Matthew and Daisy wedding day!!!!

 Here it is!!!!  June 27, 2025!!!!  Wedding Day!!!!

We've been praying all week that the weather would be nice for wedding day!  We had a very hot week with 90 degrees every day!  Thunderstorms keep rolling in.  Another big rain shower came on Thursday night which had me thanking the Good Lord that we had rehearsal dinner on Wednesday night!  There is no way we could have hosted a dinner in the back yard Thursday night!  It was raining buckets!  Jesus answered our prayers!!!  

After the rain on Thursday night, the air was much cooler on Friday.  Overcast skies which are actually great for photos!!!!  No squinting eyes.  It felt so good after such a hot week!

Matthew was up early and out of the house!  The groomsmen had a breakfast planned and then some easy golf before it was time to head to the wedding venue!  Coach Schatzmann walked into the restaurant where the boys were eating and offered to pay their bill!  That was a kind gesture!  Mike and Austin were home in the morning.  Austin is a groomsman but we decided he can join the fun after the golf outing!

Ashlyn and I were out of the house early to join the girls at Daisy's grandma's house.  Hair and makeup were done there!  I showed a photo of what I had in mind for my hair and she did it perfectly!!!!

Hair was done.  Makeup applied and we headed to The Barn at Stoneybrooke to see the boys!

The babies did well all day!!!!  Gunnar was a charm!

Daisy was such a beautiful bride!!!!

Lena provided some brunch foods!  Baby Gunnar was adorable!

Mike had Austin at the wedding venue to meet the big boys!  They are so handsome and ready!

The whole day was beautiful!!!!  I didn't have my camera or phone with me so I just have a few photos.  I hope to get some from the photographer sometime!  But doing this day with the love of my life sitting beside me was so fun!!!!!

Mike had a birthday on wedding day!  Schatzmann had him pull up the getaway car for Matthew and Daisy after good food and fun dance floor!  Matthew and Daisy drove away at 9 PM with sparklers and friends waving goodbye!

This was a hot topic that we had to talk about!  The Flames made it to the finals!  The final night was scheduled for wedding day.  We can't be two places at once and we also knew that we were not leaving the wedding early for a ballgame.  Austin danced his heart out at the wedding.  The big kids did such a nice job at including the little kids in the reception!  As soon as Matthew and Daisy left the venue, Mike and Austin changed into ball clothes and they were off to catch the game!  They got there in the third inning.  The cousins had to leave the wedding early for game time but Austin was cool with our arrangements!  The Flames lost that game.  Now they had another game to play.  Austin as so tired!!!!  But there was no way he was gonna sit out or not play his best in the late night!  Game two began and it was 10 PM!  The Flames won this game and Austin laid on the dugout floor after it was over.  We were all tired and ready to head home!

We got home at 11 PM.  We took quick showers.  Ashlyn was so pretty at the wedding and said that she had to wash her face seven times to get the mascara off her face!  We also had lots of hair products in our hair and I said that I could ride a roller coaster and my hair would still look good!  She had it done so nice and stiff!  With twenty nice hairpins, it wasn't moving!  This was such a beautiful day!!!!  The Lord is so good to us!

Wedding week ...

 

Here it is.  Wedding week is here!  We have a lot of things to do this week and so we are taking one day at a time!  Enjoying the moments!  Shedding a few tears and getting the big boy moved out.  Matthew doesn't have a lot of things in his room but he's got big toys to move.  Hockey equipment, hockey sticks, boots, shoes, dirt bike, fishing poles, etc..  Austin was right beside him as he went through his drawers and slowly cleaned out his closet.  Matthew was passing on to Austin all the things he didn't want anymore.  Like a small bucket of coins he told him to wash and keep.

On Monday, Daisy made nail appointments for us!  Allie and Hadassah were there with their babies!

The Flames made it to the playoffs, so we a game to attend Monday night.  The weather was hot and I went over to Dollar General and grabbed some washcloths and ice and water and soaked them and handed them to each of the boys.  It did help them cool off before the next game!

Lost one.  Won two!!!!  The Flames beat the Orioles!

The boys dumped water on top of Coach Matts head!  

All these dads are doing a good job at helping pitch, coach, base runner coaching, etc..

Living his best life!!!

On Tuesday, we had wedding lists to make.  Lena went for some errands and the boys stayed here to play!  They filled the pool up with cold hose water and cooled off!

They are best friends!!!!!

Zucchini is ready in the garden and so made bread!  

And friends are supplying us with drinks for this big week!

Austin moved Matts yard!

On Wednesday, it was rehearsal day and we hosted the rehearsal dinner in our back yard!  The weather was so hot!  Upper 90's all day long.  We got tables and chairs from Silk Mill on Main and Hadassah and Mom helped us set up.

Then it was time.  Time to take Ginger to the vet.  Ginger is fourteen years old.  She's old.  Not able to hold her bladder very long anymore.  She lays around all day.  Ginger has a lump under her belly that didn't seem to bother her.  She struggles to go the stairs.  It was time to talk to the kids about her health!  We made an appointment for the vet to do an evaluation on Ginger and put her down.  The vet said we made a good choice.  We said our goodbyes and I cried as Mike drove her to the vet.  On this photo she looks good!  This was on her birthday back in October.  She's aged a lot since that day.

 

Mike was so kind and made a wooden box for her.  I said to just let the vet dispose of her but no!!!!  He said you need to bury pets!  He brought her back home and buried her in the back yard.  She was such a good dog!!!!  We loved her and she loved us!!!!  More tears ran down my face!  This was harder than I thought it would be!!!!

We got back to rehearsal dinner preps.  Mike and I hung lights in the back yard!  We were all off to rehearsal and then had Welsh Mountain Catering cook the food for the dinner!  It was all just so magical!  The weather was still warm but it didn't rain!!!!  There was a rain shower earlier but not at dinner time!  Thank you Jesus!!!!!

The little boys played ball in the back yard.

Matt and Daisy best friends gathered around for dinner!

On Thursday, we took Matthew out for breakfast after he got a haircut and after we took the tables and chairs back to Silk Mill.  Mike and I gave our marriage advice and we ate and prayed and then off to finish up any wedding details!!!!

Leftover flowers from the dinner last night was in the kitchen!!!!

Austin did a wedding clothes try on and this is how he left it!  I hope no wrinkles happened!

 

One time to sleep here at home before he gets married!

Thursday night, the kids were tucked into bed.  Mike and I snuggled on the couch downstair and started The Wedding Planner movie.  We don't watch many movies together because Mike's opinion of a good movie isn't my opinion.  But we were into this and it got late!  At 11 PM, Matthew and Daisy came home and said that they wrote their wedding vows and were packed for the honeymoon!!!!  Matthew took Daisy home one last time and came home tired and ready for the the BIG DAY tomorrow!