Still catching up on old posts.
One of the main reasons we took our June trip to FL was for Uncle Daniel's wedding, June 22nd. We don't have many photos of Madison from the actual wedding, but I know there were lots taken. She was a rockstar all weekend considering all we expected of her.
The trip started with the 2 hour delay of our red eye flight out of LAX. Instead of leaving at 10:30pm, we left at 12:30am Wednesday night before the wedding. We made it to Atlanta in time to run to our gate for the connector- only to see our plane had already backed out! Airtran knew we wouldn't make the flight, so they booked us on the next flight 30 minutes later and in BUSINESS class! This ended up being a huge blessing since after RUNNING thru the Hartsfield International Airport Mommy was having contractions. It was nice to have the extra room to spread out and relax. Daddy was a big help too. This was the first time our entire family flew together. Usually Daddy has to fly seperate because of work.
We made it to Orlando with a wired little girl who only slept 2 hours of the overnight flight. Daddy took a little nap at Gramm and Pops while Mommy and Madison played. Luckily Madison took a short nap on the car ride over to Clearwater Thursday afternoon.
Thursday night we went to a wing place to meet some of Abby's family, then Madison went down for the night to try to catch up on sleep. She didn't care for her pack and play the first night so she shared the king size bed with Mommy and Daddy. In actuality she took OVER the king size bed by sleeping sideways between us and moving around all night. She slept in Friday while Daddy went golfing w/Uncle Daniel, Pop, and the other groomsmen. Then Mommy, Madison, Gramm, and cousin Jayne went to Abby's bridesmaid luncheon. Madison had lots of fun playing with her new 'baby Abby' (Bride Barbie) and 'Daniel' (Groom Ken) and taking pictures with the big girls. After the luncheon, she decided to forgo her nap for the day so she slept thru most of dinner at Abby's family's favorite local tex mex restaurant. Daddy went with the boys for the night to Uncle Daniel's bachelor party.
Needless to say, everyone was pretty tired Saturday morning for the rehearsal. Madison did a GREAT job walking down the aisle with Grace, the other flower girl. We had high hopes for the day of the wedding after all the practicing Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon was filled with pool time at the hotel and play time with 'baby Mac'- Aunt Dar and Uncle Michael's dog. Everything Madison thinks is small is labeled with 'baby'. Medium sized is 'mommy' and large is 'daddy'. Saturday night Madison ate lots of yummy noodles at the rehearsal dinner. We had an Italian buffet and she thought the fettucine alfredo was the best...until the cannolis, of course.
Sunday morning Pop took Madison to the pool (after an early storm) to try to wear her out a bit for an early nap. No such luck. Madison and Mommy were ready to go and headed over to the wedding site for 2:30 pics, right in the middle of usual nap time. She was so great at waiting patiently while Abby and the girls finished getting ready. Cousin Jayne helped entertain Madison until she just crashed. That's right- Madison fell asleep just as the pictures finally started. Mommy ended up walking the sleeping doodle down the aisle during the wedding. She slept thru the entire service and woke up in a BAD mood just after. Mommy and Daddy worked to entertain an upset Madison during picture time after the wedding, but didn't have much luck. She never got to take a picture with her new Aunt Abby.
When the reception came around our little angel came back. She was a dancing fool for hours. We can't wait to see all the pictures! Madison's favorite part of the day was checking out the 'fishies' and turtles in the pond just outside the reception with Daddy. She wrapped up the night by saying goodnight to the turtles and falling asleep on Gramm while Mommy and Daddy danced and danced.
Monday we drove back to Gramm and Pops for a few final hours of play time with Daddy before he got on his plane to fly home. Aunt Kristi flew into Orlando for a conference Monday night, so we all got to spend a few hours playing with her before Daddy had to leave early Tuesday morning.
You'll notice in the photos- all the beds in the hotel at the beach were sleep number beds. Madison thought the sleep number control was a phone. She liked to put it up to her ear and say, 'Hello?'. Sometimes she picked up the hotel phone and put it to her other ear too. Guess we have a social butterfly on our hands!
The photo up top was taken at the rehearsal dinner. Oh, and Mommy got a new haircut before our trip.
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