Wedding flowers

Yesterday Jess, Jadah, Margaret and I went to the hall to see what was needed for flowers. Not much is needed except the centerpieces. We started by meeting Jess at her work-she works in the floral department and does a lot of weddings. Since getting our dresses she has been thinking about the style, colors and came up with a beautiful yet simple bouquet.

The bouquet shown is not exactly what she put together-it has a few more flowers in it than we will. Ours will also have banana leaves surrounding it for the punch of green.

The boutonnieres will look similar to the ones below.

Accomplishments

A lot got done today. Jon cleaned the basement. Mike installed the entry way light (the Dave fixture). Mike and I nailed in the floor trim in the kitchen. Mike and Jon are now fixing Polly's bench. The leak we thought was in the laundry room was actually the hose being clogged on the AC drain. And finally, the water softener was fixed (new hose to drain).

The Dave Fixture

thank you Dave! I finally found the light fixture that will go in our entryway. It was hard to find-I had to go to Ebay. I was looking for something that wasn't too feminine (current chandelier is crystals) and didn't point upwards to collect dead bugs and dust. This just arrived today-can't wait to get it hooked up!

Dress Shopping

4 of the 5 girls, plus Jodi's mom, Nate and Olaf met at David's Bridal in Oakdale. The first dress I tried on not good, second one I liked but decided to try on a few more just to be sure I liked it. Nothing could compare. No alterations needed unless I lose a little in the bust or waist area. It was unanimous with everyone there-even the guys (that's why they were there). The guys were giving honest opinions to the girls and me on all the various dresses. We all found what we were looking for. Here is your quiz:
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Or E. None of the Above. -remember Jon still reads this blog :)

The girls had fun trying on dresses too!

Alarming

Yesterday evening a man stopped by to give us an offer on a home security system so that was installed last night.

This morning Jon set the alarm when he left. When I got home I thought I would try the key fob to deactivate the alarm first. As I entered the house the alarm went off. I figured I was too far away for the key fob to work. So I immediately turned off the alarm with my code. I took Polly outside, came back in and Polly headed straight to the front door. I noticed it opened a little. I looked outside and Jon was not home. Who was trying to get in the house? I looked out the door window-it was the police. When I was outside with Polly the alarm company called my phone to make sure everything was okay. I didn't answer, so they called the police.

Things we learned from this:
1) Jon set the alarm for instant, which means the alarm had no delay for me to turn it off.
2) I shouldn't leave my phone in the house when I go outside.
3) Security company has a very helpful technical service line.
4) Brooklyn Park police have great response time.

House update

With nicer weather (most of the time) we have been doing outside stuff lately. It is hard to do things like painting inside with Polly around. Last night she was at the vet to get spayed. I took this opportunity to sweep and mop the kitchen, hang some pictures and this morning I worked on the guest room.
We had a to-do list for inside, that also has been updated. We also have an outside to-do list. The storms this past week threw a lot of debris in the yard making it hard to mow without walking across the whole yard picking up branches. Polly found a dead baby rabbit yesterday morning. It looked like it was drowned. Wouldn't surprise me with all the rain we got.
Some good news-we have a robin nest under the deck and I noticed today that there were no blue eggs, but little pink "bodies" in there now. The momma bird does not like it when Polly and I come down to play in the yard, we are a little too close to the nest for her comfort.

Wedding update

I haven't done a lot on the wedding front lately. There has been a lot of web surfing. I am currently trying to get addresses for the invitations. I have the invites and all the stuff to make them, but haven't had the time or energy to start putting them together.

I hope to go dress shopping at the end of the month. With the web surfing I have come across some dresses on ebay that can be made to your measurements. I am thinking I may just try on dresses for their style and then look online. Jodi comes into town that weekend and with everyone else local I was hoping to get everyone to come so they can look for their dresses also.

I have yet to talk to the guy at work about photography.
We haven't looked into an officiant either.
These are a few of the things that I have been most nervous about getting done-dress, invites, photography, officiant. Everything else seems taken care of.
I haven't shopped for flowers yet either, but once Jess is free I'm sure that won't be difficult.