The Day Before

Friday morning we got up, packed and headed up to Calvin Crest. The girls had a 12:30 appointment to get our nails done at Star Nails in Oakhurst so we stopped there on our way.

Heidi and I getting started.

The finished nails. I accidently messed up my nails twice while sitting there drying them. The first time was pretty bad so I asked the lady if she could fix them. She kindly did but the second time wasn't nearly so bad so I didn't bother her again. Diana also had a bit of an accident and had to get hers fixed too.

Natalie and Jonah waiting for the rehearsal to start. It was a lot later then was planned because we were waiting for 3 of the groomsmen to arrive.

Ready to walk down the aisle.

During a conversation "spooning" was mentioned and someone asked what spooning was, we were happy to demonstrate.

Rehearsal dinner at the Tenaya Lodge. It is a fancy place with good food. It was pleasant but a little long.

Napkin folding contest.

Chuck giving the first toast.

Meeting the Girls

Thursday night the other 2 of Heidi's bridesmaids and another friend arrived at her house. All three girls she met while at school in Eucador. I had met one of them, Natalie, once and was looking forward to meeting the other two girls. I went over to the house help tie some more bows and to hang out.


Bottom left: Natalie, Cassie, Mary, Me, and Heidi


Phillip was pretty proud of his first and only bow

I was the expert and had to show the others how to make them.

Cassie was having difficulties with her one and only bow, Mary and I each made 3 to her one.

Tie Bow or Tae Bo?

Sunday night we went to the Steinman's house for a bow tying party. When we were talking about it while we were still at church that morning everyone thought we were saying "tae bo" instead of "tie bow." We had to clarify ourselves a few times. The next day at aerobics I really did do tae bo!

The Chandler ladies ended up doig the bows for the center aisle since it seemed a bit of a challenge for Gretchen and Heidi.

We were pleased with how well the bows turned out.


Lauren from Tazzaria came over as well to practice Heidi's make-up for the big day and it turned out very nice too.

Stormy Sunrise

We've had interesting weather the past few days. The weekend was warm and humid with sprinkles, rain, and some thunder and lightning. Today was a lot colder and foggy and cloudy all day.

This was Saturday morning when we woke up and looked out the window. I wasn't going to get out of bed because I was warm and cozy but the thought of missing a good picture proved to much to resist.


This was also Saturday morning looking in a different direction. The change has been exciting and we're hoping the rain keeps coming!

A Little RoboTronic Technologic

Today Michelle and I came straight home from school to finish up an art project. The idea was that we were to create something three dimensional and geometric. The main idea was that the color would make the object appear three-dimensional without the use of hard lines (artist code for outlines). It took a lot of work because the pictures are pretty huge. We finally finished them and we were happy with results. SOOOOOOOOO, without further adieu here are our projects.

This is Michelles Robot!


This is my Robot!


TADA!

Changes

Michelle and I watched a video today about the people of Sudan and their 21 year long war and all the devastation that continues there. It is overwhelming to watch a video and see people live the way that they do there. Its almost like it might not be real but when you realize that it is your heart breaks. People should not have to worry about things that can be easily cured like diarrhea, kids should not be forced to kill other people or be soldiers, being scared for your life should not be a daily occurence, but these things happen. Americans so often worry about stuff. I looked at the hundereds of millions of dollars spent in each state for each politician and the totals are sick. I saw the amount going to the war in Iraq monthly and it was sick. It brought a few of us to tears today watching these people hurt. I had it tough growing up but never as bad as the people of Sudan and other countries like it. The world should know about these things, and when they find out, they should be disgusted. We should want to make this right if it means giving everything we have because these people have even less than what we would consider nothing.

Stuck in the 80's

This year's birthday party theme was an ode to the 80's. Here are the results...

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P.S. Be sure to scroll down and mute the volume on the Labor Day slide show!