Party Animals

We went to some friends house over the weekend because some other people we knew were getting married.
We had a great time. The kids loved sleeping in their sleeping bags (Josie doesn't quite have the concept yet....she either laid down under the sleeping bag and often perpendicular to the direction she needed to be).
Our friends have a pool table so the kids loved rolling the balls around. Jim and Peter even developed the concept of "midget pool" but you would have to ask them about it because there are many rules that kept developing during play.
We visited a playground where they kids had a marvelous time and kept all four adults very busy trying to keep track of where everyone was in all of the twists and turns.
We went to the wedding and it was the first one for the kids to attend. Doug and Josie fell asleep in the car on the way to the church so Andy was the only one I really got to prep for what was going to happen. Of course he was then the one who slept through the entire service. Fortunately there were enough interesting things at the front to keep Doug entertained and Josie drew on all the paper we would let her have in the pew. Fortunately it was also a good Methodist wedding and the ceremony only lasted 20 minutes so it was perfect for our attention span.
We threw rose petals as they came out of the church but Doug was excited enough about it that he kept throwing them before the couple came out so random people gave him lots of rose petals. He also picked some of the church flowers out of their garden to give to me.
I think I might have to see about getting some of the professional photographer's candid shots from the reception because my children ended up in a lot of the pictures. There was a dance floor and my kids were out on it for every song except the special first couple dance. We went to watch the couple cut the cake and I made the kids sit down so that they could see without the urge to run into the photo. So of course the photographer took a candid shot of them all sitting on the floor. Then we carried cake back to our table. Unfortunately we did not grab a sit-down table fast enough so we were at a standing table. So I made the kids sit on the floor to eat their cake. So of course the photographer got a picture of that too.
We literally had to rip the kids away from the dance floor to go back to our friends house for the night. The entire way back Andy was wailing that he didn't want to miss anything, he wanted to know how it ended, he didn't want to leave. Doug was trying to reason with him that it was late and that he could just call up and go to the "married" house to see it and that someday they each would get married. Andy's reply was that he was not old enough to have a real phone number so that would not work.