This past weekend we were able to spend a few days with our friends Ben and Herdis who were visiting from Norway! Two years ago Bryan and I packed our things and headed to Bergen, Norway to see them get married and, unfortunately, we haven't seen them since. However, when we gathered Friday night at Matt and Makinzie Heard's house in Denton it was like no time had passed at all! We enjoyed seeing Ben and Herdis Blake, Amanda Musick, Matt and Makinzie Heard, Ryan Komo (not sure how to spell the rest of his last name), and meeting Janet (don't remember her last name). Bryan was also excited to have everyone meet Matthew for the first time. The really neat thing about this group of friends is Ben, Amanda, Bryan, Matt, Makinzie, and Ryan all grew up together in Abilene and have known each other since elementary school.
On Saturday my parents came over to keep Matthew so we could go back to Denton kid free. Bryan and I stopped at Cracker Barrel on the way up to enjoy dinner together before meeting everyone (the other group had a late lunch). Once we arrived we decided to go bowling-girls vs. boys!!
-- Side Note: Mark "Rex" Gibson joined us on Saturday night. I like it when Mark is around because he is HILARIOUS, I could just sit and watch him for hours.--
Well, as you can imagine, the boys creamed us in bowling! Despite having a team name, the girls really stunk, our only good player was Amanda! After admitting defeat the group decided they were hungry so we all gathered at Fuzzy's Taco's after meeting Ian McDonald. Bryan and I didn't eat but we enjoyed their good sweet tea and a Dr. Pepper. I definitely want to go back to that place because it looked really good.
After dinner we met back up at the Heard's house. Makinzie is an awesome hostess! She had all her outside furniture in a circle with a table of snacks and drinks in the middle. There were tiki torches surrounding the furniture to keep the bugs away, well as much as you can keep them away during the summer. Bryan and I had a lot of fun reminiscing about our trip to Norway (most of the group was there as well) and catching up with everyone. But all good things have to end and around 1:00 AM we decided we should leave. We really did not want to leave but knew we had to get up early for church the next morning so we said our goodbye's. Hopefully we don't have to wait another 2 years to get together!!
Here are a few photo's of our trip to Norway
The guys being guys at the rehearsal dinner
The Bride and Groom: Herdis and Ben
Some people decided to jump off this Fjord (kind of like a cliff). Here's Bryan (and Matt and Ryan) waiting for the jelly fish to clear out so he could jump. Looking back I'm not sure why I approved this adventure!!
Ready, Set, GO!!
Bryan said the water was FREEZING!!
Here's Bryan climbing out of the water.
Ben and his brothers (David and Matthew) decided to jump together!
Can you believe the picture below was taken around 11 PM?!?! Since Norway is so far North, during the summer the sun hardly sets. The sky would look like dusk for a few hours and then the sun would come out again.
Please excuse our tired faces, we had flown in that afternoon! At that point I had only had 4 hours of sleep in the past 36 hours, I was 3 months pregnant and not feeling great, AND the airlines lost my luggage - I had to go to the rehearsal dinner in my black pajama pants and a t-shirt. What a great first impression!!
After the rehearsal dinner we all went back to the apartment most of the group was staying at and Makinzie was soooooooo nice in letting me borrow her shower stuff so I could shower. When I was finished this is the scene I saw in the living room. Everyone grabbed a musical instrument (or made one up) and they were singing songs together. So cool!!
From left to right: Erlend Helland, Adam and Angie Willis, Ryan Komo, part of Matt
From left to right: David Blake, Dan, Erlend, Adam
From left to right: Close up of Matt Heard, Leah Green, Makinzie Heard, Amanda Musick (with an awesome face!), Matthew Blake, David Blake, Dan
Thankfully after Bryan and I made our way back to the Bed and Breakfast where we were staying, we found my suitcase sitting in our room!!!
Here we are waiting for the wedding to start!
The Ceremony
Erlend was her "Man of Honor"!
Some of Herdis' family wore the traditional outfits
This is Herdis' brother who we stayed with while we were in Oslo
Can you believe the church they were married in was built in 1160??
Bryan and I outside the church
They rented a tour train to take us to the reception!
Here's Bryan, Me, Angie and Adam Willis, and Matt Heard
On the way to the reception the driver stopped at this photo spot. Isn't it Beeeeutiful!!!
Ryan Komo
The sweet couple dancing
Sooooo, after the reception we decided to take pictures since Bryan and I were leaving for the rest of our vacation early the next morning. The girls had no problems posing! The boys on the other hand......
From left to right: Angie Willis, Amanda Musick, Makinzie Heard, ?? Peterson (I can't remember her name-I had only met her during that trip), and Me
Here's our "sorority" group pose. We were really just trying being silly!!
And now for the MANY photo's of the boys since they couldn't seem to get their act together!!
Adam and Matt Peterson (He's married to the girl I couldn't remember the name of)
Adam, Matt, Matt, and Bryan down front - I have NO idea what he's doing
Adam, Matt, Matt, Bryan, Ryan (I love Adam's pose in this picture!!)
This one is better
Ryan, Matt, Adam, Bryan, and Matt
And Finally!!
Matt , Bryan, Matt, Adam, Ryan
Yeish!!!
I started blogging after this vacation. I'll upload some pictures from our entire trip later. After Bergen we visited Flam and Oslo in Norway, and Copenhagen, Denmark!! We had tons of fun!!
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