Lindsey's Wedding

So. life has been CRAZY! In the past week, Lindsey got married, Kellen played in a lacrosse tournament, Allie graduated from 8th grade, Kellen played in his last in-house lacrosse game, I spent 3 days in the classroom working on an end-of-year project, Tristan went to prom, I worked the after-prom party and then had the after-after-prom party at my house and I had to start and complete a scrapbook for my niece who had a graduation party yesterday. Yikes. It makes me tired just thinking about it!

Lindsey's wedding was an absolute blast. Her photographer was Jennifer Longo and she was awesome. Lindsey was a beautiful bride!

Ammy was the flower girl. It took over an hour to do her hair. I couldn't believe she sat still for that long.

Kellen was the ring bearer. He was all about the tux! He handed out programs before the wedding started.

I made the programs. Remember the photos I took of Lindsey and Frankie? I used one of the photos and printed it at 50% opacity onto cardstock. Then I printed the wedding info onto vellum and put them together using ribbon.

The ceremony...check out the tear on Lindsey's face that the photographer captured. Pretty cool.

I love this photo because of the look on Kellen's face....crying and kissing all in one ceremony...gross!

Crunch

The Perfect Dress

These are the stores that I have visited since Sunday in search of the "perfect" 8th grade graduation dress (it must be white or light colored and cannot be strapless):

Nordstrom's (2 different malls)
Nordstrom Rack
Macy's (3 different malls)
Lord & Taylor
XXI Forever
Limited
Express
Delia's
Ann Taylor
Loft
Cache
White House Black Market
New York & Company
Talbots
Aeropostale
BCBGMAXAZRIA
Soma Intimates
Gap
H & M
J. Crew
Arden B

I think she has looked at no fewer than 100 dresses. This is the one she chose.

Please excuse the sour look on her face....we both were done.

Dr. Seuss Cake

First, may I say that Allie is so my daughter. I see glimpses of an overachiever in her all the time and it scares me!

Allie's best friend, Ali's birthday was coming up and she wanted to make a cake for her. She watched this video on youtube and decided to go for it. Now, she has made many cakes in her 14 years, but never anything like this.



The woman in the video made it look so easy. Let me be the first to tell you that it was not! What a nightmare. First of all, fondant is not so easy to work with. Second, no one told us that you had to put it back in the refrigerator. We went out for awhile and came back to a droopy cake. I am proud to say that Allie stuck with it when it would have been just as easy to sweep it into the trash. I think it turned out really well considering all of the difficulties she encountered!

Tony called it the Dr. Seuss cake because of the wire things sticking our all over. Her friend loved the cake.

It was very tasty too!

The Ace of Cakes had to start somewhere.

Now if I could just get her to clean up after herself, I would be a happy camper!

Happiness Is...

the first fresh, local corn of the season!