Wedding Bells

The peacock wedding was a success!! It was a perfect day, in my mind anyway! Everything turned out just great -- thanks a million to everyone who helped in some way! (Especially my parents and wedding party -- I love you guys:)

So much preparation goes into the day, and then it's all over so fast! I wish I could do it again just to have more time to enjoy everything and visit with people for more than 30 seconds each! I can't wait for the pictures -- I should be getting them in a week or two, so stay tuned!! Although most of it is a blur, here are my favourite/most memorable moments of the day:

*Walking down the isle with my parents and seeing Kirt's beaming face waiting for me.
*The dress tying fiasco. It took 6 hands and one multi-tasking photographer to tie that thing up without showing any crack.
*The cake! How awesome was that? And so tasty too. Rose Sen, you are the master cake decorator.
*The ice sculpture. It took a while to catch on, but it was a hit and the boys enjoyed smashing it in the parking lot afterwards.
*The toasts. Everyone did so great! I loved Steven's sense of humour..."Love is like wetting your pants...everyone can see it, but only you can feel it!"...Dad's touching welcome to the family speach - there wasn't a dry eye in the place after that...and the girls' clever "Meagan is unique" toast -- you girls are so dang creative!
*The food. Pat's Palate Pleasers cooked up some fine chicken (or was it peacock??) And could I ever go for a bowl of McKay's ice cream right now...
*The slideshow. It was my little project for, oh, approximately 1 million hours, and I was sooo glad it turned out!

Oh, and pretty much everything else :)

Mr. Pumpkin Head

 

Check out this super cute pumpkin stand/face I got as a shower gift! So much easier than carving...thanks Hay!

And here's one of Cleopatra and DirtBag at a halloween party on Saturday.

Distracted

Has it really been 50 days since my last post? Well, that's what happens when you're distracted by the likes of these:

 And this:

Oh, and don't forget this:

I tell ya, getting distracted by all things peacock has been more time consuming than actual wedding planning!

Prairie Surfing

Wakeboarding is soooo last year...it's all about lake surfing now! Here's a few pics from a recent camping/boating weekend at Gregoire lake. It's actually pretty easy to get up, staying up is the hard part.

Step one: plant your feet, hang on tight and get out of the cold water as soon as possible

next, pull yourself up on the wave

When you're in the right spot, you won't even need the rope anymore.
Throw it in the back of the boat and ride the wave!

Final step, brace for landing!

Special K makes it look easy

Steven too

Best trick of the day

Summer's End Festival

Of all places to perform, REBA picked Fort McMurray. They must have gave her a truck load of money to do it, but I'm glad they did. She's a great preformer and she sounds exactly the same live as on the radio. And she played lots of old stuff too like my two personal favs, Fancy and Does He Love You. What was she doing in Ft.Mac you ask? Well it was part of the "Summers End" festival which also included Dierks Bentley and George Canyon. All three were fantastic. I had so much fun at Deirks too and he even gave me a shout out! Sure, I may have been dressed skankily and waving an inappropriately shaped cup in the air, but he still noticed! And I swear the drummer tried to throw me his drumstick too, but it didn't quite make it and some teenybopper infront of me snatched it. Oh well. It was a great weekend!

Dierks: German for cute sheep dog

United Way

Whoa, it's been a while hasn't it. I probably lost my 2 readers by now, but incase you're still hanging on, here's an update for you! A couple weeks ago was the Finning United Way fundraiser. You may recall last year's party, which was cowboy theme. This year was Carribean theme and just as fun. They raised a ton of money, Kirt won himself a new apron, and did pretty good at the blackjack table too. Too bad it wasn't real money!

KISS

Special K ended up scoring some free tickets to see KISS on the weekend, so we joined the 12,000 other people at Mac Island for the outdoor concert. It was pretty sweet - mostly for the people watching and the shrimp in the VIP section. Rock on Fort McMurray!

Best part of the show - the confetti/lightshow encore