Wow… only 3 days left. 

Status check:

Pond installed!!! Rocks being delivered today.  Bridge assembly today.

Alot of miscellaneous things have been completed. 

The dress, however, is not one of them.  I have to sew like a madwoman today. 

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Yesterday was, again, a whirlwind of activity.  Michael and his brother worked outside most of the day.  They glued the footers for the bridge, and then installed the skimmer for the pond. 

I went on an adventure to pick up the wee one and drop off the ribbons for the cake.  Then, when I got home I actually worked on the dress!!!  I got so far as to make the lining for the petticoat.  I also read the instructions for the ruffley interior bits of the petticoat.  Yay me!  Then, I decided to check on the boys.

Going outside to check on them resulted in deciding to help.  So, I filled all the cinder blocks for the waterfall with dirt, then built up all the area around the 4 block high cinder block wall with dirt.  Michael helped me with that while his brother finished the bottom of the pond.  That was definitely hard work!  Eventually, I had the whole wall thing covered so we were ready to lay the GINORMOUS pond liner. 

Quickly, we discovered the liner was quite a bit wider than necessary.   It was difficult to maneuver, but we got it done.  We added some water to hold the liner in place and Michael attached the door to the skimmer.  This is about the time I quit.  I was EXHAUSTED from moving all the dirt.  I went inside, cleaned up, and went on a journey to AC Moore and Target. 

AC Moore yielded the etching cream needed for a top secret project.  Target yielded food for dinner.  After preparing some ultra-yummy nachos, I settled down to watch Wednesday night’s Project Runway.  (This is now about 10 pm).  This somewhat motivated me to get back to the dress, but I opted instead to watch an episode of Good Eats featuring fondue (Alton Brown is a genius) and work on a top secret project (that did not involve etching cream) for the favors for the wedding.  I actually completed that task (in about 2-2.5 hours).  I debated cutting fabric for the dress, then decided it was 2am-ish and I was soooooo tired. 

So, I slept.

This morning, I woke up about 7:30am.  I actually got up, cut out the tulle for the ruffley bits, and then wrote this.  In about 15 minutes, I’m taking the small one to a home-school park day, so I guess I need to stop rambling and go do a super-duper ultra-quick clean up of the house.  We have company coming this afternoon, and all of my projects are laying about.

Oh yeah… tonight’s the Bachelorette Party and Bachelor Party!  I’m sooooo excited!

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Laura

I realize I’ve still be slacking on updating this.  I’m going to try to go back to actually updating daily.

I am going to finish the invitations and mail them this week.  Really, I am!!!!  Also, we are starting on the dress this weekend.  After the invitations are mailed, I will probably scan on and post on here (obviously with some of the info removed for privacy).  I’d also like to journal the progress of the dress.  The new project is getting 1000 paper cranes folded in time. 

 I have lots of people interested in helping with various craft projects.  I just need to figure out what I really want to do.  Oh… and one friend knows how to fold origami sakura!!!  I think that will become the bouquet. 

I have some homework to do today and a couple errands.  I hope to be able to do some work on the invites before class though.  Otherwise, I’ll just work on them during class. ^_~

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Laura

We went shopping today.  I bought *hopefully* the last items for the invitations.  I didn’t work on them today though.  I’m reconsidering what dress I want.  I think my appointment on Thursday will involve trying on a few more things before I make a decision.  Had a fun day today though.  We had a water balloon fight after we got home.  We had promised the “spider monkey” a water fight and oh did he get one.  He was completely drenched afterwards and quite happy. 

Also, we *finally* had our gift exchange today that has been brewing since Christmas.  We were really slackers in that regard this year.  The monkey was really happy with a new array of kid kinex and real kinex plus 2 new legos robot things.  So, fun day all in all.  Long day though, hence the super late update. 

 I’m going to go sleep now… tomorrow I have invitations to design!!!

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Laura

So… we went dress shopping today, and here are the pictures.  Click on them for the full size image.  Please comment and vote for your favorite.

Dress A:

Dress B:

Dress C:

Dress D:

Dress E:

Dress F:

Dress G:

Dress X: (aka The Xperiment… I expect Laura will discuss this in her update tonight )

Michael

So, today has been mostly unproductive.  Well, that’s actually not true at all.  We had a great Easter dinner with my parents.   Several plans and ideas were altered, stream-lined to some degree.  Everything will now happen at one location and my daddy will prepare food.  Also, landscape plans were discussed.  The reason the day has felt unproductive is due to my lack of even starting on the invitations (because its Easter and all the stores were closed), and discussions dealing with attire being revised.  My dress is going to be the major problem.  I have some very specific ideas in mind… but since I wanted to surprise Michael with the “embellishments” I can’t tell him what the “exact” plan is.  At the same time, he has some ideas of what he thinks is an ultra-pretty dress.  He definitely has good taste, but the “secret plan” has to be doable.  So, we’ll see what happens.  At the moment, the guest list and invitation is top priority!  Gotta get them started tomorrow!  HAVE TO!!!!

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Laura