Wedding bells are ringing!

My baby sister is getting married next month! I'm so excited for her. She's excited too as the picture attests.

The man of her dreams gave her this beautiful ring. I still haven't met the man but I hear from the family that he's a keeper.

We threw her a bridal shower. Those fortune cookies were handmade by my amazing sister-in-law, Melinda. They contained some of the funniest fortunes I've ever heard. My aunt's fortune read, "Your future will be embarrassing." Love it!

I enjoyed meeting some of Julie's close friends and spending time with family that I don't get to see often. I administered a multiple choice test all about Kurt and Julie's courtship. It was great fun to invent make-believe scenarios about their courtship. It was fun to see which people were really in the know on Julie's life!

13 inches

That's how much length we had cut off of Lily's hair this weekend!

We've been talking about cutting her hair for a couple of months. (We make deliberate decisions around here.)

The boys had a father and sons camp-out so the girls had a fun girl time weekend. Friday evening we watched Ariel's Beginning together then got Lily's haircut. Afterward we went to dinner at In-n-Out. Lily asked to sleep with me in my bed. I love snuggling but I don't love being squished and kicked. I told her she could sleep with me but if she kicks me too much, I would just move her in to her bed. She thought that was a great idea. Well, we'll just say I woke up a lot of times in the night, but was always able to fall quickly back to sleep.

The next morning we got delicious donuts from Rainbow Bakery, a small bakery recommended by a friend. It was a bit of a drive, but completely worth it. Then we went up to the library and read, read, and read Bearenstain Bears books and checked out A Bug's Life, which Lily has been asking for for over a week.


I took these next photos before church this morning.

Twilight

I got sucked into Bella's world this week. I got Twilight Monday afternoon and finished it in 24 hours. I slowed down a little and read New Moon in 2 days.

I went with some girlfriends to the Twilight movie premiere last night (this morning) and loved it! Of course, a movie can never reach the depth that a book can. But the movie was great.