Various work and projects

As some of you will remember, last year in October, we posted about our town's annual quilt show. http://johnstownalbertsons.blogspot.com/2007_10_28_archive.html Every year we put up ~8 signs in the area around Johnstown advertising the quilt show. This year we built board frames for the signs, since other means of hanging, stretching, or posting these signs haven't worked as well.
This is Mike Durkee and Jeff working on one...

..while Daddy, Jason, and I worked on another one. I am really "working" by standing on the corner while Daddy screwed the joint together!

In the evening of last Saturday, Emily was mowing while the aforementioned 5 of us were building the last two frames. She's pretty proud of being able and allowed to mow our yard.

As I mentioned in the "Anniversary Party Prep" post we had to "dig" under our stairs (in the storage area) to find some of the decorations. The boys and Daddy enjoyed studying some treasures they found - old pictures Daddy shot and developed ~25 years ago (beautiful pictures) and slide pictures as well.
Here they are studying the slides, surrounded by empty boxes that were stored under the stairs.

Mother found a box full of baby clothes (she thought she had given them all away years ago) and she and Emily enjoyed looking through them. Emily was also looking for clothes to fit John Ethan (her doll).

Anniversary Party Prep

Our family is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Daddy and Mother in Missouri this late October.  We have plans to have a meal and ceremony (renewal of vows and some other activities).  We have retrieved some of the original decorations from different places in our house and will probably take some of them to display at the anniversary party.  

Mother is making herself a dress  and vest of the teal colored fabrics that were used in their wedding.  I will probably wear one of the bridesmaids dresses for the celebration, since it's the right size.

Below is pictured (in a more artistic manner) a single teal rose, surrounded by orange flowers and lace, all of which are around the base of the original unity candle.

Mother sewing on her dress.

These are the decorations we dug under our stairs storage area to find: Mother's bouquet, a heart that was displayed behind the cake at their reception, and leftover rice roses (for flinging rice at the bride and groom---not recommended for future generations-due to the mess) which Dad's nieces passed out at the wedding.  They don't have rice in them anymore, fortunately.

We got the invitations printed this afternoon, and have been working on addressing, stamping, and mailing them.

We bought these cool little stamps today, which I hadn't seen before, because of the nice hearts on them.