Wedding Pics

Planning a wedding is stressful enough. Planning one during a pandemic has to be even more stressful.  My cousin has been planning his wedding for over a year and we weren't sure if they would still be able to have it.  Thankfully they were able to go ahead as planned (at least I think so. I'm sure some things had to change and modifications made) and as Norah keeps telling me it was the best weekend ever! 

Joel tried to wear those slides saying they were black and white and matched.

Because the wedding was at the science museum we all had to wear masks. The kids were worried that the bride and groom would have to wear it during the ceremony but thankfully the wedding party didn't have to wear masks. What a strange world we live in right now.  

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I don't have many pictures of the ceremony.  They asked us to turn our phones off. But it was a beautiful ceremony. Sarah was facetiming with Angela and James who are quarantined in a Japanese hotel room. They were trying to watch the wedding on the live stream but it wasn't working at first so they facetimed Sarah. But it caught up right before they asked us to turn off our phones so they could watch from across the world.

Norah loved the dancing.

I told the kids when covid is over we will go back to the science museum so they can see all the exhibits. I didn't think we have ever been but mom said she brought us when Mary was a baby so its been a few years!  Its a really cool building.

The bride and groom. 

Before we got to the wedding Joel thought people should see his smile so he drew on some masks. 

We don't see my cousins and aunts and uncles enough. One nice thing about having to wear masks if you left your table is that we spent a lot of time sitting and talking so we didn't have to put on a mask! ha! But it was great to catch up and hopefully it wont be as long until we all get together again.
 

Butler

 

Last night my cousin William got married to a very lovely girl named Katie. It was a beautiful wedding and I have more pictures to post but I felt that Joel’s thoughts should be written down in its own post. 

First all week Joel has been asking why he had to wear fancy clothes. He informed me multiple times when he gets married we can all wear athletic shorts and T-shirts. (Norah on the other hand has been carefully planning her outfit for weeks) 

Then when we were getting dressed he put on the vest (which I think he looked very handsome in) He looked at himself in the mirror and exclaimed that he looked like a butler! I actually think that sealed the deal for him to actually wear the vest. He was thrilled to look like a butler.

After the ceremony was over and we were walking into the building Joel gave us his pros and cons list of looking like a butler.

Pro: It has the word butt in it

Pro: Butlers get paid

Con: If there is going to be a murder it’s always the butler who did it! 

Bloodwork

This morning I took Joel to get bloodwork done. His doctor wanted to check a few things. She’s worried his body isn’t regulating insulin right. He was super nervous. He’s done this twice before but it’s been several years and usually the doctor sends us right away and he doesn’t have a day to overthink it all. 

The first nurse couldn’t find a vein. He went to find another nurse. She came in and was wonderful. She was patient and talked everything through for Joel. She felt around a long time and finally found a vein. Joel’s commentary had her dying laughing. 

“What’s that!?!??” “I feel SLIME! I FEEL SLIME” (the alcohol wipe)

“Now there’s glue! WHY ARE TOU GLUEING ME?” (Feeling her gloved fingers touching his arms)

She then stuck him and he looked over at his arm and about passed out. I thought he was going to faint but then he looked again at his arm and said “where’s the blood?” (The vein rolled)

She didn’t want to keep sticking him so she went to get another nurse. Joel told her before she left that he should’ve just let her have his blood when she stuck him (like he had a choice)

The 3rd nurse came in and asked how school was going and if he had any friends. Joel said it’s virtual I have no friends. 

nurse -“ well you can be my friend. Do you want to be my friend?”

Joel -“I just met you” 

Nurse - “well I’m about to stick a needle in you so you want me to be your friend”

She got it right in. And Joel was amazed at how fast his blood was coming out. Then she switched containers and took 5 big vials off blood. 

Joel - “I’m losing too much blood!!!!”

There’s more I’ve forgotten but it’s just daily life with Joel. He keeps us all laughing. And hopefully we won’t have to give blood again for a long time. 

 

5k

Back in March when we had nothing to do Colin started running with me a few times a week. He started out only running once around our small neighborhood but now we are up to 6 miles. It’s been fun having a running buddy to talk to as we run. Even when I’m dying because he sets the pace at a much faster run than I’m used to. But we are getting faster every week. 

I ran the Oscar Smith 5k last year and signed up the entire family to run it virtually this year. Joel and Brent trained together at night. 

Holly and I have been running together every Sunday since March which has been greatly needed for my sanity! So we decided to run the race virtually together. 

Norah and Emeline biked it and set a pretty fast pace.

Hollys parents were at the finish line with ribbon. We then took all the kids to Rita’s for Italian ice. The next morning Norah slept until almost 10am! All that biking wore her out. 

Instead of medals they mailed us masks which are actually more useful than a medal. 

Pool

The best thing we did the summer was join a pool about 5 minutes away. We had bought ocean breeze passes back in December but decided to defer those until next summer after the governor closed their slides. 

So the pool was perfect.  And even better was the fact that my co leader for Girl Scouts was a member so we met a lot at the pool this summer. 

We will definitely be joining again next summer. 

 

First week

We met some friends at the beach last weekend to celebrate surviving the first week of school. We are trying to hold onto summer as long as possible. And also needed to get out of the house. This virtual schooling schedule keeps us home bound all day long. We all prefer the loose schedule they had back in the spring. But we are slowly getting into our new routine. 

After a week of cloudy skies and rainy weather the sun was greatly needed.

I think it was Joel who told me last week that even the skies are sad for all the school kids that week! Ha! 

I think that might be our last beach day for awhile of actually getting in the water. Fall weather has arrive and as much as we like having windows open and cool evenings I think we’d all like a few more weeks of summer back.