Sep 3, 2009 | It's all relative |
As prizes for the games at Erika’s bridal shower on Saturday, we made these quick and cute little decorations.
My mom painted these two; aren’t they so pretty?
One thing that is so great about this craft is the endless possibilities for how to paint and decorate them. Even if you’re not good a painting little flowers or pictures,even the solid color teapots are still pretty. They’re especially nice personalized for a specific occasion.
Aug 27, 2009 | It's all relative |
…the adorable flower girl.
It’s so sweet to see much my cousin Molly loves Erika. She constantly talks about her and has begun making her all sort of gifts: necklaces made from ponytail holders, earrings from construction paper, and piles of colored pictures. I’m sure she’ll have some made-with-love gifts to give Erika at the bridal shower on Saturday!*
You can imagine how excited she is now that she’s been asked to be a real flower girl in a real wedding! She’s been asking so many questions about what she’ll be wearing, what flowers she’ll have and if she gets to “help Erika get married”.
She loves the idea that her and I are both in the same wedding because “we’re both Erika’s friends”. I love that idea too! ♥
* If I don’t make another apperance for a few days,its because I am so extrodinarily busy getting ready for the shower. We have taken the term “bridal shower” to a whole new level!! Lots of pictures will be coming! 🙂
Jul 17, 2009 | It's all relative |
During the cocktail hour Daniel, Erika, Elizabeth and I went on a walk. More accurately we were in search for The Hunt for Great Picture Taking Places 2009.(don’t you just love the creativity we put into our titles?) It was a beautiful day and the conference center had such grounds it wasn’t hard to find many Great Places.
Disclaimer: no alcohol was consumed by minors in the taking of this photo
the soon-to-be sisters in law : )
Is there anything quite so romantic as standing under an arbor holding hands?
♥ I absolutely
love this picture ♥
Jul 7, 2009 | It's all relative |
I decided get in on the fun and show a favorite picture for this weeks blog hop. I love looking at others’ pictures and hearing/reading why they’re special! The picture I wanted to use wouldn’t upload *sigh* but since I’ve been wanting to put up this picture for a while, why not do it now?
♥This is my brother Daniel and his beautiful fiance,Erika♥
I wish you could meet them-they are just so cute together. Daniel has always on the more serious side but since he’s gone to college and, especially since he started going out with Erika, its so funny to see how he’s changed. He’s definitely twitterpated!!
We are beyond excited about their October 24 wedding. The way I see it, the sooner they get married the sooner the babies, aka nieces and nephews, arrive! 🙂
The photographer did a stellar job with this picture, if I do say so myself! 😉
Jul 3, 2009 | It's all relative, Uncategorized |
A few months ago Grandma and I went to the bank. It was supposed to be a quick trip because Grandma just needed to get some cash from the ATM machine to hold her over until she could get her new checks in the mail.
But it wasn’t quick.
First we had some difficulty just finding a place to park. There was about 12 parking spaces and about, um, 20 cars trying to get in and out. You do the math. That’s right, not enough spaces. Grandma decided she’d do a fancy little half-turn-around/half-back-up/something that I totally thought wasn’t going to work. And it totally didn’t work. But I admire Grandma for her efforts because that was some very interesting maneuvering she did. At one point I wanted to melt down in my seat and not be seen by all the other drivers but I thought that would probably be breaking the Never Leave Your Grandmother When She’s in the Midst of Difficulty code of honor. And I would never break the code and leave my Grandma. We finally got into a spot after backing up, going forward, backing up, going forward, backing up, going fo…..I think you know whats coming next.
Once we made it inside the bank, we had to wait for the guy in the blue shirt and baseball hat to finish using the ATM. He was rather interesting to watch because he was talking to the machine while he was using it. What is it that you say to ATM machines? “Come on, you can do it! Just give me a couple more $100’s! “
We also pondered the sign hanging on the wall behind us. It showed some smiling Spanish people and proclaimed loudly, in Spanish………………..who knows what it said? That’s just the point. We don’t know what it said cause we don’t speak, read, or barely understand Spanish. For all we know it could have been telling us not to stare at guys in baseball hats who talk to the ATM machine.
Finally we progressed into the ATM room; you know, that little room with two doors and about 2 feet of extra room to turn around in. Here we faced a new problem: the machine would accept her credit card but not her top-secret password numbers. This might happen to other people but those people can say “well, maybe I just don’t have the number right.” We had the number right. We know it was right because Grandma produced, on a little piece of paper from the bank that she always carries with her, her top-secret numbers.
Because we like to be high-security with our top-secret numbers.
We never were able to get the money, even after repeated tries. I thought we were going to ask the bank tellers for help and then once again produce that top-secret number paper in front of the same people we met out in the parking lot. But we didn’t have to.
Grandma and I had a fabulous time at the bank, thank you for asking. I’m sure she was so glad she asked me to go with her because, in her words, I “know how to run those kinds of machines”.
I guess I just don’t deal well with top-secret numbers.
