Meet the Newtons: Thursday pm

 There were two objectives this weekend. 

1) give a well deserving Reese the wedding of her dreams

2) do whatever we could for her to feel like Quincy was close. 

I pulled together a dream team and they. understood. the. assignment. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Carly arrived Thursday afternoon. 

These women. My sisters-in-love. 

They came. They surrounded me with support and worked non-stop for 3 days. 

I told myself that I had done all that I could to prepare and now it was time to be present and enjoy, so if there was a problem to be solved and someone else could take care of it, I would let them. These “aunties” ran errands and helped me stay organized and made sure I was just relaxed, focused on the kids, and enjoying the weekend. 

First stop: cake tasting! Reese got a lemon blueberry cake. Then we met back up with Logan and Ryan for March madness back at wedding central. RIP BYU first round! 😭😭 Yay Hogs! 

We watched the games and assembled goodie bags for Reese and all the bridesmaids. I contributed beach towels, but these were mostly a gift from Kasey. She including everything PINK! Pink Barbie Kleenex, pink fans, pink snacks, pink sunnies for the beach, pink gum, pink chapstick, pink razor, pink protein bar, pink gum, pink drink mix, a water bottle, a shower steamer, and a beach ball stress ball all packaged up in a pink “Bride Tribe” beach backpack. Adorable!! 

Everyone misses their CAVA dates with “Princy” and when Reese saw one next to our hotel, she insisted we go there for dinner. We all laughed so much during this meal, I knew in that moment the whole weekend was going to be so much fun for the bride and groom. 

After dinner, Logan’s parents rolled in. They unloaded the bins of decor we had them drive down from Provo, visited for a bit, then took Logan back to their air bnb with them.  Reese and Finley helped the aunties start ironing all the tablecloths and Ryan came with me to pick up Annika (the photographer) real quick.  

Welp…“Real quick” went from a 10 minute drive to a 2 hour ordeal. We left at 10:15pm and got trapped in bumper to bumper completely locked traffic for over an hour in 1/4 of a mile spot. It really should have been awful, but it actually flew by. Ryan kept an epic playlist and conversation going (bc what would Quincy do? Rock out to Thot Squad at window buzzing volume and make the best of the circumstances? Absolutely.) By the time we got to Annika, Aaron and the kids would be landing soon, so we  waited for the family, who were beyond cranky and delusional after traveling all day (not to mention it was 2:30am Arkansas time). My boys were so excited to see Ryan that the vibe changed and everyone was happy and cooperative. We piled all 9 of us plus luggage into the van, and Annika got to know the Willy fam really well, really quickly 😂😂. 

And look what we came home to. Annika stayed in the helper suite with the boys, Ryan went with the boys, and Sloanie and Esme stayed with Reese and I in the girls room and we all crashed at 1:30am.