Whew...

Last weekend was a particularly busy one for us.

On Friday we went to my cousins sons engagement party. I do believe it was the first one I had ever been to! I even Googled if we were supposed to bring a gift. Everywhere I looked said no; but there was a table full of gifts anyway!

Oh well, when we get the wedding announcement I'll send a gift then. We won't be attending the wedding because it's in Vancouver BC!

These huge chocolate and caramel covered apples were on every table and they were delicious! I of course did not bring my camera but I did use my phone to get this picture.

On Saturday my brothers best friend got married. The whole family was invited and we had a blast.

Here's the happy bride and groom with my brothers Tom (standing) and Don, who was the best man.

These little seed packets were at every place setting. Such a cute idea.  Mine's propped up on my first of many drinks of the night!

We're very happy for John and Donna.

Sunday was a day of rest and we needed it!

This weekend was pretty much spent catching up on all the stuff I did not do last weekend!

Notes From My Mother-In-Law

Coming up this November it will be two years since my mother in law passed away.

On the day of her funeral my sister-in-law  handed me a envelope with a couple of notes in that my MIL had written to me and to Rich many years ago and wanted us to have them after she was gone.

In one she admitted that she was upset when we got married. That kind of surprised me because she never let on in the least little bit. After having a chance to think about it, though, I could hardly blame her. We were way too young to get married at 21 and 20 years old.  Housekeeping was not my thing back then and it probably showed!

By the time we were married for 5 years we already had Chris and Shauna. We were a go-with-the-flow type of family that didn't worry too much about keeping any kind of schedule. Sometimes we went to the grocery store at 9:00 or later in the evening...taking our babies with us. She wasn't real impressed with that!

A couple of them were just little notes that she had jotted down after a holiday or some other time when we got  together and how glad she was to see how much we loved each other and how loving we were with our kids.

In spite of her earlier misgivings about us, she was always loving and gracious to me.

I'm glad she wrote these little notes for us. They are something that I treasure.