T-minus hours

ready for weddin'!

it's been a busy busy busy and exhausting few weeks! and wedding is finally almost here! due to flight delays, i picked up my mom at seatac at 2am this morning. and a few family and friends of family have trickled in over the last few days. tomorrow the bulk of our out-of-town guests will descend upon us. :)

how am i feeling? how am i doing? how am i holding up? (i've been getting lots of these questions! thanks for caring!)
short answer:
exhausted, excited, overwhelmed, ready, irritable, tired, jazzed.

longer answer:
- wow, i can't believe this many people love us enough to come so far to be here.
- i'm jealous that our guests are more rested than we are (at least some of them are).
- i flapped my arms at the sky to hold the rain clouds off until monday. (andy and i have been in 2 weddings in the last 6 weeks, and a 30% chance of rain turned into soggy weather and beautiful indoor weddings. we have a solid rain plan, but i really want to be outside).
- ready for a vacation.
- ready to resume my regularly scheduled life.
- ready to ride my bike more.
- ready to be andy's "wife-y".
- tired of visiting craft stores.
- wow, there's so much room in the living room with 2 bikes and computrainers and stands moved out. (it looks sort of naked to us, but both of our mothers were impressed.)

what else have we done besides finish planning a wedding since vacation 3 weeks ago?
- the patio is finished (15' x 30') it's so amazingly cool! we just need some sweet patio furniture now.
- we have a new roof (and shiny new gutters and downspouts).
- i finished painting the house (mostly, there's still a little under-eaves work to do.)
- the remaining poplar trees (that didn't come down in last winter's wind storm) in our backyard have been removed and replaced with a "mountain" of wood chips.
- our house is clean - the cleanest i've ever seen all parts clean at the same time.
- 85% of the flower beds have been deadheaded over the last 2 weeks and it is in gorgeous full summer bloom!
- there is actually a desk and a kitchen table under those piles of paper and junk mail and notes and to-do lists.

yay! we are gunna make it!!