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[futureMRScrazypants]

OMG it took me so long to be able to start this I hope that I can remember everything alright. :bbeek: Ok let me start off with the day before the wedding. My in-laws had already made the 6 hour drive up from Arkansas the day before so my father-in-law, Big Jim, could attend DH's bachelor party. My mother drove in from Kansas City around 1pm on the 9th to help with whatever she could. So far it had just been me and my three biggest helpers exchanging emails, now we were all going to finally be in the same room figuring things out.

While my MIL got busy making her homemade pancet for the reception, my mom and I went to Sam's club to get the last bits of food. I had decided against those wedding butter mints which are a classic staple at the cake table and went for the Jelly Belly Jelly Beans. Needless to say those were a hit at the wedding (my 5 yr old daughter had a flat plate BRIMMING with them at one point O.o). I was going to make my shrimp scampi for the wedding as well, but while we were at the store I decided against it and got pop, ingredients for butterbeer, and nuts and jelly beans. While we were there I saw DH's ex gf (my oldest daughter's mom) working one of the sample booths and I am not ashamed to say I gloated a little. She seemed to be trying to stay invisible but I didn't let that happen. I'm shameless, I know. But I had actually invited her to the wedding after finding out she had been telling my photographer (a mutual friend) that DH didn't really wanna BE with me and regretted leaving her and that he would never actually go through with the wedding. Was it childish to invite her tot he wedding? Maybe... but that didn't stop me. Her ego----> :drv:<---me.
LOL. So after that we went back home for some much needed visiting and relaxing. I knew as soon as MOH arrived we would be kicking back into detail mode. We visited for a while, I was so happy my In-laws and mother got along so well (MIL even called my mom a hooker at one point... long funny story LOL and it became a long running joke throughout the weekend). Then a bomb dropped. My DH's grandmother messaged him and told him she would, in fact, not be able to make it. Even though she had originally not been thought to be able to, when the possibility was suddenly there it had excited DH so much. I watched his face go from happy to sad in 3.5 seconds and I wanted to cry. Even more so because after finding out his grandmother couldn't come, we couldn't get ahold of his bio-dad either. There had always been animosity between them since he was 10, and now he started to think his dad was going to abandon him again on his big day.

..... to be continued.

[futureMRScrazypants]

So, while we were waiting for MOH to get to Topeka so we could go frost the cupcakes, we were all trying to get a hold of his dad to see if he was going to be there that night for the bachelor party. When my MOH and her husband finally arrived around 7, we finally got a call from DH's sister-in-law telling us that his dad wouldn't be in town until 10 am the day of the wedding. So, basically, DH went into a major funk and was about 3 seconds from calling off his party. MOH and I stayed around the house for a while trying to convince him to go have fun but his dad completely ruined his spirits. Finally, after realizing his step-dad, my dad, my brother, and his 3 best friends were going to be there for him, he snapped out of it and got ready. My husband is so sexy. He put on my favorite shirt of his (which made me a little sad he was going to look so sexy without me there lol) and around 10pm they all took off to the country bar out here. Since he had had 3 different people offer to plan the party and all of them fell through he decided to forego the usual strip club and just go have some beers with his favorite guys. Once I saw my DH's smiling again, MOH and I left to go frost the wedding cupcakes.

We arrived at my new SIL and BIL's house and headed right into the kitchen where I learned that I SUCK at frosting cupcakes LOL. So I left the frosting duties to my MOH and stuck to sprinkling the cupcakes with silver sprinkles. We did have a custom cake figured out with a friend of my MOH's but she backed out so we decided to get a two-tier cake from Hyvee and supplement with cupcakes. We had a blast just shooting the breeze and playing with frosting, and it was incredibly relaxing. After abotu 2 hours we were done and took off back home where my brother's wife was waiting to hang out with my mom and my MIL. Unfortunately, we had taken so long that mom and my SIL had left about 10 minutes after getting there, but it was all good. I was so ready for sleep.

Of course... sleep didn't come. MOH wanted to see the groomscake my MIL brought with her from Arkansas and so we opened the cooler to show her, and when me and my MIL went to lift it up, the neck of the dragon broke, spilling the chocolatey contents all over the tray. We went into ppanic mode and after only a little chocolate spillage on my floor, got the cake into my freezer to freeze up the guts so they would quit leaking. My MIL got ready for bed but my MOH, my oldest daughter and I stayed up and watched some of my favorite anime cartoons while sending texts to MOH's husband at the bachelor party. My hubby is a major lightweight when it comes to drinking, but apparently he held his own pretty well. The guys initiated my MOH's hubby into their circle of friends in their own special way, and my dad made jokes about marriage. As my FIL put it apparently, some people practice medicine, other practice law... my father practiced marriage lol. I was so glad to hear the guys were having a fantastic time. They closed out the bar and as soon as my FIL returned to the house, we went to bed. I think I amazingly only tossed and turned for 20 minutes before passing out. The wedding was upon us.

.... to be continued.

[brendahu81]

wow ~that's sweet~

[dodgercpkl]

Waiting for more! Post it girl!

[gwenshack]

:coupletoast: Looking forward to reading more!!!