We got Married! That is right, me and Nate actually took the leap and got married! It was at the Greene County Courthouse, by Judge Holden. He was a really funny man. We were running late in the morning. and when we thought that everybody was ready to go, we came to realize that collin was wearing his skull shorts(black shorts with skeleton skulls all over them), rather than the brown shorts we wanted him to wear. Well he is not the quickest dresser and so that made us even later, not that I helped on being on time(: We made it there at eleven which was the time we were suppose to be getting married. Going through the metal detectors at the courthouse was not the easiest thing in the world for Nate, first he had to take off his shoes, than his belt, than his hat and than was still scanned front and back with one of the hand held metal detectors, after they felt he was safe to enter the building, we were on our way to the third floor to get hitched! When we arrived we apologized for being late, and he asked for the paper work. His court recorder than filled it out and we waited in the pews. There were a lot of people in the court room and I had not pictured being married in the courtroom, I thought it would take place in his office or something. He asked us all to come forward, we than stood and chatted for a bit, he was a really funny man. After a couple minutes he said, "Well it looks like neither of you are going to run, although she (referring to me) is being pretty quiet" I than piped in with " Well I am kind of embarrassed, I did not know so many people would be watching us" he than responded with, "Well if you would like, I can go get all the inmates from holding to come witness it too." We all just laughed. He than chatted with Collin a bit, and told him that he needed to take care of us, he was being really quiet, and was suppose to be the ring boy, but since we had left our rings at home, (and while driving to the courthouse Nate remember that they were still at home but since we were so late we did not turn around) We borrowed Ashley and Josh's, Nate told the judge that we had left the rings at home, and he said that it is not official without the rings, in a very serious tone. He than offered to have the bailiff hand-cuff us together! It was pretty funny. Susan came and was a great photographer, and all in all it was a really enjoyable experience. I will admit that I was super nervous going through the vows, and Nate could not help but give me crap later about the fact that my arms were crossed when we were holding hands. But it was all good, I was shaking a little bit and Nate did notice my lips were shaking pretty bad....Hey it is a big thing to get married! I did however notice that Nate looked very nervous himself, AND pale! When we left while getting into the elevators he even admitted that he was more nervous than when he swore into the military, and that was the most nervous that he had ever been... But we love each other so it is ALL good! When we were outside taking pictures, Collin said something that was very funny. The other day him and Jenny were playing and got rocks all over Susan's yard, she told him that he needed to come over later, and help pick all of the rocks up, he said " I need to come pick rocks up? Usually I have to pick poop." It was really cute! (sometimes when he gets in trouble as punishment we make him go and pick up the dog poop in the backyard with a shovel as punishment since he really hates it!)
Back to the subject, While we were taking pictures we found this awesome old car that we used as a prop, and took a few pictures by. We than went to Little Tokyo and ate some really delicious sushi. We than all drove home, and everybody said good-bye. Than as a family we went and had a water fight in the backyard with water balloons. It was a lot of fun! And a great end to a very fun but extremely hot day! for pictures or videos from the courthouse check out our Facebook page!
