Weekly Wrap-Up

Marriage, marriage is what brings us together today...or something like that according to The Princess Bride movie. It was actually two marriages that filled up our 4 day holiday weekend :) And although we are exhausted we are so happy to have welcomed new family members and shared in their special days. 

We have been preparing for Uncle Matt's wedding for almost a year. Justin was asked to be the Best Man and Rose got to be a flower girl (along with another little cutie). Thursday started our wedding festivities with rehearsal. Luckily, Rose and I got to skip most of the setting up because of her nap :) The wedding and reception was at Landis Valley Museum. It was a beautiful site to hold a wedding, if a bit sizzling ;)

 Before the rehearsal got underway we walked around the grounds a bit...do you see the sweat on Justin's back? Yes, it was HOT this weekend!

  

Look how big my girl is getting

 Rose and Jaylan (the other sweet flower girl) made fast friends during rehearsal which we hoped would carry over to wedding day.

Rose loves anything and everything Aunt Jenni and totally agreed with Uncle Matt's choice for our newest family member :)

 3 Stillinger women, tomorrow there would be 4!

I made sure to get a couple pictures of our happy family :)

Rose did great through rehearsal and the dinner afterwards, we didn't get home until after 9pm and Rose refused to sleep in the car. She was out once she laid down and slept until after 8am (which is sleeping in for her!). 

Friday was Wedding Day! Since the wedding wasn't until 6pm we had all day to get ready. Grandma did Rose and my hair in the morning and after Rose's nap we headed to Jenni's parents home for pictures with the ladies. Rose was a trooper with all the car rides to Lancaster this weekend!

Here is my sweet little flower. This dress was handmade by a coworkers mother and was PERFECT!

The wedding was beautiful

And the flower girls were perfect! A little encouragement from the mom's and these two walked holding hands and then threw some petals down the aisle :)

Here is the wedding party

Rose got to spend lots of time with family including Grandma

And Great-Grandma (Great-Grandma had a beautiful dress FULL of sparkles. I was wiping them off Rose and myself all night!)

Rose lost interest in looking at whoever was snapping pictures, but here we are with the newest Stillinger :)

My two loves {sigh}

And our family picture :)

Here is the happy couple with Rose, who is smiling, but not at the camera...I think it was well after 8pm by this point, so she was running on fumes. 

We wanted to stay for as much of the reception as we could. Since the wedding only started at 6pm, we knew it would be a late night. After dinner, toasts (Justin had a very thoughtful toast that made me cry), dancing, cake, and a special song from Matt and Jenni it was 10pm and we took our little flower home. She did awesome all night and I think she loved every minute of it! 

Saturday we attended my cousin Sarah's wedding also in Lancaster. Her wedding ceremony was at the Marriot and due to running a bit late, finding parking, and Rose insisting on using the potty, we missed the entrance... During the ceremony if Rose would start to make some noise we would say 'shhh', and then she would say 'shhh' right back at us (not very quietly). 

Their reception was also in a barn...I guess that's the cool thing now :) 

Rose mainly enjoyed two things at Sarah's wedding:

1. Great Grandma's wheel chair

2. Dancing with the other kids

Also enjoyed by Rose were the Hershey Kiss's in the favor glasses (I think we let her eat 3)

And spending time with Nana and Papa

It was another late night as we didn't leave until 8:30, but Rose did fall asleep on the way home and stayed sleeping as we tucked her in. 

And my favorite picture from the weekend was all of us looking cool in our shades.

Today we all took it easy and just hung out around the house. Rose slept until 9am, which I think is a record for her, but much appreciated by her parents who also remained in bed :) We caught up on the regular weekend chores and had dinner with my parents. I really don't feel like going to work tomorrow  :(