Starting NEXT Monday

Hey everyone. Do to an absolutely CRAZY week, yeah I know aren't they all?? I'm delaying the give away. I'm also not sure how much I'll be on here to post. I will humor you with a quick weekend post and since the kids are sleeping I'll post a couple more to publish.
The wedding- I was a Personal Attendant in my first college roommates wedding this past weekend. Phew, I was exhausted. I ran and ran around. It was fun and I had a great time. That being said, the hotel we stayed in had ALOT to be desired. I thought about taking pictures, but then I thought people are going to be shocked we even stayed there. Good thing I didn't have to worry about our 'safety' b/c for sure we'd had been out of there. The only safety hazard was wondering how the he** we'd get out if there was a fire. Only on floor one but still. Oh yeah and the hazard of wondering if the ceiling was going to fall in on us.
One thing that made us laugh was the note on the door saying everything had been accounted for in the room and if something is missing we'd be charged. Let me tell you, it was so tempting to take one of the electric blue, totally vintage, bath towels. Or the cowboy rope that was on the wall stapled in with fence staples. DH had to convince me to leave it all there as it didn't match our current decade, I mean style. I made sure DH had his shoes on if so much his big toe hit the floor. Oh yeah, and when you sat on the toilet your head almost hit the sink. I could seriously take a shower, reach over the sink, and flush the toilet. LOL
All that being said, if DH hadn't decided to take a nap ON TOP OF THE COMFORTER we would have driven home that night!! But it was a great wedding and I tell you I've never seen so much food. The bride and groom sure had that going on. Seriously how frustrating when you're waiting for your meal and there is nothing to snack on, or during the dance you get the munchies. And the meal itself was GREAT and HOT!! The couple we sat next to, I kid you not, when he took his last 2 bites of potatoes, they were still steaming! While people arrived there was a beautiful display of: Skittles, plain and peanut M&M's, chocolate candies (dove, kisses), peanuts, hot tamales, etc. The supper was baked Chicken, roast beef, cheesy potatoes, 2 salads, dinner roll, and a drink. THEN during the dance out came a meat and cheese tray with crackers! It was all just GREAT!! DH and I could have grazed there all night!
Cheers to the bride and groom. Was a great day despite rain showers here and there. Now safe travels for them as they travel to Chicago for a honeymoon!!!

Crazy time

I feel like I'm a chicken running around with my head cut off. This week is CRAAAZY!! About 3 hours after i posted those pictures I was worshiping the porcelain god. Sorry no pics of that, oh heavens NO!! I got the flu going around. I did double duty (both ends) therefore i feel that's why after 12 hours i was feeling much better. But really, do ya think my husband could have kept the kids downstairs as i was upstairs puking my brains out?? No, Miss A had to pat my back and C'man had his stethoscope. Good grief.

By Thursday AM I was doing much better and last night I was doing a Ladies Night Out. I would have rather stayed home trust me, but the idea that i could be missing out on some good sales and prospective purse party hostesses i HAD to go. It wasn't bad. The weather here is just ROTTEN so i think that kept many, if not most, at home.

Today, Friday, was a style show in a nearby town. I wondered again as the wind blew me to town if it was worth it. Had to drop the kids off with FFS, so she had 5 kids under 3. Then i walked in and another person was there with jewelry and purses. BUT it all worked out I did sell a fair amount of items.

Tomorrow is our Spring Fling and after that I'm FREE!!! That would have been the time to get sick.

HOWEVER i must send out a big congrats to my first college roommate 'Ketta' on her engagement. We found one another again via 'facebook'. It's been great catching up, and even seeing one another. I can't wait to help with wedding planning and I already have an idea for colors. She wants her primary color to be red. Well since I'm all about 'inspirational pieces' I found something of Miss A's clothes that has red and 3 other colors. I need to share it with her first tho....Tell us tho, what color would you accent red with?? It'll be an April wedding....

Off and running.........

Wedding

This weekend was the big wedding of our dear friend. I've already posted about them so let me jump in and start the play by play of the BIG day. This will be a long post. Grab a beer, tea, water, whatever and come on in, relax and read on:)
We left our home around 230, right as planned. Well i guess it was closer to 245 b/c we spent that long trying to get one stupid cat out of our garage. (to which it won) After DH stopped to pay a bill in town, and I ran in to Caseys for a soda, i realized that I'd forgotten the wedding gift. So we hauled butt home where I ran in, got it and set forth again.

The ride to Columbus Nebraska was uneventful. The kids were great and C'man wore underwear the entire trip with no accidents. But i must say I can tell when I'm in Nebraska. The area we were in was quite a bit hillier then typical Nebraska but it just felt deserty (probably not a word) to us. There was lots of dust, some flatness, just felt 'hicky' sorry NE friends (BFFE). I'm sure others feel the same way about Iowa. We'd be in b/w towns and there would be 35+ miles before we'd hit another town. That being said, I did go to college in Nebraska and I'm going to have a post about that b/c we went thru the town. (DH went to college here too)

We quickly settled in to our room before heading for the rehearsal. Side note on the hotel, in the future we will get a suite. 2 double beds and a pack'n'play leaves NO room for anything. All I did for the rehearsal was eat:) Well and chase kids which became the #1 thing I did all weekend. After that the kids and I left to go back to the hotel. I took them swimming but Miss A wanted nothing to do with the water. I took her out of her swimsuit when i realized she was burning up. During the course of the next 10 hours her fever got up to 104!! I had to call DH and have him pick up Tylenol (couldn't find the one i packed) and a thermometer. We waited and waited for him. Most of the night was spent with her whimpering on and off. Finally at 530 I brought her in bed with me and she was just a furnace. I'm thinking that was when her fever 'broke'.

Saturday AM was up and at em as DH had to be at the grooms house at 830! The wedding started at 2. The kids and I hung out, I let C'man go swimming again. He has this great life jacket so he can be in alone, of course I'm sitting nearby. Miss A and I watched him swim and swim. Then being the great kids they are, they went right down for naps. There i sat wondering what I was going to do while they napped. I called my mom, out in the hallway, before coming back and sitting on a desk with my book up to the window so I could read. Those hotels sure have dark shades.

The wedding, well it was a Catholic wedding, so it was LONG. Oh my...we didn't last past the bride walking down the aisle. We retreated to the back row then out in the entry way. It was a beautiful church and was full of people. The 3 ushers had LOTS of work to do. I just still am in amazement at how long Catholic weddings our. Beautiful what I caught, but long:) Then the fun began. The get away vehicle wouldn't start. Below a picture of the men trying to get it going and then their off!



Eventually it started and off they went. They were so cute in there. The reception was about 20 miles away. (the pictures above are on our way) Somewhere in the middle of no where, was a trailer park that was so nasty i wouldn't let my dogs even go near. I wanted to take a picture but feared being hit was a slew of beer bottles.

But coming in to town we noticed lots of smoke. Once in the reception we heard the fire trucks going and here was a fire that got out of hand. It was within a football field of getting the first house in town!!

So the fun part. The bride is Polish so they had about 1 1/2 of polka music. (sorry but that is some kind of music, i think I'd rather listen to rap) They did this great wedding march. It was very entertaining, even the kids were in awe.


After that we got to eat. WE were lucky b/c we were the first table to eat after the wedding party. There were lots of kids there right around C'mans age. This little boy is the grooms nephew and i think he's the cutest kid EVER!!

Then his sister is also the most adorable little girl. She is the grooms special little niece. The bond these two have is pretty neat. Every chance she got she was with the groom.


Outside of the actual eating there were kids running around non stop. Every time I'd run around in a panic looking for C'man the bar 'men' would hand me another drink. After one particular panic i grabbed a drink only to return and request more alcohol please. I turned around and a couple older people were just laughing their heads off. But i was in severe distress. While there were people outside it didn't mean they'd necessarily be watching my kid. And with so many people he could hide so quickly. Before you start thinking whatever, I'd only had about 4 Fuzzy Navels and for as much running around as I did, I didn't feel like I had any alcohol in me.


The $1 dance is always fun. Do you all know what that is or is that a Midwest thing only?? Someone gave C'man a $1 and he was so ticked to dance with the bride. He wanted his $1 back tho so he could do it again.




I put in my $20 for a nice long dance with the groom. We talked about wondering if this day would ever come for him and he said 'you know, in my heart I thought this would eventually come, but in the back of my head i wondered if it actually would' and I walked away thinking i felt the same way about infertility.




Some pictures of the bouquet and garter toss:




Some kissin going on:

Eventually we had to leave b/c C'man had worn out his trips to the van to have a couple words, or as my friend calls it 'getting jacked up'. With 2 screaming kids we put them in there pj's and headed back. It would have been nicer to stay longer, or not to even have the kids, but we made do. It was great seeing all the Chvala's b/c it seems that weddings, and one funeral, are the only times we see everyone. They are a GREAT/WONDERFUL family 6 kids in 7 years!

All in all it was a fun weekend. It was truly a wedding to celebrate. These 2 are meant for one another. They seem to have it all together and I truly wish them the best of best. t

Cultural Experience

This farm wife and mother just came from quite the cultural experience. Now I hope that sentence didn't come off that I live in the middle of the USA and have had NO cultural experiences. I've actually traveled to most of the states here, was a nanny in Chicago, visited our Foreign Exchange student in China Town NY, not to mention the many summers spend in New York City, as my mom grew up near NYC. But tonight was interesting. My BIL (brother in law) got married, this would be Jeff's brother, to a Vietnamese lady. I'm not sure how they communicate as she speaks little English, but I like her. I think this is a MUCH better match then his first wife. They couldn't communicate either and they both spoke English!

But yeah, lets see. The wedding was at 11 AM, weird time. So the kids and I didn't attend. We went to the reception which started at 5pm. It was at a Chinese Restaurant that they closed down for the reception. It was a NINE course meal!!! We had it all, I need to try and get a copy of the menu to give one an idea of it all. But besides the meal they had karaoke. Well imagine twangy music and then people singing in Vietnamese. I'm sorry if i offend anyone, but it was HORRIBLE I mean THREE HOURS of sangggg sunnngggg sooooo whaaaaa. My poor C man was covering his ears. It was ear piercing, gut wrenching. It was so bad that i just laughed so hard I was crying. I mean the 80 yr old g'ma even sang. Then we had the future Vietnam. Idol give it a shot. Remember William HUNG?? Well it was like that but worse on the singing!! Oh, lets see we had a couple duets with Mr Move and Mr Freeze face.

Oh and my car that they borrowed b/c it's white. Let me tell you i ought to get an extra $500 for that way that was decorated. It was done tastefully but i could just see my Honda blushing!! BUT BIL is trying to sell it for me. I'm sad about that, I'll post about that another time.

Of course we had to create our own drama when DH put Miss A in the high chair much against her will. He didn't put her legs b/w the straps and out she came BUT she got stuck. What a drama. People yelling to try turning her head someone else saying no no, pull her up, I think i actually froze. The waitress came at that point and took care of it all for us. For once DH actually realized he screwed up by doing it. That was a first. She was a horrible fuss bucket from that point on and we were only to course 6!!

So yeah, more cultural things were done. like going to each table and having a toast. That my FIL (father in law) would have nothing of. At one point our names were read and we had to go stand up front and everyone clapped, and other speeches. For all we know they were probably talking about us and how we all our stupid:) Who knows couldn't understand it. DH actually said that was one place he wouldn't have minded singing b/c it couldn't have been any worse then what was being sung.

OK I'll stop the ramblings. I do think that i asked those of you whom i know via my old job to email me, but I'm not sure i have my address listed anywhere. Email me at likelabs@yahoo.com

OK everyone farewell till the next time. The people within this ol' farm house are exhausted and in need of just peaceful music.