Wedding Day....

Saturday I attended quite the wedding!  One of my dear senior darling young misses who just walked down the aisle to be a graduate barely one week ago...  walked down the aisle to wed her dream beau.  The two have gone together several years, and he is
a proud member of the United States Air Force.  The couple is moving to Okinawa, Japan, in a couple of weeks.  What a culture shock for a Missouri Heartland couple.  I love them both, and I have known the bride since the day she was born.  I was lucky enough to have taught her mother a "few" years ago, and they are family friends...  The move to Japan will be such a shock to the whole family...  I know the airlines make any place more accessible, but JAPAN?  It still seems a long way from the Heartland fields of green outside our windows...  I enjoy watching and reading PIONEER WOMAN on the Food Channel and her blog.  I gave Valle, the bride, a Pioneer Woman Cookbook, which will be fun for a new cook because Ree Drummond, the author, takes pictures every few minutes of each step.  I gave them a pretty, Americana tablecloth, and a note telling them that Pioneers traveled the the old West, and they were taking their lives to the Far East...  (clever, huh?)

The wedding was a summer delight with the prettiest orchid, blues, and creamy whites...  The cupcakes were simply divine, and the whole ambiance of the reception was summery, dreamy, and quite romantic...  I think about that young couple so often this weekend...  Memorial Day... patriotic!  My grandparents were married on Labor Day, and that holiday always will hold special memories of their happy long life together...  long after they are together in Heaven and I am still here thinking about their special bond..  My parents had that bond, and it was magical.  I wish for the same kind of love and strength for Valle and Ethan, two newlyweds who truly are starting the rest of their lives together...

I spent Memorial Day in a quiet, happy manner...  I slipped into the kitchen in the wee hours of the morning and put on a slow cooker of Mom's favorite soup...  a little surprise for when she got up...   Then I went back to bed and slept the fairy sleep of those who don't have school all summer...

We did a little cleaning, marveled at a small rain shower that happened in the midst of full sunshine...  wished for a bit more of the marvelous rain....  and watched Pawn Stars....

Enjoy your week.