On Sunday Colt and I had such a fun day! Since it was father’s day Colt took Papa golfing. It was so nice for them to spend a special “guys” day together not working and just enjoying each other’s company. I talked to my Dad early that morning and was feeling a little bummed that I couldn’t spend the day with him and my family. Since I knew Colt wouldn’t be home until later that afternoon I decided to start going through some of my old pictures for our slideshow. I pulled out a big box and just sat there for hours. I found so many pictures and laughed and cried for almost 2 hours as I went through each and every one. The memories were so refreshing & overwhelming and it was so great to see so many years of love and happiness, I can’t wait to start putting the actual slideshow together.

Colt got home a little after 1:30pm and since I had been in the house all day we decided to go grab a bite to eat and watch the basketball game. We went to our favorite place pizza madness and ordered some pizza, salad and beers. While we were there we talked to the owner about our rehearsal dinner on Friday August 24th and he assured us that we are good to go! We also requested our favorite waitress Danielle to work that night. She is so fun and sweet and we just love her every time we go in. She was so cute when we asked her and couldn’t stop thanking us, we are so excited!

After we left pizza madness it was still pretty early so we decided to go down to the beach. Amanda had recently dropped off our 50 lanterns for our lantern lighting on Thursday August 23rd and I was dying to try them out! She had said they were a little tricky so I wanted Colt and I to be pro’s so we could teach all of our guests how to light them on that very special night. We went home grabbed two lanterns, packed up a cooler, some towels and headed to the beach for sunset. It was pretty overcast all day and windy but we figured we would still catch a pretty decent sunset. We played and talked and laughed and just enjoyed being outside. Colt and Kai ran the beach several times and Kailea fetched with a stick for the very first time! It was so nice just kicking back and relaxing together. After the sun went down we got ready to light our lanterns, we wanted to make a wish for all the Daddy’s that couldn’t be with their families that day as well as remember all the Dad’s that are no longer with us. Colt had taken the time earlier to put the lanterns together and boy was that funny. The lanterns are made in China and although the directions were in “English” they were pretty much in Chinese. The English was so broken and none of the sentences made sense. I laughed so hard as I watched Colt try to make sense out of it all! Thank goodness it was fairly simple the only thing working against us was the wind. We walked out to the middle of the beach and tried time and time again to get the lantern to light but each time had no such luck! We knew once we finally got it lit that we would need to get it filled with air to have it take off. Colt tried several more times and nothing! Frustrated he just gave it a good toss straight up in the air and the wind quickly caught hold of it and sent it soaring in my direction toward my head! I screamed, jumped and put my hand up to block the out of control lantern and to my surprise I caught it! I was so surprised and annoyed (I had almost been set on fire!) as Colt just sat there laughing hysterically. By this point I was so done with the lanterns and really bumming, if it was windy in August it would totally ruin everything. Colt sensed my disappointment and said we could try it again at home since there probably wouldn’t be as much wind so we packed up and drove back to the house.

Once we got back to the house we went out front in the street and tried to light a new one. It was still pretty windy and Colt was thinking it probably wasn’t going to take. We waited it out a few times and got it filled with air but it never took off. I was starting to give up when all the sudden Colt started running with the lantern and as he ran I watched it fill up perfectly with air as it began to raise out of Colts hands –it was floating!!! I don’t think even Colt realized it was really happening until it was literally out of his reach and up it went! He quickly shouted “I wish for our marriage to have a lifetime of happiness” and as if the lantern heard him it took off higher and higher! We stood there in our street for what seemed like forever watching that lantern soar, it was our little light in the sky, a little piece of us! Some of our neighbors even came out to see what was floating in the sky, they stood there for awhile before they noticed Colt and I. Once they finally did they asked us if we had set it off, Colt told them that we didn’t and that it was a UFO and we both laughed and watched until our beautiful light disappeared.

It was truly such a fun and memorable experience and I am so grateful to Amanda for thinking of us and our wedding for all the extras she had. All day today I just wanted to run outside my office and set one off! We are now more than ever looking forward to our special evening with all of you when we get to light the sky on fire with love and wishes ~