Friday's Foibles

This was a good weekend.  Friday night, Leon and I headed to Des Moines where the wedding was going to be held.  We made it to the rehearsal in time but the bride, groom and pastor were late.  Whew!  It's good to not be the last ones there!  So Leon goofed off with his cousin

 

Here is Amanda and the dress.  It turned out ok, but the chiffon over dress was too big...  She cinched it up with the belt and went with it.  After wondering why it draped down on the sides, I realized that I'd sewn the back panels backwards.  The side seams of the back became the center seam of the back...  I hoped people would think it was a design feature!  The fitted dress actually worked though!  After two fittings, each with a different girl of different sizes too.  May miracles never cease?!

 

Leon walked down the aisle slowly carrying his little pillow and when he got to the end of the aisle, he jumped up on the nave (alter area) like he was a super hero.  In fact I think he yelled something heroic.  

Go stand with your cousin!!!  

I was thinking that it was going to take either Ritalin for him or Prozac for me to get through the actual wedding...  Turns out it took a bribe.  But I'll get into that tomorrow.

Unfortunately the bride's twin/maid of honor was late as well. She was in a car accident and her tire was taken out as well as a lot of scraping on one side of her car  She was fine.  But their dad went to get it towed and bring her back.  For a while, Amanda thought her new father-in-law would walk her down the aisle for the rehearsal, but just when the back doors of the church opened, it was HER dad standing with her.  *queue clapping & cheering*

After several failed attempts to get Leon to do the aisle right, we gave up and went to the rehearsal dinner.

Leon played dinosaurs vs Transformers with one of the musicians and they had a ball.  

His cousin, Josh, was feeling pretty stupid that he didn't opt to sit closer to us, because being an 18 year old boy, he liked dinosaurs too...  

After leaving the dinner that night, I realized that I'd forgotten the dress so I could enter it in the fair on Saturday.  I made a few cell phone calls and finally got through to the bride's sister.  Got lost in downtown Des Moines looking for the hotel.  Leon kept saying THERE IT IS!  But he was wrong.  After asking some homeless guys, we found it.  Met them there and got the dress.  Leon was OUT by that time.

 

We got home pretty late, but not too late to see Maddy and Matthew who had just arrived for the week.  

More tomorrow.  Life is getting in the way...