Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Aren't these so very pretty?? They're some crazy daisies that this guy brought over tonight. The picture really doesn't show how bright and fun and pretty they are. very nice!!

View from the Sears Tower

A funky, um, this, at Millennium Park in Chicago.

A fun little shower last Friday night. = )


Dave counting out and carefully measuring jelly beans to see if I ordered enough for the reception. (if we're cheap, I did)


Us in Chicago... I posted this picture because it's a great picture of my cutie pie and because there's a really nice water falls in the background (in case you missed that). It's a dreadfully hideous picture of me, but since turning old and mature, I'm okay with posting the occasional hideous picture of myself. Maybe when I'm forty I will have matured to the point of posting hideous pictures of myself and not having to point out their hideousness. I guess we'll see. So, where should I even begin. Yes, the big birthday thing came and went without too much agony, although there was a little. I remembered this year how frequently the day after my birthday, I feel sorta bummed out, cause the fun and attention is over, but you're still old. ugh. I probably thought about it more because the day after my birthday is Dave's birthday. So the poor guy has to deal with a grouchy woman on his birthday for the rest of his life. So yeah, we had a nice day here in town on my birthday - I went out for lunch with my work ladies to a fun place in town I hadn't been yet. It's more of a bar, but during the day things are pretty tame and I got a nice first sunburn of the season. I took the afternoon off and Dave and I hung out. Only LaRonda will probably truly appreciate this, but Dave found the entire Season 2 of I Love Lucy on DVD for my birthday. It has my all time favorite episode where Lucy hires an English tutor. Doesn't that just take you back to the good old days, LaRonda? Anyway, it's also fun cause there's a bunch I haven't seen in there. Not that we have much time to watch them, but sometimes they come out while we're doing invitations. On the 14th, we went to Chicago. It was nice, although more and more I realize how much I'm not really a city person. It's just so loud and crazy and so many people. But we did have fun. We went out for lunch with some friends of Dave's, went up the Sears Tower, walked through Millennium Park, walked (yes walked) to Navy Pier, and by the time we got there, we didn't have much time to do anything before we had to walk back to the train station. We walked an awful lot that day. Okay, so that was the dreaded birthday weekend, nothing too huge and exciting to report other than that.


I mentioned invitations in the above rambling. Can I just say that choosing to make our own has been one of my biggest regrets in life so far. I shouldn't say that because Jenni designed them and they look really pretty, but the idea was that we would have them done and assembled before Jenni and Rita left. But of course, we ran out of time. They are really difficult to glue. Dave has done nearly all of them that weren't done when they left. We got a big pile done and send and then this week, I was hoping to finish. We then ran out of red paper. So I went to the scrap booking store in town and they had nothing that matched. So Dave and I made a little side trip to Goshen to go to Michaels. Goshen was not in the time allotment for the week, but oh well. I had carefully counted and determined that we needed enough for 18 invitations. So I thought I would play it safe and figured 5 extra. So we got to assembling and addressing the remaining ones and when we were getting to the end, I realized that I had miscounted somehow and we needed about 6 or 7 more. And no more red paper. AND, that also meant we were out of the brown paper as well. So Dave goes to Ft. Wayne to Michaels the next day to get more paper. Because I can't count. And (I just realized that this is a really boring story with an anti-climactic ending) also gets some more brown paper so we can print more of those off. So we're finally hoping to finish this never ending task tonight. We're pretty much there but ran out of pictures and need one, I repeat, one more. Anyway, the moral of the story is, um, I don't know, make your sister stay 2 weeks so she can glue all the invitations. And also have an accurate count, rather than a rough estimate, of how many you actually need. Okay, I'll stop boring you with that.

I have off work tomorrow and I'm thrilled to pieces about that. I'm going to start packing hopefully. That feels sorta strange. Next week is also a 4 day work week and then I only have 2 more weeks there. Yeah, 3 weeks total. I can't believe it. I'm training my replacement now and she's a sweet little thing so that's been sorta fun, and sorta stressful at the same time.

Here's some fun conversations overheard recently. I'm sure you had to be there, but anyhoo...
me: I really like the name Aleah.
him: (looking shocked, troubled, and saying in all sincerity) Will she be black? (as though if she were black, her name would be the greatest of our worries)
person 1 : Is there any place we could go to look for shoes in Goshen?
person 2: No! You can't buy shoes in Goshen!! There's too many Amish. (okay, I'm sure you had to be there for that one)
I know there were more, but it's 1 here and I can't remember them. I hope you're all having a fabulous summer!! Maybe you'll here from me again in a month or so. maybe...

Monday, June 09, 2008

Since you begged....

Okay, so since my 2 fans have been asking for an update - I am dutifully updating tonight, at a very late hour, and ignoring the 200 things on the list. I've had various posts rattling around in my head the last month, but most of those are long gone. So, here's some random pics:


Dave chopping a pepper - the picture doesn't do it justice. We were cooking the other night and let's just say this is all a little new for him. So anyway, I had to laugh when I saw the job he was doing on the pepper. He cut the top out but not the bottom and then started slicing away so it made this huge flower like thing. Anyway, I'm sure you had to be there. What we made turned out quite fabulous. If I was ambitious I would post the recipe for you, but as it is, I'm almost asleep.


Here's some random pics from when Jenni and Rita were here about 3 weeks ago. Wow, time is flying! Thanks so much for all the fabulous help ladies!!

Meeting Hannah! I didn't get many good pictures of her. = (


Rita and Bethany working on wedding invitations.

Jenni working on invitations and Dave working on the address list.
What else can I bore you with? I feel like I don't have much interesting to say - life has been nutty. I'd love to be able to quit my job tomorrow and just do wedding stuff. Dave got a good used bike from the bike shop around here and we went for a nice long ride um... last Saturday. The idea was to keep going... The other thing is that we went from cold to 90 degrees over night. Not ideal biking weather. But we still want to do more of that. Here's some fun quotes that were heard around here recently:
"The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is soft and spongy."
(while biking) "Are those Amish droppings?"
"Um, yes, because around here, the Amish do poo on the road."
Dave: "Just relax, everything that needs to get done, will get done..."
Rachel: "THINGS DON'T GET DONE!! PEOPLE DO THEM!!! NOTHING WILL GET DONE UNLESS WE do it!!!" (sigh... relaxing isn't one of my strong points these days)
Um, well, now that you know I'm alive, can I go to bed now? That wasn't a quote, that's what I'm really saying to you right now in this moment. I'm very tired.