The first weekend of April, my good friend, Ashley, came down to introduce her new boyfriend, Sean, to the central coast. We showed him around Cal Poly, took him to eat his first tri-tip sandwich, and even made it out to Montana de Oro. While I was hoping for more wildflowers, there were still plenty of beautiful flowers to look at. And of course the turquoise water is always nice too!
The next weekend my mom came up to work on the wedding invitations. After looking up how much stinkin' invitations were going to cost, I decided it wasn't worth that much money for a piece of paper that was eventually going to make it to the trash. With the exception of a small handful that will end up in scrapbooks. So my mom and I jumped into what became a labor of love. Thank goodness I had her help or there would have been many more mistakes and many tears. As it was, we both wanted to pull our hair out. But they turned out beautiful. And I love them. Thanks Mom! They should be finding their way to your mailboxes soon...
Just a few days later, we got a mid-week sleepover with none other than our adorable nephew, Grady, and his parents. I'm pretty sure all my patients knew he was coming because I kept telling everyone. And I even got lucky and didn't have a 6:00 patient so I got to come home earlier that night than normal. We missed out on his birthday party, so I baked him a cake which he got super excited about. He was even doing a little happy dance.
We also had lots of presents for him, including a coloring book and giant lollipop (or "big pop" as he was calling it), which were both big hits.
We made a trip to the park by the lake (did you know that Atascadero had a lake?!), where Grady had lots of fun running around and racing us down the slides.
It was so much fun getting to spend some time with the little guy. Thanks so much Melissa and Derek for coming the long way up the coast so we got to spend time with you guys!
The past few weekends we've been doing wedding stuff (of course) and trying to get a little down time. The next few weekends will be pretty packed too. It never stops!
Wedding updates...we met our quota for the hotel rooms. Yay for not paying for unfilled rooms! If you're planning on booking under our group rate, there are only 3 rooms left, so you better hurry up!
Invitations will be sent out soon as I mentioned above. Hopefully they'll find their way to everyone. I heard rumors of some people not getting a Save the Date???
I broke down and hired a day-of coordinator. I didn't want to. I resisted. But eventually I gave in. I had many people offer to help set up and tear down everything at the wedding. And I accepted. But then I realized that no one was from around here, which meant if something went wrong, they'd be calling me or my mom. And I want them to enjoy their time here...they are guests after all. It's actually a husband and wife team, who also have an intern...3 for the price of 1! And they gave us a discount. And they already have done more for me than they are obliged to by contract. Sweet. I feel the stress melting away...
I'm also working on figuring out the favors and rentals. And the ten million other tiny details that no one else will notice but me.
Hope you all had a happy Easter. We spent it alone, and munched on sticky buns, ham, and all sorts of other delicious goodies. And it was nice just being together. Much love to all, and hopefully it won't be another 3 weeks until I update! :)
1 comment:
Yah! Invitations are coming. The coordinator was a great idea. I think you will have a more relaxing day and weeks leading up to it. Good thinking.
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