"Of Flowers and Ribbons and Pretty Hair and Princess-ish-ness"

                                                                  

    13 Flowergirls.... adorable!

Wedding "Do's"

Do have hydrangea in your bridal bouquet.  They are gorgeous, summer-y, fresh and do NOT look like alien brains.

 

 Do have these cookies.  I'll come to your wedding. 

Do have flowers on your cake, too, just 'cause they're flowers and they should be everywhere you can possibly put them.

Home again, Home again....

jiggety jig.

Yeah.

People, I am SO dog tired. 

Camp was amazingly amazing.  I love camp.

I'd go back tomorrow.

Love, love, LOVE camp.

I don't have pictures to share yet... but I'm working on that for you.

We arrived home Thursday from camp, crashed on Friday (as much as is possible with 7 children under 7 running around)

Then we went to a wedding out of town over the weekend.

I loaded up my car with flowers and kids to take home to their parents and the wedding photographer and the pianist and drove to central Illinois. 

Where we proceeded to help decorate for the wedding, arrange flowers, take pictures, do hair, occupy 13 (absolutely ADORABLE) flower girls while the wedding waited to start, get said 13 flower girl safely down the aisle in groups of 2 and 3, tear down the ceremony and set up the reception, decorate the cake, serve the food, take pictures, and probably lots of other things that I can't think of right now....

Then we loaded up the car, loaded up the people, got on the road, turned around because we forgot something, got BACK on the road, forgot something again, turned back around, and got BACK on the road.

We drive two cars everywhere because we don't own one big enough to transport all of us.  Mom and I drove slightly faster than we usually do on the way home.  We did a 4 hour trip in about 3hrs. 40 mins.  arriving home at about 1:15 am this morning.  Where I fell into my bed and proceeded to lay there blinking at the ceiling for the next 3 hours.

Ugh.
Did I mention I left my coffee maker at Mom and Dad's?

Bridal Shower

I've never hosted a bridal shower before, but it turned out to be tons of fun!

Here is the blushing bride :)

The bride's Aunt loaned us her back patio, complete with a tent, so the shower was pool side on a lovely afternoon!

Plenty of chocolate!

Opening Gifts

Bride's Mother, Bride, Me!

Photoshoot

While we were working very hard, two crazy bridesmaids crashed the photoshoot. I don't know who they are.

Bride and Groom

My sister Stephanie is amazing... this is all her work by the way...

Flowers

Katie worked on the arch

While Shanon and I supervised

The Bride loves them!!!

Rehearsal

Bride and Minister

Trivia: How many people does it take to iron a wedding dress?