The Official KC Post

Tonight on Mountain Millards: the official Kansas City post, complete with my limited selection of pictures. Before I start, I just want to say that Matt takes way better pictures than me, so I really need to find an easy way to get his pictures on to my computer. I wanted to find a good picture of the bride and groom to whom we owe the pleasure of our trip back to KC, but every single one I took was blury. Grrrr.
The past weekend was a haze of wonderful people, fun times and perhaps a little too much sleep. The hardest part was getting through the Thursday night before we left. I had to take Pongo to the kennel by 6:30 pm Thursday because we had to leave home at 5:15 the next morning so I lost my evening buddy. It was really hard. But like I said yesterday, he quickly made friends with the biggest dog there so I figured he wasn't bad off.
It is strange driving to the airport and actually parking our car there instead of being spoiled like we have in the past and having someone drop us off and pick us up. Our flight was uneventful except that when I booked the tickets, I checked the "window seat preferred" button so Matt and I both had window seats, which meant we weren't assigned to sit together. On the way to Denver, the girl in the seat next to me didn't mind switching. On the way home, however, there were sets of twos already in both of our rows.
After we got picked up in KC by Alissa, we headed to Nebraska Furniture Mart to browse matresses and bedroom sets. NFM is our favorite store by far because they have the best prices and best selection. We even found a set that we liked that was reasonably priced. Unfortunately, it costs around $500 to ship to Denver, so that ruled out our option to buy there. But at least we got an idea of what we like and what we can expect to pay. I can't wait for a new BIGGER bed.
After that, I had the pleasure of spending a couple hours at Western Air Maps (my old job). It kind of felt like I had never left except someone else is using my computer now of course. They even let me go in the secret room and participate in our old daily tradition of the birthday game. (The KC Star has a list of celebrity birthdays every day, so one person gives clues and everyone else tires to be the first to guess the celeb birthday.)
Of all places, they wanted to have lunch at Taco Bell. But that was fitting because that's what we would have normally done. I'll say it again...I really miss those folks. They are so awesome.
That evening, we headed to Leza and John's rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Then Matt, Mark, Talicia, Alissa and I met Jake at Old Chicago for a couple drinks. Our favorite waitress was working and she still recognized Matt and I and was happy to chat for a while. Friday was an awesome day filled with awesome people.
Unfortulately, Saturday started off wrong. Matt and I ended up sleeping until 11:30 am! It really was a combination of things...lack of sleep all week, 4 hours of sleep the night before, our phones being on silent and Matt covering up the digital clock on the VCR so it wouldn't bother us. Well, we pretty much messed up the lines of communication between everyone on going over to Matt's dad's house for lunch. We still got there a little after noon but I just felt awful just the same. I told myself no matter how tired I was, that I would make the most of the weekend. Well that went down the tube pretty fast.
After lunch, it was time to get ready for the wedding! Leza looked so beautiful. She and John were so happy and they had the cutest kiss at the end. Leza is taller than John, so she bent down so he could kiss her! I was a little nervous because I had a reading part and get really nervous with a lot of attention on me, but all went well.
Here are some pictures of the reception:

Larry (father of the bride) is really getting his groove on out on the dance floor!

Arlene and Alissa doing the YMCA.

Sisters!
All of the Millard children.
The original 3 Millard children. :)

Sunday, we spent the morning with Matt's grandma and the rest of the weekend guests before heading over to see Anne at her new house! She has the biggest back yard. It was fun to see Casey running all around it. We had pizza for lunch like old times and watched the first half of the Chiefs-Broncos game. The chiefs won their first game of the season, which makes it a little easier to be a Chiefs fan in Denver since they beat the Broncos.

Anne took us to the airport, but on the way, we stopped to buy some Boulevard beer. We really miss that out here in Denver. We got two six packs and after they were packed, my suitcase was barely under the weight limit. It seems silly to fly beer back to Denver, but it's totally worth it.

Corky the Yorkie in his bed.

Anne and Casey in Anne's new house!

I took out my book to read for a bit once we got through airport security at KCI. Somewhere between there and boarding the plane, I realized I lad left my book in the terminal. I was crushed! All I was looking forward to on the plane was an hour and a half of good reading time. And to make matters worse, Matt and I couldn't trade seats with anyone this time.

Pongo was very happy to see us when we got home. Our friend Carlene did us a HUGE favor by picking him up from the kennel so that we didn't have to wait until Monday morning. Matt and I watched our recorded Thursday night TV shows and by that time, I was tired and went to bed. And so concludes our weekend. And then I went to work on Monday to find lots of new airports waiting for my attention...just when I thought I was getting caught up. :) Serves me right for taking a Friday off work.