The Big Wedding!

 Introducing, Mr. And Mrs. Jordan..."

I'm not giving away their name on the blog (cuz it used to be my last name)

 My favorite dance picture

 In case you are new here...my little brother got married this past Saturday!

He's the baby of the family

I was 16 1/2 when he was born

This is my family

From left to right

My sister Brenna, 35, me 44, Sarah (no idea her age), My brother Jordan, 27,

My brother John, almost 43,

 my mom and my dad

(just wanted you to see the age differences in us, I think it's interesting)

Yep, I'm the oldest

 Here is the WHOLE family with the grandchildren and everything!

 click on the picture

 

Here are my parents with all their grandchildren

The father of the bride made a joke 

at the reception about my parents being the "most prolific family he's ever met"

I am pretty sure the joke was aimed at me.  

what do you think?

(it was fun, I'm not trying to start something here,

 I only felt like crawling  under a rock a tiny tiny bit)
And, besides,
he's right
and that's something to be proud of!!
(my dad also comes from a family of 10 kids and 5 of his sisters were there!)

 My Grandma, my dad's mama

With my dad and mom

 Jordan waiting for his bride

I love this...

 The Vows...

 My mom and dad
Who do you think I look like? 

 My brother, John and his beautiful family

(Kris, his wife, Lexi, Brett and Justin--dang his eyes are closed)

 Our family!

We are actually kind of matchy matchy, aren't we?

 A little fun afterward...

 My beautiful girls and I!

 My beautiful little sister!

(you can see the bridesmaid dresses a little, they are navy blue, but look black, very elegant)

 The photographer guy, I think his name was Joe...Sweetie Pie loved him

And he loved little kids, he was great!

 My mom dancing with her baby...

(I love this photo too)

 Someone asked me, (Val) if it was a beautiful Minnesota fall day....well, it should have been,

because we have not had rain all summer.

Until this day.

It rained all day.

No, it poured all day.

You can see the mud in the tent they had for the reception...

No one cared, we only got a little muddy.

I felt bad for Sarah and Jordan, they did not get any outside pictures

and everyone pretty much stayed inside the tent

 Cute little table gifts...

 Tables were beautiful

Her father made these wood carvings and they made these rock things that held the 

table numbers, out of rocks from the North Shore....

 The cupcakes were delicious, 

I don't usually like cupcakes,

 but that chocolate frosting tasted like Hostess Cupcakes

Only soft and good...

(Suzanne, if you are reading this, those are your hands!)

Her dress was beautiful too

(A little muddy by the end of the night)

But all lace and just so elegant and beautiful!

The happy couple is in St Lucia now enjoying their honeymoon!