The Wedding and Making My Way Home

 Wedding week quickly came to the day of the wedding. 

Working on the bouquet for the bride, hydrangeas are temperamental flowers, just sayin', good thing they are beautiful flowers.

 

See the picture above, the Mother of the Bride's family and friends came out on Saturday morning to help set up. They were a huge blessing and what a work force. They came, they worked until I had to send them away because the to do list was complete. Gotta love our hometown folks.

Speaking of hometown folks, there were four of us from our graduating class at the wedding. The top picture is all of us from July 2009 an the bottom picture is from the wedding. Thankful to see friends.

 

The entrance to to the reception tent

  

The pergola type arch for the ceremony.

 

The Bride and Groom!

The Bride and Mom

The sign in table, the guest book was a Bible.

Favors and sparklers for the goodbye.

The centerpieces, blurry as they are. The table numbers were random numbers from the Bride and Grooms life together thus far, we did not have thirty-three tables.

The Bride's Granny and I, she sure doesn't look like a Granny. 

  

My people for the week, Michelle and two of her Grand babies, isn't this the cutest flower girl ever? 

These women, I had a great week with these women.

L to R: 

Daughter-in-Law of Michelle and Mom of the Grands, Pa-Pa (Patti, Mother of the Bride), Flower girl, Michelle

Cake table and picture display. I love that the cakes were different varieties and simple, can't say how much I like this over the traditional wedding cake.

 Getting these chairs lined up was a challenge but we had two people who stuck with it and got them just right.

A really cool sign listing where the guests traveled from, yes, I traveled the farthest.

The arch in progress

Another sign

I love this picture. After dark the flower girl was sleepy so her Nanny, Michelle, took her off to a quiet spot and got her to sleep. I joined them to sit down away from the noise and wait until I could start cleaning up. The wedding night was a super moon night, that was cool.

 

Sunday morning we got up and packed up and made sure everything was where it needed to be and we hit the road south. I was picked up by my cousin in Cincinnati and he took me to his house where he and his wife took care of me. We went to Sunday evening service at their church, we had dinner and I spent the night there. Time with family no matter how short is always time well spent. I am very thankful for their generosity. The next morning my cousin's wonderful wife drove me to the airport with a quick stop to pick up University of Kentucky shirts for my Blessings and I began my journey home.

Benjamin in his new UK shirt!

Life returns to normal, well, almost

Wedding has pretty much been the main focus for the past few weeks. This week was all out wedding week. I am thankful that I was still able to be home some and to take care of most things for the family and there was no fast food picked up so that was a huge plus as far as I am concerned.

Here is the sanctuary after the major decorating on Wednesday night after prayer meeting. A few things were added later.

Oh, these crepe paper rose balls. We made lots of roses and had burned and even blistered fingers.

Bride, bridesmaids and flower girls praying before the wedding. The Matron?? Maid??? of honor was praying, I took the picture and walked away. I still had much to do before the bride walked down the aisle to cry.

The cake, didn’t it turn out lovely?

The bride asked for a walk in a park feel so we did what we could to give that to her.

Weddings amongst our people here are usually church wide works and this one was no exception. Not just the women of our church but husbands and children. I enjoyed working with some of our teen girls, they made dozens and maybe even hundreds of crepe paper roses and paper cones for the wedding and they helped clean up as well.

I slept for about 9 hours Saturday night, longest night of sleep in four or five nights. I could have taken a nap today but I hope for another 8-9 hours tonight.

The almost?? We began a Bible Prophesy Conference at church this morning so this week will be filled with evenings at church. Good thing the wedding was before these meetings so I can pay attention to the teaching/preaching.

Cookies and the Swap

The girls rolling and cutting cookies, they rolled and cut about 12 dozen plus.

 

The swap was at the home of a friend, we had chips and queso and a hot cocoa bar and cookies!!

 

My co-host bought cookie tins for everyone, they were cute gingerbread tins and one snowman tin, I asked for that one. Yes, I am different!

The table of cookie varieties

My two and the baby of the swap house.

Some of the other daughters of the mother/daughter swap participants.

I attempted white chocolate dipped marshmallow peppermint stirrers for the cocoa.

Elisabeth’s cup of cocoa

And, me with my mouth moving. I must talk a lot, at least when I am with my friends!

We were able to send cookie tins to two families in our church who have Mommas going through cancer treatments.

Prayer request: I have two friends undergoing chemo treatment right now. Would you pray for them?

One of the Reasons the Blog Has Been Quiet

 

A baby has arrived!

Monday night gave the opportunity to work on a fun, out of the norm project to celebrate a precious little baby boy.

I love pinterest and all the great ideas that are shared there.

Here are a few pictures of the food table before the eating began.

The babies first name starts with a G so we used his initial in various places around the room. Here is the Mommy’s special chair.

We had a milk and cookies subtheme going on as well. I love all the cookies displayed in jars and bowls.

Thanking the Lord for such a precious blessing.

Christmas In Ice

We had a homeschool field trip with friends today. To the ice park we went. Not every child can say they went to the ice park today.

The creative ice sculpting people were still working on most of the displays, this will be a big welcomeish sign and a big photo opportunity.

Waiting on the rest of the group to catch up.


Judith and one of the Brussels Sprouts Blessings

Friends spinning friends.

Benjamin is climbing the stairs to one of the smaller slides. He liked the smaller slides.

Ready, Set, Go.

The maze, he didn’t enjoy the maze.

Benjamin and another Brussels Sprout sitting in spinning bowl.

And here is another Brussels Sprouts, do you think my Blessings and hers like each other? They do!

Elisabeth

And Judith

Here is Levi, he was practicing for the luge or something because he was laying down.


What? No pictures of Mom sliding? Well, I did go down the slides, twice! But I can’t take a picture of myself now, can I?
Where is the ice? I fell flat on my bottom while there and I can feel it now, that's okay I still mend.