JJ and I finally have had a chance to slow down and relax. Today was the first day in awhile that was not spent running errands or talking about the wedding. We did spend a little bit of today returning things that we didn’t use from a couple of stores and then we spent the night watching the Saints game.(Who Dat? 11-0??????)
On Friday we picked up her family from their hotel and gave them a tour of our city and future University. We then met my brother and sister-in-law for lunch at Ryan’s. Which was a really bad choice since my mother-in-law got sick later and could not attend the rehearsal dinner. I got back home about an hour before we had to go to the church and our house looked like a Louisiana Seafood House.

The rehearsal went well and Father Tommy was great as usual. We then went to the Canebrake Lake House for a dinner that my parents had arranged. The food was awesome! My brother had boiled a ton of shrimp and my brother-in-law had made some of the best gumbo I have ever tried. We also had ribs and other types of food that we had catered. We had a nice crowd, but unfortunately I don’t have any pictures from the event yet.
We left the dinner and went to one of our friend’s house and spent the night chatting and catching up. The ongoing joke was that we were all quiet because there was nobody to talk about since we were all there. There were about 13 of us who were able to get together. My friend Shannon had flown in from Japan and Clint had driven from Arkansas. It had been awhile since I had seen them and it was great to catch up.

JJ and Shannon

Steven, me, and Bo

Hall and Shannon

Dwayne fixing the keg of homebrew

Jason and Jennifer were kind enough to let us use their house and even had bought a propane heater to keep everyone warm. All in all it was a great night.
I hope to have some wedding photos soon. I really hope that our photographer did a good job. I think that his shots outside before the wedding are going to be really great!~