Nebraska

Tylers little brother, Jordan got married in Nebraska over Thanksgiving weekend. We left early Thanksgiving morning for our little adventure. We stayed the first night in Laramie Wyoming. I can't even begin to explain how cold it was. And the wind was INSANE. But the kids had fun swimming in the pool with their Cousins Beckham and Mckye. I took my camera with me and never took one picture. I actually lost my camera while on this trip and didn't find it until we unpacked when we got home. Tyler knew where the camera was the whole time, he just failed to inform me. All of the pictures are off of my Mother-in-Laws camera. Thank you Merilyn for sending them to me.

The next morning (Friday) we woke up bright and early. After breakfast we headed on to Grant Nebraska. Kolay's family are dog breeders so we went to her house to see all of the dogs. I couldn't believe how many they had. And they were all so cute. It was really hard to come home without a puppy.

Mckye, Jonny, Jordan, Kurt (Kolay's Dad) Tyler, Shayna, me, Merilyn (my Mother-in-Law) Britton and Beckham

We left Kolays house and went to the church for the wedding rehearsal and family dinner. Grant Nebraska is such a small town the we had to drive to Ogallala Nebraska for a Hotel. It was only about 20 minutes away. We got back to our Hotel room around 8:45 pm and let the kids go swimming. They were begging us the whole night and we don't get to do it often so we gave in and let them enjoy themselves.

We knew some bad weather was coming in so we wanted to try to leave a day earlier so Saturday morning we had to be checked out of our hotel room by 11:00. Nobody in Tyler's family, including us, thought about where we would get ready for the wedding if we all had to be checked out by 11:00. We didn't have to be to the church until 3:30 for pictures. Jordan and Kolay were nice enough to let us have their honeymoon suite to get ready in. The whole family piled into that room to get ready and let me just say it was CROWDED. Tyler and I were stressing over how dirty the place was getting. It's hard to keep a place clean and organized when there are so many people. Tyler went down to the front desk to ask them if they would clean the room again once we left if we left them a nice tip. Fortunately they would and some family members were able to pool some money together for the tip.

And we're off to the wedding.....

Tylers family. Carey, Kim, Shelley, Josh, Kolay, Jordan, Johnny, Tyler, Kelly, Dad and Mom Carver. Missing is Heidi and Mary. They were not able to make it.

The most handsome Ring Bearer I have ever seen! I just wish the picture didn't turn out so grainy.

The boys

The kiss! WAHOO!! Jordan's married! To a pretty fabulous girl I might add. I really love Kolay and her family are some of the nicest people I have met. I think they are both pretty lucky. Kolay's older sister made the cross that is in the back ground. It's beautiful.

Shayna was busy taking pictures to keep herself entertained while waiting for the wedding to begin.

Family Picture

My beautiful Niece Chamea with her little cousins.

Just a fraction of the kiddos.

We went to a different location for the reception. It was at the Fairgrounds. It was a good time. They had a really nice dinner for all of us and then there was dancing. Shayna was the best dancer out there. She was having so much fun.

I totally missed them cutting the cake. I had to take Shay to the restroom. I didn't know what was going on until Kolay came into the bathroom with cake all over her. ALL.OVER.HER. She had to rinse out her hair and wash her face....good times!

She got him back pretty good. He will be picking frosting out of his nose for days.

We left the reception sometime around 8:30 and headed back to the church to change our clothes. We had to drive back to Laramie, Wyoming for the night. We did it this way so we could have a head start on the weather that was supposed to be coming through. We made it to our room just after midnight and we all crashed.

We were up bright and early the next morning, went to breakfast, let the kids swim for a half hour and got ready for our drive home.

This is what we ran into.

luckily it didn't last that long and we didn't get into bad weather again until we got to Centerville, Utah. We were shocked by all the snow we came home to.

It was a really quick trip and we were all very tired when we got home but we had a great time and we are so glad we got to be a part of Jordan and Kolay's special day.