A very important date! :)

Let's just say it was an insane first month of the year. Lots of showers. Wedding showers, baby showers ... you name it! Good times! :)


Set up the table. The greenery seemed a little bit mad ... and because it was a "Mad Hatter's" themed party, it seemed appropriate.


Since this was a tea party, a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, at that, I went with a sewing theme. Thread, buttons, thimbles. All that sort of stuff.

For the decor, I just raided the basement. Grandma's sewing stuff fit the bill!


This is one of mom's tea pots. More for decor than anything else. Added some ribbon for a little excitement.


More details.


All sorts of buttons. :)


Thread. Cute.


Mom made cucumber sandwiches. They were small + cute.


I took over the kitchen for baking. I had 2 assistants. We made Cream Puffs, Cherry Bombs (above), and another little pastry.


Susie + Jackie were my baking assistants. :) This was during the gift-giving portion. With this group there are bound to be big, fat laughs.


Some lace gloves on the guest of honor.


Our group; :)


Little Theodore even made a guest appearance. With a Davy Crockett-like hat.

Reception!

Gotta love a beautiful cake table backdrop. :)


The traditional guys sing to the bride. :)


Big smile. :)


And a smitten groom. :)


I don't know what my brother in law (far right) was doing. Strange.


Grooving.


More of Heath's move-busting.


Fr. Nick being his jovial self. :)


And Fr. Drew ... well, I'm not sure what exactly he's doing. ;)

Friends at the wedding!

With Miss Allison and Nathan. How I miss teaching CCD with Allison! :)


My hottie hubby shaved off his goat for our anniversary a few weeks ago. AND he kept it up through Kristine + Heath's wedding. Doesn't he look HOT AND YOUNG?!?!?!???


Miss Susie, MRS Kristine and ME! :)


Fr. Drew and "the ladies." HA! Ok, so I haven't seen/spoken with Fadda since he officiated at our wedding more than a year ago. Good to see him again, though!


Showing off our bling-bling. Married women, bye bye singleton life!

Wedding from my point + shoot

So, this was my second appearance in a wedding as a bridesmaid.

I couldn't leave all cameras AT home ... so I took the trusty point + shoot. :)


Bride.


Flower girl up to no good.


Future dazed + confused groom. ;)


Miss Susie with her praying hands salt + pepper shakers.


Gotta love colorful flowers!


OK, so my Chuck Taylors ... I wanted to have some good dancing shoes. And boy did I get COMMENTS about those bad boys. Crazy times!

I am such a dope when it comes to names and the like .... so I started calling them Chuck Norris shoes. And then once Erik pointed out I'm a dope, I started calling them Kenny Chesneys just to be jovial. ;)

Shooting the ....

A treasure map? Where could we be going?!???!?


Yes, to an area of cow excrement. It's always exciting when I go adventuring with Kristine.


We were scooping cow dung so I could put it in our garden.


I even got in on the fun!!!! Yeah, those are my killer gardening galoshes.

Story Corps

Every Friday morning, NPR airs interviews from "Story Corps."

The premise is a similar to the old reporting motto: Everyone has a story. Story Corp's motto is: "Listening is an act of Love." Nice, isn't it?


Story corps was in Kansas about two years ago. Robin, lovely Kristine and I headed down. Well, I sorta had to drag Robin because she was not familiar with it, but I think she liked it in the end. On a cool note, they DID use our story on HPPR, our local NPR station. You can hear it HERE.

I was also interviewed by lovely Kristine. :-)


I'm JAZZED to learn Story Corps will be in Denver from July 17 to Aug. 5 (call in advance for a reservation), and in Tulsa from Oct. 23 to Nov. 22. Seriously, if you can go, GO! Get a reservation, make a day of it and go! It's super fun, and they give you a recording of your interview, as well as place a copy in the Folk Life Center in the Library of Congress.

To subscribe to the NPR Story Corps podcast, CLICK HERE.