Our Best Family Picture to Date

Just 2 flaws:

1. Cameron's got to be photoshopped in. I bet we could use his Prom picture...the year he wore his kilt.

2. That pesky strand of my bangs that's just doing its own thing. Couldn't just behave, no sir. I'll get over it. Mind over matter.

But I still love it. To small, tiny bits.

Sarison Wedding IV: Homage to Murdy and Jim-a-Lim Eato

Shocker: My family is my favorite thing. The super stars you see below get all the credit....

If anyone thought there would be an Eaton event that didn't hear the drones of the bagpipes, they just didn't even know what was up.

This was a favorite part.  To be honest, I was three sheets past delirious at the end of the night.  Thanks to the thick heat of an Irvine July, no one slept well the night before at my house, and I was just pooped like nothing else, but knew we had, in the words of Azlan, "far to go."  When it came time to phase out the night, we started loading up the cars with the reception shiz.  With each armful I lugged to a trunk, I took great sentimental joy in the sight of Dad playing his resonator guitar with a few other Reynolds music devotees.  Dad played that down the hall while I drifted off to sleep when I was growing up, and that sound is "wind down at home" to me.  Anyway it was a sweet thing to watch those guys doing, something I imagine will continue on. 

Someone asked me at the Rehearsal Dinner which ones were my mom's sisters.  I laughed and said what she would have said, which is "OH no.  No sisters.  4 older brothers.  4 Sisters-in-LAW.  Thankfully 4 wonderful women married [her] brothers."  Are they not beauteous?

There are 3 of the 4.  I think my grandparents got a kick out of that. 

When people talk about my mom they say things like, "So come on, she has to have a flaw somewhere in there." 

Sarison Wedding III: Caught Primping

I'll say the biggest difference between Elizabeth's wedding and Sarah's was with the former there was no progeny scampering about. With Sarah's there were three. Adorable in the extreme? Absolutely. Unpredictable and time consuming? That's an emphatic YES. Five adults trying to get themselves decked out in the same house on very immovable schedules while readying 3 kids who may or may want to be readied at the time we were ready was....exhausting.  All I have to say is any mother who gets to church at ALL within the 3 hour block with her brood has worked a miracle.

Even so the morning of is chock full of terrific memories. Elizabeth caught a few snaps of the primping.

My mom and Sarah did her hair. It was inspired by Rory Gilmore in the vow renewal episode. Boo ya.
 

Sheesh, why weren't the 80s my hay day???

Sarison Wedding II

Pontificating

See?  I'm not the only one who is at the mercy of those cherubic cheeks.

Now, by the way, I can no longer say Kris is my favorite brother-in-law.  He's definitely tied for first, though.

Bah.  She always looks like a freaking supermodel.

This and that.  The dinner was at the Daily Grill.  Tres delish.

Do you know HOW MANY YEARS these two (and me, since I was the lovable tag-along) have been saying, "WE NEED TO BE RELATED!"  Mission accomplished.  Annie marrying into a family of 8 boys was a magical move.

I bet there'll be more.

Sarison Wedding I

For the last 3 days my dad has been calling my mom "The Party Girl of Irvine" for pulling off such a thing.  She made that white cloud she's wearing.  Yeah, she knows what she's doing.

There.  Now you can see what we were all wearing with a little more scope.  I wish I could remember what Elizabeth and I were looking at -- perhaps a R.O.U.S.?

Oh but this was one of my favorite parts of the day.  My nephew and Jeff's niece (who is also now Sarah's niece...I know, it sounds very backwater) both live in the same city, both just graduated kindergarten, and both make it a habit to overflow in cute.  They met and over a plate of See's truffles, sushi, and other such reception tasties, tried to describe to the other where they live.  "Welllll...you drive straight...and then you go by a GYM, and then...you turn by a tree with four branches...."  I could go on all day about these small people.

TADAAAAAAA!!!  Zee Bride and Groom!!!

They believe in lurve.

Oh geez. :)

My devilishly handsome +1.  He stayed until the bitter end of the reception cleaning up. Good man, that JH.

This is what was happening to Jeff every time people born after 2001 were around and no chocolate was within their rascally reach.  They would just tug and yank and drag on him without ceasing.  Somehow my boyfriend's arms are still connected to his body.

This is Rebecca McOmber.  There was NOT enough time to sit and talk to her as much as I'd hoped.  In fact, when I look back at all these pictures I'm grumpy about how many people in them traveled so far to so darlingly support Sarah et al and I just didn't get enough one-on-one with them.  So wonderful to see them at all, though.  Weekends like these get me excited about heaven, if you must know.  Copious -- nay, endless amounts of time with all the people I love.

Too cool for school

She cannot not be kissed.

More pictures to come later thanks to Elizabeth the fantastic and talented photographer sister o' mine....