I know this has been a long time coming and frankly life got in the way, sorry!
August 25
Thursday! Day before the wedding!!! Wow the excitement has been building! Today is a pretty laid back day considering everything we have done up to this point. We slept in, although we are in a different time zone so sleeping till 10 was only sleeping till 8 but it still felt nice!
Chelsea and her Mom wanted to do some last minute things for the wedding, so she called and asked us (all of us) to meet at this fun restaurant called Tomato Street. We all got to color on the tables and the waiters were sporting some fun hats!
We then borrowed David from Chelsea and went to get the tux's. The boys were all very handsome!!
Then we decided to go exploring this big park in the middle of Spokane, the park is HUGE (by our standards) it had a lot of fun things to explore in it as well. We had lots of fun geocaching and exploring this park.
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| The parks Marathon Sculpture was fun to play in |
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| Alex has almost caught the leader! |
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| Yes even Grandma and Grandpa can ride the carousel for fun! |
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| You have to grab for the brass ring while riding |
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| Just outside is a fountain that begs for playing! |
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| Yep completely soaked, but having fun and that's what counts! |
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| Annie's water angel |
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| Alex's water angel |
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| Summer treats bought from a street vendor! |
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| Eli and Annie found the biggest wagon ever! (shh there is a geocache here too!) |
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| Alex, Eli, David and Annie |
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| Annie and David racing each other. |
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The rest of the day/night was spent running last minute errands and relaxing before tomorrow!!!
August 26
Today my brother gets married! The morning was spent in a flurry of activity of getting all dolled up for the wedding! The boys in their suits and Annie and I in our new dresses. We arrived at the wedding location which was just breathtakingly beautiful! It was a very intimate gathering but there are a few memorable moments.
* At one point in the middle of the ceremony a family out for a canoe paddle were just chatting away until they realized what was going on and reverently passed by.
*The waterskier made multiple passes.
*The photographer wore bermuda shorts.
*It is impossible to keep a little ring bearer dirt free in the dirt.
*David and Chelsea shared such an epic kiss that Alex turned away from it! (NICE!!!)
*Chelsea's shoes!
*The bustle on Chelsea's dress had a bit of a 'tude.
*The bride and groom both stared at each other and it looked like the rest of us didn't exist.
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| Alex and David look so handsome! |
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| I love this shot of them, no the rings are not on the pillow yet! |
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| Something Borrowed! (the pillow) Something New! (the rings) |
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| Alex and Whitney are playing some sort of game while waiting and trying to stay clean |
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| Right now its only them that exist. |
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| I love this picture of my Dad hugging his new daughter |
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| The Rhodes family |
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| The Halasz Family |
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| The Froelich Family |
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| Eli and Whitney | | |
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After the ceremony we had some time to kill and went and did some shopping and look Annie found her new Auntie in one of the shops!
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| snapped this from the phone but this really is Annie's new Aunt Chelsea |
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After some shopping we got all dressed up to go back to the reception which was held on a little hillside at her parents house. The decorations were stunning in their simplicity.
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| David and Chelsea's first dance |
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| David and Mom dancing, Chelsea and her Dad dancing. |
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We chatted and ate till dark and then bid the new couple goodbye. Of course they didn't get away scott free!
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| The getaway car |
We ended the evening with swimming and relaxing and some packing since we knew we were leaving the next day.
August 27
Today is leaving day! We packed up our things, returned the rental cars and hopped on a plane. We had a long layover in Denver and had some antsy kiddos to keep busy so we started hopping the trams to different terminals. Thus the trains. The kids loved riding to the different terminals and exploring the different art and shops. Landing at MSP was nice and we had that friendly park n go service that picked us up and dropped us off with our luggage right at our cars! Short 1.5 hr drive and we were back at Moms for the night. Then we packed up all of our things including our camping gear and drove the 2hrs home where we were greeted by a neat house (the perks of cleaning before you leave) and happy kitties, frog and bunny.
I was so happy to go and see my brother get married but I don't think I ever want to do that adventure again!
Thus the sun sets on another grand Froelich adventure
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| The sun set through our window on the return trip home |
