Picking up where I left off...let's just start with the wedding ...

Hello, I'm sorry about the address change....I wasn't feeling comfortable writing where my brother's new bride would just read about me and judge. Alot has happened since I wrote at the other site. Alot between many different branches of my family, and alot of travel!
In mid-May the boys and I went to Vegas to spend two weeks with my brother and his then fiance...they got married on the 28th of May. It was an extreemely long visit. My hubby's Aunt N has a theory of visitors...."Their like fish, after three days they start to stink." I have loved her theory for years and every year it seems to hold more and more true for me. Even though the boys and I were the visitors...I felt like I should have been the host. Neither my brother nor his soon to be wife even fixed us a meal.....IN TWO WEEKS!! I however cooked several times....like everytime we ate unless I voulunteered to pay for everyone else's meal. I finally stood up for THAT toward the end of our stay. In fact other than my own cooking, my father grilled hot dogs for us one night (eww but at least the boys loved it!,) and two of my best friend's in the whole world had us over for dinner. (Shell you made a fantastic roast, and Chick....your hubby cooks wonderfully as well!) MMmmm GOOD! Thanks for the true hospitality! O & BTW....THANX for the AWESOME GNO!! OG was fantastic! Wish you coulda stayed Chick!
In fact that's where we took my new sis in law for her bachelorette party the following week. I got D a lap dance. B and I got totally hammered...whooo hooo, and other than that we thought it all went real well. Until the next morning. I fainlly got ahold of T (my hubby) on the cell...and when I asked him how the bachelor party went...all he would say was ..."I'll talk to you when I see you." Seem very ominous so when I told B, she called her hubby L. Wouldn't you know he said almost the exact same thing?? Then I got worried and called T back and told him to just spit it out. Apparently, my now sis in law's BROTHER (TY) pulled a knife on MY hubby! Let's just say I was NOT a happy camper! Then I got a phone call from LL and he wanted D to come back to the house and pack up cuz he was "not staying for this ..." D and I dropped off B at her house, and we went to go calm down LL. When we finally thought he was calm, I had D take me back to my hotel where Ree had stayed the night with our boys. Bro and S got married....L was his best man, T stood behind him, and TY stood behind HIM. Imagine having the punk who had pulled a knife on you just two night before standing behind you at a wedding??!! Shell and Barbie were there too....thank goodness....it was pretty tense, and I could have easily lost it. The reception was worse! S's mother is a bitch! Flat out! Barbie and Shell helped set out the hors d'oeuvres, and just as soon as they were finished.....Cathy had them move it to where SHE wanted it for her daughter....blah blah blah. Then, she chewed me out for not being there the previous day for the decorating.....I bluntly told her that I didn't participate in events that I was not invited to. I know I sound bitchy....but she was someone you had to respond like that to. Then....she told me she needed me to lift the wedding cake. WTH?? D had made that cake for TWO days.... so I asked her why? She wanted to put a cloth under the cake...so I told her that there was a cloth under the cake....hey there was one. But SHE wanted THIS one under the cake. Well.... this wedding/reception was in Vegas...(obviously bery hot there) and I was NOT going to let this cake get ruined because for some CLOTH. That cake would have fallen apart if I had been stupid enough to lift it!! (Cathy was NOT happy with me.) Then, she told Shell and I that she wanted one of us to CRAWL under the table to plug in a slow cooker....uhhh hello?? We were all in our clothing from the wedding!! My outfit was over $100 I was NOT crawling on the floor to make HER happy.....besides...what was wrong with HER doing it!! N E Who....I was doing fine until as I came around a corner I was T (my hubby,) and TY (the knife puller) heading straight toward me. Oh crap! I told them both that I wasn't in the mood. But T asked me to listen. This 21 yo kid told me he was an ass...I agreed, then he said a few other choice names....all of which I agreed....so I told him this "If you really want to kill someone, go join the military, at least they'll teach you to do it the right way..... And if you can't handle your liqour, don't drink...." Just then I saw our two little boys (ages 5 and 2) come around the corner with Bro... and that's when I got personal. I told him "You see those two boys right there?" he replied "Yes" and I said "Well, we've got two daughters too....what would you have wanted me to tell them, had you succeeded with that knife the other night? You would have left them all without a father." Then TY started to cry. Just to relieve the tension, I told him that I forgave him. But I lied. I wasn't ready to forgive him for that added stress! T the boys and I left the moment that we saw alcohol coming out as we did not want a replay of the bachelor party, it was just too much!
On the 29th, the boys went with LL & D to their ranch up in ID. I did fine with it up until they drove away in their car, then I bawled like a little baby. Six weeks without our kids.....what were we thinking??!! T & I went inside our casino and each had a Bailey's on the rocks. Did I expect it to solve my problem? No....just calm my nerves a hair or two. N E Who.... we flew home on the 30th of May. That was a long day...knowing I was so very far from my boys.
I kept myself busy tho' and on the 9th our oldest (E) graduated from high school. T and I drove down to NC to be there. Just days before our trip, I asked T if he was going to spend anytime with our other daugher (V,) they had been estranged for almost two years. Pretty much since our youngest boy was born. We saw her last when he was two days old. He wasn't so optimistic, but I convinced him to at least call her... She spent almost our whole time there with us. It was nice, and they even got along and got to talk a bit. We drove home that Sun, and three days later we were driving back down that way, but this time to Atlanta, GA. We were there for three day, when we had E and her bf AW come meet us so we could take them on her graduation present (a cruise to Puerto Rico, St Thomas, and St. Maartin.) We drove down to Miami and had a heck of a cruise!! In fact, I think I'll end here for now....fingers are getting tired, and tummy's rumbling. I'll try and pick this up later, I've missed blogging greatly! Take care my friends, and as always, thanks for your time, love, and support. Nika