Todd & Shanna's Wedding

Last weekend we flew to Milwaukee, WI for my cousin Todd's wedding. It was nice to see all the cousins aunts & uncles on my mom's side of the family. The wedding was on Saturday. Sunday lunch was a picnic at one of the friend's homes and then we went to a park nearby for the afternoon. Monday we went to the Zoo and then flew home monday evening.

The wedding cake

The ceremony

Cool building near where they got married

Brad and Shelley's family

Ava, Paxton and Ellie at the wedding

View from outside of the room where the wedding was

The Groom & Bride (Todd & Shanna)

Paxton & I

Us

The Smidt family

My mom and her two sisters

With their spouses

Aunt Marilyn and her family

The eight cousins

The newly married couple ready to leave

Our family

Sunday at the picnic-This picture is a family joke. Our parents had gotten us shirts like these about 25 years ago when we were all together, so Brad decided it was time to recreate it again!!

Some of the kids at the picnic

The newly married couple at the picnic

The kids at the park

Catching up

The kids rolling down a hill at the park

Monday at the Zoo

Lions sleeping

Nice Kitty

Shaelyn (asleep) & Paxton at the Zoo

Paxton and Jaren

A Camel

Peacock

The five cousins that went to the Zoo

Polar Bears

Our pilot for the flight home.

Paxton got to spend a few minutes in the cockpit before our flight home

Beach Trip to North Carolina

We went down to Salvo, NC on the Outer Banks for the last part of May/ beginning of June. We left on Friday afternoon and made it just south of Baltimore that night. Saturday morning we drove to Jack & Mary's near Richmond, VA for a late breakfast/ early lunch. We then headed on down to the beach house in NC. We shared the house with Mel, Rudonna, Karra, Tama, Shannon, Matt, Christina, Phoenix, Steve & Debbie. We had a great week. Lots of swimming in the pool at the house, went to the beach one day and lots of relaxing. Saturday we headed back to Virginia and stopped at Bob and Linda's to go swimming in their pool with the Nichols kids. We spent Saturday night with the Nichols and then headed home Sunday morning. We got home Sunday evening.

Jack & Mary

Phoenix & Shaelyn

Enjoying the pool

Grandpa getting in on the squirt gun fight

The Birthday cupcakes that Christina made for Phoenix's birthday party we had down there

Enjoying the birthday party

Grandma & Grandpa

Phoenix enjoying her cupcake

Grandpa & Phoenix

View of the sunset from the house we stayed at

Sunset picture

Another

And another

Boardwalk from the pier near the house we stayed at

Enjoying a bottle on the beach

Discussing something with Uncle Matt

Shaelyn enjoying the beach

Brent, Shannon, Tama, Paxton & Matt at the beach

Shaelyn in the little kiddie pool

Lots of Kite Boarders and another nice sunset

The little pier that we walked down to almost every night

Debbie with Paxton, Shaelyn and Phoenix

More Kite Boarding and sunset

The Kite Boarders got some big air, it was fun to watch them

Karra and Paxton watching the kite boarders from the pier

The group minus Steve & Debbie

NO MORE PICTURES!!!

Phoenix, Christina & Matt

Our family

Karra, Matt, Johanna and Tama

Tama & Shannon

Shaelyn giving Phoenix a ride in her stroller

The house we stayed at for the week

At Bob and Linda's with the Nichols kids

Linda and Bob

Sunday morning breakfast at the Nichols before hitting the road for home