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woah - poor guy! Amazingly - his computer survived - but he did have to recarpet ;) He's now the proud owner of a solid wood desk!
The thread of comments on flickr is hilarious though ... other ikea furniture buyers wondering how the desk just spontaneously shattered ... lol
My friend Jill and I did the bouquets and a few small arrangements for a friend's wedding (it was our gift to her) - Congrats Kimberly & Matt!!
Jill and I are on the flower committee at church ... and so we are used to doing HUGE flower arrangements and those don't make us nervous ... but bouquets are a totally different animal. Wedding flowers are ... going to be photographed and scrap-booked for forevermore! They have to look just right!! Jill and I ended up putting flowers together ... and then standing in front of a mirror holding them as the girls would -- to make sure they looked like what a bouquet should look like.
I think they turned out pretty well ... and the most important thing -- Kimberly loved them. AND we got a steal on the flowers from our florist ... we used the same wholesale place we use to get the flowers for our church arrangements ... and so we did the bridal bouquet, 3 bridesmaid bouquets, 3 small table arrangements, 7 boutineres and 2 corsages for $220!! Not bad ;)
Pictures from Hawai'i if you're interested!! We took about 1700 photos ... I only put 125 online though!!
Click here for aloha photo happiness from Steve & Lacy
If you just for a few pics ... here are my favs from each island (although it's probably easier to just flick through them on the above pages!)
OAHU
Pearl Harbor / USS Arizona Memorial (beautiful memorial - I never realized you can
actually see the ship in the
water)
USS Arizona 2
Amazing Ocean Water Color (every single island - the water is this color
- it's breathtaking sometimes)
View from the top of Diamond Head
Crater (just glad I was alive
by the time we got up there!!!)
Dole Plantation
Pineapple Princess Lacy (seriously. they had a song called the
Pineapple Princess playing ... )
Pinapple Prince Steve (you know he loves this photo ...
ha!)
BIG ISLAND
Whale Watching (it's the fluke!)
Whale Watching 2 (see the
fluke ... and then you can see another whale's blow hole in front of it; there
were four around our boat at this point; whales the size of a bus;
crazy!)
Black Sand Beach (loved this)
Black Sand Beach 2
Steve walking down Volcanic Lava Tube
MAUI
Ocean
Ocean 2
Maui Restuarant (who could pass this and not take a
picture of it??)
A fish at the Maui Ocean Center with a serious
complex
A stingray smiling at us ;)
A weird fish
Steve windsurfing
KAUAI
Wailua Waterfall
Kilauea Point Lighthouse
Waimea Canyon
'Opeaka'a
Waterfall
Lawai (near the Spouting Horn)
National Tropical Botanical
Gardens
One Two Three Four
I was syncing my treo today - and realized there were photos on there I forgot I had taken! When we flew to Florida in April for Paul's wedding - the view from the plane was simply breathtaking. I pulled my treo out and took a few pictures ... and you just never know how cameraphone pictures are going to turn out. I got several pretty good ones though.
Testing out including a flickr slideshow in one of my blog entries ... I finally uploaded a bunch of pictures from our west coast tour in 2004 to flickr this week. I'm trying to go back and get all the photos off my machine into flickr :) It's going to take a while!
Quick construction and weekend update! Our new house was finished and we closed and moved in about 7 weeks ago. It's been a whirlwind of activity since then ... we've been taking pictures - but haven't had a chance to post them.
This weekend the house had an initiation of sorts ... we were one of three houses in a progressive dinner for our church's student ministry. At some point Saturday morning - we thought we must have been smoking crack to volunteer to have 45 kids under 17 and all the accompanying adults in our brand new house on our brand new carpet and wood floors - eating sticky gooey desserts too! - but then we realized - hey - we can always rent a carpet cleaner on Monday ;) It's not a big deal!
It's a great time to have a party at the house - because we don't have much furniture on the first floor yet :) We borrowed some tall bar-height tables from the church - and had them all over the first floor of the house. The theme of the night was "Black and White" - attire and decor was to be black/white. It was a fun evening -- all the girls were decked out in super cute dresses and some of the guys even had on jackets and ties! I think they enjoyed getting dressed up - and some of them had never done a progressive dinner before - so it was a new experience for them!
Here's a few pics from our house -- more from our house and the other two houses in the link at the bottom.
