Words Plainly Written: Welcome to the Family!!!

I have my first ever sister in law! Kari Jacobsen has now become Kari Wassink - she married my brother in law, Ryan Wassink on Friday, July 9th. Matt and I love Ryan and Kari so much and couldn't be happier for them. We've been anticipating the wedding since October and I was also nervously anticipating the trip with two little ones. The wedding was in New Jersey, so we flew out the Wednesday before the wedding. My WONDERFUL mom offered to come with us to the wedding to help out with the kids. It was so great having her there and she helped us out SO much! Traveling actually went great, Sadie slept on all the flights and Case slept during the long ones (we had a layover in Chicago). We borrowed a friend's portable DVD player so Case watched Cars - couldn't have been better!
After we arrived, we rested for a couple of hours and then got ready for a welcome bbq! The bbq was great, but my mom and I left early with the kids because I just wasn't feeling well. We went back to the house we were staying at and I was up all night with the full blown flu! It was miserable and I was so bummed to get sick out there, what horrible timing! The next day I pretty much stayed in bed all day, went to the rehearsal, came back early to go to bed and I finally felt better a couple hours before the wedding. It really was too bad I got sick, but I was so thankful for my mom and Matt who took great care of me and for the fact that I did at least feel better before the wedding.
Not only was Matty a groomsman and one of the officiants, but Case was the ring bearer (so brace yourself for a ton of pictures of Case in this post!). We were so excited to see what Case would do! Matt and I both thought for sure he'd run down the aisle which is exactly what he did at the rehearsal. I even had some fruit snacks for a little incentive!
On the day of the wedding, we found out there was a pillow for him to carry. I think it was actually good that he didn't have it during rehearsal because then it was something "new". I took my spot at the front and watched all the bridesmaids come down, I couldn't believe how nervous I was! Then it was time! My mom set him down and told him to "walk to mommy". He walked about five feet and stopped in his tracks. Just stood there! So my mom went up and pointed me out, and he started going again. He did the complete opposite of running down the aisle! He took his sweet old time, swinging the pillow, looking up at people in the pews and just meandering down the aisle. It was so cute and hysterical! And then when he was about 1o feet from me, he decided to throw the pillow! It landed a couple feet in front of him, so he picked it up and was just out of my reach and swung big and threw the pillow way into the air, over my head and my father in law caught it! It was so adoreable! Ahh, I just laughed forever about it, he was great!
Alright, here's some pictures!