Beginning of wedding week

What an amazing, fun, and exciting week!  We started off the week by heading to OKC last Sunday night to spend the night.  Our flight was scheduled to leave Monday morning at 6:10, so we thought it'd be easier on everyone if we stayed in a hotel in OKC Sunday.  We had some yummy dinner at Texas Roadhouse on the way.  Oh but wait, when we got to Roland, I realized I had forgotten Jenn's bridesmaids dress at home!  Oopsie!  So we came back home and grabbed it and headed for OKC. 

Monday we got up around 4:00 to get to the airport in time for the flight.  We landed in Salt Lake City and headed to meet Jess and Chip there.  Little did they know what surprise was waiting for them...
All of us in our Chip & Jess 12/12/12 Big Sky Montana shirts!  Pretty fun surprise!

We headed on to Big Sky and ended up getting to the house around 4:00 that afternoon after a big Wal Mart grocery trip.  Monday night Chip's whole family came over to the house for a family dinner.  His mom and dad, sisters and brother, as well as numerous family members came.  Also, his friend Peter and his beautiful, wonderful wife Emily and their son came as well.   It was a great time!!  Mom, dad and Bubba did all of the cooking and the food was excellent! 

Tuesday it was time to hit the slopes!  Rob, Chip, Jered, Tasha, Luke and Emily headed out early to rent skis and get to having some fun.  The rest of us hung out at the house for the morning.  That afternoon Cash and Caden went to ski school, and I took a ski lesson myself!

Tuesday evening we had a couple of quick run throughs for the ceremony.  Big thanks to Brooke for keeping everyone in line!  She was great!  After that we all headed to Buck's T4 for dinner....which tasted great, but ended up making about 8 people sick!  Yikes!!

At dinner, Ben gave a beautiful toast describing Jess and Chip's relationship and how they have 'it'--that thing that makes a couple special and makes you know they are in it for the long haul.  He has been there from day 1 and was Chip's roommate when he and Jess met.  It was a great toast!

Jenn also gave a great toast to Jess and Chip!  She talked about how happy Jess is and that no one or nothing except Chip could make her happy enough to stay in California!  It was so sweet!  She did great!!

On to wedding day....