Wedding

The first week in April we headed out with the whole Boogerd crew to Mexico to watch Bryce and Rachel join together in matrimony. About almost a year ago Bryce and Rachel approached their two families to see if we would all be willing to go to Mexico to watch them get married. We were very excited and said YES! Then reality sunk in after a bit and we started thinking we were all crazy. How was this ever going to work? How was everyone going to afford this? Will this actually happen?   Sure enough....Rachel started her investigation process and got everything lined up.  She sent us emails with costs, times, air ticket prices, dates, and ect....  All we had to do was say yes, provide a credit card number and Rachel had us all booked to go to the Moon Palace in Cancun.......CRAZY!!!!!  It seemed like forever away when we booked it but it came fast and soon enough we were ALL on the plane together flying to a beautiful beach.  This was the first time most of Toby's family had ever been out of the USA.  We were all excited but a little nervous to see how traveling with this many people would go.  Needless to say it was smooth sailing. Robert was calm and collected, Lori never threw up on the plane, we meant Josie's finance in Huston, no one lost their luggage, everyone remembered their passports, and no one ever got stopped to be searched. Everything was going in the right direction.

Finally, we made it to our bus to be taken to our Resort. The bus was air conditioned and the sun was shinning, life was good!!!!!  We got to our resort, checked in, the bell boy took our luggage to our room and from then on we never lifted a finger again.  Only to eat and drink of coarse :).  We meant in the lobby to head to supper all together with the Seitstra's and the food was great!  We had salad, grilled meat (what ever we wanted) and of course dessert.  We all made it safe and it was the beginning to a great week.

Each evening the Boogerd's went out for supper together and then attended the free entertainment for the evening. We would go to the lounge singer, disco, saw a magic show, karaoke, fire waving girls, and just hung out and enjoyed each others comapany.

Thursday was the wedding day.  In the morning the girls all had brunch together and then went and watched Rachel get ready!  She was a beautiful bride.  While they took pictures we all went back to our room to get showered up and ready for the wedding at 4pm.  The wedding was beautiful on the beach. The bride and groom were shinning in the sun!  It was a little bit windy but we all could hear everything perfect.  The boys sang a song while Rachel walked down the isle to Bryce and it was beautiful.  The preacher had a nice message and then we all touched Bryce and Rachel and prayed around them in a circle. This was very nice and very meaningful. Then we had a cocktail party and headed off to the reception at the Italian Restaurant. It was great fun and fellowship.

Toby and I had a wonderful week enjoying relaxation and just being us!  Toby let me have all our free resort points at the SPA and really spoiled me. I received a pedicure, manicure and 80 minute massage all for free! Let me tell you life was really great this week. Lori and Robert even said they could do this again!  All us girls never lifted a finger once to put a dish away, wash a dish, clean up food, cook or anything. It was pure relaxation.  We did miss our kids a lot, but it was also great to fellowship with us adults once too.  All in All everything went well and we are so happy to add Rachel to our family.  It was a long time coming and this just made it OFFICIAL :).  Welcome to the Boogerd Crew!!!!!!