a reception in 2 parts

PART 1

the flower girl dresses (i found them at a boutique that is now closed)
playing around in the courtyard (brady and brenton in their matching shirts and ties)

more courtyard frolic (for some reason i love this shot of tessa...)

my lovely wedding prepared children
i was sooooo excited to have my hair done and i thought it turned out gorgeous

a cake only my brother could imagine...DOUGHNUTS

miss molly's hair...which she did ALL HERSELF!!

wordy wednesday

all i have are words today. words of awfulness. i got a call from the school yesterday. the call was about kylee being thrown up on by another child. she needed a new shirt brought in to wear. now all i can think about is

YUCK

SICKNESS

FLU

ANXIETY

ANXIETY PILLS

FLU SEASON AND MY KIDS HAVE NOT HAD THEIR SHOTS YET

PLEASE GOD DON'T LET US GET SICK

MARCI YOU ARE OVER REACTING, STOP IT!

oh, and brenton told me he saw all this too (he has the same anxiety issues i have with throwing up also, i could never be bulimic sp?).

ugh!

"wedding day"

i have decided to quote one of my favorite wedding songs for the following pictures. it is Seal's song "wedding day" sung with his wife Heidi Klum (who as you all remember i have a love/hate relationship with her). enjoy...

Today, I give it, all to you,On this day we recall the memories,Of what we're goin' through,
This day, we're gonna win it,Givin' you all above,

Many minds will recall with us tommorrow,Followin' our love,
In my heart a place,A most special place,

And it's all for you,You're my girl, you're my, angel,

The will's the same for us,Honey they can't be wrong,

Cause everybody knows it was hard to break the sorrow,Then you came along,

In my heart, a place,A most special place,And it's all for you,You're my girl, you're my angel, you're my girl

Oo ooh, aa aah, oo ooh, oo oo oo ooh, oooh and you're the one,

In my heart, a place,A most special place,And it's all for you,And it's all for you,

In my heart, a place, and it's all for you,A most special place, and it's all for you,

And it's all for you,You're my girl,You're my heaven, you're my world,

In my heart, a place, and it's all for you,A most special place, and it's all for you

And it's all for you,You're my girl,

You're my angel, you're my girl

PS thanks Lisa for letting me use some of your pics!!

The WAITING game/Wedding

I call these next wedding/temple pictures...

THE

WAITING
FOR THE BRIDE
AND GROOM

TO COME OUT OF
THE TEMPLE
GAME!!! (what mother would let her child run rampant on the temple grounds??? most certainly not i...)
SOME RANDOM LOVELIES

FINALLY
THEY MADE IT!!

(tons and tons and tons of more pics to come)

a friday funny

walt had taken brenton and kylee camping for the night and i was left with tessa. when i was in the bathroom she snuck my choc cookie and drank half my coke and this is what ensued because of that (i believe)...

an INGLOURIOUS movie

the hubby and i went to see Inglourious Basterds last night. I LOVED IT! i don't know if it had to do with the hate you feel for Hitler, revenge, the comedy, the anger, the great acting...i really enjoyed. and my husband thinks he has a weird wifey...i am not disagreeing with that (not many women would probably enjoy this movie as you will find out later in my story)!

the following were some of our favorite quotes (i have edited some of the bad words...)

My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might of heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doing one thing and one thing only... killing Nazis. Members of nationalist socialist party conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimation, and terror. And that's exactly what we're gonna do to them. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the gd Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half Sicily and then jump out of a f'n air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. We will be cruel to the Germans and through our cruelty they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, disfigured bodies their brothers we leave behind us and the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, at our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us, the Germans will talk about us and the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night and their subconscious tortures them for the evil they've done, it will be with thoughts of us that it tortures them with. Sound good? The Basterds: YES, SIR! Lt. Aldo Raine: That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning to all would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on a debit. A debit you owe me personally. Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis. Or you will die tryin'.

Lt. Aldo Raine: You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, Business is a-boomin'.

Lt. Aldo Raine: I need to know about Germans hiding in trees. And you need to tell me right now. Sgt. Werner Rachtman: I respectfully refuse, sir. Lt. Aldo Raine: Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazi's to death is the closest we ever get to going to the movies. [shouts offscren] Lt. Aldo Raine: Donny! Sgt. Donny Donowitz: [from offscreen] Yeah? Lt. Aldo Raine: Got us a German here wants to die for country. Oblige him.

Brad Pitt was a flippin hoot in the movie! the only thing that bothered me was this (although it did keep me laughing). there was a lady sitting behind us and ANYTIME ANYTHING BLOODY OR VIOLENT happened in the movie she would say, "OH THAT IS DISGUSTING!". every BLOODY TIME!! 1. it made me laugh out loud everytime 2. i wanted to say this is a Quentin Tarantino movie what were you expecting 3. do you know anything about war movies or what movie you just bought a ticket to 4. your movie is across the hall...julie and julia (i loved that movie too but for different reasons). so lady, whoever you are, don't go to war movies or Quentin Tarantino movies!!
CONSIDER YOURSELVES WARNED IT IS A BLOODY WAR MOVIE...BUT A DANG GOOD ONE!!

wordless wednesday

REMEMBER THIS

THE wedding dinner

the wonderful dresses i made for the little girlies

TRYING to get a picture of all the grandkids looking at me...no luck

Bubba and his backpack he TAKES EVERYWHERE!

i know...you have seen this one already. I DON'T CARE...I LIKE IT...ALOT!!

sitting with grandma

yes, you have seen this one before too. but, did you notice tessa spooning her drink?!!

she sleeps where??

This is where we find kylee on most mornings...

if she hasn't moved further than this and blocked the door!

my birthday was nice except for the flu that i got!

more details later, i am still worn out from being sickly all weekend.

wedding week day 5 recovering!!

first and foremost i must announce that TODAY WAS KYLEE'S FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SCHOOL!!

she was soooo excited...and my kids were only a little late to school (really, by like a few minutes!). bonus, she got to wear her hairpiece from the wedding!!

now speaking of the wedding i have a ton, ton, ton of pics to share but i figure i will spread them out during the week, next week. but, i do want to share this little gem that i filmed last night. let me preface this with saying it was the very end of the night and in the middle of the reception kylee said she wanted to go home and go to bed...check the girl out!! my mom makes a special appearance too!

ps I HAVE A BIG FAT BIRTHDAY ON SUNDAY SOOOOOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

wedding week day 4 THE WEDDING!!

INTRODUCING...

MR AND MRS METCALF (you see that laura you are a METCALF NOW!)

we have spent our morning/afternoon here

but, we spent our night before eating here


the four new sisters!! (at dinner last night)

our MANLY MEN

SURPRISE MOLLY, you successfully watched over 5 children at once!!

after picture time we all went to eat at Crown Burger...yum yum!

a gazillion more pictures to come...