Evan & Kali's Wedding on Whidbey - Part II

 

Evan and Kali got married!! Besides the beautiful venue, the amazing dress Kali wore, the mouth-watering food and the good-looking guests in attendance; the thing I liked most about the wedding was when the officiant said the bride and groom asked everyone to be present for the wedding - as in cameras away and be present. It was nice not to see all the phones in the air of people trying to capture the moment.

But of course I captured lots of moments after the wedding!

With these two cuties in matching outfits, I couldn't help but pull out the camera!

Brian and Nancy apparently play Jenga a lot.... and Brian "always" loses. They had a really good audience for their game.

This was a tough game for Brock. I think he thought it was "who could make it fall down first" and when Brian didn't make it fall (this round), Brock went running up to the tower to try to push it down. That's when my lightning fast Mom-reflexes kicked in and I literally scooped him up centimeters before he hit the tower. That could have ended very badly.

But, all was good. Brock settled down after Aunt Carol saved the day with bubbles! And Brian and Nancy laughed off another Jenga battle! (Nancy won) :)

It was time for dinner. What a table! A very poor picture below, but it was amazing! One long row of tables with beautiful dahlias (I think?) down the middle.

We sat across from my Dad & Phyllis and Brian & Nancy. The food was amazing - just not so relaxing with two little ones. The menu was flank steak with roasted corn, grilled salmon, quinoa with vegetables and delicious brown bread. I'll give you one guess what Brock's favorite was.

Then it was time to PAR-TAY!

So lovely to see the new couple's first dance.

And then Evan dancing with his mother, Aunt Carol.

It was super sweet to see Andrew dance with his little girl, Ara!

Love the milk bottle in his back pocket! (HA - you're totally a dad now!)

Kade went right for it and was our little dancing machine immediately. It helped get the last energy out of him before he went down for his "nap".

Brian.... you need a new phone/camera ;)

The little cousins were LOVING the dance party!

Meanwhile, I think this is when we missed Evan and Kali cut the pie. Yup, they cut pie in lieu of cake. Super awesome delicious pie!

 There were various pies to choose from and what I hear, all were amazing!

Brock had TWO pieces of apple pie!

Eating with Uncle Jeff

About this time, Kade was DONE. So off I went, pushing the stroller, to circle the farm house over a dozen times to get him to fall asleep. And fall asleep he did! Everyone couldn't believe it when I strolled back up to the dance party with a sleeping Kade - there was a nice blanket covering the stroller to slightly muffle the sound, but he stayed asleep long enough to give us 45 more minutes of dancing.

Just long enough for me to see Brock let loose!!

Brock had turned in to Mr. Wild Man!

He was going crazy! He did this move with his arm going in a big circle like a windmill (like rock-n-rollers) and then would jump all around and jumped in to a handstand and kicked out his legs! The most dancing he does at home is literally jumping, so to see him do all these actual "moves", was hilarious!

We had a great time at Evan and Kali's wedding. It was so perfect for the two of them - everything was really lovely. Kali looked amazing in her dress and the two of them were smiling the entire weekend. We are so thrilled for you two and wish you all the happiness in the world. We were so honored to be part of your big day and to include our little guys as well. We love you, our fellow Washington family! :)