Happy Easter!!

Easter!!!! Hooray!!! Super busy day..here goes!

There was lot to do on Easter Sunday. There was a sunrise service at church. I didn't go. As Kathy says, "If the Lord had meant for us to see the sunrise, He would have made it later in the day." I agree. There was a church breakfast. I'm pretty sure I was still sleeping. :) Who needs breakfast when Easter lunch is coming?!? Church was an hour earlier than normal, starting at 10:00. Meredith and I had the nursery, so that was fun. For the first hour....Seriously. Church started at 10, it was over at 12!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!! Every toy was out of the toy box. The children were restless. The adults were restless!!! *Sigh*

When church was finally over, we went to Lancaster to Grandmother and Granddaddy's house. It was a full house! Grandmother, Granddaddy, Mom, Dad, Brent, Deborah, Pete, Helena, Meredith, Corey, Colin, Brenna, Kathy, Hoppy, Katie, Bobby, Uncle Arnie, and me. Whew. We had a super yummy lunch. :)

After lunch we walked up to the church to take some pictures with the flowers. It was prettier there.

After pictures, it was back to the house for Easter egg hunting. Good times. :)

Brenna found a calculator. She loved it. :)

We had a great day. I love spending these days with my family. :)

Baby Shower!

Today was Kim's baby shower! It's been a super busy couple of days, but it was worth it for my buddy!!

First of all, I spent several hours working on Kim's present. A "diaper cake". Being the cakemaker that I am, I thought it would be appropriate. It served nicely as both decoration and as a gift! It had two fuzzy crib sheets, 5 receiving blankets, about 20 cloth diapers, and 20 washcloths in it, as well as two wrist rattles, a fuzzy elephant, two pacifiers, and a teddy bear.

I also spent a good amount of time working on the real cake! It was yummy chocolate with Speppy icing. I checked out the crib bedding Kim and Dat picked out and copied that onto the cake. 'Cause that's how I roll.

Besides the cake, I threw together some snacks for us too. :) We had popcorn chicken with ranch, honey mustard, or barbecue sauce, barbecued meatballs, an apple-grape-and-cheese tray, a vegetable tray, and some mints. No southern shower is complete without the little pastel mints. :) Oh yeah, and pink lemonade. I almost forgot!

I remained calm with decorations. I didn't think they were all that necessary. I did hang a banner across the fireplace that looked like a clothesline. And I used two of my gifts to her (a book and a toy) to decorate on a table. I also moved a picture of Kim and me with Chalica to this table. I wanted to feel like Chalica was with us, even though she's far far far far away in Korea. I missed her today!!

Kim and her mom arrived at my house, followed closely by Megan and Katie. It was so good to see them!

Everything was ready, so we ate, Kim opened presents, and then I cut the cake. Kim did a great dramatic reading of Moo, Baa, La La La! for us.

We had a vreat visit with friends and then it was time to go. I made a picture of everyone with Kim and her belly!

I hope my buddy had a good time. I'm so excited about meeting Miss Annabelle Elizabeth!! :)

Random Wedding Pictures

More pictures from the wedding...

I think this is my favorite one of me...

Cheesin' with Kelly

And Susan

Posing with the bride, groom, and the cake

Um, "Brian", did you leave cake for anyone else?


Great face on a very happy groom!

Cheesin' with Chris

Taking my own picture. Silly.

Again, silly.

Chris and Krystle's Wedding...Part Three

(I decided to do this in several parts so that it wouldn't be the longest post in the history of my blog!)

We left the church after pictures and made our way to the country club. After a few more pictures with the photographer, the bridal party made their entrance to 2001. Yay! (Go Cocks!) I had a hard time not cheering like I was at a football game, though. :) Chris and Krystle went straight to their first dance and then the bridal party was released from duty to party!

Step One: Flip Flops! Ouch my feet.

I ate a quick bite. The food was really good! Chicken, veggies, fruit, meatballs, sandwiches, very sweet tea. Yummy! We did all the typical reception events. Brian gave the toast and they cut the cake. Yay cake!!! :)

The bouquet toss was ill-fated. She couldn't get the bouquet to fly. Couple that with the fact that none of us really seemed to want to catch it, and the poor bouquet spent a lot of time on the ground. The boys were almost as enthusiastic about the garter as we were about the bouquet.

Then it was back inside for more dancing and eating. Chris and Krystle did a fake exit at 8:00. The briday party lined up with sparklers and everyone else had bubbles and they did their exit for pictures. Then they came back and we partied for a few more hours.


The wedding was beautiful and the reception was super fun. I hope Chris and Krystle will have a long and wonderful life together!


Stay tuned for one more post of random wedding related pictures!

Chris and Krystle's Wedding...Part Two

Saturday was a very busy day!! I got up very early to decorate the wedding cake. Then my dear, sweet sister came and drove the cake (and me) to the country club for setup. We met Krystle and her mom and I put the cake together. It took awhile to get all of the flowers arranged the way I wanted them. Krystle's mom was very sweet and ran out to get some baby's breath to add the final touches. We got a picture just in case we couldn't get one later. We looked rough...

When the cake was all finished, I went back home, ate a quick lunch, and got ready to go to the church. I did hair and makeup and everything at the church. It seemed like the thing to so, since it was rather windy outside! I had fun getting ready with the girls. Krystle was very calm. Here are a few pictures from the getting-ready process...

When we were all ready, we went up for pictures and then just stayed upstairs waiting for the wedding to begin.

They called me out to go play for the grandparents to be seated at 4:45. I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited for the signal to begin. Some of Chris's family were late and we were waiting for them. Mom was running out of music, so I was trying to find stuff for her. I felt kinda dumb standing up there not doing anything. Eventually I saw the grandmothers come out and line up to walk down the aisle, so mom and I started to play. But the grandmothers didn't walk. So we ended up playing Ave Maria twice. Oh well.

The ceremony was lovely. Krystle, who had been so calm all day, cried. I had to choke it back so I didn't cry too. The unity sand ceremony was neat. I had never seen that before. The ceremony was short and sweet. After the ceremony, we took the big group pictures, and then it was off to the country club for the reception to celebrate with Mr. and Mrs. Mizwa! :)

Chris and Krystle's Wedding...Part One.

I started my spring break early so I could get ready for the big wedding weekend. After I nearly worked myself to death, I left school on Thursday at noon to get a jump on my wedding chores. The first thing I did was get a haircut. One has to have good hair when one is in a wedding! :) After that, I ran a few errands and got busy with the baking. I was making Chris's groom's cake and the wedding cake as well as a birthday cake for Chris's brother an another birthday cake for someone else. I was very busy! Thursday night, I baked 14 cakes. Seriously.

Friday morning, I got up super early and started working on cakes. I finished the Lightning McQueen birthday cake first. Then Andrew's Coors Light cake. Then Chris's yard cake. I took a short break to have my nails done and tan. Then Icame home and got ready for the rehearsal.

Rehearsal was at the church at 6:30. I was only a few minutes late. Considering all the stuff I had to do, I thought I did pretty well. We got all the details of the ceremony worked out. I practiced Ave Maria with Mom. (Mom played the piano for the ceremony and I played Ave Maria with her for the grandparents to walk in.)

After rehearsal we went down for dinner. The food was really good. Yummy chicken and rice and salad for those people that eat salad. I don't. Yuck. Krystle gave us our bridesmaid's presents. Super cute jewelry bags with our initials, teardrop earrings, and circle necklaces to wear to the wedding.

After dinner, we put on the bridesmaid shirts that I made for us and went out in downtown York for a little while. I was Krystle's ride, so I was basically just waiting for her to be ready to go to her parents' house. It was fun relaxing and hanging out with the wedding party though. :)


When Krystle was ready, I took her home and then I came home and did the crumb coats on the wedding cake. And then I went to bed.

(I am sorry there are no pictures from this evening of fun. I was in a hurry and had 2 cakes to deliver and I forgot my camera. Hopefully I can get a copy of a picture of us in our bridesmaid shirts. If I can get one, I'll post it later.)

Bachelorette, WOO! :)

I spent last weekend at the beach. :) I love the beach.

We went to the beach to celebrate Krystle's last weekend of freedom before she becomes a wife. Susan and Kelly went down earlier in the day and Krystle, Tara, and I followed as soon as Krystle and I got out of school. We stayed in a great condo in Little River that is owned by a member of Susan's family. It was a wonderful place!!

Friday night when we got there, the first excitement of the evening was when Mr. Frog decided to hop in from outside to join the party. Five girls...in a condo...with a frog...trying to figure out how to get him back out the door. HILARIOUS.

We decided that since it was pretty late already (it was already around 9 when we got there) we would just stay in Friday night. I think that was a brilliant decision. Krystle opened her funny presents and we played some games and just hung out in our pajamas. It was great!

Here are some pics from the evening:

I don't know what's wrong with her...

Kelly, Susan, and Krystle

Tara and Me

Saturday, we watched a lot of the Golden Girls. Then we went to lunch at TGI Fridays. It was very yummy. We were all very hungry. Then the people came in having their wedding reception. Weird. They had a cake in a box and everything. After lunch, we went down to the beach. It was very foggy and sort of chilly, but it was still the beach.

The whole gang at the beach.

After the beach, we went back to the condo and rested for a little while before we got ready to go out for the evening. When we were all ready, we went out (in the major rainstorm) to California Dreaming for dinner. After dinner, we headed to Broadway at the Beach.

We started at Crocodile Rocks. The dueling piano guys were fun. We also met some guys that were having a bachelor party. According to the one guy's tattoo, they were from Somewhere Between the Shoulder and Elbow, North Carolina. They were very nice, fun guys and we hung out with them for the rest of the evening.

After we left Crocodile Rocks, we went to Revolutions for some dancing. I don't dance, don't ask me. Seriously.

Sunday morning, we got up and made our way home. It was a very fun weekend! :)