more pictures

So I still don't have my professional pictures back, but I thought I would put a link up on here to my picassa site with pictures from friends.

http://picasaweb.google.com/112000859535817391694/LaraAndBillSWeddingPicturesFromFriends#

Eventually I'll put up my professional pictures here too for everyone to see! :)

Back to Maryland

We drove back to Maryland on Monday the 5th and it was a LONG drive. It's supposed to take 18 hours and we left at 5 AM but it took us 20 and we only got to our house in Maryland at 2:00 AM. Bill was very very mad about driving that late into the night, er next morning.

But we got home and Bill went to work the next day, I cleaned the house pretty much all week and am still not done. Apparently leaving two boys a house for about 4 weeks involves them doing absolutely no cleaning. But for good news, a lot of my vegetable garden did not die from the weeks of drought we had here. I've made Pickles twice and had more strawberries and green beans. We did loose all our peas and the carrots and lettuce are getting eaten by rabbits everyday. Next year we will have a fence.

We also have a new kitten we brought home with us. So Kirby met Spree and now they love each other. The first couple days there was a lot of hissing but with the extreme heat we had, eventually they both just fell asleep. Today, Kirby was cleaning Spree and they chase each other around the house and play like kittens all the time.

Boundary Waters

We spent 5 days in BWCAW leaving the monday after the wedding. It was NOT a honeymoon, I did not take my honeymoon with all of Bill's friends from high school, it was just a yearly trip we always do and since we were home for the wedding, we took it the week after. It was fun, nice, relaxing. We didn't go very far like we have in the past but we got to spend an entire day at the same nice campsite swimming and fishing and relaxing in a wonderful hammock someone was smart enough to bring along. We also became a sailboat, which was pretty cool.

The crew BWCAW 2010

Our wedding

We got married on Saturday, June 26th and it was wonderful. It all flew by and I feel like I can't remember most of it, just little snippets are clear to me, but I know I enjoyed it all.

Bill's mom did all of the beautiful flowers for our bouquets and she did such an amazing job. Bill's sister made our wedding cake and it could not have been more beautiful. She learned how to make fondant daisies for this occasion and we used Bill's parents cake topper. To the right is her with her finished masterpiece. If you can see it in the back of this picture, the grooms cake was a masterpiece as well; red cake dressed up like a tuxedo. It was adorable!

To left is me right before we got to come out of the girl hiding room, it felt like we were in there forever! Below is my dad walking me down the aisle, the only time I almost cried during the ceremony.

Saying our vows. We both said them loud and clear and no one dropped any rings :)

Cutting the fabulous cake on my front porch back at the Farmhouse. My hand was pretty much useless in this process. We even behaved ourselves and fed each other two very small, no frosting, no frosting pieces of the carrot cake. Bill was determined that if I got frosting on him, he would throw the whole cake on me :s  So we behaved.

And below is a picture from our first dance. We danced to "Bei mir bist du Shoen" a swing song and Bill did VERY well. I think he must have been secretly practicing...

So that's our wedding in a nutshell. Professional pictures are still to come and I don't have any good pictures of the dinner as of now. But it was an amazing day and I couldn't have asked for anything more. We both felt so blessed to be able to to celebrate with all our loved ones.