facebook, wedding

Sorry for the lack of posts. There are multiple reasons for my neglecting this such as work, attending to my lovely wife's every pregnant need, and my new found semi-addiction to Facebook. I'm usually a little slow on the uptake of some of these sights, especially the social networking sites like Twitter (boooo). I have been using LinkedIn for quite a while but that's more of a professional, work-related site. Facebook though has been great for keeping in touch with our (Kirsten has an account too) relatives across the state and country. Also I've become "friends" with some people that I haven't talked to in many, many years...I'm looking your way Jessica in Texas. Those people I am definitely going to try and get a message to and not just befriend them. Anyway, it's been pretty neat getting into that site so look me up!.

Last weekend we made the familiar trip north to Green Bay for my sister Jessica's wedding. She's my youngest (of 2) sister so immediately it was an eye opening experience as I can no longer pretend to be any type of young anymore. I'm old. Really old. Not only that, but after this past week's performance of the financial markets, I won't be retiring until I'm really, really old. Bummer. Anyway, we lucked out in that in didn't rain that day but did the days surrounding it which has to be some sort of good sign right? Thought so. The ceremony went off without a hitch and it was great to see all my relatives (there are a lot of them) that I now only seem to see at weddings and funerals unfortunately.

The reception was great also. It was the standard Green Bay affair of family style, fried chicken and all the fixins which I have come to crave since I live in Milwaukee where that meal isn't as standard as it was for me growing up. Love it. That and fish fries which are pretty terrible around here compared to up there. I read so many great reviews of places and then go there and I'm like, "eh," not that great. But I digress. I'd say the highlight of the wedding (other than the union itself) was just before dinner when Jess made a little announcement.

Ben (the groom) was in the Marines and served two tours in Iraq. Well my clever little sister secretly invited some of his Marine friends to the wedding. Ben had no idea, his parents had no idea, pretty big surprise. 6 showed up from everywhere from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania to Hawaii. She gave them a big introduction and it was quite cool. There were few dry eyes in the place as they made their way in and Ben was speechless. Even this guy was tearing up which means it had to have been pretty emotional since I've been called a "robot" a few times lately. Anyway, it was good stuff.

The rest of the night was great. Kirsten was a trooper throughout the day but I did have to take her home at 9:00. I went back to hang out with all the cousins, many of which are also expecting children soon. How the time flies. We used to talk about GI Joe guys but now, it's babies. As you can see from my Dad's picture to the left, which was taken as he was making his way to the dance floor for the Father-Daughter dance, good times were had and smiles were all around.