Weddings are so much fun!

This past Sunday Chris and Julie got married. It was a wonderful day and all of the festivities leading up to the day were nice as well.

The bride was not a bridezilla thankfully and the groom was patient while maintaining his own viewpoints and individuality (whose child is he? hard to tell really).

The families couldn't be happier about the union and despite a few of those hitches that happen to every bride and groom to be (some fighting, some making up, the usual) the whole event came together without a hitch.

Special thanks and recognition for the success of the day and the beauty of the tables and decorations to both Kim (mother of the bride) and Shannon (aunt of the bride). The weather was beautiful (thank you God), the bride was beautiful (although an hour late), the groom and his men looked completely handsome. All in all it was a smashing success.

I did learn that this wedding day flew by like my own wedding day did. I was a bit surprised by that because I was expecting the day to go a bit slower since it wasn't actually MY day. All of the fun, festivities and great food (thank you Seth) just flew by! There is plenty of photographic evidence of me enjoying myself thanks to the millions of digital cameras out there...

The End of an Era

Today I worked (as usual, though I do have tomorrow off - YEAH!!) and while I worked, a part of my hometown died. My husband is fortunate (?) to not be employed (per se) at this time so he was in town to see the travesty occur. The removal of the town spire. Now I'm not typically nostalgic and I'm also not typically so attached to something like a town building, however, I am very angry that the people of my town would opt to let this beautiful old landmark fall to pieces while putting millions (literally) into a library ADDITION! that's right, not a NEW library, not even an improvement on our historic, beautiful old stone library which still stands in its entirety but an ugly addition to the library which isn't even open full time! It is so sad for me to see the heart of this little town be taken down due to what comes down to neglect. I spent much of my childhood in that building for one thing or another (great girl scout productions on that big stage) and the last time I walked through it, it was in such a state of disrepair that there were puddles in the main hall! HOW do we make these decisions for ourselves and future generations? How can we let our apathy change the face of our small towns so they become virtually unrecognizable. This isn't the case of a neighborhood changing, this is a case of a town giving up and not caring about its soul. Jason and i joked that if we had the money we would buy the place, fix the place and do it all for nothing more than the naming rights (of course it would become the Jason and Michelle Petraitis Memorial Town Hall) but alas, we don't have the cash so  the old girl falls apart. My childhood loses a notch, my heart is saddened a bit more today.