Four Years!
Four years ago today, about this time I was enjoying a rather embarassing cajun breakfast/brunch with my parents, sister, maternal grandparents, and best friend from college. It was embarassing because Grandma Bakke was currently on prednisone and was eating off of *everyone’s* plate, LOL! Then I headed out to the hair dresser where mom got her hair done in a manner that made her look eerily like her mother. By about 4pm we were gathered at the church for photos. By 6:30 or 7pm I was married! The next morning I learned that my paternal grandfather had passed away early that morning, but he was present at the wedding in DH’s vows and when I called grandma before the ceremony as a way to make them feel a part of the special day even though they couldn’t make the trip to Colorado. It was a bit eery after the fact.
This morning DH was tricky and said he was going to stop for donuts and would stop back by the house before heading to work and asked me what I would like. When he returned he had a “dozen” roses. I went to pull down a vase and he said he had a vase and went back to his office. He produced this craftsman-inspired vase that both of us had liked at a local shop downtown a few weeks ago. Now, the dozen roses were actually 14 as all “dozens” at our local Safeway seem to be and they were too much for the vase so we split them into two vases. Then, he said “wait, I have something else.” He again went back to his office and apparently opened the mysterious American Red Cross box that I had to take delivery one a while ago. He ordered me the American Red Cross Serviceman’s Sock Kit! What I was surprised at was the fineness of the yarn and the largeness of the needles that came in the kit. I suspect I’ll use some of my own needles when I knit it up. But it is very cool and I love the historical info that is in it.
Tonight we’re going out to eat at a local Italian restaurant where we had our small reception following the wedding ceremony. We haven’t been there in some time. If we’re lucky we’ll get our waiter from that night! We’re hoping to get away to the mountains for some cross country skiing here this fall though I’m a little worried that our calendar is filling a bit too fast. But we’ll see…
Note: Our scanner has more or less biten the dust. When I went to scan the photo above it was awful so I had to get a little artistic to try to disguise the poor scanning job a bit. I softened it and added the flourishes since they kind of went along with the vase Drew gave me this morning.
Grandpa Schueler, I love you and miss you!
