Year 3 - Day 34 - February 3

We're on our way to NJ for my cousin's wedding for the evening. I want to get off at this exit and go to the beach house!!!!!

Year 2 - Day 183 - July 3

We went to the most unique wedding ever today. Our friends created their entire ceremony themselves, and did it in rhyme like Dr. Seuss. It had all the important parts of your standard ceremony, just moved some words around and inserted a few sentiments here and there to help with the rhyming and personalization. It was wonderful! This is the card I made for them. Had I known about the theme, I might have been even more creative with the design, but I liked how this one came out. Totally borrowed the idea from a person on splitcoast, but gave it my own touch. I love having a chance to use the sticky pearls!

On the way to the wedding, we stopped at LL Bean so I could get some boots. It seemed silly to drive all the way to Columbia next week when we were going for the wedding. I’m pretty sure that not many people show up dressed for a wedding holding socks and wanting to try on boots. ;) But hey – they almost match color wise!!

Year 2 - Day 178 - June 28

Tonight we celebrated a friend's upcoming wedding with a fun and relaxing bowling and mexican food girls night out. Of course I don't have any pictures from the evening because I was too busy enjoying it! There were some pictures taken, but I haven't seen them yet. :) I took this one while sitting at a red light after I made a wrong turn. I couldn't believe that gas in Columbia is 40 cents higher than up here! Hopefully this is like that White Marsh Exxon and not everyone down there is still paying in the 3.80's for regular!

Year 2 - Day 145 - May 26

This is our new SmartBoard game. The 1st graders use a puppet to "chew the gumball." When the puppet touches the picture, the gumball disappears and a word shows up. I have to have them practice dictionary skills and ABC order - forward, backwards, beginning, middle, end, etc., and it turns out that letting them wear a puppet (and high five said puppet when they find the word) can actually make them want to do the (boring, boring) skill. It was hilarious how excited they were. This is the power of a Smartboard... ;) (P.S. the word shadows show on my laptop screen so that I can see them, but they don't show up through the projector on the board)

Second picture of the day (Which I totally didn't take, seeing as how I'm in it, and totally isn't from today, but rather 10 years ago today):

My friend Eileen posted this on facebook today in honor of the 10th anniversary since she & Steve were married. I am sad he's not here for today, but glad that she is happy and remembering the happiness of that day. There I am in the back right corner, in a light colored dress. I loved that dress (It was from American Eagle) right up until Dawson's mother wore it to graduation on Dawson's Creek. The MOTHER! (AE used to do all the clothes for that show.)

Year 2 - Day 118 - April 29

Full (obvious) disclosure - I didn't take this picture. :)  I was going to take a picture of the TV, but this one is widely published - I screen captured this one from the UK Daily News.

Ok, so in the hours between me stealing this picture from the news and getting around to posting, the world has caught on to the real reason this picture is awesome.  Hint - it has nothing to do with the bride and groom.  How hilarious is the 3 year old covering her ears and scowling?  She is going to be famous for this for the rest of her life.

I very strongly remember watching scenes of Charles & Diana's wedding.  This is confusing to me, because I would have been just a couple weeks older than 2 years old.  Maybe I am remembering tapes that were shown years later?  But I remember sitting on the couch in my old PA house watching a small TV next to the fireplace.  It seems odd to me that I'd be able to remember it that young.  Also, it was a morning wedding like William & Kate (Wikipedia is telling me these things, FYI, I don't have royal knowledge off the top of my head) and I'm pretty sure nobody would have woken me up at 6am to watch a wedding when I was 2 years old.  But for whatever reason, the memory is there!

Day 310 - November 6

One of my best friends from high school got married tonight.  The ceremony was at a chapel in the bride's high school (which was also my sister in law's high school, which my husband had actually never been inside) and the reception was at a country club.  It was fun!  We have one more 2010 wedding - the wedding happened last week on a cruise, but there's a reception next month.  What a busy wedding year!

Day 282 - October 9

Our friends got married today and had a super cool party favor.  One more to add to the collection! :)

Day 212 - July 31

Tonight, we went to the wedding of one of my college friends. On the first day of college, I obviously did not know anyone...so I walked around and found some other freshmen who appeared to know nobody and suggested we all eat lunch together.  It worked out well, because many of them lived in the same dorm and we all became good friends.  Throughout the years we added more people to the cluster and moved around campus but stayed good friends.  It was nice because there was always someone around to hang out or eat with.  Even though we're a mix of boys & girls, since so many of us were dating someone else when we met, it took that part of it out of the conversation which let us all be good friends.  Tonight was the 3rd wedding in the group and there's another one coming up in just a couple months.  We're spread all over the east coast so we don't see each other as much anymore, but we always have fun when we do.  (Even if the boys stood on one side of the sidewalk to smoke their cigars and the girls stood on the other to avoid the smoke!) :)