Party in the Neb

A couple weeks ago my beautiful cousin, Abby, got married in beautiful Lincoln, Nebraska. I knew I wanted to go, but also knew that we couldn't take the whole Turza crew, so I went without them! Ha :) Cousin Jen, my Dad and I all wound up going together. Of course, to maximize our time there we left butt ass early (I was up at 3:45 nursing Finn!) and took over nebraska for 30 some odd hours. It was a blast, although it would have been so much more glamourous if we went somewhere fun :)

{love these chicas! me, jen and rae}

{gah! how cute are jason and baby alliyah?}

{thank god for jen, who held my sweaty hand on our horribly bumpy landing into nebraska}

{2 days of storms meant that the outdoor wedding wasn't happening, so we had a couple hours to decorate inside. The fireplace "arch" was our 3 Nellessen and a Turza production, which fell right before pictures. AWESOME. Thankfully Jerry and my Dad rigged it back up, and we played with it more right before the ceremony. Painters tape was holding that thing up!}

{it was still gorgeous, and i was so out of my brain in love with the burlap and lace}

{love this crazy chick and her cowboy boots}

{3 nellessens. love 'em all}

{why, yes. i am a daddy's girl}

{even if i had to endure hours of the same stories that i've heard all my life, this time retold to jen}

{no, it didn't drive me a little crazy. why?}

{oh, my teeny little love. ms. alliyah was giving Jason quite the hard time, so I got my baby snuggles on....and then didn't want to give her back.}

{horribly blurry, but i love this picture of auntie cookie, jason, uncle don and tim waiting to go down the aisle}

{any time jen tried to take a picture, tim would stand. hi tim!}

{aw, look...tim free!}

{damn! jen stole my baby and got smiles!}

{pimp, obvi}

{cake...isn't abby's dress gorgeous?!}

{don't know why this ended up down here, but this was above the dance floor. Burlap swag with the lace circles that Jen and Julie made}

{oh, cookie. my great aunt and one of my favorite people ever}

{sisters!}

{crazy jen jen}

{auntie cookie and uncle don}

{jerry, hiding from cookie trying to get people to dance with her}

{this girl, pretending she was going to try and catch the bouquet. she didn't even move, the brat}

{abby and eric had a little guy making sure no funny business was going on}

{dancing with the cook!}

{love}

{alliyah was up and ready to play!}

{so we took her on the dance floor, naturally}

{abby getting serenaded by eric's friends}

{dance dance}

{cowboy boots!}

{alliyah teaching us all how to dougie}

{yup.}

{snuggles, with the mice, at the bonfire at the hotel}

{the next morning at breakfast, cookie getting some great granddaughter love}

{take over! my favorite part of these things}

{we drove by this yogurt place, cherry berry 4 million times, so we had to go. cue us acting like lunatics, dad sitting on the toilet chair and otherwise causing trouble in an empty place}

{did i mention it was like, 10am? loons.}

{OH MY GOD. SO. landing at o'hare, I'm almost positive I see Airforce One from afar. and i was freaking out. i am a geek like that, yes. jen is laughing at me as i click 5 million pictures of this awesome plane. Frank was easily more jealous of this moment than anything else on our trip...lol}

{boom. huge. }

{so shiny and pretty! i was so super excited that I got to see her in person. like, out of my brain excited. go ahead, make fun. i don't care!}

Phew. So that was our baby trip to Nebraska. Other highlights include: the hooker girl in front of us smashing her head into the overhead compartments, not once but TWICE...and Jen and I practically peeing our pants laughing. She was snorting, for real. Also, my dad getting patted down not once, but TWICE and having his pants almost fall down (with the zipper down!) the second time...again, while Jen and I are peeing our pants laughing. Happy wedding, Abby and Eric...thanks for the awesome memories of Nebraska! love love :)