July 22, 2009

The summer has come and gone for me in the blink of an eye.  I know I said the spring went fast, but this past month does not even compare.  

Imagine, getting done with mini-camp on Thursday, getting married on Saturday, leaving on your honeymoon Monday, getting back two weeks later and heading up to Bay Harbor on Wednesday to be the best man in a wedding, and finishing up with your own charity golf outing in Marshall.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, exhausting. Now that those things are all in the rearview mirror, I have a week and a half until my life is officially over for a month.  So let me take the time to review some of the highlights with you.

First, mini-camp.  It was great to finish on a high note, though it seems like forever ago.  I think the team is coming together nicely, and everyone seems to be working their butt off.  The mixture we have at quarterback is great, and like I have said before, I love going to work.  As far as what I think the future holds, look for that blog to be coming sometime early next week, before we report for camp.  After the mini-camp, we all know what came next, my WEDDING.  

The wedding turned out to be absolutely perfect.  Before I get started you can check the pictures taken by our awesome photographer at kristentaylorphotography.com, or the crazy video footage that was taken at epicmotion.com. Ryan was super cool and I would definitely recommend both companies.  

So anyway, we were married on June 27th at the Birmingham United Methodist Church (the church we have attended for about a year).  I will forever remember the feeling I had as those doors opened and I saw my beautiful bride on her father’s arm.  It absolutely took my breath away, and I had to look down at our ring bearer, Jackson Wilcox, and he had a look on his face like "pull it together."  I did and when I looked up there she was right in front of me.  The ceremony ran smoothly, except a couple botched lines on my behalf.  We had the minister from the church I attended in college there to assist Dr. Harnish.  She read some words her husband had written who could not be in attendance, as they are a husband and wife team of ministers in Grand Rapids now.  Our reception was held at Meadowbrook Hall at Oakland University.  The reception was great, but seemed much like my summer as it was over in the blink of an eye. Sparty showed up, which always makes the party better, and we had shutterbooth there as well. Shutterbooth is a company that takes those pictures like you used to at carnivals, the ones that are four in row.  We have some hilarious ones, some of which are rather inappropriate.  

After the reception I went immediately home and went to bed. ;)

Our honeymoon was awesome, and to not make this blog go on forever, please look for notes on the honeymoon, my time in Bay Harbor and my golf outing to be coming by week’s end.  Thanks for reading, taking an interest in my life, and of course always supporting me.

Drew Stanton is a quarterback with the Detroit Lions. His blog for www.playerpress.com runs at www.drewstanton.com. Follow him on Twitter as drewstanton.