Day 2-The excitement continues in Kansas City....Chris attends the contemporary worship leaders conference and has a wonderful experience until I show up to pick him up....Shiloh and I had spent the day enjoying each other in the hotel:
and then at a park:
However, upon leaving the park to pick up Chris, I find a note left by animal control that there may be a kitten under my hood. Unable to get the hood open due to a broken lever, I go to pick up Chris anyway. To make this long story short (ask Chris for the lengthened version), Chris opens the hood and finds not one but two kittens, chases them, hands one over to the police woman (animal control closes at 4:30?), grabs the other kitten, gets chomped, we go to urgent care (they "don't do animal bites"), get directed to the emergency room, get a tetanus shot, get antibiotics, and show up hours late to our dinner date with Chris Cook. Yay for dinner with Chris Cook at Winstead's!! (By this time we forgot about the camera...)
Day 3-Chris spends the morning at the conference, we meet St. John staff for lunch, spend 5 minutes in Pottery Barn for Kids (one of my new favorite places?!), and then drive the 10 hour drive to Nashville. Shiloh did amazingly well, just got fussy for the last hour or so. Chris joined the bachelor party while we went to bed!
Day 4-We head out to "the farm" for Craig and Bethany's wedding preparations and rehearsal. It was breathtakingly beautiful....and I wondered who had let them use this place for their wedding. "Oh this is Michael W. Smith's farm", they replied matter-of-factly. What?!?!?! Yeah, they know him personally as he founded the church they go to, and he let them use his beautiful barn, and farm for the wedding. Here are a few pics that don't even begin to do it justice....
Day 5-The wedding day! We stopped by Babies R Us before heading out to the farm today since we didn't need to be out there until noon. It was a productive stop as far as purchases are concerned. Chris also got a taste as to how hard Shiloh really sucks. She managed to latch onto his arm while we were browsing. He mentioned that it hurt (I reminded him of my trials the first few weeks of nursing!) and I recommended he break the latch. Instead he let her keep going and this is what happened:
A genuine hickey.....It's starting to go away now, 4 days later.....The wedding was gorgeous, the party fun, and amazingly enough we managed to capture a picture of the hickey, but not of the bride and groom! But here is a little family pic we took under the willow tree where the ceremony took place (it's a little grainy, sorry):
Day 6-We attended a small church service at Bethany and Craig's church, enjoying once again the presence of Michael W. Smith and his wife, and then headed home to Iowa. Shiloh continued to amaze us with her patience in her car seat and we enjoyed our big trip as a little family. Thanks for reading!
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great family picture! glad the trip went so well! it sounds fun!
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