Good Job, Joseph!

Although we stayed in Provo for the Christmas holiday, Cory and I took a little journey to Kansas City on the 28th through the 30th for Joseph and Abbey's wedding.  It was a great weekend!  We flew in on Friday afternoon, and got a quick tour of the neighborhood Joseph grew up in, which was entertaining.  Then we were taken to the Lineback house, which is where we would be staying.  The Lineback family are friends of Joseph's family and they graciously offered their home for us to stay.  They were on vacation in Aspen so we were there by ourselves, but there were no house parties on the agenda.  We did however, go out to one of the highest rated Kansas City BBQ joints: Oklahoma Joe's!  Yeah, I know the name doesn't make sense.  It was some good grub, though.

Cory really liked it! 

                         

  

After dinner, the guys all headed out for Joseph's bachelor party.  Now, seeing as none of us had ever been to Kansas City, Joseph kind of had to plan his own party, but it worked out.  We decided on Dave and Buster's for some arcade action.  When we actually got there, this is what I saw towering over Dave and Buster's.

I don't even know what that place was, but it looked AWESOME!!!  We should have been going there.  Anyway, I had never been to Dave and Buster's, and it was really fun.  Brett and I humiliated ourselves on the basketball shooting game, but it was all good.  Brett redeemed himself on all things military and flying.

The best part of the night was when Joseph hit the jackpot for tickets on the Slam-A-Winner.  We used them to get some fake mustaches to wear the next day in some of the pictures taken.  Here is Joseph in his arena of victory.

The next morning we headed to the Kansas City Temple and witnessed the sealing of Joseph and Abbey for time and all eternity.  It was a great experience, and afterwards we prepped ourselves to brave the bitter cold outside for the pictures.  As the pictures show, we wore yellow bow-ties, and I must say that we looked snazzy. 

Another great take-away from this trip was that Cory figured out how to work the rapid-shot feature on our camera.  It takes like 6 pictures a second or something like that.  While waiting in the cold for the happy couple to emerge, it was almost vital to survival to dance so as to keep warm.  Here is a depiction of such survival techniques as documented by Cory's rapid shot skills.

They finally came out and they were excited!!!

And so were we!!!

Here is a little teaser of what our fake mustaches were like.  Not only did it make all of us look classy, it also did a very effective job of keeping our upper lips warm.  I have to say, that patch of hair on my face gave me a confidence I didn't know existed.

We took lots of pictures, and the photographer was super efficient with how much time we had to spend out in the cold. 

After the pictures there was a tasty luncheon, and then we headed back to the Lineback house for a short time before the reception.  

Here is the happy couple enjoying their first dance.  But there might have been someone even happier...

IT WAS ME WHEN I FOUND OUT THEY HAD ROCK CANDY AT EVERY TABLE!!!!  But there may have been someone even happier...

IT WAS ME EVERY TIME THIS SMOKIN' BABE WAS NEXT TO ME!!!  I don't want to steal Joseph and Abbey's thunder, but we just may be the happiest couple.