Teachingmommy: Katey & Jeff's Wedding

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Katey & Jeff's Wedding

We went to K & J's wedding last weekend and had a great time! Katey was so pretty and they were both so happy that it was wonderful. It was great fun to hang out w/ all our old friends again. The only problem was that Maelin got sick during the reception (Grandma Lea was babysitting) and we had to leave to go help Grandma out.

Of course, it was the only time in her WHOLE life that she threw up all over her bed. I think kids know when you've got a special occasion and somehow figure out how to ruin it.

Anyway, we got to stay for most of the wedding (Emily and I were the guest-book girls) and we had a great time. Here are a few pictures. Enjoy!

This is Jeff wiping away a tear during the ceremony. Very sweet!

This is me and my girls during the cocktail hour. We had so much fun just hanging out again!

Kevin and I enjoying our night out on the town without baby...until we had to go home.

Pretty cake and flowers! I love weddings!

Katey and Jeff during the reception. Doesn't Katey look amazing?

Cutting the cake. They were both really sweet

Emily and I...Guest Book Girls! We did an AWESOME job, if I do say so myself! We got everyone to sign the book and we took pictures of everyone for Katey to add to it later. Way to go us! :-)

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.