Pictures

Mom sent me these pictures yesterday.  I'm glad someone thought to bring a camera. Here we are, at the Justice of the Peace.  

Thanks mom!

12 years ago.

It was a Wednesday afternoon.  I remember I was wearing a red button up blouse.  It was December in Arizona and I even had on a jacket.  A black leather jacket to be exact.  David called me at work.  "Hey,"  he said.  "We have an appointment at 4:30."   After teaching a hand full of seventh graders and cleaning up my classroom, I climbed into the car with David and met my parents at the justice of the peace.  We were second in line.  I thought to myself, "Who gets married at the justice of the peace in the middle of the week?"  Apparently we did.  It was finally our turn.  I didn't think I'd get emotional.  After all, this was just for paper's sake and speeding up the immigration process for David's green card.  The "real" wedding  with the big dress and the black tie, wasn't until the end of the month.  But I did.  We said our vows, said I do, kissed the bride, and signed the paper.  That was that.  Done.  We were married.  Just like that.  We drove back to mom and dad's house.  Mom asked if we could pick up hamburger buns on the way home for supper.  We ate dinner, I went to worship practice, he watched the Sun's game with my dad and my brother.  We became husband and wife and I've never regretted one day since.  

Happy Anniversary David!  I love you!

P.S.  Obviously this isn't the justice of the peace. :)

Bridesmaids Bags

Here are the results of many hours at the sewing machine to make a bridesmaids bag order.   What a cool idea and even better that I was asked to make them.  The bride recently sent me a few pictures. 

I have to say, I am quite proud.  Don't they look cute?  Look how nice they go together with the dresses.  I have yards of that fabric left over.  I think I better get to sewing a few more of these bags.  

And the Costumes

I made the boys Halloween costumes this year.  I think they should go as eskimos next year, because by the end of October it's so cold they have to put jackets on over top and you can't see what they are anyway.

Here we have Super Ryan.  He wanted to be a super hero.

Next we have a Jedi.  This is Adrian's serious Jedi face, or fighting face, I'm not sure.  Thanks to the wind we got a cool shot.

The boys enjoyed them and I'm kind of proud at how they turned out.  

Now on to Thanksgiving.

A Late Halloween Update

We carved pumpkins for Halloween.  
Of course we carved them too soon and by the time Halloween rolled 

around our pumpkins were moldy.  Oh well.

Here are our three pumpkins ready to go.

These were my helpers.

Adrian cut the top off the pumpkin, but wanted nothing to do with the insides.  Ryan's help consisted of telling me I was doing a great job.

I printed some templates off of a pumpkin carving website and used those as our guides.

I vetoed Darth Vader.  And next year I'm going to do the same when it comes to anything that has letters. These things were a pain.

And here they are.  All done.  

Heres to another year of pumpkin carving.

There's No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk

There's that old saying about spilled milk and not crying over it.  

Well, let me tell you folks.  If you spill it on your laptop, you should cry.  And in case you haven't already put the puzzle pieces together, I spilled milk on my laptop keyboard.  It ran down into parts unknown and rendered my laptop useless.  Hence the reason I haven't been posting much.  Thanks to a generous husband, I'm back in business with a new one.  And he'll be glad to know that I won't be eating my cereal over it while checking Facebook.

A Little Bit Batty

Halloween.  I've tried to escape it.  I thought I had done it moving to Switzerland.  It followed.  I got out of it for about 4 years.  But some how Halloween snuck it's way into my neighborhood and Adrian was invited to trick or treat by the neighbors.  I've also been wrangled into making a Jedi costume and a superhero costume this year.

I don't decorate for Halloween.  However, Adrian made a bat at kids daycare at the gym and I remembered this post over at the MADE website.  And like she mentioned, I'm OK with the bats. 

I made a pattern and traced them on to black paper with a white crayon.  That way Adrian could help me cut them out.

After what felt like we cut out a billion bats, we taped them on the window in our living room.

The only thing left, according to Ryan, are the "punkins" that need to go up and then it's officially Halloween.