Danker Family Wedding

The weekend of Sept. 24th - 26th, my mom, Sydney and I traveled to Davenport, IA for a family wedding!  My cousin Tom's daughter, Shalan, was getting married.  Woot!   I love family weddings.  We had a blast.  I love getting together with my extended family.  My mom is 1 of 7 kids and there are 26 first cousins and lots of 2nd cousins.  We had a pretty good showing of Danker family at this wedding, many I hadn't seen in years and one I got to meet for the first time (my cousin Scott's wife, Pam).  Okay, years isn't quite true, as we all say each other in May.  The wedding was a much happier occassion though. 

As a side note, 25 of us cousins were with each other at my aunts funeral in May.  My Aunt Donna (Tom's mom, Shalan's grandma) passed unexpectedly.  Although she wasn't with us physically at the wedding, we know she was still there.  We know she would have been proud!

Beautiful wedding, beautiful couple, priceless family memories!

Aunt Joanne with her family (minus 1 daughter and her family)
Jerry, Lorrie, Jeff, Terry, Becky and Steven

Aunt Evelyn with one of her daughters (she has 7 kids - 2 boys and 5 girls) Connie and Rob

My cousin Tracy and her family (minus their son, Remington)
Taylor (Lexi's boyfriend), Lexi, Scott, Tracy and MacKenzie



me, Sydney and my mom



My cousin Scott and his wife (due on Dec. 24th) 

My cousin Vicki and her daughter Taylor

13 of us 26 cousins (Johnny was missing from the pic), plus the bride, groom and cousin-in-law Robin (Tom's wife and bride's mom....love her!)
F: Marsha, Linda, Kyle, Shalan, Tom, Tricia
B: Lorrie, Becky, Steven, Vicki, Connie, me, Scott, Tracy, Robin and David

Sydney and "Uncle Tom"...as she calls him.
She is a little smitten with him as he is with her!

Sydney and the beautiful bride, Shalan

She lasted until 11:30..this was taken about 11pm.  She layed there for a short time, but quickly found a little more energy to dance some more

The bride's proud parents, Tom and Robin (married 34 years the weekend prior)