That Critter

Unloading the car with all the goodies from the wonderful tea party filled a large chunk of the kitchen. Cinders is quite the curious kitty cat. She had to stick her nose into everything. It took me most of the afternoon to unpack and put away the items, but all are very useful and have a spot where I can access them quickly. No top shelf in the basement. Apparently Cinder sniffed out something that needed a closer look. Thanks Skippy's for the cat nip spray. Really cat? Where exactly did you think you were going?

The Un-Bridal Shower

I wanted a fun bridal shower so I requested that my sister have a mad hatter theme party. It was awesome. She did so much work and shipped my mom boxes of decorations for the shower. She even *bought* the Alice in Wonderland DVD and took notes on it to make sure she got it right. Flying into town the day before the shower she spend the day making food and putting finishing touches on the decorations. Most of the decor was hot pink and lime green. Jen even made fascinators for the bridal party and a few of my relatives even showed up with those fancy hat things. Here is my Grandma Pearl showing off hers. Luke and I received many items for our house, but apparently I was the most excited about toilet paper... I mean look at that grin on my face. Jen, in addition to helping host and put together a wonderful tea party at my Aunt's house made me a wreath complete with hidden Mickey's for the door (apparently the glittery wreath from Christmas wasn't going to cut it in June).
The photos in this post are from Jen's mother in law. Jen also wrote about the tea party... here is a link to her blog to check out her perspective

Long Time...

Well, I know it's been a long time since my last post. A lot has happened since then. First of all let's just say that I was working as a long term sub and coaching track... super busy days plus my own running meant no time for such entertaining things as posting a blog update for my sister to read.

Somewhere in there (Memorial Day weekend) my best friend Miss Dani and her fiance Greg surprised me at the cottage. They had been planning it for a while with my parents and Luke. I had no clue and just thought Luke wanted to get out of the house after being there all day while I was at a track meet.
She decided that I needed a bachelorette party (with the boys of course) since she wouldn't be seeing me until the day before the wedding. Out in the yard was a princess castle pinata filled with chewy candy and plastic vodka bottles. I managed to break one from smacking the sucker so hard. (Later when I read the directions it was a pull the strings pinata and one opens the candy door)
We had a fun weekend catching up and just relaxing. Don't worry, none of the vodka bottles were damaged in the burning of the castle.