Melanie and Ben's Wedding

Finally, the pictures you have all been waiting for!

Here's the empty chapel, shot from the balcony. Very pretty!
Mom, Melanie, Cathy, before the wedding in the bride's room.

Mom and Dad

Susan and Dave
During the wedding, shortly before Cathy's bouquet broke!

The carnage from the broken bouquet.
Cathy and Mike
Melanie and Ben
Cathy, Ali, Melanie, Libby, and Summer, after the wedding.
Ben and his Groomsmen
Melanie and her friend Brandon
Ali, Libby, Summer, and Scott
Melanie and Dad during the Father/Daughter Dance.
First Dance...awwww...

Ben and Melanie dancing again.
Melanie and Ben.
Cathy looking fabulous!
Cathy and Robert
Garter Toss

Melanie and small child.
It was my birthday! And the cake was chocolate!
Kirk stopped taking pictures long enough to have this one taken with Cathy.
Cathy and Linda
More of ME ME MEEEEEEE!
Alice and Cathy
Ali and finance (Melanie- what's his name?)
Arron and Brandon
Melanie, Ben, and the car.

We nearly pulled this plant, thinking it was a weed...

We're glad we didn't. Pretty!

There's Hope

Maybe Annie will let Sarah be her friend after all.

First Fruits/Job Hunt Update

Our garden is really starting to take off! Here's the first of the zucchini and the tomatoes. (They are supposed to be yellow, but they taste the same as regular cherry tomatoes.) We are going to have tomatoes up to the ceiling judging from how many green ones are on the vines. We got a grand total of four strawberries, but I think that the freeze we had the weekend right after we put in the plants did them in pretty well and I'm amazed we got any at all. Our cantaloupe vines look like we're going to get some cantaloupe, but nothing yet! The weeding has been insane; we can't keep up. Next year will be better. I'm going to try a method I read about in Momma's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries, which involves covering the garden with newspapers and putting a special black tarp for plants over it.



I am still applying for jobs, but have yet to hear from anyone yet. I'm applying for technical writing positions (not many are out there so far), administrative assistant type jobs, and college level teaching jobs. I've also been looking for editing jobs, but the only one I've seen has not called me back yet, and it was so long ago that I applied, I doubt that they will. Oh well.

Pinky Pig Picture

You lookin' at me?

Libby's Wedding: A Picture Entry

We just got back from Libby and Chris's wedding in Hereford, TX. It was really fun, and we enjoyed staying at the Bed and Breakfast in Amarillo! I'll be doing B&B pictures in another entry- here's some of the wedding ones!

I thought that this was a good picture of Dad and Melanie!

Some of the decorations
Melanie and her finance, Ben.
The cake was pretty- and yummy too!
Kirk and I

Coming Soon: The Bathroom Makeover!

We're in the process of taking down the lovely frog wallpaper the previous owners of our home put up. Let me say this: I will never, EVER put up wallpaper of any kind. It's pretty, but it is way to big of a pain in the butt to take down!

Other news: Cathy is looking for jobs again and has a job interview on Tuesday. It's not a job she's terribly excited about (it's at another bank- eh) but it is the first job interview she's gotten since interviewing with Molly Maids, where they balked at the college degrees. If this bank job pays well enough, I may take it just to get out of the house and earn a bit of money while I keep applying for better jobs. It pays a lot more than teaching college classes part time, that's for sure. I've also applied for a few editing and technical writing jobs, but have yet to hear from those people yet.