bridesmaid

…well, we all know that phrase doesn’t really apply to me, since I’m clearly married. But seriously, the amount of weddings I’ve been in the past two years is ridonkulous. But, this weekend I got to see my junior high/high school/college friend Marie get hitched in “Seattle” (okay, out in the toolies of Snohomish), and it was SO MUCH FUN. Granted, I am walking like a zombie since Potamus is sick and I’ve been working on three-ish hours of sleep for almost a week. I’m also stuffed up and not sleeping well, thanks to some killer hydrangea and cottonwood allergies. Yay!

Central throws team

What is fun about college friendships is getting to reunite at weddings. Two of her bridesmaids and I were on the same track team in college. While I wasn’t super close to these girls in college, we were acquantences, and had A BLAST getting caught up and doing totally stupid college things, like pretending to be cheerleaders (hilarious since we threw shotputs and were not in the slightest bit girly in athletics).

trying our best to be cheerleaders, this is as far as we got

Marie’s angels

Look, over yonder, a great bridesmaid photo op!

The wedding had to be moved indoors because of threat of rain, so after the ceremony we took some sweet pictures outside. Marie was less than thrilled about my suggestion to climb into the waterfall for pictures, so we had to wait until she was firmly out of site to take our moment…

we throw shotputs. we are amazons.

While stressful at moments, everything went of pretty much without a hitch. Things got delayed here and there, and sometimes tensions were high, but I loved that the bridesmaids all bonded together. Weddings are funny, they’re kinda like summer camp when you bond with people and you become fast friends and then you basically never see them again. Ha!

It was a beautiful ceremony and I am so happy that my friend is married. Her sweetheart is quite a guy and they are perfect for each other. I love it when couples complement each other so well!

I was worried about leaving Potamus for such a long time (we didn’t get home until after 11), but he did just fine with grandma and grandpa. He actually slept better there than over here, which is annoying! So it was nice that Boof and I got to cut a rug on the dance floor sans baby. All in all, exhausting, I am sore in places I didn’t know I could be sore (too much jumping, dancing, climbing over waterfalls), so I’m happy that it’s a short work week!

THAT FACE. Seriously. He has stolen my heart.

Last weekend a good friend of mine had her bachelorette party…in Vegas (she lives there). Clearly I was not in attendance, with bronchitis and a rambunctious 14 month old running around my ankles. Also, I felt too old and tired to do much partying IN college, let alone at 30. So I passed on the festivities…but was bummed because Marie is one good friend from high school AND college (we were roomies for 2 years).

But I learned she was going to be in town this weekend for wedding planning, and I jumped on the chance to take her out for a “bachelorette luncheon” that was more my style…burgers in our college town. Granted, it was a 4 hour trip for me, (2 hours for her), but it was SUPER fun and Potamus was quite the awesome road-trip buddy! I’m quite pleased that this experience was so good, because it’s been hard as a mom to keep my friendships with the child-free types.

We love taking pictures, so here was a few from our spontaneous road-trip fashion shoot!