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Author: Amber

  • Or worse. Yesterday Bj and I got the biggest shock of our lives. His mom called me looking for him to tell him that his father passed away. He was only 55 years old. He lived in California and took care of Bj’s grandfather, who found him yesterday. We’re not sure exactly what happened, we just keep saying, "it’s so weird." And then we start crying again. And I’ve only seen Bj cry twice before so it’s just so sad. Yesterday I was in the middle of painting the stairwell and I was going to do…

  • So do you remember that whole thing about how our original choice church double booked us? Well the church we ended up at was First Presbyterian downtown. This ended up working out beautifully as it was only blocks from our reception space and the pastor was wonderful. We did such minimal decoration because the whole place looks like it’s carved from one block of wood. We only had two trees up front: and of course the twirly sticks! On the Sunday after the wedding these wouldn’t fit in anyones car and it made me just about…

  • Thank you so much for all the sweet comments on my wedding pics! I love reading them. Of course I think my wedding was the best ever, but duh, that’s because it was mine! And I have my ring back, yeah! It’s so awesome, I hope it’s not too pretty for me, because it really is a stunner. Anyway I have been working on more proper thank yous: Both my friends Karen and Carmen had pictures in their thank you notes and I loved that because then I had a great picture of them from their…

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