The last weekend in June we traveled to Davenport, IA for Austin and Miranda's wedding (Andrew's step-brother) along with the ring bearer. I was anxious about taking Bradford on the plane leading up to it and have realized that on these type of trips you can sometimes get thrown the unexpected! Thursday afternoon little man woke up HOT. I took his temperature and it was 103.4. I was taken aback and I called the doctor and they said to wait it out but since we were leaving the next day I wanted to make sure he checked out ok! We left for Raleigh as planned when Andrew got home and we could tell Brady felt terrible. I was worried as this was the first time he had really been sick, and there was not much I could do for him. We went to bed and he was still burning up at 2am. We had to get up in two hours to catch a 6am flight and I was starting to second guess taking him and staying home. So Andrew and I started praying over him and when we woke at 4, our happy little baby was back thank God and so we were off!
He did wonderful on the flights there charming everyone in his path and slept most of the time we were in the air and enjoyed people watching in the airport. Only a baby can stare and get away with it! When we arrived it took Andrew and I awhile to get the rented car seat installed, we got quite a few looks I'm sure. With car seat installed we were on our way checked into the hotel and then took a quick trip with Laurie to Target for some necessities. We then met everyone for lunch at one of Grandpa Art's favorite pizza spots known for their taco pizza! It was great getting caught up on the weekend festivities and then we went back to the hotel to rest before the rehearsal dinner.
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| Boarding the plane |
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| On the plane with Daddy |
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| BEWARE: Baby Aboard |
At the rehearsal we hung out and watched the proceedings as well as practiced with our niece Jessany pushing Brady down the aisle in the stroller Miranda had decorated with a pillowcase and bows.
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| All together again |
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| Ready to stroll down the aisle |
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Flower girl and ring bearer
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| Rehearsing |
The rehearsal dinner was a lot of fun and Andrew and I were very excited to eat as lunch had been quite a while back. We watched a video of pictures of the bride and groom growing up, ate some great food and enjoyed just being together. Bradford got a stuffed football for his gift that said all star ring bearer, he loves it!
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| Bradford and Grandpa Art |
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| Bride, groom, and ring bearer |
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| Andrew and Bradford |
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| Bradford with his new ring bearer gift uncle and Grandpa |
Take things back about five years and this little princess was only 6 weeks old at our rehearsal dinner!
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| Flower girl with the bride |
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Jessany as a baby with Grandpa Art |
Austin and Miranda's groom cake at the rehearsal was a mad hatter style as was ours they were both just so fun looking and delicious to eat!
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| Austin's groom cake |
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| Andrew's groom cake |
