An even busier two weeks-yep!

Honestly I have to laugh that I called those last two weeks "busy" weeks! Yikes!~ The last two weeks have been WAY busier! In case you couldn't tell by the lack of posts on here! So let's scoot back two weeks! Two weeks ago my dad and my brother and their two dogs came up to Cody to stay with us getting ready for my sister Cora's wedding.

The kids had a hard time dealing with the dogs- mostly just bruno, they were scared of. Emmalee even decided she needed "protective gear" to be near them!

Oh well.We took Cora through the temple that wednesday. This involved a drive to Billings Montana (2 hours away) and 5 and a half hours in the temple itself. It was a wonderful day. Busy, but wonderful. We spent a few extra hours in the temple because her fiance was late for the session. But it all worked out. Honestly it was nice to just be able to be someplace where my kids weren't screaming in my ears, and asking for something every two seconds. So 5 and a half hours of temple rest time was wonderful. Her fiance made it for the last session of the day, and all was well. We went to eat at Applebee's after that because we were starved! (10 p.m.) and they were still open! YAY! That was way fun. Saturday was wedding day. We headed back up to Billings for the wedding in the morning and had a luncheon afterward. The ceremony was beautiful and we are so proud of and excited for Cora and Frank!

Billions of pictures later and a stop to Target for tights for Emmalee and we were off to Cowley Wyoming for the reception. Frank's family and our family helped get everything all set up for the outdoor reception at his mom Julie Ann's house. It was such a beautiful morning all bright and sunny, but it soon turned into a windy mess. It was a struggle keeping everything on the ground including the tables! But it didn't rain! We were worried it would rain because it had rained everyday for like over 3 weeks straight. We had a great turnout there, although people didn't stay long because of the weather! Oh well. She had a beautiful cake

and it was a fun reception anyway. And the bride was beautiful. :) Blake and Emmalee were junior groomsman and junior bridesmaid along with Frank's nephew and niece.

They looked so cute in their little outfits. Emmalee didn't feel real well the whole time though.

We found out why later. After the reception we headed back to Cody with my dad and brother and my sister and her husband. So we had a full house! And yet an empty one too! After everyone left on Sunday, we had a house full of just us! Cora's been living with us for the last 5 months, so that was really strange and yet stress relieving at the same time. We took Emmalee to the doctor Monday morning because she just was not getting any better (she'd had this cough for two weeks and been tired, but no on else was getting sick) and found out she had bronchial pneaumonia! Which explained the no one else getting sick thing (not contagious) and also explained why she wasn't getting any better! So we got her on an antibiotic. Between Monday and Thursday I did a million loads of laundry and dishes and dealt with three kiddos, one that was sick, and tried frantically to get everything ready for the Poky reception. Thursday was way busy, running to the store, packing, watching kids, and baking sheet cakes! We drove down on Thursday night and stayed in Ashton at Ryan's grandmother's ranch house. Then we headed down to Poky. Along the way we spotted a truck pulled off on the side of the road. We looked over to see what the problem was and low and behold it was Cora and Frank! So we flipped back around and pulled over to help. Frank's brother was already there, but we thought we'd better stop as well. Turns out the fuel pump had gone bad in the truck. So we towed the truck into town to a mechanic (ironic I know with a family of mechanics--time issue) and Frank's brother pulled the trailer of 4 wheelers behind him. Once we had the truck settled at the mechanic we all piled into the 2 vehicles we had and made our way to Poky. We got to the hotel and got all checked in and ready for the reception and then made our way over to the church. We had been told there would be a funeral earlier that day (noon) but that they would be out of there in time for us to set up (3 or 4). So imagine our surprise when we walked in to find that the funeral dinner was just STARTING at 4. The funeral had started at 2 not noon! We ended up sharing the kitchen until they were gone and setting up everything just 45 minutes before the reception! But all in all, the reception went fine. We really didn't get a lot of people show up (about 50) and so we had a ton of leftover refreshments. In fact I have about 6 bottles of ginger ale and 4 bottles of white grape juice sitting on my counter still, and my dad has like 3 gallons of ice cream in his freezer! But it was fun. I got to see some relatives I haven't seen in a while, and the kids got to run around and be crazy. Yup. So that was all the crazy busy wedding weeks stuff. Maybe it wasn't as crazy busy as I thought, but to me, the stress and headache of doing my normal routine (kids, keeping house, primary, etc.) is compounded when I add things to it! A wedding, a sick kid, houseguests, and traveling. But all is well! We survived! We did it! Cora's all married off, and we are back to our routine at the house. Well, until Thursday anyway! Then we'll head into the next round of busy. I think we're just in for a busy summer!