James and I got to attend the wedding of my cousin, Matt McClenahan to his love, Kari Thon. It was at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. The church was AMAZING. To sum up, James walked into the church and after about 10 minutes, looked up, and then said coolly, "Beautiful church." It was like he was a teenager! ;)
The ceremony was beautiful and James did a wonderful job sitting in the pew and staying (mostly) quiet. I had bought a new "Car" for him in the Orlando airport, The King, to play with for the weekend, and it seemed to do a great job of keeping him distracted.
Once the ceremony was over, we headed over to the reception at Nicolette Island. WOW! The site was stunning! The flowers were gorgeous and the candle lit table centers were fabulous. They had place cards for everyone, and James instantly fell in LOVE with "his" piece of blue paper with his name written in silver and a cute little green flower glued to it. It was his BFF for the rest of the night.
We sat with my parents and Dick, Bev, Courtney, Molly, Ryan and Sutton. We dined on delicious food, and even got to share James' gourmet Mac N Cheese for an appetizer. He was disgusted with it, but it was some of the best Mac N Cheese I've ever had. ;)
James took Grandma's camera and went around snapping photos of everyone around our table and then proceeded to the next table. However, by this time, my mom had taken her camera back and given James an iPhone to use for a camera. Oh geez. The people at the next table were laughing with James, as he was intent on getting every one's picture. So funny!
At one point I had to tell James to be quiet because Tom was giving a toast. He replied with, "But I'm scared of Tom making bread, Mom!" That made me giggle!
Grandma Kathy took James to the dance floor and broke it down with the live band for a while. I got out there long enough for James to dance about one song until he "powered down". He literally went from dancing one second (doing the tie flip) to a sunken moping child the next. He had had enough.
We retired to our hotel via a ride from Mom and Dad, an eventful and very fun day!
