The 1st of 5, and other stuff.

Yes, you read correctly.....5 dresses.....the groom and bride to be thought it would be fun to add a 5th person!  But no worries, my future daughter-n-law did ask me FIRST.  Of course, I said yes, what's a "favorite", "world's best", "most-loved" mother-n-law candidate to do?

I can not believe how much I am enjoying making these dresses!  I'm in the middle of dress 2 and going to get measurements for dress 3 next week. The pattern is a pretty simple one, but is essentially 2 dresses in one, as they are completely lined.  The material is nice to work with and I'm just plain having fun.

I'm also staying very busy with many other things. I'm currently in a county leadership class that meets weekly and am sitting on two school boards.  I've been to Jefferson City twice in the past month to meet with my representatives and was able to hear Governor Nixon speak at my most recent visit.  I hate politics, by am finding myself immersed in them lately.  

The house will be coming off the market, soon, and I'm okay with that. Between the wedding and not knowing where we want to go........we think we'll just stay put.  I've come to realize, I won't feel like anywhere is home, til I get to my eternal home. 

Wedding plans for Lee and Emily are coming along........spring break will be busy with invitations, showers, smaller details being ironed out.  They do have their cake lady, photographer, church, reception, colors, attendants, tuxes.......and a few other things.....lined up. Now it's the smaller details that we start working on.  Not to mention the fact that the wedding will be in Lathrop, so we're rounding up rooms for various wedding party members that are from out of town............see, it's not so bad to live in a town where you know a lot of people, is it?  :)

There have been a few family birthdays and anniversaries since I last posted. Jody and Nicki celebrated their 13th anniversary in January, along with 3 birthdays.  This month Rance and Brylie celebrated their 7th anniversary and we've had 2 birthdays.  All these kids just keep getting older and older.......how can that be?  I'm not getting any older!

The workouts are going well, so well, I've decided to buy myself a wii-weeeeeee! What a great little device.  I would have scoffed had my kids wanted one, but here I am, an empty nester and buying myself a game machine!  I don't even have the excuse of grandkids... Thank you, Lord......I need to get this wedding over before I start thinking about that.