Duane and Mary's Wedding!

It all started when my friend Leticia's little brother Duane was planning his wedding to his beautiful fiance Mary. Duane and Mary needed someone to videotape their wedding. Teesh remembered that Pancho had videotaped her sister Amber's wedding to Tony, so she persuaded them to let Pancho have another chance at it. So, in exchange for an invite to their beautiful wedding and nights stay at the Embassy suites, we were the official video tapers!

We had a blast staying at the hotel, dancing, partying (and videotaping of course!) with the whole Konyn clan!

Duane and Mary

the adorable couple

Sam, Lucy and Max
looking out the glass elevator at the Embassy Suites




Lucy has become such a great swimmer this summer
I took her to some lessons and now she is swimming across the pool with her head under the water and even diving for toys with her brothers. She has no fear now!




Pancho swimming with Lulu

All of my "kids"in the pool

The site of the gorgeous wedding

The Forestry Center in Portland

A Konyn Family Picture

(Pancho and I wanted to jump in it so bad!)

Genevieve and Teesh

What a cute picture!

The cake

I thought it was so simple and beautiful

Me, Pancho, Chad and Teesh

longtime friends!

I LOVED their program.

They put it on a paint stick that they had painted to match the program.

It could also be used as a fan during the wedding!

Leticia's brother David doing a reading during the wedding

The ice sculpture.

They actually served drinks off of this thing!

Those are cherries and plums frozen in the bottom.

This is a terrible picture . . .

but they had an Aeriel acrobat come and do a show for us while we were eating dinner.

I had never seen this at a wedding before, it was really cool!

Teesh and I on the dance floor

I wanted to be a Konyn sister!

Leticia, Marilyn, Me and Amber (holding Jacoby)

So later in the evening, after the ice sculpture had melted a little bit, it was used for something else . . . shooters!

This is the hilarious maid of honor taking a shot!

Now its the Brides turn . . . Go Mary!!!

Here is her reaction after a successful shot!

So funny!

Once again, the cute couple.

Thank You Duane and Mary for including us in your perfect day!

Grammy and Papa took the kids to the Zoo!

While we were at the wedding, my Mom and Dad took our kids to the Zoo!

My Dad gave me these great pictures that he took while they were there.

The kids haven't stopped talking about how much fun they had there since we got home. They all had stories to tell us!

Sam's favorite animal in the whole world is Bears! In fact he tells us all of the time that when he grows up he is going to wrestle bears.

It looks like they had a LOT of fun!

My kids are so lucky to have such a great Grammy and Papa!!!!

Tailgating!!! . . . at Pop Warner practice

Ok . . . So Max's football practices are EVERY night from 5:30 - 8:00. That's 2 and a half hours!!!! Anyone who knows me well, knows that I was b**ching and complaining about it UNTIL . . . my good friends Brenda and Darbi came up with this excellent idea! Tonight we all brought drinks and they brought delicious appetizers and we had a party! It was so much fun to sit in the shade on a gorgeous summer night with good friends and watch a little 4th grade football! The only problem was that I was only drinking Diet Pepsi in my margarita glass because I start work tomorrow! I still can't believe that I am officially a working woman. This sure was a good way to end a really fun summer though. I'm ready for Fall!

The Tailgating Mom's

delicious appetizers

Brenda and Me

watching a little 4th grade football

By the way, Max is doing great at Football, he is absolutely loving it!

Summer Fun!

This week has been a little slow for Blog opportunities. For one, I have started going into O'Hara off and on to get ready for work to officially start next Friday (only one more week of summer . . . eeek!). I have also been working very hard to turn my Blog into a beautiful photo album using Blurb.com, which means that I have been spending hours in front of the computer trying to figure it all out. I have finally made it over the learning curve hump and I am cruising along now. I have more than half of my 107 blog posts put into the album already!

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My kids have been having a blast playing at home with each other, riding bikes and jumping on the trampoline. They really get a long well when it is just the three of them. I did have a free day today though, so we went on a little summer adventure.

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Tennis, skateboarding, Slurpee's and the park!

Max is getting really good at skateboarding!

We really think that tennis is Sam's sport!

I am always amazed at how good he is at it!

Max doing "tricks"

Lucy "oops, I missed that one too!" Fulton

I love how she always has a smile on her face though.

Lucy with Sam and Max in the background.



I used to play tennis in High School (sort of).

I think I was
Julie "oops I missed that one too" Murray

Look at Sam's backhand!

What a stud!

My kids favorite treat . . . Slurpee's!



at the park



these two are Best Buddies!

Max getting everyone to help him build his engineering masterpiece.

Max turned the whole sand area into a well thought out river, island, mountain, lake masterpiece! What an engineer!