Our CrAzY weekend

On Thursday I got everything packed and ready to go for the weekend. Ben's brother was getting married. It was 2:55 and i had to be at the school to get cody at 3:05. it takes me 10 minutes to get there. I make it there on time and then we get thomas and head over to Bens work to pick him up. We then go to the University chicken farm to pick up 100 #'s of frozen chicken. Not just frozen but -20 degrees frozen. definitly dont need ice in the coolers. We arrive in RoseBud Ar. at about 8:30 and start cutting up ginger and garlic to make the teriyaki chicken. since the chicken is so frozen we put it in bags and pour in the marinade and seasoning and put the bags in the bathtub so the chicken can thaw. we all thought by 3am or so it could go into the fridge. we went to the hotel and the next day when we met matt at the church we found out that by morning the chicken had only defrosted enough to pull apart from each other. so he added hot water to the tub. we were going to cook the chicken that night in the pig roaster. so we had time. But now it was time to go pick up the pig. so we are following behind Matt heading to pangburn?? and our Expidition starts to act funny and stalls. Ben pulled into a driveway and try's to start it and it does nothing. his brother comes over and trys to figure it out. the longer we sit the more the car trys to start and when it cools down enough it starts. yea!!- kinda- matt and thomas go on to get the pig and we head back toward town. we pull over about evey two miles so it doesn't over heat (thinking that was the only problem) but everytime we restart the car it sounds horrible and getting worse. we finally make it to the Searcy Ford dealership at 2:30 on a friday. two technitians stood there when Ben started the car and told us the grim news that our engine had blown?!?!?!?! they were surprised that there was oil in the car, we just changed it 3 weeks ago. The oil wasn't a problem. so our 2 choices were 1) pay 5,500 for a new motor or 2) buy a new car off the lot. We had been talking about gettting a new car, but i didn't want to get one under those conditions and besides we werent planning on going with Ford again. We are actually thinking of a Chevy Suburban, Jeep Commander or a H3( we've had nothing but problems with the Expidition, the transmission went out on it when we only had it for 9 months, the fuel pump has gone out on it twice plus a couple other things) so our car will be getting worked on this week and we will be picking it up on Friday, Right now we are using a rental minivan. Im just really not a minivan mom, but the cool part is the sliding doors open at the press of a button..... now off to the wedding rehearsal.... the kids did a great job and afterward there was an ice cream party. I can't eat sweets but the kids enjoyed it. By then it was late and i was worn out so ben dropped me and the kids off at the hotel while he went to Matts to start the chicken in the pig roaster. At the hotel Matthew screamed for about 2 1/2 hours because he was over tired and couldnt fall alseep. I am surprised that no one was banging on my door, it was bad. I finally found cartoons on and he sat for a hour before falling asleep. i literally turn the TV of and turn over and Ben walks in, it's 12am. the chicken wasnt done cooking but matt and thomas are going to finish it up, come to find out it was 1:30 am before they get done. Now it's Saturday the Wedding day!!!! It is pouring down rain (hawaiian wedding, suppose to eat out in the pavillion) Ben heads to the church to start the pig in the pig roaster, i get the kids and me ready. Ben comes and gets us at noon and we wait around, help here and there they go ahead and get the pictures out of the way and finally the kids line up to get ready to throw flowers, there is something like 13 kids in the wedding. It was so cute to see them all. Then Judith was walked down the isle and met up with Matt and the Pastor said a prayer and then Matt and Judith each said a prayer and they recited there vows and lit their unity candle and Matt kissed his Bride!!!!!!!! there were married. We all ate, the food was wonderful. the cake was beautiful. When the bride and Groom headed out everyone blew bubbles and off they went. We got into the car and as we were pulling out of the church driveway kaitlen says, I miss Nana.......