back on so that he could sit and stick his feet in the pool. Thanks to my friends who have shown me that real mommies can do anything in a skirt, I sat right next to him and we dangled our feet in the pool and played with the flowers that were floating. I love getting to spend time with my buddy and when he was ready to get rocks from the landscaping and throw them in the pool we knew it was time to take him back to the hotel!

Ah, the ocean :)

I have never had a desire to be around the ocean other than one time just to see what it looked like. When Mark and I were first married he took me to Myrtle Beach, um, ho hum, not too impressive, but mostly because I'm a mountain girl and the ocean is pretty boring from the top. But while in California I wanted John to see the ocean so that when we looked at an ocean on a map this school year he had a good picture of what we were talking about. Even thought I'm not really an ocean person, I do realize that it, like mountains, cannot be adequately describe through words or pictures, nothing is like the real thing. My nephew's Sergeant suggested Huntington Beach which turned out to be the perfect place to go. So the morning of the wedding, my mom, Mark, John and I took off for the beach - we could have been helping with the wedding, I know, but really a 6yo on mischief juice is not helpful, nor are the parents that spend their whole time chasing him and fixing what happened in his wake.







We were all a little shocked at just how cold the water was when it got on our toes, but oh it felt good. The temperature when we left the hotel was already well over 100 degrees, but at the beach it was a nice cool 79 and the water was gorgeous and clear.









John was wanting to build sand castles, and some day we will have to go back and do that. He was happy to bury his legs and feet in the sand for a few minutes and then we were off to get ready for the wedding. Lol, several showers later there was still sand in the motel bathtub from the little sand monkey.

California - Sea World

John loves to travel. It is not always kind to John's system, and while he had some issues this time, nothing that would keep him from having a good time! He was excited to ride on the airplanes, thrilled to run through the airports and even excited to see family when we landed in California. After a long ride through more traffic than I have ever seen before and ever care to see again, we finally landed at our hotel and he was off to sleep. The next morning my mom, nephew, Mark, John and I headed out to San Diego to go to Sea World. We had a wonderful time. John was mesmerized by the shows, especially the Blue Horizon show with the people on swings and diving into the water and parrots flying overhead and dolphins jumping and such. As soon as we got out of that show though he took the map and pointed, he was ready to play in the water and what a great time he had.

John 2008

John 2007

John 2006

John 2005