Karissa's Wedding

The past week has been jam packed getting ready for Karissa's wedding. Karissa received her endowments on May 2, then David and Karissa got married May 9. The reception was at the Henage house, the same place as our reception. Much time went into working in the yard, cleaning, and prepping for the wedding. That's pretty much all I have done the last week. It was a lot of fun and everything looked great! Jeannine (my mother-in-law) had worked really hard getting everything ready. Together, we pretty much did the whole reception. Friday was probably the best day - there were four of the boys and they were each helping as well. Matthew was mowing the lawn, Michael was ironing chair ribbons and peeling potatoes. Daniel and Jonathan were setting up chairs and steaming chair covers. Who knew these boys were so homemakey? Alisha and I made the guest book. I did the cake table and decorated the other tables. It was quite the production! It was so fun to work together on it. Needless to say, we were all exhausted afterwards!

The wild part of it all was we all 5 Henage boys, my brother Mike, the Henage dad (Rick), David and Karissa and I all went and played basketball Thursday night. While we were playing David broke his foot!!!! Of all times to break your foot! He is now on crutches and has a boot - and had all of that for the wedding, poor guy. The even more wild thing - when Thomas and Emily Henage got married, Emily had a broken leg too!!! I'm glad I missed that for our wedding!

Here are some pics from the event.
Michael scrubbing potatoes - love the apron!!!
We even had a little hummingbird who joined the party. With all the windows in the entryway, the poor thing got caught in the house because it kept trying to fly into the windows. Matthew was the hero to catch the bird and set it free outside of the house.
Matthew going out to mow the lawn and weed wack. He gets allergies SOOO bad when he does that - so this is now how he goes out. Hee hee!!! That's my hubby!!!! He looks so hot in his work out outfit - gotta love those boots!!

Matthew and I made sushi for his family. Thomas, Emily, Jonathan and Terri (a family friend) had never tried our sushi, so we were way excited to make it for them. Michael tried our sushi the first time we made it, but we have come a long way since then!!! We fed 11 people and made 20 rolls. It was a huge hit!!! The best part - Michael and Alisha rolled the sushi while Matthew fried some rolls, and I replenished the supplies. It was so much fun. Everybody LOVED it! Even people who thought they wouldn't like it. We love when that happens!!! We are pros at this!!
The next three are from when Karissa received her endowments. Matthew thinks he's all that - he can keep telling himself that - hee hee!
One night the table turned into laptop city - as it often does when you've got the Henage boys around. We were celebrating Karissa's birthday and Matthew and Daniel had a cake party under the table with their own cake and milk. We got such a kick out of that! You never know what's going to happen when the Henage boys get together - like pool/fooseball or cinnamon challenge...
What fun times and great memories!!! We loved having so much family around! Families are the best! I sure married into a good one. I have great families and how I love them so much!!! We are so excited to have David in the family - he is a great fit and a fun addition to the family!!!

To see a slideshow of more pictures of the wedding:

David and Karissa's Wedding