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Here’s a fun trivia quiz all about the holiday we’re celebrating today: Independence Day! 
I’m hoping you’re all having an absolutely fantabulous (AND SAFE!) time with family and friends…we’re off to a BBQ later today at my sister’s house- should be fun! 
Bethany~
A little bit of fun on my Hubby’s Birthday…
Happy Wednesday!
Bethany~
Hiya! I’ve been under the weather since Monday…well, actually more like 6 feet under with a terrible onslaught of summer flu/cold and have been unable to get to the blog since then. But let me tell you that it’s not for lack of things to say!
We held my parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary party on Saturday and it went beautifully! How many couples do you know that have celebrated their 50th anniversary? It’s an amazing milestone to be proud of and hollered from the rooftops. My siblings and I have been planning this since we were preparing for my nephew’s wedding last July. We’ve been meeting covertly to discuss all the planning and to divy out all the assignments. There are five of us to divide it all between, but even so, it turned out to be a very big to-do list! My end of the deal was to create a 
website for them, and to design and purchase all the supplies for the invites, and all the floral arrangements for decoration. I also got the task of scanning all of my family’s old photo albums to be used in a video slide show for the event. This alone was a beast of a chore and took my dd and me 12 hours straight on the last day of the push before I absolutely had to hand over the scanned pics to my brother to put into slide show format…whew! Everything else on my list was a breeze once that was completed, lol!
On the day before the event, we got together at my 2nd eldest sister’s house (who was really the director for the entire affair and all meetings took place at her home) to prep the food and decor. I made 12 floral arrangements, 8 gallons of iced tea, and helped skewer countless chicken ka-bobs for the dinner…did I tell you that playing with raw meat gets me queasy, lol?…but let me tell you…they were absolutely delicious!
My eldest daughter spent the prep day in repairing little tears in my mother’s wedding gown…from age and kids trying on throughout the years, you know how that is…she made countless tiny little stitches to bring it back to it’s original glory and we steamed it to be placed on display at the party. Everyone enjoyed looking at it, and it was made a hundred times more special to know that my grandmother, my mom’s mom, made the dress herself! 
What a lot of love went into that gown throughout a span of 50 years…
My eldest sister’s family made this so cool actual size blow up from one of my parents’ wedding photos, and we had this on display near the dress. What a ton of fun we had with it! She also put together a fun photo board that had pics grouped by decade…some of them a real riot, lol!
My niece and nephew, believe it or not…made this absolutely gorgeous cake for the celebration! Isn’t it wonderful??? We have a very creative group of relatives, if I do say so myself! 
In the end, I think my mom and dad were very much surprised at everything we had put into the celebration (as we had kept everything top secret…they only knew what time we were going to be picking them up, lol!) and will remember the day with great fondness. It’s not every day you get to celebrate 50 years of commitment to someone!
Then.,..Father’s Day went by in a rush, and I ended up really sick on Monday, and I’m so ashamed to say that with all the hub-bub of the previous events and then getting sick, both my hubby and I completely forgot that our 19th wedding anniversary was Monday as well! 
I think that’s the first time in 19 years we have actually forgot. Since I’ve been sick all week, we decided we’ll celebrate on this coming weekend to make up for forgetting. I’d better get lots of rest, because I don’t want to miss out…again!
Hope you’re having a happy week…
Bethany~
I think that my girlies have the best daddy in the world…he’s so ready to help them understand everything and anything they’re curious about, he’s always there to lead them into deeper understanding and therefore to protection against the things in life that we, as a couple, had to learn the hard way. My eldest daughter said not too long ago that she thinks she’ll be doing okay in life, because we’ve told her so many stories of the wacky things we did when growing up and the consequences thereof, that she knows what to avoid before the situation even comes to her door. Of course, I responded that I’m sure she’ll have her own mistakes to make, but at least they most likely won’t be the same ones we had to struggle through, lol.
My hubby is also such a zany, wacky guy that we never have lack of things to laugh about. One of my younger daughter’s friends was here for a sleep over not too long ago, and we were bantering back and forth at the dinner table as we usually do, when suddenly she laughed out loud and said that being at our house was like being in a sitcom TV show, lol! We all thought that was hilarious and thought it might be a lot of fun to have the “Dailey Life Reality Show”… I know for myself there’s been plenty of times I wish I had a video camera literally glued to my hand to catch my hubby’s extraordinary gift of wit. This is a part of his nature that just spills out freely to all those around that he feels comfortable with.
In short, because I really could go on and on, he’s just the best dad ever, and I’m so thankful that he’s the father of my girlies. We love you, Evan!
In honor of all daddies out there, I thought I’d link to a special video put together by my favorite musical artist of all time: Steven Curtis Chapman… with his lovely song written just for daddies and daughters:
Have a wonderful Fathers’ Day!
Bethany~
Well…I did it! My last day on my job was Friday.
I felt so unbalanced over the weekend, not knowing what to do with myself after so many years of working at a regular job. I kind of had that lost feeling…like I was cast from the shore, and just floating without a tether line to keep me safe. Weird, isn’t it? How you look so much forward to something, and then when you actually get to have it, it’s kind of scary. But I know it’s all for the best. My family will be much better off having a home rather than a place to hang when we’re not running around like chickens and such.
Now to find a new place to make that home, closer to my hubby’s new job. We checked out Gig Harbor over the weekend… let me tell you… it’s just marvelous! We loved the charminess of it all. The architecture so reminded us of what we’ve come to love about Bend, OR. It’s just so 
cottage charming, and everything nestles in it’s own little nooks and crannies in the greenery. It would be very nice to find a place there. Of course, it’s super nice being so near the Sound. We’ve always loved seeing the boats and being near the water.
Well…I guess we’ll see! Endless possibilities await…
Bethany~
Happy birthday, my Emilitta!
Mom~
Here’s a little slideshow for you, show-n-telling about our vacation we took last week to Bend, Oregon, where we used to call home for close to six years… Enjoy!
Hello, my good loomy friends! I hope you’re enjoying a wonderfully terrific St Patty’s Day…filled with lots of green and visions of the land o’ fairies.
I’ve been bogged down with the wrapping up of the Winter Quarter of college, and trying to get things all completed, studied for, turned in, and aced…hence the long span of no updates.
But, since you’ve been so patient, and it’s a fun holiday today, I thought I’d share with you one of my projects for my Health and Fitness class. 
It contains a very healthy meal with scrumdidliumptious recipes! How’s this for starters…Apricot Stuffed Pork Loin…Sauteed Green Bean and Black Bean side dish…Cherry/Strawberry Crisp… Mmmmmm. I’ve got your mouths watering haven’t I, lol?
Well…feel free to download in PDF format all the luscious details.
Have a happy St Patrick’s Day…keep thinking GREEN!
Bethany~
PS: If you’re interested in the book that I mention in the project above, and where to get those great recipes (it has a ton of excellent ones!) you can check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/dz828p
Ahhhh…you gotta love Mondays.
Mine began with dusting off all the snow from my little PT Cruiser, getting her all defrosted and warmed up for the drive to take my girlies to school. I was down to one girlie left in the car, pulled up to the end of a line of cars stopped at a stoplight, and
WHAM!
We were smashed from the back end! Poor, poor PT. :{ Her little taillight is all smashed in, as well as some cracks in the bumper. But she held her groud pretty well…you should have seen the other car: metal chunks were lying in the road, the grill was completely missing, and the front end bashed inward. Good, tough little PT.
The driver of the other car was a young college age guy, who said he had the wind knocked out of him from the impact. We ended up having 3 police cars, 2 firetrucks, and 2 ambulances arrive at the scene! We really put on a great show, lol. I told Emily that I was bummed that I don’t own a camera phone yet…this would make great blogging, lol! I think the guy will be fine…it didn’t seem too serious. I’m just a little sore from the jarring, but otherwise okay. Emily found the whole thing a tad comical. I can’t speak for our poor PT, though. I guess the body shop will have to let us in on that little piece of info.
Well…I hope your Monday has started out much better than mine!
Bethany~
Hey everyone! Did you know that we’re spreading baby bootie cheer all over cyberworld??
Yep! I’m teaching the Bethany’s Booties pattern in 3 groups during the month of March… here’s all the info:
You can purchase the pattern right here on Peggin’ Pages:
http://gettinitpegged.com/peggin-pages/
The three groups holding class this month are:
Gettin’ It Pegged Loom Knitter’s Chat Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GettinItPegged/join
Decor Accents Chat Ring
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decoraccentsinc/
And the Monthly LAL Group at Ravelry:
http://www.ravelry.com/
Come and have some bootilicious fun with us this month…some little tootsies in your life are just dying for such stylin’ footwear, lol!
Bethany~
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