Jenny Brown became Jenny Green after meeting a boy named David

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A Weekend Wedding


Our first night in our new home was fabulous! It was so nice sleeping in our real bed again. I really feel like we have the best bed in the world. Although everyone thinks that, right? Anyway, Friday morning I had to get up at 7 am and worked from home for a few hours. It was quite a challenge though because not only did my laptop die (cord was at work), I forgot we didn’t have any internet. So I worked from home on my phone for five hours. It was gross, but hey, it worked! 

At about 12:30pm on 8/2, David and I loaded up our car and drove over to Kat’s house to drop off Hank. He was going to have a sleepover for the weekend while David and I attended the wedding in Bend. Hank got to meet his cousin Wilson for the first time and it was SO cute. Hank is so small that Wilson being a puppy was perfect. Although I think Hank got over it real quick—apparently, Hank was glued to Kat and Alex’s side for the weekend because Wilson was tormenting him. 

David and I dropped Hank and away we drove! David and I love car rides. A while back we made an awesome playlist of road trip songs that is so fun. It includes classics like “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” “Born on the Bayou,” and some modern ones like “Turn Down for What.” Needless to say, I was probably entertaining fellow drivers as I was dancing around in the passenger seat for about 4 hours. 

David and I were staying with his parents and his sister and her family for the weekend in a vacation house. We arrived to the house first and weren’t super impressed unfortunately. The house had huge stains all over the carpet, balls of hair on the bathroom floor, dirty mirrors, bloody (YES BLOODY) cushions and old food all over the couch that stained David’s white shorts. It was not ideal, but we made the most of it though and had fun! 

I did a great TERRIBLE job packing though. I brought one dress for the rehearsal dinner we’d be attending on Friday night and a dress for the actual ceremony. That was all. Well, the zipper on the rehearsal dinner dress broke MINUTES before we were supposed to leave. It took a team effort as I frantically called David into the bathroom to help. Both David and his sister couldn’t get it to work so we ended up breaking the zipper to get me into the dress. It worked, but there was a giant hole in the back of my dress. We jumped in the car and ran to Safeway to get safety pins. We clipped me in and I hiked my purse way up my back like a backpack to cover the hole. It wasn’t pretty, but at least my back wasn’t exposed to the world.

We made it to the rehearsal dinner and couldn’t believe how stunning the venue was! Nestled at the base of Smith Rock, it was probably one of the most beautiful areas I’ve ever seen. We had a delicious Mexican-themed dinner and finished the evening with shaved ice from a local Bend vendor. Shaved ice though? If you haven’t had it you need to go immediately. Like right now. It was DELICIOUS! 

Saturday morning, we all went to Starbucks/McDonalds for breakfast before heading to the pool for the morning. David had to leave early to go to the ceremony (he was filming it) so after meeting him at the house to give him back his car keys, I jumped into the shower and got ready in my non-hole dress. We got to the ceremony and watched two great people get married. So fun and so hot (I think it was in the high 80s that day). We danced the night away with our friends, got lost on our way to find gas, and we wrapped up the night with some fun conversation before I fell asleep on the couch while eating peanut butter M&Ms.



My and my sweet niece Emersyn

Photo credit: David Green

Photo credit: David Green

Sunday, we drove home, got Hanky and began the unpacking process at our new house.

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