Curtis + Jen = Love & BFF's Forever.

We got the pleasure of joining in all the behind-the-scenes fun for Curtis & Jennifer's wedding on August 13, 2011. 

Curtis, who also happens to be one of my amazing big brothers, met a girl, Jen, who happens to be my amazing sister-from-another-mister.  Curtis & Jen are the happiest kids on the block. And to add a nice little cherry on top of that wedding cake, Jen is sweet enough to share her adorable, wonderful, talented, FUNNY, and loving kiddos - Hannah & Matthew.  Pretty sure they're blood based on the things they do and say, but even if they aren't, my GOODNESS do we love them all. SERIOUSLY - it's a beautiful match all around and it makes family time FUN rather than lame. 

These 2 sweeties decided to get hitched in Butte, Montana on August 13,2011. We joined in the fun starting Wednesday with nice down-home BBQ and some gorgeous redneck wine glasses made by Ms. Susan Caudill herself - I told ya it was a match!  

Thursday evening we held a special, intimate wedding shower for Miss Jen. She has some COOL friends who were even down to do some TP wedding dress designing.  ROCK it ladies!

Friday was of course the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.  There was so much rehearsing we decided to blow off some steam by playing a hard core game of wiffle ball. Of course we started off the game by picking teams grade-school-style and lining us all up, hoping that we weren't the last picked.  Luckily GG volunteered that spot. Anywho...there were some injuries, there were some homeruns, but most of all, there were laughs! and a TIED ballgame.  Have you ever in all your life heard of a Gannon walking away with a tie???  It had to be done. 

Saturday was the BIG DAY! It was a BEAUTIFUL wedding and the bride was SMOKIN' HOT!  No wonder Curtis fell in love with her.  Well, she's also the sweetest little thing this side of the Continental Divide, so that helps. 

Feast your eyes on these gorgeous wedding kids!

Thanks for letting us be a part of your awesome, special day. We love you guys!

Birthdays, Bachelors, and Big Hank!

Because I'm lazy and feel like I haven't prioritized my time to dedicate the necessary time to this blog, I will do one big update! :)  Our summer has been INSANE and crazy busy.  We were gone every single weekend in July!  Whew!

Birthday celebrations were wonderful.  Mommy celebrated 29 with a yummy spaghetti dinner and a delicious ice cream cake!

Just 5 days later, Daddy turned the big 3-0!  Unfortunately he was stuck in Pullman working hard, but Mama bear got to sneak away and stay the night with him.  Thanks to Nana & Papa for watching little Bug. :)  We enjoyed a nice dinner and a relaxing evening!

T Bug & Mama followed up the birthday celebrations with running the Greenbluff Cherry Picker's Trot! Tatum didn't awesome in the dash, and Mama...survived. :)  We also got to spend some time with Mama's cousins Drew & Luke!

We did have some time to enjoy our own little farm too, and we do love it out here on the Nagle Ranch.

Miss T graduated to a BIG BIG BIG girl bed!  She sure does love it!  And Mama & Daddy don't mind laying in there with her either...

We were lucky enough to have our first experience at Chuck-E-Cheese for Bella's birthday party!  Boy was that exciting!  Tatum played with every ride and brought home some real prizes!  You know, a plastic ring and a plastic slinky!

We ended the month with our 7th Anniversary!  And Mr. Nagle was amazing and sent these lovely flowers to Mama's work. 

Mama was lucky enough to join Ms. Bug's class on a field trip to Rocky Rococco's for lunch...3 year olds in a big group...scary!

And some great white mole hunters!

We ended the month of July camping in Big Hank!  Our favorite place in North Idaho where our favorite moose visits us each year!  We took a trip the "top of the world" as we call it. July has been good to us!

Leavenworth!

We spent the weekend in the Barvarian Village - Leavenworth, WA - enjoying amazing food, fun, shopping, and family time!  The Cascade Mountains are just GORGEOUS and the Wenatchee River was an awesome meditation spot. I was able to partake in a little trail run along the river as well!

God Bless America!

We had an awesome 4th weekend blessing America with Kyle & Kelli. Tatum serenaded us all weekend with "God Bless America" and we played golf, hit up Silverwood, and lit fireworks.  Oh! And of course lots of yummo BBQ food. :) Love that family time!

Campin' with our Besties!

We had our annual camping trip with the Smiths, Fillys, and Conrads.  What an amazing group of people and kids they are!  We seriously just love them all!  The kids all get along so well and the adults have great conversation.  Thanks for an awesome weekend, friends!

A visit from the Skannons!

We had the BEST visit from Curtis, Jen, Matthew & Hannah over Father's Day weekend.  It was so much fun!  The kids were able to reconnect and the adults were able to have some R&R.  We spent the weekend with some crappy weather, but we made the best of it with some shopping and family fire time. :)  Tatum LOVES her cousins, so they had a blast together.  And I think overall the Papa & the Daddys liked their weekend. :)