Day 150: May 30 - Update on the tree of terror

Silly, I know, but I'm still enamored with the tree. It just grows so fast! I've decided that our board room is now to be called the "room of doom" since that's where people now get their "talking to" when they're in trouble. Now, the tree is just a tree. For the record, I liked the tree more than I do the board room.

Day 149: May 29 - Grape crusher

I got to plod around town with my family before they headed back down south on Sunday, and as my dad said, "We've done the wineries, we've done the jelly beans, we've drank the beer, so let's see the art!"

This was my favorite thing we saw in the downtown galleries. I wish I could remember what it cost, because I now want it in my home.

Day 148: May 28 - Engagement Party, a little wet, but great all the same

The clock struck 3 p.m., the time the party was starting, the heavens opened up and the clouds started gushing water. Thanks a lot, Mother Nature. What did I ever do to you, anyway? This is the second year in a row that we've tried to have a big party on Memorial Day weekend.

Never again. Lesson learned.


I did run around as the rain started to come down and take some quick shots of what the party was supposed to look like. This was before we all huddled into the garage and house.

In the end, I think it was totally OK to end up inside, since it brought people in closer physical proximity to each other. No complaints about that.

Kaila's cake was AMAZING! She basically duplicated our party invitation, which I had crafted up. Pretty smart, we are:)

It was a really fabulous day. We are really lucky to have such spectacular friends and family to celebrate with. It's going to be a great year leading up to the big day.

Day 147: May 27 - Hailey's great-grandma

She may be my grandma, but now she's Hailey's great grandma. Just in case I don't pop out babies anytime in the future years, it's good to know that these two have a good relationship. Hailey was just happy as can be on grandma's lap. I couldn't help but giggle.

Day 146: May 26 - Feeling a little swirly

Go ahead and laugh, but finding just the right swirly thing for wedding invitations and other such wedding things has been quite the chore. Luckily, I had a friend who was able to help me out, but it seriously threw me for a loop for a while. To be fair, he works at a paper that I believe has infinitely higher resources than mine does, so their clip art stock is a little better. Excited to figure out how I'm going to use these puppies in the next year!

Day 145: May 25 - Wedding obsession of the day - Hair

Being sick in bed means you have lots of time to click through thousands of pictures on the internet. The obsession of this day was hair. Thank goodness for knot.com, which lets me save them into a nifty little file. It's also funny to go back and see what I was drawn to when they're all together. Apparently I was on a flower kick?

Day 144: May 24 - Sick of being sick

Coming back from vacation sick was sucky. No way around it. Luckily, this teapot was around to help me get better. Lots of Yogi Throat Comfort tea passed through it's little spout for a couple days. I get a lot of compliments on this little guy. I picked it up for a hot dollar at a yard sale, I think. I was jealous that my co-worker Betty always had a cute teapot. I didn't think this one was cute, but figured it would do the job. Apparently, everyone else thinks it's pretty spiffy, so I'll keep it.