Kellog-Garman wedding

Brian and Kristie (Brian is Mike's brother) got married on Saturday, Sept, 27th. It was a really nice ceremony and reception! They had a beautiful day of weather! Here are some pictures...

Here, Kristie is getting Makenzie ready to be the flower girl. Makenzie said, "Ms. Kiki, I'm so happy that you're going to be my second mom." How Sweet!




Avery, Sandy, and McKenzie help Kristie finish getting dressed.


Here is the back of Kristie's dress. Very pretty!



Kristie and Brian exchanging vows


Mike and his mother


Mike, Brian, and Sue goofing off before the ceremony

On to the reception! Here's one of the tables. They used mums as centerpieces

Here are their napkins

Beautiful cake! The cake was made by Judy Stevens.

Kristie and Brian cutting their yummy cake

Brian going for Kristie's garter

Uncle Bob (Sue's brother) holding Chris


Grandpa Garman with Makenzie and Chris

Nedra and Laurie with Chris (Bill's sisters)

Brian and Kristie with the quilt that Sue made for them

Congratulations Brian and Kristie!

I don't have any pictures of Liam and Galan--our new nephews, or of myself at the wedding! Will have to get some of those from the professional photographer or from Sue's and Nedra's cameras.

Trip to Nashville

Time warp back to August:

I'm going back in time a little here, but I wanted to share these photos:

We took a weekend getaway trip to Nashville, TN. The weather was great the whole time. It was unseasonably cool for August in TN (yea!). We took a backstage tour of the Grand Ol' Opry, went to a showing of the Grand Ol' Opry, and took a "discover Nashville" tour. The tour took us downtown, music row, the Ryman auditorium, centinneal park, bicentennial park, the state capital, and Vanderbilt U. It was a really nice weekend out!

Chris on stage at the Grand Ol' Opry

Music Row
Centinneal Park--The Parthenon: Nashville has always been called "the Athens of the south" because of the multiple institutions of higher learning; hence, the Parthenon.
BiCentinneal Park: This was a REALLY nice area. It has a natural amphitheater, bells that represent all of TN counties (they can be programmed to play any of more than 2,000 songs) and is a popular area for weddings, a great view of the state capital, time capsules from all fo TN's counties, a granite and marble map of the state, and more...

Country Music Hall of Fame

More Great Grandparents

My grandparents were visitng Indiana the past couple weeks. They were on their way home to Florida from a summer trip to Alaska. While here, they stayed with my Aunt and Uncle. I didn't get any pictures of Grandma and Chris, but other people did, so I will have to ask them to share!



Chris was very determined to get to a pear that was on the kitchen counter at Aunt Pam's. I finally let him have it, and he was thrilled! He ate it while he sat on Uncle Doug's lap...




Here, Chris goes for a tractor ride with Uncle Doug



This is Chris with great grandpa Dawson--they are enjoying the great weather by sitting outside on the porch.

Mike was on a trip to AZ for most of the time that my grandparents were visiting. I spent a lot of time with them though.

Chris is not happy these days unless he's standing! He's also into EVERYthing...
Nothing too insignificant to explore...

Camping

The weather was forecasted to be beautiful for this past weekend, so we decided to attempt our first camping trip with the baby. I worked Friday so Mike set up our camp. When I got off work, I picked up Sebastian and met Mike and Chris at Mississinewa. The weatherman was right this time, and the weather was WONDERFUL!

Saturday, Mike cooked breakfast for us. Sebastian was making sure that anything Mike dropped didn't get left on the ground to attract raccoons...


We put a table cloth on the ground, and then covered it with a blanket. The idea was to try to keep the morning dew from soaking through the blanket, and to keep Chris dry. It worked great for keeping the blanket dry. Chris didn't stay dry...of course, he didn't stay on the blanket either! Here, he is crawling off the edge on his way to see Daddy.

Here, Chris (he was one D-I-R-T-Y baby by Saturday night) plays with his toys while we ready the fire for cooking.

Mom and Chris playing

If the basket is good enough for the toys, its good enough for me!

Here's a video of Chris laughing at me. I said, "YUCKY!" and took his sock away when he tried to chew on it. He thought it was funny, so we did it over and over again!

We did a little bit of fishing on Saturday. We caught 3 fish total. Two bluegill and one sunfish. They were all about 4 inches long...needless to say, we threw them back to let them grow a bit. They can be dinner next year!

Now that Chris can sit up on his own, he can certainly pull on the heart strings a little harder! I put him in his crib at bedtime and went downstairs. After 20 minutes he was still crying, and since he usually goes right to sleep, I went to check on him. When I got to his room, he was sitting in his crib, facing the door, pressing his face against the bards, and holding his crib bars like jail cell bars... He was doing a great "pathetic baby" impression!

Labor Day weather was BEAUTIFUL! We played in the grass for hours while Mike and my dad worked on Mike's truck.

Look mom! I'm going to try to crawl!!

Such Concentration!

oops, fell over...
so what is this stuff anyway?

I guess I'll taste it to find out...

This evening, we picked pears off our trees. Chris wanted to see what was in the basket, and pulled up on it.

Right after that, he grabbed ahold of my pant leg and pulled to a stand! I called my mom to ask if babies ever stop growing up too fast. She said no. :(

Finally starting to crawl on hands and knees...won't be long until he just takes off!