New puppy not BFF

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more wedding pics

wedding cookie, put together with ice cream & another cookie

This is the beautiful cake made by Elaine Herman (on 4 days notice)

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Amy and Raul Godinez 4-23-11



Mr and Mrs.

Cameron and Faith- Happy Day!






Well, apparently I asked my computer for too much. It would only upload 3 photos so I guess I will do a follow-up post another day.
Saturday April 23rd, Raul and Amy were married at our church by Bishop Bowles. It was a sweet and short service. Bishop said some nice things and basically gave them some good advice for starting a marriage. There were probably about 70 people in attendance (mostly church friends). We had a small cake and punch reception in the cultural hall and then family and close friends were invited over to our house for a barbecue rib dinner and swimming. Amy had not wanted a cake but since we decided at the last moment to have the church reception, a dear friend from church asked if she could make the cake. I honestly did not know that she could make wedding cakes, I thought she was going to make us "three cakes" to serve. I will post the picture of the cake as soon as I get it figured out. At the house we had a giant Mrs Fields Cookie cake with ice cream in between two cookies. The top cookie was decorated with a bride and groom, real cute. The whole wedding and reception (and bridal shower) were planned and over in a two week period of time. Amy got her dress at Macy's after looking at David's Bridal for 3 hours. Got the kids clothes online (luckily it was Easter time and JC Pennys had the right color and a great sale). I was very pleased with the whole affair, it was nice but not stressful at all.

quality family time

I hate that I don't have pictures to post with this.

Yesterday we decided we needed to trim the trees in front yard in order to decorate for Christmas. By we, I guess I should say I. I knew Ray wanted to get it done but also wanted to do other things but this was my priority for the day.  We had considered hiring a tree trimmer but decided we could use the money elsewhere. So, we started at 10:00 AM and 4 1/2 hours later we were done. Ray used his long pole cutter and started taking off the leafy branches. I used the smaller cutters and cut each branch into 4 ft pieces and then Ryan, Cameron and Faith took these pieces and stacked them nicely in a large pile by the sidewalk for the city workers to come by and collect this week.  They also raked and swept into piles all the leaves and put them all in the trash bins. Cam's favorite task was to get in the bins and stomp down the leaves. It was hard work but luckily it was a cool day to work. And as soon as we got done with the trees, we began the yard decorating. It was so worth it!  And to add to the day, our next-door neighbor was assembling his large nativity set in his yard and hanging lights. And the neighbor next to him is a city councilman and he and others were assembling the city council float for the parade that night.  We had great conversations and shared the Christmas spirit as we all did our thing. It always feels so good to accomplish the hard work while working together- nice quality time. And then we were able go to the parade and relax and enjoy!

The real thing- WEDDING 10/10/10

I will try to write some but not sure how it will work with all the photos here. First, the beautiful bride.

The happy couple

Did Grandpa & Grandma dress appropriately or what?

with the parents

Ray stepped on her dress but other than that...

The Bolton girls- Brandie, Cami, Diona, Amy (Michelle was not at wedding)

Flower girls and ring bearers

Cami with big bro Ray

The CINNABON wedding cake (plus 3 trays of mini cini-bons)  YUM YUM 

Ryan & Cami at reception

Ric's family minus Mary Beth

Ray's family minus Arianna

So, as you can see, it turned out real nice. There will be more pictures to come. These are from Brandie's camera but there were plenty of others taking pictures including Gentry's uncle,  a professional. He just went home today so I imagine it will be a couple of weeks before we see those pics. The college was the perfect setting for the wedding and reception (actually a little small for the reception). You can see how the nature was a beautiful backdrop and inside, the twilight sunset was behind the head table. Unfortunately, I did not get to visit as much as I would have wanted to, but it was a great day.

time is flying by

When I was really retired and got to do whatever I wanted everyday, time seemed to drag on and I thought the wedding was so far away and I was so on top of it. But now that I am working again, the wedding is just around the corner and I can't seem to get everything done. Everyday I think, I need a day off!  We are interviewing today for the position, so hopefully, just another week or so and then I can retire again.