I know what you're thinking: "These people take a lot of trips!" It's true, this year has been a HUGE travel year for us, but that's just what happens when your family AND friends are scattered to the four winds!! One of these days we'll take the time (and money) to take a true vacation, but until then, we'll just alternate visiting our loved ones:)
So why were we in Cincinnati? The city of...actually, I have no idea what it's the city of. If I had to pick, it would be the city of "Nothing Open on Saturdays," but that might have just been that we were visiting on Labor day weekend. Anywho, we were in Cincinnati for the wedding of two of our favorite people- Kevin & Naina!!
Getting to Cincinnati was a bit of a rough trip. We left around rush hour, well after we had hoped to leave, and what could have been an 8 hour trip turned into a 10 hour trip once you added in food, gas and bathroom stops. Not to mention there were a million cops out, ensuring our compliance with the speed limit. We got in around 3am. The upside was that Kaiya slept the entire way! The downside is that Kaiya slept the entire way. As soon as we checked in to the hotel it was clear that her 10 hour sleep had sufficed and she was ready to be awake. At 3am. Obviously that wasn't going to fly for mommy and daddy, who had NOT slept, so being the good baby that she is, she kindly napped on and off until 7:30am, which was when mommy finally got up so as to not wake daddy, Aunt Els and Uncle Jon (who were sharing the room with us and also got in super late).
At this point, I went down to the lobby in search of as much coffee as I could find. Eventually I was pointed in the direction of a little hot pot in the middle of the Hilton's massive vintage dining room.
While Kaiya and I were chilling in the dining room, waiting for the others to wake up, she decided she wanted to work on her vocab and practiced her very first word: Mama!
She's such a smartie:)
A couple hours later John and Els were up and ready for coffee/breakfast, so we went to a nice little coffee shop around the corner from the hotel and camped out for a while. The coffee was great, the food super yummy, and it was a nice reprieve from the heat starting to build outside.
Not long after Jon joined us and had a little breakfast of his own, did we head out to meet up with some of the rest of the group at a little Italian place Vino Vito.
Eventually, it was time to get our wedding on! I didn't get very many pictures, unfortunately, because I was on baby duty, but I did manage to get a couple.
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| Some of the beautiful centerpieces! |
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| A Murphy family picture <3 |
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| The lovely bride and handsome groom on their first dance! |
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| John gets silly with the napkin wires |
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| Alan works his baby whispering magic on Kaiya |
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| After an AWESOME wedding, daddy and baby pass out |
I love a good wedding, but I LOVE a wedding joining two friends, and with a guest list filled with the people that mean the most to John and me. We had so much fun at Kevin and Naina's wedding and we can't wait until we can do it all again in October when Alan and Emily take the plunge! 2013 has been such an amazing year!!
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