**This was started Monday on the airplane……need to time to finish later.
I’m back! =) It has been a fun if tiring weekend.
I flew out to Indiana on Friday & dad picked me up at the airport. Jammed out to that Alamaba cd on the plane…..dang, I forgot how much I enjoyed those songs…… Luckily Harold didn’t have jury duty that day so he was actually able to take me to Orlando instead of me having to get a rent-a-car. It wouldn’t have been the same if we weren’t able to do our goodbyes.
I spent that afternoon just visiting with mom, dad & the kids (in between their playing). And spent it convincing dad that I could take off with his car to head up to the wedding on my own since I want to stop in Lafayette to get the present I wanted to get Amanda & Jason & of course, I wanted to stop and see Sandi on the way up…..grin He should be happy, I left him a filled up car (it only had half a tank when I grabbed it) and took it through the car wash. =)
I showed mom how to upload her pics from Tahiti to her pc from cd and then I started organizing my copies of them. I have them renamed with # with has close as them being in order as I can get them without me being there & working with 248 of them…..lol But for some reason my photoshop will put them out of order when I want to make a gallery of them for the family…….I was looking at that today while killing time in the airport and saw that I could rank them. So when I have time I may play around with that later this week.
Saturday I had a good 2hr visit with Sandi (even if that is never enough), found what I want in Lafayette….and then headed to the wedding. It was at the park in Lowell. They had a few arches leading up to where the ceremony was going to take place, in front of the pond. It was beautiful. The day was a warm one, so my hair went up. =)
It was a beautiful ceremony, the preacher had them stand under wedding arch and face the family & friends and he stood about 20 ft away and did the ceremony from there. It was very different on how he conducted it (from the standard) and he gave it with a great flair of humor thrown in.
Amanda and bridal party looked great. Mom and I took as many pics as we could. Mom thought a head and brought a cd down so we could down load them and give them to Aunt Shelia that day (the bride’s mom), but me being the space case left my wire for downloading from the camera here in Florida, partly cuz in my subconscious, I know that mom has the same one and I could just use hers. But she hadn’t the wire up to the wedding thinking that I had mine……..lol Luckily Cousin Bill (so weird calling him that since he is my dad’s 1st cousin and I’m use to referring to that generation in the terms of aunts & uncles……..lol) had the download wire that we needed, and it worked out even better cuz he had forgot his power cord for his laptop and his battery died. So he borrowed mine & I borrowed his. =) Then the cd that mom brought for putting the pics on won’t write, luckily I had the one where I put the pics on from Tahiti on & was able to add the wedding ones……grin So Aunt Shelia & Uncle Dave have a copy of the wedding and the mom & dad’s trip.
I merged the pics that mom & I took and got them in pretty good order of how the events happened. And this time photoshop didn’t goof them. =) But doesn’t she look gorgeous?
Here is the Bridal Shower I missed.
It was a great time. My Great-Aunt Evelyn was there (Cousin Bill’s mom) and a good portion of her side of the family. They are fun to visit with, but then I love visiting with family. =)
**Will be continued………