Weekend Recap: Wedding and Music

This past weekend was soooo fun!  Actually, the fun started on Thursday with "Muffins With Mom" at Benji's school.  I am pretty sure I was more excited than Ben--I live for this stuff!  He was a little nervous when we arrived, but as soon as he realized I was staying with him, he was a happy camper.  He basically stared/smiled at his teacher the entire time.  Unfortunately, I didn't actually know which kids were from Ben's class, but luckily I saw a friend from college, so Ben and I finally socialized for a bit.   :)  After Benji ate approximately 6 grapes and got powdered sugar all over me, it was time for me to go to work.  :(   Luckily I had some post-work fun to look forward to!  My fabulous coworkers and I went to a food tasting benefit for kids with cerebral palsy after work.  Gotta love eating and drinking for a good cause!  We had a blast--too bad it was a Thursday night instead of a weekend!

Andy, Ben, and I spent Friday night getting ready for the rest of the weekend!  After music class on Saturday morning, Andy and I were off to our friends' wedding!  Although we missed our boy, he was in great hands with his sleepover buddy, Nana.  Ben kept Nana and Papa John busy at the children's museum for nearly 3 hours!  He LOVES that place!  As much as I would like to think he was missing his momma and daddy, I'm pretty sure he didn't have time for that.  :)

Andy and I grabbed a quick lunch before meeting up with some of my college friends.  A brilliant friend decided it would be a good idea to get drinks in the short amount of time we had before the ceremony.  We were at a bar for about 6 minutes before the girls starting corralling the guys.  We arrived at the church at essentially the worst time ever--when the bride was just about to walk down the aisle.  SORRY SHEILA!  She graciously welcomed us in and pointed us in the right direction.  Not only did I feel horrible that we were late, this also meant seats in the back corner, which is not where I like to sit for weddings!  It was a beautiful ceremony though!  The reception was equally fabulous and it was so great to catch up with everyone.  I just realized that out of the 8 girls in the picture below, we live in 5 different states!  It will probably be a long time before we are all reunited again... :(

Of course the whole night went too fast, but I am so thankful that we were able to celebrate Sheila and Brian.  It's not our best picture, but we managed to get one photo-bomb-free photo of the two of us.  :)   Andy and I had to get up relatively early to head back for our parenting class.  We were tired but we sure do like our class!

After class, we made sure that Benji got in a quick nap before his big concert debut!  I wish I had a video of his performance because it was the CUTEST thing ever!!!  I really didn't know what to expect, but it was like he knew that it was time to shine.  He did what he was supposed to do for all of the songs AND he gave 3 shout outs to NANA throughout his performance, typically when it was nice and quiet.  It was so funny.  It was bright on the stage and the audience was dark, yet somehow he knew what direction to yell NANA!  The auditorium was packed (a few hundred people??) and he was a total ham.  Clearly he doesn't take after me in that department.   It was the 20th anniversary of the string academy I used to play violin with, so all of the alumni were invited to play at the concert.  I missed the rehearsal for other songs, but I did play "Twinkle, Twinkle" with the big group.  It was fun to play my violin for the first time in about 10 years, even if it wasn't a very impressive performance.  ;)

We, of course, had to celebrate Ben's first concert at our favorite restaurant.  All in all, it was a fun-filled but exhausting weekend.  We were all in bed early and we all slept through the night!  Woohoo!

SCHOOL UPDATE:  Ben had another great day at school yesterday.  He was a little sad when he got there, but as soon as he saw his teacher, he reached for her!!  He voluntarily put his nuk away, ate a good lunch, napped, and made art projects.  Made my day!!  He told us all about it over a date night.  I have the best dates ever.  So unbelievably blessed.