New Years!- Henry.

We spent another quiet day at Grams' and PawPaw's house.

 After all the madness of the past two weeks, we were all happy to just have some time to play with our new toys and relax. 

 

We also had the distinct advantage of being the only ones left with all of the leftover wedding food.  Stuffed mushrooms for everyone!  (Yeah right, mom.  You're the only one who eats those gross things.)

The real jackpot came on New Year's Eve when mama realized the sour cream containers in the fridge were actually full of 10 pounds of chocolate fountain chocolate!  That was a night to remember.  We dipped everything!  The girls had to go to bed at 9, but I got to stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop.  Mama ran outside into the snow with no shoes on, per her family tradition, while Grams tried to get me to bang pans together, per her family tradition.  I chose neither, though mama did drag me outside and dipped me in a snowdrift.

On New Year's Day, papa drove mama and I up to Cleveland.  They spent the evening out with some of their friends.  I got to spend the evening with GG and GG.  They let me eat supper (a huge peanut butter and jelly sandwich, pudding and jello!) on a tray in front of the tv while we watched a show about Big Foot! It was awesome!!!!  But the really good part started at 1am (the second night in a row I got to stay up!) when mama and I boarded the Capitol Limited- an Amtrak train headed to Rockville.  It took me until well after 2am before I calmed down enough to fall asleep.  Mama said I didn't miss much as we passed though Pittsburgh.  

 

  Good thing I had my new Zune with me to help pass the time.  

When I found out we were going to take a train home, the first thing I asked was if there was a dining car.  There was and we got to eat breakfast in it.  So cool!  

Next up, we headed to the Lounge car for some panoramic views of the countryside.

For reference, this is how mama looks after a night on a train.  It's much like how she looks in the morning at home, except that her hair isn't sticking straight up because she was wearing a hat.  

Not even two nights in a row of staying up super late can keep this guy down.

We were especially pleased at the short stop we took in a familiar town.  Hello, Harper's Ferry!

The best part about Harper's Ferry is that two sets of tracks from either side of town join up over a river before going through a tunnel!  Awesome!

By 11:30, were were all packed up and ready to step off the train right in Rockville!  The final step of our journey was to take the bus home.  Mama's pretty good about taking the train because there's always a map on the wall we can consult if we can get lost.  But buses don't have that advantage.  So over break, she did some research and figured out how to get us home from the train station.  Turns out there is a bus route that goes between both metro stops in town and right in front of our apartment.  One more hurdle overcome!

We got back home just in time for mama to realize there was no food in the house.  So we got off the bus right in front of my school and mama sent me straight inside so I could at least have a real lunch and so she could have some time to go grocery shopping.  

Post wedding- Mama.

Here's a few more pictures from the wedding I forgot to post. 

Since I was the one taking all the pictures, it's really no surprise that there are not to many pictures of me from the wedding.  (and most i have seen involve me half squatting down in a dress to try to take pictures or placate a whiny toddler.

Like this whiny toddler.  What with my responsibilities at the photo booth, Henry's responsibility to the chocolate fountain, June's responsibility to the dance floor, and Jo's responsibility to being tired, it's no surprise we didn't manage to get a single picture of the family at the wedding.  Looks like we're going to have to have another wedding, Aunt Jill and Uncle Phillip.

Once the happy couple departed, we all headed back home and were ready to cut loose.  June knows that a two year old is generally a good audience for potty humor and will do almost anything she tells them to do.

Needless to say, Dasher thought June was great.

What are we going to do with these two?

Look at that!  Aunt Katie caught a picture of us!  

And after all this excitement, we still had one more Christmas to celebrate!  (Look at how excited Uncle Cole is.)

Another 5 minutes of mass chaos!  I can't wait until the kids are old enough to sit still and let me actually see what got opened.

That was one intense 5 minutes!  Merry 4th Christmas!

The big day!- June.

Mama spent the night in a hotel with Aunt Jill and Aunt Katie.  Then they headed straight for the beauty salon.

She was lucky enough to have two people to work on her!

How pretty!

Then makeup!

Have you figured it out yet?  

Mister Phillip and Aunt Jill got married!  This has proven to be a major turning point in my life and now EVERYTHING is about weddings.   Let's see how everyone else cleaned up.

Georgie put on a pretty dress, then cried for the next 5 hours, as my excellent parents forgot to bring her nukie and blankie for a wedding smack dab in the middle of naptime.

I also got a dress.  AND I got my hair curled.  But like all Seibert hair.  It held the style for about 15 minutes before returning to it's natural stick-straight ways.  The look I'm giving right now is from when Aunt Jill asked me if she looked like a bride.  I very matter-of-factly said, "No.  You don't have a veil.  You CANNOT get married without a veil."  I then got so excited about everything I peed on the floor of the church.  Good news, it was after the wedding.    (At this point mama was ready to get rid of both of her daughters who, in her eyes, practically disrupted the whole ceremony.  Thanks for being so understanding, Aunt Jill and Uncle Phillip.)

Henry proved to be handsome and reliable.  And by reliable, we mean he stood still at the front of the church then gorged himself at the chocolate fountain.

Dash grabbed a quick nap before the wedding and was a riot during the reception.  He was sliding all over the dance floor, just like little boys should at a wedding.

And Sadie was sweet and perfect and made this side of the Turner family look like a bunch of neanderthals.  (Plus, she had great hair.)

Let's get this party started!

Mama remembers distinctly being at a wedding at this age and also wandering onto the dance floor to admire a bride during the dancing.  Granted, that bride was wearing long puffy sleeves and a hat. 

After the father-daughter dance, Georgie took a turn with PawPaw.

When the mother-son dance started, Georgie was exhausted and passed out right on the dance floor.  (Thank goodness papa ran home for dry tights for me and the blankie and nukie.)

Mama's big surprise for the day was that she set up a photo booth, complete with props.

 After some warming up, everyone really started to get into the spirit.

Starting to loosen up...

No surprise the Aunt Jill and Henry both spent a lot of time hamming it up.

Dasher and AJ.

Aunt Jill and Unkie.

Aunt Katie and Uncle Adam.

Uncle Cole and Dasher.  (Big thanks to Uncle Cole, who spent the bulk of his day entertaining kids.)

I don't know who these guys are.

The Cooper ladies:  Aunt Tia, Grams, Aunt Jane and our cousin Payton.  (Crazy big thanks to Payton for putting up with a crying JoJo for a long time.  This girl should open a daycare, she's so good.)

The bridesmaids get sassy.

You can call him "Professor."

PawPaw, Grams, and the happy couple.

And maybe the greatest picture of GG ever!

Uncle Mike and Aunt Molly.

Seriously, these two were in the room all night!

When we weren't taking pictures, we were out tearing up the dance floor!

Father-daughter dance, part 2.

Before we knew it, the party was over and Uncle Phillip (literally) had to carry Aunt Jill out of the reception. Congratulations, Aunt Jill and Uncle Phillip!