Meg's wedding

My little sister is getting married this summer and I am so excited! Unfortunately, we are a few states apart. Thank you God for the internet and instand messaging, and facebook and Pinterest. Oh and Ebay. We have spent the last couple of days looking at flowers for bouquets. Without the internet we wouldn't have been able to do this together so much. I found some different ideas through Google, pinned them to Meg's wedding board on Pinterest and she checks them out from her end. If I can't be hand-in-hand with her this is the second best thing. We found a beautiful flower and it took me a while but I searched and found that it is Plumeria, they use them to make leis. They are beautiful as a wedding bouquet. Also found lemons in vases wrapped in ribbon as centerpieces. So much more fun than when we got married and you had to thumb through every book and idea that they had.

We are already planning our trip in July. We have been on Mapquest more than ever. Mapping out routes. Proving to the boys that the Grand Canyon is way too far out of the way. Figuring out if Jeff will fly back home to go back to work so as not to take more than the week off.

Weddings bring out the best (and the worst, for some) of people. Right now I am full of smiles and happiness for this beautiful girl who is now a woman who is looking forward to a very happy day!

We have friends and neighbors that we have known since Keegan and Karli (above in blue, top in blue hat) were in kindergarten. (actually we met them before that, but that is when things really took off). Keegan and Karli are just 3 months apart, Konley and Megan are 1 year and 5 days apart. The week that we had Snowmaggedon we spent the week with these girls and their mom, Karen. Their dad was out of town and Jeff was working so we could play outside, scrapbook, and do dinner all together. I know that there are so many people that couldn't wait for the kids to go back to school, I on the other hand, was reminded of what life was like when it was just us and I was staying home with the boys. We played all week. I went outside and sledded down the hill with them. We got sick of being at home and went out for lunch and to the grocery store. Our lives have all gotten very busy. When the kids were little we could hang out all the time, now we have soccer and gymnastics, high schoolers and middle schoolers and elementary schooler and we are crazy. It was great to take a week out and just hang out again.....my favorite part of the snow.