Hawaina Family Wedding...

Last weekend we had the opportunity to have every member of handsome hubby's family in town for his sister Weechow's wedding. She is the last of all the siblings to get married and is the only girl! It was a wonderful weekend and such a treat to be able to spend some quality time with his family. I am really lucky to have married into a family full of people that I genuinely like...not just love, cause I have to "love" them but they are the kind of people I would choose to spend time with. For this I feel very fortunate.

Two brothers and their wives had never met the groom before and they were very insistent on meeting him before the wedding which I completely agree with, however, I was rather pleasantly surprised to see that even a family full of brothers still experiences some drama once in a while. The realization of this suddenly made me feel more at peace with my family and the periodic ruffled feathers that occur. We ended up going out to dinner with all the siblings and their wives/fiance to Red Robin...where all the boys love the Bonsai burger :) We had such a fun time, especially towards the end as the brothers started telling stories from their childhood...we were all in stitches and I'm sure the Red Robin staff was plotting our departure.

We had handsome hubby's brother Skela and Wiss stay with us with their 5 children. It was so wonderful to have them...what amazing house guests they were, wish they could have stayed longer. After Red Robin I was able to get all the finishing touches put on the wedding dresses for their girls and Wiss helped me by threading the elastic. I was tickled to find that the dresses I had made actually fit all their girls perfectly and looked so darn cute on them (they are precious girls). I was feeling pretty smug having completed my sewing deadline before 11pm the night before the wedding! I had visions of finishing the dresses the morning of with the men starting to lose patience with me :)

It was a wonderful wedding and we were thrilled that my babysitter did an amazing job taking care of 13 of the grandchildren (age 11 and under) and the kids were really well behaved to my amazement. It was a long day for them of waiting for the wedding, waiting for the pictures, waiting for the luncheon, waiting for the reception but all in all they were darling kids and did so well together. All 15 of them get a long so well together, what a blessing.
The day after the wedding we all went to Provo for the BYU Homecoming parade and to walk around campus (*sigh* fond memories). While we watched the parade a float with the law school students came by and one of the girls from the float yelled up to handsome hubby "HEY, your supposed to be on this float!" to which he responded "Well, I have kids I can't". I told him that next year we will gladly walk with him in the parade...no excuses :) That evening the boys all went to the BYU Homecoming football game and took the older boys too. Wiss and I convinced our sister in law Jelyse to put her boys down at our house and hang out with us. It was the best time I had had in a while we laughed and laughed and talked about parenting and spiritual things and just navigating life's troubles in general. I didn't want the evening to end and considering that between the three of us we had 8 sleeping children that remained asleep as we laughed our heads of it was a very successful night...until the men came home and ate our ice cream that is :) Spending time with the sistas was just the therapy we all needed.