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Ahhh, the famous words spoken by brides and grooms for centuries. We got to hear these lovely words recited as we watched our friends Dave and Lisa get married this past weekend. They had a beautiful ceremony at their church, of which they are members. This was followed by a gorgeous reception at the Altadena country club. The room they rented had beautiful views of the country club and the mountains. It was decorated nicely and the dinner was AMAZING! It was so nice for Dave and I to celebrate with them and get out and have a nice meal and a glass of wine! I have to say though the coolest thing by far was their guest book. They had a regular 5x7 scrapbook and a photo booth! Yes, a photo booth. So you got to go take a couple crazy pictures and stick it in the scrapbook with a few words for the new married couple. Is that not the coolest guest book idea ever??? I loved the idea, as you can tell because I've said so several times already. Well, while we were living it up with Willow at the reception, Mason was shopping it up with Raven at the mall. He had so much fun with her. They rode the carousel and ate dinner together. Man, those two are virtually inseparable. We had to have him dropped off at our house after his long day otherwise we knew we'd never get him home! We all had a fun night and I will leave you with our photo booth shots!

p.s. if you know anyone getting married, I highly suggest this guest book alternative. It is fun for the guests and bride/room alike!

Michigan, Hot Michigan

Living in California for nearly 5 years will almost erase the memory of the hot and humid days of summer in the mid-west. That is until you step of an airplane and get smacked in the face with the muggy heat! And this time, we all got to experience it together. It was our first family trip to Michigan in a couple years and Willow's first trip ever. We were a little leery about flying with her so young but knew it was now or never, so to speak. So we tucked her in the maya wrap, nursed her a lot and prayed for the best. We spent a week in Michigan visiting various family members and only one friend. As much as we tried to limit the amount of driving all over the metro-Detroit area as we could, we still ended up driving around a ton. But that's ok, we were just trying to help G & G Brightwell hit 50,000 on their odometer (after 8 years of ownership)! Even though it was a brief trip, we got to see all our nieces and nephews, several extended family members and one friend. Of course we would have loved to see more people, but there is just only so much you can do in 6 days. What were the highlights and lowlights, you ask? Well, as our Spain team will fondly remember, we'll play the high/low game. The high for me was by far the night Mason broke out some new dance moves for Dan and Krysta for like 25 minutes straight. I laughed so hard I cried! The low was driving to Howell and beyond 3 times in one week. (this is not to say AT ALL that it wasn't worth it because it certainly was!) Willow to this point is not super fond of being in a car seat and cried most of the time we were in the car. I think Mason's high would be either getting to play guitar and Wii with his cousin Alex or watching his cousins Natalie and Robby at Karate class. Oh, and of course the dancing! On a side note, we were in the car the other day and Mason was getting all whiny. I said "Hey buddy, what's wrong?" And he looked at me in the rear view mirror and said, "Mommy, I want to dance!" Oh goodness, I just never stop laughing with him around. Anyway, back to MIchigan. Willow's high was probably seeing her cousins and meeting a couple new ones. She loved Veronica!! Her low, probably the car rides. If I had to guess what Dave's high would be getting beat by a 5 year old at several games on the Wii. Oh sorry, that was my high point:) I guess I should probably check with him to see what he wants to say before I write for the hundreds of thousands of you who read this blog! So, look for that update later. All in all, it was a good trip, hot and humid but we did get one thunderstorm. That was very exciting! Mason and Willow got to see their cousins, we ate more coney Island than we should have and we all survived the plane rides.