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New Living Room Pics

Thanks Annie for this grandson picture.

I am going to cut and paste a yellow tie on Nicholas :) :)

AudSam Wedding

Just a few wedding pics.- I can't wait to see what the photographer actually has :) I picked out four that were somewhat different than what has already been posted else where.

Honeymoon Rules

I think there were at least two honeymoon rules for this week- no talking to mom and no laptop. The first is easy- I don't know exactly where they are and the cell phone probably has no coverage. On the second one- I have been watching the blogs to see if a random comment or post would appear, giving away a hint that maybe Sam still had the laptop with him. (Either it really did not go or they are exercising great restraint in not commenting or posting. ) When a post appeared on Whiteeyebrows, I thought aha. But...it was just the lovely sister :) W.E. and A2 will have lots of catching up to do on Sunday to see what we have been blogging about all week :)

Bugs

Remember the "bug" I got after Christmas to do some thorough house cleaning and sorting? Well, that only lasted long enough for me to get the Christmas decorations put away right before Valentines day :) Plus that was about the time the third wedding plans kicked into gear. Now the wedding is done and did I already mention, several times, that it was wonderful ! :) Audrey is not my "artsy crafty" daughter, but all of her ideas for colors and decorations were perfect. (She does have some artsy crafty relatives) There were a couple of wedding glitches- like a babysitting miscommunication which caused Daniel and Alex to not attend the sealing and Audrey was hunting for a motel room the night before the wedding because hers got canceled. (I told Audrey the week before the wedding to plan for a few unexpected disruptions and for all of the planned activities to take longer than expected.)
Oh, back to my "bug" story...If I can get over my real sinus/ear infection "bug", I've got the house cleaning "bug" again. There are several reasons for that- 1. Things have been neglected here for a few months. 2. It's spring time- spring cleaning- spring exterminating of real "bugs". 3. We will have company each Sunday evening for the next 6 weeks. Which means that at least by Sunday evening each week, we need to have a lesson planned, have dessert fixed, and have most of the house presentable. 4. I've got some great wedding pictures to frame and hang up. (I have been wanting to paint the living room and rearrange pictures ever since the hurricane damage- but we'll have to see if this "bug" is strong enough motivation for that.) I'll have the Easter decorations out and dessert planned by this Sunday- we'll see what happens next week. While I'm getting my house in order, I also have a few "bugs" at the store to work out- taxes, property rendition, payroll, trademark, and website. Talk about being "bugged", I've got it all. But for now I'm a free (sick) woman and all of the weddings are done :) :) While this may sound like the end for the story- its actually the beginning of "being happy and enduring to the end"- but that will be another post for later. I need to go scrub a bathroom or something.

Give Me Some Cheese with this Whine

Some times life just doesn't let us be sick. Some how I managed to get through the entire winter without even a cold, no flu, nothing- then last Monday evening, just out of no where, I got a really bad sore throat. Knowing that I was just days away from Audrey's wedding I went to a "minute clinic" on Tuesday, thinking I could get antibiotics in hand before taking two ear infections on an airplane on Thursday. Instead I came away with directions to take Sudafed and knowing that I did not have strep throat. (I knew I was still in trouble) Anyway...to make all of this whining brief- Ron had to take me to an "insta clinic" on Sunday morning in St. George. This time I did come away with some "stiffer meds"- antibiotics and prednisone. The plane ride home yesterday was not great, but would have been much worse without the medicine. (I got off the plane with no hearing in just one ear instead of none at all.) So...everything about the wedding was wonderful, except me. It was amazing to have our entire family there. To have all of the grandsons together. And even have some of our extended family there. Great effort was made traveling and preparing, but it was all worth it. When I sent out text messages to Mike and the girls last night saying that we had arrived back in Houston- Alison's response was- "Yeah". "Annie beat you to the blog". Her wedding post is the best!! Go to redsdirt to see great pictures and what's even more amazing is she put "Someone to Fall Back On" on her playlist. (That is Sam and Audrey's song) I'm sure that I will go there at least once a day this week and get my daily "happy cry" in. Ron had the hard part of giving Audrey away- now I've got the hard part of not being able to talk her at all this week- it's not allowed on the honeymoon to talk to mom :)
Yeah, so I'll take some cheese with this whining :) And since life won't let me be sick- I'm off to work today. I got up with Ron at the usual time this morning- thinking, "I'll go back to bed for a couple of hours and then go to work"- instead I was so wound up from all of the weekend excitement. I couldn't even go back to sleep- I might as well get up :)

Daddy's Girl

This weekend Ron has one of the very hard things of life to do...

give away a daughter.

On the flip side of that we gain a son...

Life is good!