Indiana Bubbles...
We (meaning Chuck, Hannah and I) play with bubbles ALL the time....but its been a while for Aunt Nicki, Grandpa and Grandma......we had a ton of fun with these gigantic bubbles!! More pictures compliments of Aunt Nicki...
Flower Girl (Cont.)....
Below are pictures (as promised) from Meg and Jeremy's beautiful wedding! Most of these pictures are compliments of Aunt Nicki... Hannah and I were both very honored to be part of this very special day.
Speaking of Aunt Nicki, she had her wisdom teeth pulled on Monday, we are thinking about her and hope she is doing better...
Flower Girl....
Wow, the past couple of weeks have been BUSY!!! First Chicago, then St. Louis both for weddings of people we love, and to top it all off Hannah got to be the flower girl....twice!
Chicago was amazing. Chucks sister Stephanie and her fiance Dave tied the knot on Sunday June 6th at an amazing location called Promontory Point in Chicago. Most of the Dodge's actually live on the East Coast so we don't get to be together all that often. Stephanie found this great place for us to stay called The Beadle Residences, the rooms were more like apartments instead of hotels and we pretty much took over the place. We took cornhole, bubbles, we got to walk to breakfasts, lunches and dinners, hung out with family and attended an absolutely beautiful wedding, it was an awesome weekend! As far as Hannah's role of the flower girl, she only made it about half way down the aisle for Steph and Dave's wedding, but she had a blast dancing and hanging out all night long!
Well, this is Hannah's first limo ride but it kind of looks like Daddy was focusing on the wrong thing!!
Next up....St. Louis, where my cousin Meg tied the knot on June 12th. I met my Dad, Nancy and Nicki at the St. Louis airport on Thursday evening, it was so great to see them, we haven't seen them since Thanksgiving and we missed them! We headed to the hotel and the weekend just took off from there. We started with a shower for Meg on Thursday night, then Friday we had rehearsal followed by manicures and pedicures then an awesome picnic. Rain threatened to cancel the picnic all day but it actually turned out perfect. Chuck and Hannah made their way to St. Louis about 8 on Friday evening. Saturday was wedding day, we spent the morning getting ready and hanging out then it was time to hop on the bus and we headed to the church. Meg looked beautiful, the church looked great and Hannah made it all the way down the aisle, not gonna lie I was definitely holding my breath! It was an awesome day, so wonderful to hang out with family and friends that we don't get to see often enough! Pictures from Meg's wedding will be coming, since I was also part of this wedding and Chuck was solely responsible for Hannah our camera really didn't make it out of the bag, but we knew a few people there so I am sure pictures will be coming our way.
Wedding season is here....
And here is a preview....
Much more to come....
Bubble...
I have tons of pictures and things to blog about but way too busy at the moment...so this will have to do..............
Look at the intensity on her face....I think she wanted that bubble!
The Mess at IMS 2010 (part 2)...
As promised....Race Day photos from the 2010 Mess at IMS!!! As I was going through all of these I realized that surprisingly we did get some good photos and I am not posting all of them so if you attended the Mess and would like to see all the photos, let me know.
So, if we thought Saturday was hot, we were WRONG, Sunday was scorching and we did not have a gigantic 20x40 blue and white striped tent to hide under. This meant we were all applying serious amounts of sunscreen, see below! Although I swear as soon as we would get it on we would sweat it right off!
If you have never been to the Indy 500, you probably wouldn't know this but there are events that you come to expect, even in a certain order that make the Indy 500 the Indy 500!! I don't really know how to explain it. The morning starts off VERY early because the helicopters are above us by 6 a.m. (seriously). Since we are camping in the Coke Lot, these helicopters are pretty tough to ignore.
If you have never been to the Indy 500, you probably wouldn't know this but there are events that you come to expect, even in a certain order that make the Indy 500 the Indy 500!! I don't really know how to explain it. The morning starts off VERY early because the helicopters are above us by 6 a.m. (seriously). Since we are camping in the Coke Lot, these helicopters are pretty tough to ignore.So back to the sequence of events..
We get up...EARLY, normally a bit of a struggle, grab some bottles of water, wash our faces, brush our teeth, bust out the donut holes, vodka and OJ, grab the truck driving around selling ice (yes it is still like 7 a.m.) and set up the race pool. Once all that is taken care of we can make our way into turn 4, the earlier the better!
You have all the traditional things like the National Anthem, then you have the unique things like the balloon launch (yes I may be almost 30 but look forward to this every year), and of course the singing of Back Home Again In Indiana by Jim Nabors. These are just a few of the things that make the Indy 500 special....
You've got the fly over, which is just AWESOME...
You've got Monsignor Schaedel, who not only married Chuck and I, but also baptised Chuck, Hannah and was on the jumbo tron saying the prayer before the race....
You've got these cars......I'm sorry but I am a girl and I even get chills the first time you hear these things go by....
You've got the traditional in-field stuff...yes that guy trying to get the beach ball with a bunch of shirts tied together is with us!..
You've got the mullets and the sweet sunglasses....we really do love that guy dearly!!
You've got great friends that you don't see nearly as often as you would like but can count on for the race every year....
You've got the wives that have been sucked into this and have learned to love every minute of it..... even when the husbands begin planning in December...
You've got just funny stupid stuff that you don't EVER get to do, or really even get to think about in the real world...
You've got a great group of guys who have grown up.......but when you get them together at the Indy 500, anything is possible...
Oh, throw a couple of REALLY important girls in there too....
The Mess at IMS was lots of fun this year and I am so glad I could participate. Not gonna lie, there were definitely a few key people I missed this year, but I am so happy I got to be there and enjoy the traditions...... Who knows what next year will bring but this year definitely brought some AWESOME memories....
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