Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Non-Adventure #5 Dog Days and a Wedding

*I am posting this so late because I kept meaning to add a picture but I am posting now and will add it later! (can't add it now because I am in California with my sister helping her recover from a minor surgery)

So our last weekend in May was a jam packed weekend full of fun activities for both Sookie and I. Friday was the calm before the storm. They scheduled the Dog Days of Summer for Saturday. It is basically an event downtown at the old civic center park area where people can bring their dogs (on a non-retractable leash) and they had all kinds of booths set up. They had dogs doing agility tests and tricks. They had people there selling fancy collars, leashes, harnesses, clothes, and carriers. They also had people advertising for doggie daycare, dog boarding, grooming, vets, and emergency services. Some booths were giving away treats, food, bandanas, leashes, cups, magnets, and lots of other goodies for dogs. One of our first stops was a booth where they had tons of dog costumes with all kinds of accessories. I looked through almost everything they had and didn't find anything cuter than the summer dress she was already wearing. At the last minute my friend Stacie stumbled across this little red beret that matched her dress and so I put that on her. She moved too much during her first photo shoot and so we had to do some reshoots. But we found a winner (and it was one of the ones with the beret)!
Here she is posing for the camera:

*I will add this picture later! So come back to see it

Here is Sookie after we got home from the dog days. She was totally worn out.

So I wish that was all I had on my Saturday but I still had to get ready for a wedding in Ft. Worth that evening...
(I should stop here and tell you that this was the wedding of Brady Gunn and Erin McCall. I have know Erin since she was a sophomore in high school. I was working ACU Leadership Camps and had met this guy named Chris through some campers I had known who were what I would consider my regulars. He went on and on about his girlfriend who was coming on another week and how I should look out for her. I first met her on the 4th of July at the Richard's house where me, a bunch of counselors and some of my campers were hanging out. She was this tiny, very shy thing, who didn't say too much. Well, thankfully Chris reminded her to ask for my hall when she went to camp and asked to be placed on my hall at registration/check-in. I think that was the week that she got sick from something in the middle of the night and ended up staying in my room. After that summer we stayed in contact and every summer after she asked to be put on my hall and we became good friends and better ones when she moved out to ACU her freshman year. She and Chris eventually broke up and neither one of us ahs kept in touch with him but I am forever grateful that he told Erin to be on my hall. It has been a great joy of mine to have befriended some of those campers and stayed in contact with them. There is an incredible joy in getting to watch them mature in age and in faith and along the way they have blessed my life in ways they will never know. That is how I met Erin and below is the continuation of going to Erin and Brady's wedding):
So after looking for the shirt I wanted to wear (I found it in the crevice of the couch), making my hair straight, and doing my make-up. I was heading out and when checking the time I was doing good, even going to be on time. So I was cruising along making good time, I made it through Ft. Worth and as I am about a mile away from my exit the traffic is starting to get bad. Well, to make it short they were slowly forcing you down to ONE LANE! I sat in almost dead stopped traffic watching my time tick away and then vanish, and then I was late, later, and REALLY late. I finally merged down to the last lane only to go three feet and be able to move back over three lanes to exit. So I get to the church fully expecting people to be walking out the door and to have me trying to make the decision to walk in or just go on to the reception. So I decided to go ahead and head in. To my surprise the ceremony was still going on. I missed all the processionals and some songs and most of the sermon but I was able to see the sand, the vows, the rings, and the pronouncement of husband and wife. I went on to the reception at the BEAUTIFUL Ridglea Country Club (the church was one of the most gorgeous churches I have ever seen as well, it was a presbyterian church in Ft. Worth on Oakmont Trail, I think). It was one of those weddings where two wonderful people are perfect for each and together they are even more incredible people. I made it through most of the reception and then headed home.
Here is Erin (McCall) Gunn and I at the reception (my hair was down but because its so dark in the picture my hair seems to have disappeared):


Sunday was the first Sunday for our new preaching minister at Singing Oaks. I think I am going to like him and his lessons. I like that he gives us an outline every Sunday where we can follow along and fill in the blanks. The rest of our Sunday was relatively uneventful which gave me and Sookie a chance to rest up.


Rambling # 4 Diaper Cakes!

Ok so one of my confessions from my 6 random things post is about how I wouldn't mind running my own diaper cake business. I just love making them they are so much fun. I have to say that there isn't a single part of making a cake that I find boring or tedious. The only thing about the diaper cakes is that everyone I know and have made one for has been having a boy, so I have never been able to make a girl baby diaper cake. I'm hoping it changes soon due to Amy's news. I think her girls will get to be girl diaper cakes #1 and #2. So one of my typical diaper cakes consists of 112 size one diapers, 10 washcloths, 5 onesies, a blanket, bath wash, baby lotion, powder, and 2 pacifiers. Then if I know the babies name I might put it on the front of the cake. I change the cakes up all the time so everyone is a little different from the last.


I guess I should tell you how I stumbled into this little adventure. Well it all started with this blog I was stalking about Suz and how she and her husband Joe were preparing to have quads. Well the people at her father's office threw a shower and gave her a diaper cake and so with my friend Leah's baby shower coming up, I thought I would give it a try. Now I researched and looked at all kinds of pictures online and I had in my mind a vision of how I wanted hers to look like. I wanted it to be three or four layers and have these wires coming out of the top with her bottles hanging of them. Needless to say I was thinking a little grandiose, and because it was so hard to make the "dangling bottles" work I will not attempt that ever again.

Since that first cake I have made one for my friend Chrissie to take to her school for a fellow teacher (that is the only one that I didn't get a picture of), one for Kris' boy Jack Hudson who arrived yesterday (Congrats Kris and Amanda!), and one for my cousin Bill's new son Brady Charles. The pictures are in that order starting with Leah and baby Casen's.

Leah and Casen's


Kris, Amanda, and Jack Hudson Wasemillers:


Bill, Danica, and Brady Charles Brown's:

So there you have it. That is one of my maybe jobs I wouldn't mind doing. I guess if you are interested and want a diaper cake leave me a message.

Non-Adventure # 4 Sookie's First Day




So the reason I am giving for being slow in posting is due to the fact that I just haven't taken the time to move my pictures from my camera to my computer. I have now finally done it and so here are some new non-adventures. The one that I am posting today, happened the very FIRST day I had Sookie.



So it was that first Monday that I had her and things had gone well that morning. I had let her out, played with her, and then fed her. I put her back in her house (kennel) and went on to work. Well my dad went home around lunch time and let her out with our two big dogs, which was a good thing, not a problem. He comes back to work and tells me he let her out and that she had somehow found a pen and chewed it a little on my bed. It's my turn to go home for lunch and I see that yes she chewed the pen up on my bed. It seems he let all the dogs back in the house and just let her wander unsupervised around the house, where she found a pen, dragged it back to my bed, chewed it up and all the ink went through my comforter, through my sheets, and only just stopped at me mattress cover. Well he failed to mention the gravity of the staining at work. He left out the bed and the fact that she had blue paws as well.



To date it is the only thing she has done to cause any real damage and so it's not a big deal. We were even able to get the blue off her paws. The sheets are sheets and I'm not bothered by the fact they still have ink stains after mutiple washings and every stain removal in the world. Although it gave me a great excuse to get the pink and white polka dotted comforter I had my eye on in Target, so I guess thanks, Sook!



Here she is with her blue Paw.


Rambling # 3 Like Leah, I have been tagged twice.

So I have been tagged by both Amy and by Leah. So I figured it was time I actually did the blog so that I can avoid another tagging.

So here are the rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about yourself.
Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.
Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

So here are my six Random things:


1. I confess here and now that I am a TV-aholic. I love it. I have so many favorite shows I could be here all day writing a list of my favorites. I love watching them on TV, Seasons on DVD( I have all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls as well as many other TV shows on DVD), and online. I am a big fan of http://www.hulu.com/. It's great, you can watch TV shows and movies for free online.






2. To go along with my TV obsession I confess that I secretly wish I lived in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. I want to live in the same town as Miss Patty, Babbette, Taylor, Gypsy, Sookie, Jackson, Mrs. Kim, Luke and Kirk. I want to go to all the quirky festivals and celebrations they always have. In reality though I have been to the backlot set they used for Stars Hollow and stood in the gazebo and in front of Luke's.


3. I have an uncanny knack for catching movie mistakes/continuity issues. Like in Oceans 11, in the scene where Julia Roberts comes down the stairs, Brad Pitt is eating a shrimp cocktail in a wine glass and when the camera changes angles it's a on a plate. Angle change again and it's back to the glass. I often annoy my friends and family in the movie theater with these observations during the movie.

4. I miss summer vacation. That break in the summer that was for enjoying being outdoors and hanging with friends. I really miss New Jersey summers. They were so nice. Not too cold where it wasn't fun to do things outside and not so hot that being outside is draining. I miss those perfect NJ summers. Days filled with going to the water park, the boardwalk, the beach, the pool and camps.



5. I love music. Almost all kinds. Most days my iPod is in the songs playlist on shuffle because I have a hard time deciding on one artist or one album to listen to. Currently though I am really into an artist I picked up from One Tree Hill named Missy Higgins. I really love her album On a Clear Night.
6. One last confession. I am not sure what it is I want to do as a career. There are many things I think I want to do and I have figured out some things I know I don't want to do. It is something that sometimes keeps me up thinking. I think I would love to have my own company making diaper cakes, or a stationary shop to do announcements and invites with my mom, a bakery or pie shop, or who knows what else. One thing I do know is that I'm not sure I would like to be a classroom teacher. I think it's just not for me.


SO now comes the time where I have to pick six people to tag and so I guess I tag:

Alison, Annalee, Brooke, Felicia, Lori, and Tiffany! Your it! Have fun!