I'm finally able to blog about the bridal shower I helped do two weekends ago.  I was able to get more pictures {better pictures} than the ones I took.

Here are the bridesmaids and the bride.

Jen, Kelly, Jinny (the bride), Ashley and myself.

 

Here's the awesome food we put together!  So much deliciousness! I got a recipe for coffee punch that was to die for!  I can't take credit for the yumminess.  I can only enjoy it 100%!

Decorations!  They decorated the deck, the trees, the tables...Anything that would hold something.  I was not in charge of the decorations.  Balloons and streamers just wouldn't do...

Here is a fun group shot of many of the ladies who came (several had left already).  I do believe the shower was a success!

What to type...what to type...

So I started a post yesterday only to have blogger do some really crazy things and mess up what I was doing and then go and post an empty blog that I did NOT know about until I looked at a friend's blog and saw that I had posted...huh? Yeah that's what I said. So I decided to try and post a real post but I'm not really sure what to blog about. That and my husband took the camera to work so I didn't have any pictures from the weekend here at my house. Grrr! Doesn't he know that I blog???? :) Just kidding....

Which leads me to the pictures I do have. While I would love to sandwich two pictures of me in between dozens of photos of my offspring to kind of camouflage them....I can't. And since I do not want my children to grow up and look back at these books and wonder what I looked like here's two pictures of me and my hot husband at a wedding we went to this weekend.Semi-formal attire requested! Seriously gave me the sweats....I mean how many opportunities do we have here in Durango to get dressed up semi-formal? It's not that I'm against it it's just that I don't own a single thing that nice. Thankfully Tiffany does. So she loaned me the dress and get this...it came with instructions! Yes people you too can wear this dress 8 different ways and I have the book to prove it. I had to come home and practice putting it on the night before the wedding so I wouldn't panic the day of. I even asked Tiff if she had to have her husband help dress her cause I was seriously having issues covering things that are not ever meant to be exposed! But I was finally successful and I think it's a pretty dress.

I also learned that I need to stand up straighter when taking pictures. I think I'd lose another 5 pounds by just doing that! :)

Anyway, we had a worship night in the park on Friday to raise money for a couple adopting 2 kids from the Ukraine. It was a fun night and I learned the art of worshiping with my eyes fully open and scanning the area around me constantly for Jack. Kate and Kale played well with their buddies but as you know Jack can be everywhere....at the same time. I got me a work out that night. And of course, true to his nature, at the end of the evening as the band was packing up, Jack snuck out on Mark talking to someone and was headed for the river. I was across the park and up a hill and saw him and waited for a moment to see if Mark did. When I noticed he wasn't seeing what I was, I started running down the hill and across the way. About the time I got to Mark he, too, noticed Jack and started running towards him. We got to him about the same time....8 feet or so before a cliff type area that drops into the river 40 feet below. Lovely....seriously I feel like I need parenting classes....and an exercise class....

The next morning we went to a seminar at church on building relationships. Basically being a good listener and a good communicator. All good stuff which showed me that I still have a long ways to go!

And later that day was the gorgeous outdoor wedding when we got all fancified.

Sunday, well we crashed after church. It had been a long weekend.

Kale started school yesterday. And I guess so did I. We are doing a different curriculum this year. I really liked the one we used last year but I was needing something a little less expensive and more versatile for all of my kids. I found My Father's World - through some good friends - and day one was wonderful. I can tell that this year will be so different and I think it's gonna be great.

I need to do another update on Kate but I'm out of time for today. We need to leave in about 15 minutes to go to her Occupational Therapy appointment which is going very well. More on that later! Must. Get. Children. In. Car.