Jasper Part 2: Matt's wedding

Matt's wedding was on July 16. The ceremony was at Maligne Lookout (not on Maligne Lake as numerous people assumed because of the name). The weather was beautiful that day and my fears of the girls freezing were calmed when the sun came out that morning.

I have a lot of pictures of Tyson and Rose. He held her for the ceremony and she was so good and calm and looked like she would fall asleep:

Grandma Val and Tyson with Paige and Rose:

Auntie Booze and Rose. Rose had an early early nap as she woke up super early. This made it possible for me to come to the ceremony--she would otherwise have been sleeping. James was back at the hotel with a napping Elizabeth.

Matt waiting for the big moment.

One blurry photo of the vows. All of the guests stood for the ceremony. We were near the back and I was having a hard time seeing, not to mention scoping out an opening for a photo. And our camera is loud.

Since Rose napped early I assumed she would have a double nap and be good to go in the evening. It was a win-win!! Too bad--it didn't work and instead she was a disaster. Here she is in the beginning of the evening before she spotted Daddy, AKA "Mommy" sitting at the head table. After that it was game over.

Not a great picture, but reminded me that at Paige's place at the table, along with all of the other kids, there were little gift packs with crayons, stickers, glow sticks and toys. This was awesome and Paige loved it.

Lizzy was melting down too:

Tyson doing "Le Tigre". We make him do this pose at weddings:

Our table chowing down. Luckily they let us go to the buffet early in the proceedings before the babies had a complete meltdown. Zaida Bruce brought Paige and Rose mounds of dessert. Hey, whatever keeps them busy at this point.

When Rose had reached her boiling point, somewhere in the middle of the speeches, and Paige was saying "I'm so tired and I'm not even sleeping", I took them back to the hotel for the night (8:30). After putting them both to bed I was exhausted. It was a long day not having Mike with me, not to mention the fact that Rose didn't nap past 11:00am. I had taken them to the town to look around in the middle of the day as well, so it was a busy day. Jen and I felt ripped off since she had to take Lizzy back too, but our hotel rooms weren't close enough to use a monitor or anything.