rehearsal dinner

Everyone showed up and got to work.

There were five ironing boards going to get the table cloths ready.

Baby soothing. (We met our nephew’s first little baby…first great-grandbaby for Dave’s parents… with some pretty great delight.)

Toddler entertaining.

Flower arranging.

New-girlfriend-of-younger-brother-get-to-knowing:)

Food prepping

And table setting.

And I loved every minute of it with these great people I get to call “mine.”

The back porch went from that mess I showed at the end of the last post to this:

Then to this:

And after all that swirl of activity we were ready.

Every one of Dave’s siblings was in town.

Man I love this family.

Then the bride and groom-to-be arrived in a pretty awesome truck given to Leah.

(Elle was the photographer for this event, so thank you Elle Belle for these pics.)

I had to get her and these cute cousins in at least one:

This is the first in-law niece with their sweet baby Bobby who we all fell in love with pretty darn quick:

Bob (Dave’s brother) welcomed everyone:

…and was the master of ceremonies for the dinner.

…as the sky turned velvety-dark.

(Leah’s parents above.)

(the bridesmaids)

(Oldest nephew and family.)

(Great-grandbaby lovey sweetie.)

It was a beautiful night to celebrate a these two great kids we love so much.

I sounded really old when I said that, right?  Kids?  But kind of, they are.  And it’s fun to write about as I reminisce about being a kid myself and getting married 21 years ago.  Yowzas I am old.

I loved the love that abounded around those tables.

Then it was clean-up…(which was as fun as the set-up)

…and on to the big wedding the next day.

To be continued…