My cousin Chris's wedding

This past weekend we were up north for my cousin Chris's wedding. He got married in Bemidji. For the love of St. Pete, I can't figure out, and never did remember to ask, why they got married there when they live in Grand Forks. It was a nice wedding. Although I have to say that the fact that it was outdoors made me go out and buy a less fancy dress because I wasn't going to sit outside in 90+ degree heat and sweat for the wedding. But actually, the wedding was right outside of the hotel, looking out over the lake and it was cloudy and so the weather was breezy and just right. It was a very quick wedding...probably 20 minutes, if even that long. So, I guess I could have worn what I was originally going to wear, but the dress I bought was comfy enough that I could have even slept in it, so it was no big loss.

It was fun to see family that I haven't seen for a while. It was also fun to see the brand new baby of my cousin's. His name is Grady and he had just gotten out of NICU prior to the wedding and so you had to use hand sanitizer before you could hold the baby. However, no one really got to hold him because my cousin wanted my dad to hold him during the wedding because she was a bridesmaid and her husband was an usher. The only reason that I think I got to hold the baby is because a slow song came on and her husband asked if she wanted to dance and I said I would hold the baby so she could dance. He is so, so cute!

The hotel that we stayed in was very nice. My husband stayed in a Hampton Inn and Suites before and was not impressed so he was not really looking forward to this one until he saw the room. He said it was the nicest Hampton he had ever been to.

In fact, it was so nice that it made our suite at the Hilton, for Saturday night, seem like a dump. I told my husband that I was not impressed with the Hilton this time and that for New Year's, we might as well stay at the new hotel (the CanadInn) since I was that unimpressed with the Hilton on Saturday.

I can't think of anything else really to say and I am tired of telling Lukin to stop playing with the cord for the camera so I better get going for now.

Chris, you had a beautiful wedding and we are so glad we were able to be part of it.