Wedding Take Two

Shift gears, 3 weeks to plan a budget wedding with almost no help for the Mother of the Groom as she does it all! Convinvced I am super women (duh!) I agree to help my friend with a last minute affair for her oldest son.

THIS is what we had to work with! Okay so the trees and the sky and the beach were okay but are you kidding me? An outside pavillion in the middle of summer with questionable water and electricity? ack!

This is what we ended up with. After lots and lots and lots of work and a very helpful husband (Mine!) and another couple (hubby and wife both took day off work!)

MAYBE the stunning rainbow at the end of a very hard 3 days was nice. I took virtually no pictures of the wedding as I was consumed with setting up the tables, decorating, cooking, cleaning, clean up, etc.

We were asked several times who the "caterers" were because everything was so nice/pretty/good.

Un-be-liev-able. Uummm, the Grooms Mother and few of her friends okay? Can we eat now? Before we have to cart the whole thing 2 hours back up the road after we clean it up in the dark with only one shop light to help??!!

Did I mention a 4 course meal with multiple desserts and appetizers to begin and hot foods/cold foods, and everything inbetween? oh nearly forgot, special menu items due to extreme allergies and vegan attendees? What? For 100 guest!!!!!

Live and Learn. sometimes it is best NOT to assume you are super women and just tell a good friend from the get go you are not super women. Except? I'm convinced SHE IS. Kudos to you Gloria for pulling it off.

More wedding shots b/c they have people I love in them!

My three nieces/nephew, My brothers kiddos

My handsome husband loving his little "bride to be someday" during the Daddy and Daughter dance. sniff sniff.

Okay. 'nuf wedding. It was gorgeous. It was fun. it was exhausting, I think I'll sleep for a month! NOT! coming up! more wedding, more trips, more house company.

Sorry, I have no clue how to format this thing. So I lost the cute pic of Emory and Jillie in cute outfits but we will move on anyway!

The State Fair is a must every July. Free food, free baby chicks to hold if you dare, climbing on the tractors and looking at the motor homes, card board cut outs and homemade ice cream, being in the kid tent and competitions. You've got to learn your horses from the "big dogs" somewhere!

A Bridal shower game that my team won!

The bride modeling the dress she will wear to meet the President a few days after the wedding.

The flower girl and ring bearer at rehearsal.

Getting our hair done.

Kiley hated her hair! Don't blame her to much! But she was a fabulous guest book attendant

The big event!

Oh my word! It is October already? Where did that go?!!

Granted we had an incredibly busy summer and even into September but Halloween is this week?!!
I need to upload some photos to remember all we did and to see my sweet kiddos on line!

Back soon with something a little more relevant to say.

oh look! a regular summer day in July with really cute outfits! ha! there is a wedding about to invade out lives.

but first a 13th birthday party. and bridal shower and rehearsal dinner and the big day.

So the birthday party included one really cute girl, 100 balloons flooding th ecieling of our 2 story family room, a huge candy buffet, pizza and cute cupcakes. The loot nor the friends are pictured but there was a wealth of both! Apples to Apples anyone?

OKAY so this is gonna take more than one post! Back in a minute!