So Friday night we went and saw Talladega Nights with a bunch of cribbers, in celebration of Josh's Birthday. The movie was funny, I enjoyed myself. Afterwards we headed over to Josh's to party down. We did, to some extent. He had the DDR set up and the X-Box 360. Much fun and sillyness was had. Shannon and I had to go home early, since we had to leave for CR very early in the morning.

Saturday morning, we left he house, and drove to CR to make it in time to be photographed by 10:30 AM. When we got there, we hung out for a bit and the photographer arrived. Now the house was full, being that all of my Parents, brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters in law, and nieces and nephews, except for two brothers in law and one sister.

First up they tried, their darndest to take a picture of the nieces and nephews...this was a chore. Babies sliding off laps, children running out into the yard, crying and etc. Eventually through some sort of magic, the photographer was able to snap a few. Then we tried for a few entire family shots, and then some Original family shots. After the children shots, it went relatively quickly.

We then had a birthday party for Maren (niece) and Isaac (youngest brother). We were joined by the Roundy's (Maren's Dad's side of the family), which contained an army in and of itself. We all feasted on grilled hot dogs and the things to go with it. It marked, probably the first time I had a hot dog...in probably 10 years...

Afterward, in bringing up help in setup and take down of the wedding reception and etc. I got quite a few volunteers to help from my family and my oldest sister (Cara) also offered to make a picture album of my life.

Shannon and I headed out, stopped to pick up a new kitty carrier, and then headed over to the Mattas. We ate with them at the Genghis Grill and then had dessert at Cold Stone Creamery. Genghis Grill was a whole lot like HuHot, with a few diffrences.

We then headed the their house and played a game of Trivial Pursuit.

The next morning we ate at Granite City for brunch...good as always...The main diffrence between here and there, being that they only had one line for the brunch buffet and here had two.

Afterwards, we headed over to Shannon's parents, where she tired on her dress, while I read the paper or watched TV. And then we headed home.

I setup a meeting with the baker for Thursday morning to finalize cake things.