My weekend started on Thursday with the wedding of Bill’s youngest son Matt. Matt and his fiancée entered a contest to get married at Six Flags in St. Louis on top of the newest water slide. They just got a call last week saying that they and 5 other couples had won. So we arrived at Six Flags at 7:30am on Thursday morning. We ended up having to wait until the very last couple because they put Matt and Paisha on the news! Channel 4 filmed the ceremony and the ‘plunge’ they took down the slide.
Here is Bill chilling out waiting for the wedding to start.
Matt and Paisha posing for pictures ahead of time.
Bonzai Pipeline - they are up there on top taking their vows.
Splash Down!
The Kiss
Cutting the cake
Six Flags provided everything – cake, food, flowers – and then the couples were all put into a drawing to win a honeymoon anywhere in the continental US… guess what, they won! I think they are going to go to the Florida Keys. They have until the end of the year to take the vacation.
Then, that afternoon, Bill and I got our new tattoos.
My tiger tat
Bill's Tat
In case you can’t tell, that is my left outer thigh. Boy did that hurt! The tattoo artist said that is a very tender part of the body and this tat had a lot of detail so he had to keep going over it with both colors and by the time he was done, I was pretty much done! They are healing really well now and we are putting lotion on them several times a day for two weeks.
On Saturday morning at about 7:30 we got woken up but the dogs barking that someone was here. Bill got up and looked out the window and then told me I had to get up and get dressed. “What?” “Just get dressed; someone is here to see you.” So I got up and got dressed and went out on the porch and there stood my oldest son Tom – in uniform! After hugging him and asking him what he was doing here (he graduates from EOD School in July) he said they gave them all 4 day passes so he and a buddy drove home! What a great surprise. Apparently everyone knew ahead of time but me!
Bill put him to work helping him jack hammer the hole where we will be putting down the septic tank for the new place.
Putting in the septic tank
We also got our first veggies out of our garden in the country – zucchini! I fried them up in some bacon grease and we had them with BLTs on Sunday evening.
Zucchini
And the nests that the birds built in the shelter in the campground – well one of them was knocked over and I think something got to the babies and the eggs. The other one is still there and the eggs are starting to hatch!
Baby Bird
Monday we had a BBQ in the back yard with all my kids and some of their friends. We played washers and hillbilly golf and got sun burnt. It was a good day. The boys all posed for a picture of the family tat.
Family Tat
Tom left at 4:00am this morning to go pick up his buddy and head back to Florida. Now it’s back to work for me as well.
Here is Bill chilling out waiting for the wedding to start.
Matt and Paisha posing for pictures ahead of time.
Bonzai Pipeline - they are up there on top taking their vows.
Splash Down!
The Kiss
Cutting the cake
Six Flags provided everything – cake, food, flowers – and then the couples were all put into a drawing to win a honeymoon anywhere in the continental US… guess what, they won! I think they are going to go to the Florida Keys. They have until the end of the year to take the vacation.
Then, that afternoon, Bill and I got our new tattoos.
My tiger tat
Bill's Tat
In case you can’t tell, that is my left outer thigh. Boy did that hurt! The tattoo artist said that is a very tender part of the body and this tat had a lot of detail so he had to keep going over it with both colors and by the time he was done, I was pretty much done! They are healing really well now and we are putting lotion on them several times a day for two weeks.
On Saturday morning at about 7:30 we got woken up but the dogs barking that someone was here. Bill got up and looked out the window and then told me I had to get up and get dressed. “What?” “Just get dressed; someone is here to see you.” So I got up and got dressed and went out on the porch and there stood my oldest son Tom – in uniform! After hugging him and asking him what he was doing here (he graduates from EOD School in July) he said they gave them all 4 day passes so he and a buddy drove home! What a great surprise. Apparently everyone knew ahead of time but me!
Bill put him to work helping him jack hammer the hole where we will be putting down the septic tank for the new place.
Putting in the septic tank
We also got our first veggies out of our garden in the country – zucchini! I fried them up in some bacon grease and we had them with BLTs on Sunday evening.
Zucchini
And the nests that the birds built in the shelter in the campground – well one of them was knocked over and I think something got to the babies and the eggs. The other one is still there and the eggs are starting to hatch!
Baby Bird
Monday we had a BBQ in the back yard with all my kids and some of their friends. We played washers and hillbilly golf and got sun burnt. It was a good day. The boys all posed for a picture of the family tat.
Family Tat
Tom left at 4:00am this morning to go pick up his buddy and head back to Florida. Now it’s back to work for me as well.
Few things are as wonderful as family events, both large, like the wedding, and small, like the doorstep surprise of one family member. Sounds like you had a wonderful time!
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