RYLIE SHATOS

We dropped Rylie off and she proceeded to knock Debi over with excitement. She giggled and shared the news. Keagan seemed a little disappointed, and we offered him a flower girl roll, but he declined. 🙂

Rylie is anxious to look at bridal magazine and dress possibilities. I told her that I would bring a magazine to her birthday party on Saturday. Apparently, when deciding to go bowling instead of a party at the house, she was concerned that maybe that was a bad idea because I might not bring my bridal magazines. Debi reassured her that it was easy enough to bring bowling too.

 

TYLER PETRIE

Tyler promptly called mom to tell her the good news. She was so happy that by the end of the call she expressed with a blissful sigh, “I’m sooo happy.”

She wore her shirt with pride to school the next day. Apparently none of her friends fully understood what the big deal was, but her teacher was very excited for her.

Later, she told Renee that she “always wanted to be part of something big.” Apparently for a 7 year old, the honor of flower girl is pretty “big” in the scheme of life.

Renee, Brett, Tyler, Rylie, and I all met at Cold Stone for ice cream. Rylie & Tyler thought it was to celebrate Rylie’s birthday which happened to be March 2nd. After ordering some yummy ice cream, Tyler informs Rylie that there were flower girl tryouts last weekend. She’s whispering (well, sort-of) that Rylie should to ask me to “try out”. Rylie feels much to shy, so Tyler begins to ask who I’ve selected for a flower girl and if there are still tryouts. After a long conversation, she manages to ask me if our flower girls would be her and Rylie. After I said, “Well, I’m not sure…you guys might be too old” She informs me that, “WE’RE ALL YA GOT!” 🙂 Renee proceeds to look up the average flower girl age on her phone and we torment them a little longer (more…)

As the photographs show—mom did a great job with her embroidery machine. The shirts turned out super cute… Maybe Carson is right—”Grandma Rose is a Genius!”

Today Renee, Tyler and I went to lunch, tea, and then we had our nails done. I gave a card with an illustrated red dress and a written note inside to Renee… (more…)

On our flight home, Brett and I discussed wedding music. I hate the “Here comes the bride song” so I refuse to walk down to that.

Brett immediately suggested two songs from Notting Hill: (I was addicted to the movie Notting Hill when it came out!). “She” by Elvis Costello. and “When You Say Nothing at All” by Roan Keating.

So, just like that, I have a song to walk down the isle, and we have a song for our first dance. Piece of cake! 🙂