LET THE RECEPTION BEGIN...

My cousins Tracey and Jerry.

Tracey's daughter Kennedy singing happy birthday...the shy little thing that she is...NOT

We had three birthdays this night Grooms mom, Brides sister and one of the best men...

My cousin Rick and his youngest Brent.

My Aunt Elsie along with her daughter Sara and Sara's daughter Emily...Three generations here.

My uncle's left is Brides dad Jerry and right is my Uncle Larry

Cousin Jerry and his my Aunt Jodi....

Autumn and Brent along with my niece Sydney

Aunt Karen and my cousin Jen.

Dancing the night away...

I think Autumn and Sydney were doing the chicken lol

Siblings..my Aunt and Uncle along with my Mom..missing my Uncle Larry in this pic

Here he is with my Aunt Elsie...

Two of the most precious lady's in my life.

Two cutie pies...

Our family table.

My brother, Uncle and my Dad.

One of my favorite parts of the wedding is the cake..It looks black and white here, but it was true purple with scripture on love wrote on the layers...

So there are some pics of the Reception with about 600 more I took I bet your all glad if you looked all the way down this post that I didn't post any more....

Love to all my family...

LORI MAY YOU ALWAYS SMILE SO BIG..

We left of in April with My Cousin Jerry's wedding..Here they are Jerry and Julie at Jerry's sister Lori's wedding to John... Jerry and Julie are now expecting their first bundle of joy in March...

My cousin Tracy sister of the Bride and her daughter Olivia...

My brother, niece, sister-in-law and my Autumn after wedding.

I love this pic of my brother and cousin Lori....

My cousin's Tracey and Jerry...siblings to Lori...I love them both...Jerry is the baby of us grandchildren and lets say Tracey is in the middle somewhere...

Is it the children blowing bubbles....yes...I mean of course not it is my brother, in his own world..He Joey you can't say you were blowing them for Tyler he wasn't there!!!

This was hilarious..The pastor said at the end may I introduce to you Mr. and Mrs..John...------. Well he said my cousins last name not John's...We laughed so hard...Way to go Lori... Sorry John..

Tracey and Jon's brother as Maid of Honor and Best Man.

My cousin Sara and her two Sam and Emily as they arrived.

My parents, they look so good, along with my cousin Jerry before the wedding.

My Dad and Mom again..

Two little precious flower girls...Kennedy our not shy at all dancer, and singer of the night!!! and John's daughter Ashley.

My brother and sister-in-law..

Jerry and Lauren walking back down aisle after ceremony.. Lauren is Lori's daughter..

My Uncle Jerry walking his very happy Daughter down the aisle...

A day we have waited for, for a long time..May you always keep this smile on your face Lori....I so love you my dear cousin and pray for a wonderful blessed life for you John and the children..

God Bless you all..

Stay tuned for some random reception pictures..

EARLY 15TH BIRTHDAY WITH FRIENDS

Finally Autumn gets to have something in the summer for her birthday, thanks to her wonderful Aunt and Uncle. Autumns real birthday is like two weeks after school starts and football games are going on. So this year, very last minute, like two nights before I said let's call Uncle Larry ask him about coming down and using their pool and bringing some friends.

Well they were happy that we came down. I packed up the food and ordered her double chocolate chip cookie with buttercream icing in the middle got drinks, called all the girls and on Wednesday we were ready to go....She was so very excited..It is fun doing things spare of the moment.

After getting things cooked on the grill, and they finished eating it was swim time...yea!!!

My mom and Aunt got to spend time together and chat. Mom is on the red chair, she drove down in her car because we needed two of us to drive with all the girls..My Aunt's home and yard is so homey and out in the country. down the hill from where they are sitting is a pond and fountain...lots of land, a creek and bridge...it's quiet and peaceful.

Friends...and swimming can it get any better...

We always get a picture on the bridge...Are the girls not adorable...Very nice respectful girls, I enjoy each one of them.

Some poses and birthday girls is in the middle..

Another pic Autumn has been getting when she visits is the one on top of the barn. The one side the roof touches the ground, so up they go...Yes we are missing two of them, they had to leave a little earlier so Grandma headed back to take them home.

They could almost touch the sky!!!

Autumn I am so glad you enjoyed your day with your friends, it was such a wonderful day with beautiful weather. It is hard to imagine my baby turning 15. I love you so much and you are such a blessing to me. I pray you have many many more wonderful years. Always keep your heart loving and kind. Love you my sweet one.. Mom

FINISHED ONE STARTING ANOTHER

Woo Whoo Dad and Mom's bathroom is all finished well 98%. Look a washer and dryer, They had room to put this in their bathroom.

Here is shower area.. we went with shower curtain instead of doors...well let's just say if ever you need to help someone shower this would be much easier..

This really looks nice, they did a very nice job on picking out colors and everything they needed.

Mirror and lights.

This is so nice, the colors are in tans. The mirrored wall is lighter than the other 3 walls. Mom is accenting with like a jade blueish green... All that needs done is baseboard, door an frame around linen closet and blinds up on the window....Seeing all the beauty of this makes me ready for change now.

In my powder room and laundry room. Here is my inspriration. These hand towels I got at Marshell's. The charcole gray's and deep powder blue I guess I would call it slate blue.

Some colors I'm looking at...Funny thing is in here (the laundry room) I don't think I want any of these colors now. But I need to keep it flowing from the powder room since they are together..Hmm

This is my powder room now..minus some decor I have already started taking down. I have creamy ceramic tile floor. Sink and potty are soft gray, faucet black...but counter is in creamy color. I do want to make it lighter fresher and sleek...any suggestions???

TRADITION TO KICK OFF THE SEASON

2010 Football Hall Of Fame game. We go every year, with VIP passes and great seats. We usually have 6 tickets and that is good for my family and my parents. But as years go on and things change mom know longer can go with us because of health issues, Michael was working this year. So as always it's still Mike my Dad and I for sure. This years game was Dallas Cowboys along with

Cincinnati. I had to get my picture taken with a BIG fan of Cincinnati...PIMP DADDY!!

My hubby and Dad, look over Dad's shoulder and you see thee only Dallas Cowboy want to be cheerleader....They did not make it this year. Cincinnati's cheerleaders were there. Hmm could it be that they didn't want a repeat of two years ago with the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders. Those girls had such provocative outfits and very sleazy dance routine that the next day in our home town paper front page people were outraged about it. This is to be family time for the community they were disgusted with it all......So just saying..

We were blessed, to have a couple join us that works for my Dad. As you can see Leroy is a big Dallas fan and has never been to a pro game. He was like a child in a candy factory..it was so exciting just watching him enjoy it all.

Every year they introduce a new class of military and of course sing the National Anthem...then they have military planes fly over...Well for some reason the planes didn't fly over this year..I missed that. Not sure what happened on that. But I always enjoy seeing our Flag rolled out.

Both team out on the field as they introduce the inductee's for the year into the hall of fame. Emmit Smith was one of them and I really like him. I loved when he was on Dancing with the Stars.

We usually leave about 1/2 time. The game starts out with their first string but by 2nd quarter they definitely have their 2nd and 3rd string in..But when the Pittsburgh Steelers are there I hope some year soon...I will be staying and watching that one...Till then...for any and all football fans have a great football season..

FARMERS MARKET FINALLY

I am so excited to finally get to a farmers market. Look at this delishishness.. I read on my friends face book about this farmers market and I was so excited. I got beets yummy..and I will have to try them baked all cut up in little pieces Reena..yours looked so good. I really liked them boiled and with butter, salt and pepper... I also got little red skin potatoes, peaches for hubby and the kids, Some tomatoes till ours turn good and red.....and

three kinds of lettuce..bib, red and green leaf..I can't wait to clean it all and eat all this freshness. I haven't been to a farmers market since I lived in Pittsburgh, my girlfriend and I would go every thursday and stock up for the week, it was so fun. I wanted to get corn and green beans but they didn't have much and the place I got the peaches from had already sold out. The great news is, I was talking to one of the vendors and he mentioned that starting next week they will be having this market in North Canton on fridays right in the same parking lot as Fazolie's. 3-7 then be in the amish store all winter.. Woo WHOO ..

Truth be known I had thee hardest time staying away from all the breads and cakes Amish made and one stand it was all natural breads....But I made it through.. Now I'm going to clean veggies...