I Walk In This World

Blog peeps, just photos with a few captions today. 

My sister’s wedding was AMAZING!!!

My suite.

Ceremony Rehearsal

Rehearsal Dinner at the Shanachie Pub (Irish pub). 

I got the crab cakes!  And enjoyed a few pints of Long Hammer IPA!

Look at one of my thank-you-for-being-my-matron-of-honor gifts!!!!!

The band asked them to come up to play the Irish drums.  They were good sports!

Saturday….Halloween…their wedding day!

Getting her ready in her wedding suite!

Her purse, shoes, and Grandma’s wedding hankie.

Her bouquet

Entrance to reception!

Bridesmaid Ashley and my Hubz (a groomsmen)!

Me and the Best Man

The bride and groom!

Table centerpieces

1st Dance!

Their favor for guests was a trick-or-treat candy bar

The girls’ bouquets

Cutting the cake

Party!

My handsome Hubz

A little wedding suite decor at the end of the evening…

It was THE MOST fabulous wedding!

Congrats Meg and Andy!  Enjoy your HONEYMOON!!!

Blog friends.

Today is the rehearsal for my sister’s wedding!  Quickly followed by the rehearsal dinner!  It’s being hosted by her fiancé’s parents at an Irish pub.  LOVE!

I have to keep this short, b/c you can see, my To Do list is no-where near complete!

Breks was a bowl of ethical eating…

• Nature’s Path O’s
• Nature’s Path pumpkin flax granola
• skim milk (Stonyfield)
• raisins
• Equal Exchange pecans
• half a banana

Din last night was a GINORM salad followed by eleventy billion household chores and errand-running to get stuff for the sister’s wedding.

I just lost the pics somehow.  But be creative.  You know what a salad looks like.

• spinach
• green leaf lettuce
• carrot
• maters
• cukes
• onion
• fresh avocado
• goat cheese
• sprinkle of pecans
• 2 tiny organic free range chicken tenders

Ok.  I gotta:

1. pack
2. shower
3. get a mani/pedi
4. pack the car with all our chit
5. drive to the wedding venue
6. be a matron of honor!!

The weather is perfect!  It’s going to be a fabulous wedding!!

Be back Sunday with photos!

Morning kids.

Now that Hubz and I are in the throes of figuring out how to pack up our chit for our big move to PA, we find ourselves needing to make decisions about Stuff.  What gets thrown out?  What gets kept?  Etc.

My husband is MANY wonderful things.  One of his lesser qualities is that he is a bit of a pack rat.  Last night, for example, he urged me to sit down and go through a basket of my stuff.  So I sit down on the floor, stifle a grumble, and start sorting through the Stuff.

What do I discover?  It’s All His!!!  It’s literally ALL his stuff minus 1 pack of my CDs.

He was not pleased to be found out…

Look.  Hillary knows Hubz has been caught!

LOL.  Just look at the Stuff he saves!

Outdated AAA Travel books and cassette tapes (WHAT?)…

Random pictures from when he lived in Australia in 2000…

Maps of North Carolina from 2003 when we lived there…

Hillary’s advice is being sought about whether or not to keep this 2002 map of New Orleans???

Jesus Help Me.

To his credit, he’s done an excellent job getting stuffed boxed up so far…

With much laughter (mostly at his expense) we made it through the task and successfully threw out at least half that junk.  SEVERAL maps and tourist brochures escaped my clutches though.

Pack Rat.

Anyway.   Food.

Din last night was klassic.  Whole wheat pizza and salad.

• ww Boboli crust with sauce, asiago cheese, Applegate Farms roasted red pepper sausage, mushroom, carmelized onions
• spinach salad with drizzle of olive oil/vin dressing and goat cheese
• a small pour of whatever Sauvignon Blanc I had cooling in the fridge

Gym = 20 minutes ellipticalling + squats + leg press + quad extensions + inner thigh machine

I have SO much work to do to try to nicely wrap things up for transfer to my co-workers upon my departure next week.  Tis a bit overwhelming.

I did take a bit of a lunch break though…

• leftover quinoa topped with half a chicken tender, fresh avocado, sprinkle of almonds
• leftover half baked tater with pepper
• carrot sticks

This lunch was WAY too heavy on, what felt like, starch.  I should skipped the tater but I’m trying to empty out leftovers in our fridge. 

So.  We are at T-minus TWO DAYS until my sister’s wedding!!!!

*squeeeeeee*

P.S.  Congrats to all Phillies fans!!  Represent, PA!!

P.P.S.  A very BIG thank you to Jillian for her super sweet blog post today!

Hi blog friends.

Sorry to disappear over the weekend.  I was literally too busy to blog. 

A recap!  Take a deep breath…lots o pictures!

I left you off at Saturday Breks.  I was supposed to relax the rest of the day until we had to leave for our party.  Well…I may have done this instead.

• mopped all our floors

I did relax a bit after that, but not nearly as extensively as I woulda like.

The party we went to, which I had to keep secret on the blog, was a surprise engagement party for my friend Kate!  Us bridesmaids threw it for her, and the MOH’s mother did a LOT of the food prep.  It was a really fun time and we did manage to surprise her!

The party food and drink!

My plate!

Surprise Kate!

A champagne toast.

Bridal Party!

Sunday morning I woke up and had to have pie.  My MIL makes the BEST pies on earth.  And when visiting this weekend, she brought a black raspberry (or blackberry, I forget) pie.  I’m a big fan of pie for Breks, so that’s what I did.

To health it up a bit, I added the following to my Breks:

• 1/2 cup of strawberry yogurt with Nature’s Path Agave Granola
• 1 cup of cherries
• half a slice of pie

A shout out of thanks to Nature’s Path.  They’re exceedingly generous in the samples they’ve sent to me and this is the 1st time I cracked open a box of their Agave Granola.  I promise you I am not exaggerating….it’s really good.  This is one that I would purchase in the store. 

Yesterday afternoon, my inlaws, Hubz and I went on a picnic at a local state park.  It was hot, but really nice!

Lunch spread…

The spread!

My plate

• potato and bean salad (from their garden)
• cauliflower and broccoli salad with turkey bacon
• baked chicken pieces
• fresh fruit (cantaloupe, watermelon, blackberries)

Yard darts!

We ate lunch really late, so for Din, all we did was nibble on salad and cheese & crackers.  I didn’t take pics cuz I was exhausted from yet another busy bee weekend.

To wrap up Sunday night I had a glass or 2 of vino and watched Oceans Eleven with the family.

Hubz wrapped up his evening this way…

Of all these zillion pictures from the weekend, which one is your favorite?  I know mine!!