Day 5-9

I'm kind of cheating because we are leaving today for IA for over a week and I will be missing from the blog world and I Really wanted to participate! 




Day 5- Siblings

I'm the middle child of 5- and I absolutely LOVED growing up in a large family, probably the main reason why I want several more children!

Johan is my oldest brother, he takes after our father in that he is SO hardworking. He is also a chef like my dad, and he is one of the few people I know that LOVE their job so much. Being a workaholic is def. is his blood! He is the shyest of all of us, was always super protective of his siblings, especially his sisters. He is now a husband and also a father to a soon to be two year old girl. I'm lucky to call him my brother.

Wayne is next in line- and is only 18 months older than me. He has also always been my protector- which I sometimes Hated when I wanted to date the cute boys in his grade and he scared most of them off. Wayne is also a chef- runs in the family!!- and lives in Minnesota with his fiance, who I'm so excited will some day be a part of our family- even though she already is. He is the happiest person I know- always has a Huge smile on his face.


Camilla- my only sister, is 23 months younger than I am. We were only a grade apart, and had a love hate relationship. I hated that she always wanted to tag along with me and my friends- and would always steal my clothes. Now we are closer than ever- and I'm super proud of her. She graduated in May and is well on her way to becoming an amazing social worker. She loves kids so much, and Jasper is lucky to have her as an aunt.

Mitchell is the baby, but sadly no longer a baby. He is 17 and a Sr. in high school. He can at times be such a punk- and I know all of us can be super hard on him because we forget we were the exact same way in high school. He is very mature for his age- and when he became an uncle to Jasper at 14 he was amazing. We were living w. my mom for 6 weeks after J was born and every day he would wake up and come running up the stairs to see where his 'baby j' was.

This isn't a good picture of Any of us as we didn't realize mom was going to make us take pictures- but it's recent ( labor day weekend, and its all of us!)  L to R Camilla, Mitchell, Johan, Wayne, me


Day 6 A picture of something that makes you happy

Nothing makes me happier than this little guy. This was Aug 4th, 2007- the day after he was born, and the first time we spent more than a few minutes alone. Drew had gone off to buy some formula and bottles-because we were told we needed to supplement, and we hadn't planned on doing that. So it was just Jasper and I at the hospital. We watched a Law and Order SVU marathon and cuddled. I couldn't believe he was all mine.


Day 7 Favorite movies
Grease
Pretty Woman
Wizard of Oz
Twilight-New Moon- Eclipse
I'm sure a million more..but those popped into my head w/o even thinking so those must be the favs!

Day 8 Places You've Traveled to
In the US (only counting ones I've spent some time in, not just driven through) Hawaii, North & South Carolina, Florida (the keys also) Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Nebraska,probably more I'm not thinking of

Virgin Islands, Bali, Thailand, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, England...think that's it?

Day 9 Picture of your friends
I've got several different 'groups' of friends- the ones I've been friends with since I was 4 in Sweden, the ones I've been friends w/ since elem. school when we moved to America- the ones I didn't become friends with till high school, college friends, and lastly- mommy friends.

This is a group of my 'mommy friends'- we all have three year olds!

These girls were my BFFs starting when we were 4-5. We all lived within a block of each other. This is last year in Sweden and they are all arriving on Tuesday for our wedding!

And the reason I haven't told any family/friends about this blog..

Because I want to be able to write what I want, without worrying about it offending someone (mainly someone from Drew's family.)  

But here's where I really need to be able to vent, because to me it is just So upsetting (not the reason for the depressing weekend, thats much more serious.) Last week (less than 4 weeks before our wedding) Drews family call and demand, Yes Demand that Drew have his two younger brothers in the wedding. He is not close whatsoever to said brothers. In fact they have gone out of their way to make Drews life miserable on many occasions. They think it's a major sin to have a beer with dinner for example. Drew works 60 plus hours a week and likes to come home and unwind with a beer. They think he is being very 'sinful' and make it known that they don't approve of our life. Fine. We don't really care. But Drew did not want them in the wedding. We wanted our wedding day to be about US- and celebrating our relationship. Well after hours on the phone, Drew finally gave in. FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE WEDDING. I was so disgusted with what/how they did this that I called his mother and told her everything I think about this situation, and how they have treated Drew etc. All his parents kept saying as an excuse was "Well this will be a good time for the brothers to reconcile" Am I really wrong to think that I don't believe our wedding should be about his brothers reconciling but about US and the 6 years we have been together, and all the hardships we have come across and overcome as OUR family? Without any help, respect or anything from his brothers? They were just worried about how it will make them look- not about how we feel, and its our wedding! I felt it outrageous that they felt that they were able to make Any demands of our wedding when they have done absolutely nothing to help. Not one single thing. My mom and us have done absolutely every single thing for this wedding- seriously mainly my mom, and his parents think they can just sit there- send me the dozens of people they want invited and then make demands about our wedding party?? Not to mention the programs were DONE, the grooms mens gifts ORDERED. Everything. So now we aren't even going to have a program because there is no way I'm doing all that work again- just so they can change something last minute.

I have been as far as possible from a bridezilla during this whole time, but now the fangs are coming out. 

Am I being completely unreasonable here?