Amber's Wedding

One of my best friends got married the middle of June, and I went out to Utah to be there for the wedding.  Amber and I have been friends since sophomore year of college.  We were both Mechanical Engineering majors, we were in the same classes, we studied together, got awesome grades together, and graduated at the same time.  Paige and I flew out to Utah, and Lucas stayed with his daddy.  This was Ryan's first time being alone with a kid for a long period of time, so he was pretty nervous.  Here's me and Paige getting ready to leave.

We had a dinner the night before with all the friends and family from out of town.  Here's our little group of friends, and the bride and groom-to-be.

That night Paige threw up all over the hotel pack-n-play, so I let her come into bed with me.  I really was hoping she wouldn't throw up all over me, and she didn't.  She was so cute and cuddled up the next morning.

Grandma and Grandpa George came up to the hotel to watch Paige while I went to the wedding.  I didn't think to take any pictures of the happy couple, since there was a photographer there, but then I realized, that meant I didn't have any photos of my own, so I stole this photo from facebook.  They were so cute and looked so happy!

And here's our little group in our fancy clothes.

The luncheon/reception after the wedding was downtown at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.  I picked up Paige from grandma and grandpa and took her along.  We wandered around a bit and took pictures in front of the pretty view of the temple.

After the luncheon was over Paige and I went to city creek, which was just right next to us, and we walked around and went shopping.  My friend Shannon met up with us and we had a good time talking, laughing, and getting hand massages at Lush. On my way back to the car, Paige fell asleep so we stopped to relax for a bit before the chaos of the airport.

Since our flight out to Utah was delayed for 3 hours and everyone was in a rush to get on the plane, we didn't really have time for pictures.  The way back home was much more relaxed so I decided to ask the pilot to take a picture with Paige to remember her first, almost first flight.  He was super nice and excited about it and he held her out over the controls and stuff.  But Paige was pretty grumpy after a full day of not very good sleep and still feeling a little sick and she was not very excited about some random stranger holding her in a weird place.  We settled for the pilot taking a picture of me holding Paige in the cockpit.  Almost as good.

The flight was empty so they let me bring her car seat on the plane.  Paige was like this for the first few minutes...

And then as soon as the flight took off, she fell asleep.

She slept the entire flight, woke up for a bit on the walk out to meet daddy, fell back asleep for the entire car ride home, stayed asleep for the transfer to her crib, and slept till morning.  Yep, she's amazing!  We had such a fun time!  Thanks again Amber for getting married and giving us an excuse to get together again.