Santana and Rachel were ready to pull their hair out. The number of days before the wedding were slowly dwindling down into the single digits. Three. They had three days until the big day and almost everything that could go wrong, seemed to be going wrong. Three of the only things that were keeping them sane was their weddings bands came in yesterday, everyone had received their invitation and responded accordingly, and Kurt had finished their outfits along with the outfits that the girls were going to wear. The list of things that were about to drive them insane consisted of the catering company losing their reception menu, half of the tables for said reception were the wrong size, meaning that the seating chart had to be redone and they were one table short for the wedding party. All of this meant that before the family dinner tonight, Rachel and Santana had to stop by the decorators office to give their okay on the new reception layout and seating chart. At least they had already emailed a back up menu to the caterers. The decorators promised that the correct tables would be here by the day of the wedding, but just in case they weren't, they wanted Santana and Rachel to see that they could make this work with the wrong tables.
At this point in time both women were in the kitchen feeding the girls their breakfast. Well, it was more as if the girls were taking baths in their breakfast if the mushed bananas were anything to go on. At least some of it was going in their mouths? Santana cringed as Samara sneezed and a tiny bit of banana flew out of her nose.
"Okay, lady bugs. I think we are done here." Santana scrunched her nose as she gently pried the purple toddler spoon out of Samara's hand. Samara didn't care, she just continued to use her hands to shovel the rest of her bananas into her mouth. Sierra who had been doing roughly the same thing with her bananas looked mildly disgusted at her sister. The look on her face was so priceless that Rachel quickly stood up and grabbed her camera to snap a picture.
"That will be a great one to show the entire family tonight at dinner." Rachel giggled with delight.
"While I love food and our family, do we really have to go to this dinner tonight?" Santana whined a little while trying to start cleaning up the girls high chairs.
"San, it's our dinner. We kind of have to be there." Rachel responded, flicking her eyes around the room before looking at her wife curiously.
"I know." Santana sighed, like being at her family dinner was a huge weight on her shoulders. "I just feel like we haven't had any alone time with the girls in forever. It seems like every day we have been running off to do something. They been home for over a month now and we still haven't been out to the tree house. Today was going to be our day before the dinner and then every thing got screwed up."
"Hey, everything's not screwed up. The table situation will work itself out, I'm sure the decorators have came up with something that is going to look just as beautiful as the original design and the caterers were emailed our back up menu this morning." Rachel stood up and walked over to were Santana had moved on to wiping the girls down the best she could before releasing them from their high chairs. Reaching out she placed her hand on the back of Santana's neck gently pulling her face down for a kiss. "Everything is going to be okay."
"I can't wait to go on our honeymoon slash family vacation after Christmas with you and the girls." Santana whispered quietly while resting her forehead against Rachel's.
"I know, it's going to be a full week of paradise. Just us and the girls hanging out on the beach, swimming, building sand castles." Rachel closed her eyes and leaned back, dreaming of the warm sun. Don't let her get you wrong, she loved living in the mountains, but every once in a while the beach called her name.
"Swim?" Sierra chirped while looking up at her mothers.
"Do you want to go swimming lady bug?" Santana laughed while looking down at her daughter.
"No." Sierra laughed while shaking her head.
"Well, what about digging for a whale?" Santana asked with enthusiasm. She had found this thing that was set up on the beach where kids of all ages could participate in digging up whale bones. They weren't real of course, but who didn't love to dig in the sand when they were kids?
"No." Sierra laughed again.
"I think you just like saying the word no." Rachel said while tickling Sierra while lifting her from her high chair. "Someone needs a diaper change too." Rachel turned her head, squinting one eye at Santana, as if that was going to curb the fumes emitting from Sierra's diaper.
"We might as well get them both ready for a bath and then we should start getting ready. I'm sure our parents will call with something else for us to do before the dinner tonight and we have to go to the store anyway." Santana rolled her eyes, unsnapping Samara from her high chair as well.
"If they do, we will smile and do as they ask since we are the perfect daughters." Rachel gave Santana a cheeky grin before walking into the bathroom to get the shower going for the girls. Lately for some reason, the girls had wanted to take showers instead of baths. Every time one of their mothers would start to fill up their tubs the girls would start screaming no bath, until Santana or Rachel turned the shower head on full blast and let them stand under it. To them it was a game and they loved letting the shower spray hit them in the back before shrieking in delight. Both women always kept an extra eye on them to make sure they didn't fall, because they were still on wobbly legs, but the plus side to using the shower was that bath time was a whole lot faster now.
After the entire Berry-Lopez clan was showered, dressed and ready for the day they headed out to McKinley. The plan was to head to Shuebury's and grab some things that Santana and Rachel knew the girls needed at home. Pull ups, wipes, diaper rash cream and new under onesies were just a few things that Santana could think of right off the top her head. It was a good thing that Rachel had made an entire list. This is what their day was originally supposed to be, a little shopping, a little lunch and then back to the cabin to nap and then get ready to head to the dinner tonight. At least the dinner was at Santana and Rachel's favorite Thai place, so that was a plus.
Santana sighed, glancing at her ringing phone as she climbed out of the jeep to head into Shuebury's. Just as she suspected, it was her mother calling, probably telling her that she and Rachel had something else they needed to do before tonight.
"Hola Mami." Santana answered as she opened the passenger door to unbuckle Sierra from her seat.
Hola Santana, how are you?
"I'm good. About to do a bit of shopping, the girls need some things. How are you and Papi?" Santana grinned as Sierra latched onto her before shivering slightly. The wind was really cold today, she knew they couldn't have the girls outside for very long.
We're great, we can't wait to see you and those babies tonight. They will be there won't they? Maribel asked in a slightly panicked tone.
Santana rolled her eyes while carrying Sierra across the parking lot with her phone pressed in between her shoulder and ear. "Of course they will be there Mami." Rachel turned to give Santana and curious look.
I just wanted to check. Your father and I have something for them and yes it's practical so don't start.
"I didn't say anything..." Santana huffed.
You were about to though. Anyway, I just wanted to call and check in. I will see you tonight, love you.
"I love you too Mami. Bye." Shaking her head at her phone, Santana placed it back into her pocket and jogged a little to catch up with Rachel. She didn't know why on Earth her mother thought the girls wouldn't be there, but at least she didn't ask for them to do anything else before the dinner. Don't worry, there was still plenty of time for that to happen.
Santana was pleasantly surprised when she and Rachel walked into the restaurant with the girls and hadn't been told do anything extra before they came. They did indeed stop off at the decorators office and even though it wasn't what they originally asked for, the new lay out for the reception was beautiful. It only took a little elbowing, knee nudging and some sweet lady kisses for Santana to admit that. She knew their wedding was going to be amazing and she could feel the excitement starting to bubble up. But, in the back of her mind, Santana honestly couldn't wait until it was over with and she, Rachel and the girls were on their way to the Cayman Islands.
It only took a moment for the hostess to notice that Santana and Rachel were standing there before she waved them over and handed them off to a waiter to be lead to a party room. Everyone was already there and the entire table began clapping as the women walked in. The loud noise startled the girls who hid their faces in their mothers necks. Santana chuckled as she rubbed soothing circles on Sierra's back. She couldn't get over how cute the girls looked tonight dressed up in their little frilly party dresses with tights and black dress shoes.
As the women smiled and made their way around the table, they took a moment to greet everyone before sitting down at the head of the table. The restaurant even had high chairs sat up for the girls on each side of the women. For now, since the girls were still a little unconformable they could stay in their mothers laps.
"Santana, Rachel, you both look lovely tonight." Maribel smiled at the women before shifting her eyes to the twins. "And you two just look stunning in your dresses. I'm so glad they fit perfectly."
"We're so thankful that you did get them. The ones we ordered came in yesterday and they didn't fit. Sierra's was two sizes too big and Samara's was two sizes too small. We are definitely not buying from that company anymore." Rachel shook her head with disappointment. The original dresses the girls were supposed to wear actually matched Rachel's and Santana's outfits for the night, however as Rachel had said that plan fell through last night. Rachel was currently wearing a long sleeved lace flare dress and Santana was wearing her favorite black dress pants that flared at the bottom with a red button down blouse. The girls dresses were supposed to be similar to Rachel's but trimmed in red and silver to match their mothers.
"Well, either way, you all look lovely." Maribel patted Santana on the hand who smiled at her mother. Sierra was looking around wildly, it seemed as if it had been forever since she had seen all of her grand parents at once. She was comfortable here in Mami's lap but she wanted to visit with everyone. Wiggling the tiny girl tilted her head back to look up at mother.
"Bua, Buo." Sierra said before leaning forward reaching her arms out to Maribel.
"You can sit with Abeula if you want." Santana reached the little girl over to her mother who stood in her lap and clapped her hands together excitedly.
"Bites, bites." Samara giggled from her position on Rachel's lap.
"I think someone is hungry, it's been a while since we had lunch." Rachel laughed and kissed the toddler on her head.
"The food should start coming out in a few minutes." Shelby stated while looking down at her watch. She was grateful that with such a large party, the restaurant required you to place your orders ahead of time, they even encouraged you to order their feast platters which included several of their main dishes along with each respected side dish. The table would be packed with food soon and the girls could have some much needed bite bites.
After everyone had their fill of food and drinks the table sat around talking with one another about what was going to happen at the rehearsal tomorrow. Admittedly Santana was a little nervous, but excited none the less. Since they were already married, the ceremony itself would just be Puck "remarrying" them, Rachel and Santana stating their vows to each other and they had came up with something special for the girls. At the reception anyone who wanted to say something was welcome too and then they would proceed to party for the rest of the evening.
The big count down had finally began. Two days. In two days Santana would walk down the isle and wait for her bride to join her. In two days they would celebrate their marriage and the fact that their family was now a whole. Two days couldn't come quick enough.