Nine Month Anniversary

Yay, our nine month anniversary. We celebrated by going to a 50th anniversary for one of my great aunts & uncle. It was a fun party! I was promised by my great aunt that since I came to her fiftieth celebration, she'd come to mine. Hooray, our first RSVP!

Seriously, I look forward to the day that David & I celebrate our fiftieth anniversary surrounded by our friends and family. For today, I'll celebrate nine months together! Happy anniversary!

Babies, Babies, Babies!

Disclaimer: No, we are not planning on having a baby anytime soon. So don't be getting any ideas from this post!

Yesterday, I needed a place to keep my frappuccino while I was singing in church. Someone suggested that I put it in the infant room, that way it'd be safe. After I finished singing, I went and got it. In the room next door, there was the cutest little boy, all dressed up in his Easter outfit, carrying around a duck stuffed animal. He was so cute! I was saying something to one of the workers about how I shouldn't go into the room, it might give me ideas, and she said then maybe I should go in. Yeah, maybe not.

Then fast forward to Easter with my family. There were quite a few babies there, many of them are the kids of my generation of relatives. It's kind of funny thinking that people my age are having babies! I know it's not unusual, it's even normal to have kids around my age, it's just crazy to think about! I guess it'll be even crazier when we do decide to have kids. I know I want to be a mom, just not yet. Someday!

Until then, I'll enjoy my friends' and family's kids!

Easter Sunday

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday! We have always gone to visit with my dad's relatives on Easter. Everyone brings a dish, then sometime in the afternoon, there's a big Easter egg hunt for the kids. I remember when I was growing up, I always had a fancy Easter dress, usually made by Mom, and sometimes with a matching hat. That was the day the white shoes came out, the socks with the lace on them and my fancy dress.

Nowadays, everyone wears jeans to Easter. While it is not as formal as it once was, it is still a time of visiting with the family. I decided a couple of weeks ago to make cookies as our contribution for the meal. I had originally wanted to find decorated sugar cookies. No luck on that, my second choice was to decorate cookies myself. As I envisioned the kitchen being an absolute mess afterwards, I nixed that idea.

I finally decided on chocolate chip cookies, with the pastel M&Ms in them. I, of course, couldn't find any plain pastel M&Ms to put in the cookies. Oh well, chocolate chip cookies are still good by themself. Mom had the idea of putting the cookies in an Easter basket. David saw an ad for Party City (or whatever it's called) that had baskets on sale. I found a cute basket, spread out a napkin, tomorrow I'll add the cookies and be set!

I'm really looking forward to Easter. I remember this time last year, I had just had my first shower and was getting ready to have my bridal portraits done. It seems like such a long time ago! It has gone by so fast, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

The Directors!

Last night was the youth dinner theatre at church. David and I had attended most of the rehearsals, I was in charge of photography and he was in charge of videography. Well, we had some suggestions for the kids (e.g. enunciation, mannerisms, etc.), which they did use. The past few rehearsals, David & I were basically telling the kids what to do and all that jazz.

We had been asked to arrive early and get the kids to run through the show. After doing so, we took our seats in the sanctuary. Upon perusing the playbill, there was a listing of people to thank. Imagine our surprise and amusement when I saw that David & I were listed as the directors! We both thought it was funny. I guess if we attend rehearsals and tell the kids what to do, then that qualifies us as directors. Who knew? I thought I was the photographer who was making suggestions!

Seriously, though. David & I talked about it, and if we had been asked in the beginning to direct, we would have probably said no, that we didn't know how to direct. Well, apparently we do. The kids did a fantabulous job last night, only a few flubs, and I'm not sure anyone besides the kids, David, Leanne & I knew where they were. The neat part was at the end, a couple of the kids brought out two bouquets, one for Leanne and one for me! How cool is that? I also had lotsa people come up and tell me what a great job the kids did, how much they enjoyed the show, and what a great job we did with the kids. Yay! That really made me feel good.

You know, I am glad to be finished with the rehearsals, now I just need to make the pictoral slide show! I am also excited about possibly directing again next year. It was fun! We shall see.