Ryan and Kelly's Wedding - Sept 12, 2009

My cousin Ryan got married on Sept 12. Most of my family is from PA and so are he and his now wife so we had to go to Newcastle PA to get to their church. I hate to say this but the church was in the ghetto. So much so a domestic violence dispute broke out right outside of the church and the cops were there. We could hear everything because the church windows were open! Overall it was a nice ceremony though - she is Lebanese so it was cool to see those traditions in the ceremony. There was a good amount of time between the ceremony and receptions so we decided to take Ben to the original Quaker Steak and Lube in Sharon, PA. He had never been and he doesn't really like the ones here in Ohio. But I knew he would like the one in Sharon. So we sat there and ate and drank while we watched football on the big screens. It was a good time. Then we headed to the reception - it was strange because they wouldn't let us into the reception hall because the bridal party was eating along with the parents! It was weird to be standing their watching them eat while we sat outside and watched them. Oh well - to each their own. It was a good reception and everyone had a good time! I took a ton of pictures so below is just a small amount of what I had actually taken!

Bride and her father

The new Mr. and Mrs.

Mom and Eric

Me and Ben

My Grandpa and Aunt Betty

First Dance

The Cake

All of the kids with my grandparents

How time flys!

Wow I can't believe it's been almost a month sinceI wrote on here...so many things have been going on!

Work is still insane. I'm working on my days off usually right now but the overtime is nice so I don't mind. Plus it's less of a mess that I come in to the next day.

My birthday was Sept 11, I will probably do another post about this. It was a great night and all of our friends were there! I was happy to have everyone around :) I will do another post with details and pictures!

Sept 12 my cousin Ryan got married to Kelly. That will probably be another post as well. It was a good wedding - but more on that later as well!

On Sept 18th we celebrated Liz's birthday. Probably another post also, or I will put it with my birthday post. They went to dinner but we didn't go because we don't have the money right now. Then it was an interesting night but it was a good time!

I've been going to all of Mel's appointments with her. She just had one this past Monday (I forgot to take a picture of her but I think I will get one tonight!). She was 12 weeks on Tuesday I believe. She is doing better, not as sick but feeling very tired.

My mother in law will be here in about 4 or 5 weeks to stay with us. Her boyfriend will go back to Arizona and stay at the house there until it is sold. The only thing I am not happy about is her dog coming. I don't need another dog in this house, it's already bad enough. Plus she is a small dog so I'm afraid mine will trample her. We will see how she does with Duke. He doesn't do well with other dogs that he doesn't know. So we will see! I will be grateful for the help his mom will provide financially though. That will be a nice break! Plus she likes to cook and clean so that will help out also.

Work has been crazy and hasn't slowed down at all. I really think it's getting worse, which I expected but it's just insane. Plus it's the time of year when people are out sick so I'm constantly worrying about getting sick!

As far as my weight loss, I'm down about 22 lbs from where I started. But from my highest it's around 27 lbs. It sucks though becuase most of my clothes don't fit, well my pants for work at least, and we really don't have the money to buy any more. Maybe one day...

Other then that, not much else has been going on. I come home, make dinner, and go to sleep most nights. On the weekends I clean and do laundry. Not much time for anything else at this point!!

I will try to keep this thing better updated, at least for myself because I don't think anyone really reads this. I want to keep track of things better though so I will try!