i had just enough time after target to get ready for the wedding and wear the new dress i had just bought. i took a shower, did my hair and makeup, went to put on my dress, and the zipper was jacked up and all sown into the dress. rule #1: always try on clothes before purchasing if you plan on wearing them that day. lesson learned after the fact. it’s 1:40. i am supposed to leave at 2:00. i throw something on, proclaim i am going to target to find the dress in the same size hopefully and will return the first one later. it’s a good thing i love close enough to target to do this (even though i am pretty sure twila and tracie still thought i was insane and there was no way i would be back in time). i went to target and i made it back in time, but without a replacement dress. so i have a little freak apart, twila and tracie frantically start working on the zipper while i find something to wear that doesn’t have to be ironed and actually fits and that is appropraite for an outdoor, fall wedding at an indian reservation when it is hot outside. i get dressed, walk in the living room and they have fixed my dress, so i have to change again into my new dress. thankfully! look at my phone, it is 2:00 on the dot. i totally pulled it off. i was so thrilled…..
20 minutes later, scott shows up fashionably late and is like let’s go. i mean, really? rule #2: you don’t show up at a girls house late and then say let’s go.
so let me introduce you to scott smith. age 24. samford graduate. one of my favorite people. amazing man of God. hilarious. kinda spastic. one of the best laughs ever. pretty much the boy version of me. so naturally, we get along!
the wedding is at 4:00pm at the moundville archaelogical state park in moundville which is about 20 minutes south of tuscaloosa. we have my moms convertible which we are totally excited about. top down, on the road. singing backstreet boys “i want it that way” and rhianna “umbrella” at the top of our lungs and dancing around. i mean, we have like, choreographed dances. pretty much amazing. scott proclaims “this is awesome! people probably look at us and think: look at that rich couple, riding around in their convertible, with nothing else to do but just drive it around” none of which is true…not really rich, not so much a couple, and we totally had great football games to be watching!!! the weather was great, which we commented on, oh about every 10 minutes. then some old guys from bibb county drove by in a pickup truck and honked and waved, so i waved back. scott asked if i knew them. i mean, really???? how many old guys would i know from bibb county???? we stopped at mcdonalds in and i let scott drive the rest of the way. we get there and the wedding is in the middle of a field, surrounded by mounds. i am wearing the most amazing snakeskin pumps. seriously, they are awesome no matter what anyone says. but they were not exactly the best walking shoes for walking through fields because the heels would sink into the ground every step i took. so i took them off, but then there were prickly things, so i stopped to put them back on. while we stopped, julie stood in an ant bed and probably had about 100 ants on her legs and feet immediately. moundville has a serious ant problem. anyways, it was hot, the sun shining brightly on all the guests and we took our seats. we sat and sat and sat. after a lot of sweating, the wedding finally got started about 4:45pm. it really was a beautiful and sweet ceremony, but i was very thankful when we could go to the reception for food and air conditioning. we hung out at the reception for a good while. good food, good friends, beautiful sunset and view of the black warrior river, cooler weather, and football updates via cellphones.
it was dark when we left and scott wanted to drive but i felt i should just in case something happened since it was my mom’s car. rule#3: let the boy drive! i made so many wrong turns getting out of moundville it was redonkulous and it was kinda creepy at night!!!! so we drove back and scott put his seat back and looked at the stars while i drove, but sometimes he would hold the steering wheel so i could look too, i mean it’s only fair. for most of the way back we planned the next 4 weeks of our small group called the chase. it is a small group for high schoolers that meets at church of the highlands riverchase campus. pretty much, it is amazing, i love those kids and am excited about how the Lord is using scott and i in their lives and vice versa!!!
we get back home and start watching the auburn/arkansas game and i start looking for my cellphone. it’s not in my purse. scott calls it, i don’t hear it. we go look in the car. still no sight or sound of it. so i start freaking out that i have lost my phone and the last place i remember seeing it was my car in moundville before the reception. so i start calling our friend stevo because i am hoping he is still there tearing down and cleaning up after his sister ashley’s wedding. i call from scott’s phone i don’t know how many times. i was pretty much phone stalking him, but whatever i needed to talk to him! in the meantime, scott calls information, gets the number for moundville and leaves them a message that goes something like this “um, hi, we seemed to have lost a phone. we attended a wedding there today and we lost the phone either by the mound with the big house on it or by this building where the reception was, and it’s in the grass, by a tree. so if you find it can you please call me at ……. thanks” meanwhile twila and i are laughing so hard in the background, they can probably not even hear him at all, if they can even understand what he is saying because he is laughing the entire time. it is 9:15pm and i am ready to drive back and sneak onto the state park property because i am completely convinced my phone has fallen out of my car and is at moundville. i keep calling stevo and he finally calls me back. i explain it all to him and thankfully he is still there so he goes to check it out and says he will call us back if he finds it…..a few minutes later, stevo has found my phone and is calling us to let us know. my reaction was ” i love you! i love Jesus! i love my phone” rule #4: don’t sit in the car with your phone in your lap or it could fall out in the grass when you get out and you won’t hear it fall because it is in the grass.
most heard phrases of the day from both of us:
seriously??? i mean, really???
long day, most fun day.
then…..on sunday we had the chase which was really good. we talked about relationships with parents. we let the kids share about their relationships if they wanted to. i love hearing where people come from, but sometimes their stories break my heart. i am so thankful they know the Lord and we can encourage them how much He loves them and we love them! we had a really good group, the Lord really showed up and i know He is going to do a lot more in this relationship series we are doing. we always play catch phrase after the lesson because it can get pretty intense sometimes so it brings laughter back into the room. lots of laughter. and if you are me, bitterness and rage when the boys beat the girls team! jk. kind of. aldger came by to see the kids and play with us for a while. scott, aldger, and i were the last ones there and were leaving to go see transformers at the dollar theatre at 9:55pm. there is a big hill as you are leaving the parking lot and we were lined up scott, aldger, and then me. i was yet again in my mom’s car with the top down even though i was going seriously 5 miles down the road! aldger started rolling on the hill, but i totally thought he was messing with me and was going to get close and then stop, but he kept getting closer and wasn’t stopping. i tried to put it in reverse but there wasn’t enough time and all i could do was scream really loud and then a really loud “bam”. so yeah, aldger rolled back into my mom’s car. rule #5: don’t ride behind aldger on hills. and if you are reading this mom…the only reason i didn’t tell you is because i didn’t think you would think it was as funny as i thought it was because there is not a single scratch or dent at all on the car, yours or aldgers. so sorry! and even though it was fine i would still get in trouble, even though i am 29 years old. so basically scott concluded that i was very blessed and favored because i got my phone back and nothing happened to the car.
transformers: lame! i mean, seriously people. it was like the mix between an adult movie with all the effects(which were cool) and the script which sounded like it was written by jr. highers. i am glad scott wasted his $3 for me, tracie, and him to go. it was almost 1am when we got home…….i was tired and grouchy monday morning! so that concludes this weekends adventure with scott, lori, and friends.
