Our weather seems to be very uncommitted right now. Here’s how we started out the day…
Now we have very bright sunshine with blue skies and fluffy clouds. That snow on the deck and yard is all gone!
Until the weather decides whether it will cling to winter or give in to Spring I have Spring treats like these to make me smile.
My days are filled with ticking off things that need to be done on my list before our wedding company starts arriving.
Our Marine Groom finally got his official approval for his leave to come to the wedding today! Yikes not a moment too soon! We are praising the Lord for this good news!
We are all doing a happy dance!
Katie’s maid of honor put together a wonderful evening for friends to celebrate each other. They started with French wine and cheese. An old fashioned photo booth, French restaurant for dinner, dessert outside at Kerry Park with a view of Seattle, and a private karaoke booth to sing the night away.
Lenten Rose
Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.
As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the victory win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.
As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.
And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy passiontide,
Yea, evermore in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.
Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suffering over past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last.
Words: Claudia F. Hernaman, Child’s Book of Praise; A Manual of Devotion in Simple Verse, 1873.
…a good day for pancakes! I posted these pancakes on MGCC yesterday. Click over and enjoy.
8 days to go…
…more fun tomorrow.
Can I just say that we love our hair dresser! She is always ready to help us in any way she can. Today we had a practice run for Katie’s hairdo for the wedding. Our hairdresser is going to come to the venue on the day of the wedding to do Katie’s hair and any of the bridesmaids hair that want her services. She’ll also make sure my hair is behaving. She’s even going to bring a razor to fix up the Marines hair if their barbers butchered them.
While we were having our hair looked after today a vehicle for the Bride and Groom’s getaway came up. Come to find out the owner of the Seattle Limousine Company here in Seattle is a friend of our hairdresser. She called him and told him the car was for an active military groom so we got the friend/military discount for the Rolls or Bentley! A wonderful blessing.
So much to look forward to in this month.
No palm trees in our future in March.
We’re enjoying the calm before the storm of wedding activity. On Leap Day we took the day off and were in our robes all day long!
Today Katie and I are going to the hairdresser. I will get my roots looked after and Katie is having the practice run on her hairstyle for the wedding.
We had snowflakes yesterday and I’m really hoping that is the last of it till after the Ides of March.
Hope your March brings you many good things.
10 days to go…
Our second celebration in Southern California on Saturday was a Sweet Sixteen party for my older sister Vera. Are you wondering why we had a Sweet Sixteen Party for a 64 year old? Our sister Vera was born on Leap Year so she’s only had a birthday that landed on her actual birth day 16 times now.
Vera’s kids decided to throw this party for their mom and the creative wheels started turning. They did a wonderful job.
My nieces on the right put together the decorations. Melissa is my sister Kathy’s daughter. Kristin is my sister Vera’s DIL and Debbee is her daughter. Kristin is married to my nephew David and they hosted the party at their beautiful home. There were about 50 guests.
They had each guests name written on the cups which was a great idea. Everyone was able to keep track of their cup throughout the evening.
As each guest arrived they were guided into the photo room with this prompt…I Love Vera because…
There were blank white boards for us to write our reason for loving Vera. Such an affirming act to encourage her with!
My parents lasted a long time at the party. It was great to see them. There were lots of friends from our former churches at the party and we were able to get caught up a bit on our lives.
We took advantage of the photo room for a cousin photo.
Katie and I had a quick sleep at my nieces house and headed back to the Bob Hope Airport at 6:00 A.M. Sunday morning. We were pretty useless the rest of Sunday but after a good nights rest on Sunday night we were good to go and got back to finalizing all the wedding details.
11 days to go!
Katie and I flew into Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on Saturday morning. We hopped into our crumby little rental car and headed to Orange County for a Baby Shower Brunch. The newest addition to our family was showered with gifts and we finally got to see her in person and give her some squeezes and kisses. Her mommy is our oldest niece on Dear’s side of the family. Here’s little Miss…
These are Dear’s 3 nieces. Little Miss’s mommy is in the middle. Aren’t they beautiful?! Youngest niece on the left is a model.
Here’s little Miss with Auntie Annie
This is Little Miss with her older sister.
Our Katie with each of her cousins.
The 4 of us sisters with our dear friend Heidi in the top photo. On the bottom the sisters, Lana, me, Kathy, and Vera.
Some of the shower goodies!
The new mom with our Katie.
We had a wonderful time celebrating little Miss and seeing all the fun little girl gifts she was showered with. It was easier to say goodbye knowing we’d see Dear’s family again at the wedding in less than two weeks. I failed to get a single photo of my sister-in-law who is Little Miss’s grandmother and the mother of my 3 beautiful nieces! OYE!
In the next day or two I’ll share the photos from our second big event in Orange County on this same Saturday in the evening. Here’s a sneak peek.
You will need to give me an extra measure of understanding if you do not see me or hear comments from me on your blogs in the next 13 days. We are busy around here getting all the last minute details taken care of for the wedding. We met with the wedding planner today and wrote out the big checks for the event with our final numbers handed in. Hope all is well with you all. We are being threatened again with some snow in the lowlands. Blessings…
Katie and I flew South at 8:00 A.M. on Saturday and flew back North at 8:00 A.M. Sunday. We were able to attend 2 very special events within a 12 hour stretch of Saturday. We are back home recuperating from this Jet setter schedule. I’m not too proud to say that I am wiped out! I’ll share more details during the week. In the meantime here is a mosaic of many of the loved ones we were able to see and to hug. Good hugs, not polite hugs!
If I have the energy I’ll link up with Mosaic Monday with Mary at Little Red House.
The countdown continues….14 days till the wedding!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 