Kissing Cousins

Okay, so I went home (NE Washington) this weekend because my niece was getting married...to my dad's cousin's son. You do the math. It was interesting (for *so* many reasons) but mostly because you would think with two people in the same family getting married, I would have known more of the people that were there. So many funny things happened that I don't even know where to start. I'll start with the fact that I was 10 minutes late getting to the wedding because we got lost twice. Once was my fault (it's amazing how roads you once knew like the back of your hand aren't quite so familiar after being gone for 11 years), the second time was my mom's fault--her's was just a 20 year old memory that wasn't accurate (go figure...this is Faye we're talking about). We finally had to stop at the town "store" and ask directions...it should tell you what size town we were in that my mom could walk in and give the wrong name and some pot headed girl (I'm pretty sure she had been smoking pot her whole life) gave us directions and against my better judgment, I followed them. Imagine my surprise when they were right. Just as I was hustling to unload Bailey from the car, this big Suburban comes flying up the driveway and as I'm jumping out of the road, I see my sister behind the wheel with her daughter (yes, the bride) in the passenger seat. I felt better about being 10 minutes late since the bride wasn't even ready yet. What a crack up. The wedding started about 45 minutes late, the minister forgot to tell them to kiss then he introduced them as Mr. & Mrs. Wrong Name. I asked my neice, Jami, later what the story was on the big delay...she said it was because all the guys decided they wanted to go golfing that morning (I'm not even joking) and left the girls there to do all the work and they ended up being late getting to town to get her hair done. Then she proceeded to tell me the caterers were nowhere to be found...they ended up being about 3 hours late. What a hoot. And that's just the beginning of their marriage...

Here's a cute Bailey...he has a tooth now...it popped up at the wedding while we were just sittin' there waitin' for the caterers...