whatta wedding!

ohhhh myyyyy goshhhhh what an amazing wedding friends :)

it was so beautiful, so genuine, so full of love.  and to be totally honest, it was without a doubt the best wedding i have ever been to (not counting my own, of course!).  the ceremony was at st. john's, where we actually were looking at having our wedding.  the weather was stunning - golden and orange leaves falling and crunching everywhere, the sun was shining, the breeze was blowing just right.  the reception was held at one of our family's favorite places (our usual brunch spot, and we held a morning-after brunch the day after our wedding), the mercury cafe.  catering was provided by a new awesome place we found over the summer, which uncle rich & beth apparently love too, yak & yeti.  it was so eclectic and very, very uncle rich.

the new mr. & mrs. o'dell

magical!

this morning we hosted brunch for some family before everyone left this afternoon.  philip and i took the afternoon to relax... had lunch out and then went and saw margin call.  really good!  check it out if you have some time.  side note, who the the hell is this guy and why am i just now learning of him?  i might have to do some rearranging on my list...

when we got home we sat outside and enjoyed one of the last few days of this lovely fall weather.  we are getting snow wednesday night and our first winter storm advisory starts tuesday.  it'll all be over soon.  but as we sat outside and talked about the future, we realized that this was the last weekend we really have off until january.  here's a look at what we've got goin on:

• this coming weekend: school for me, last meeting of public policy
• weekend after that: my first weekend of school for my next class, organizational change
• weekend after that: i work, then we leave for NY! 
• NY for 10 days (yayyyy!)
• first weekend home after NY: class again
• then we have the holidays and our annual holiday party
• new year's eve in CHICAGO!
• ryder's 1st birthday january 6th and we'll go to LA

so what all that really means is... we are going to be doing a TON of work on the house in the next few months before company comes for christmas!  demolition on the bathroom tile starts tomorrow...

but until then, here's a few great shots of the family from the wedding.  i can't believe just one month until the next wedding!

AJ steppin out

LOVE this pic, hate philip's closed eye 

the fam outside the church post ceremony

mom and her best girlfriend, kathy

i'll have a mah-garita.

classy.

post-ceremony, pre-reception. we know how to do it right.

the merc

our new cousin ryan!  

uncle rich playing some van halen

ready for bed :) 

as usual, it's a busy week friends... lots going on.  but we have a costume party next weekend and it is going to be a BLAST!  as promised, here's another costume hint.  any ideas yet?

boo!