Molly's Shower

Oh my, it's over and it was awesome. I think, despite the small turnout, that Pj, Heather and I threw a great shower. Props to Heather for jumping in at the end to help me and Pj...I don't think it would have come out as perfectly as it did if Heather hadn't helped.:) Pj made the most amazing lemon cake in the entire world! I must say my organizational skills helped out...and our combined favor making, food baking, decoration throwing efforts really just turned out great! I hope Molly liked it...I think she did. So, here are some photos of the event...Can't WAIT FOR GRIFFIN TO ACTUALLY GET HERE!
Oh, and
PS: take a look at this photo of Robert and PJ decorating the cake together at 6:30am on Saturday before the shower. HOW CUTE are they in their Pajama pants together? I love my friends and family. Sigh. Life is just GOOD.

Baby Showers

How is it possible that I love to organize things, but get so stressed out...like working on this baby shower for Molly. I'm TOTALLY excited to do it and I'm having fun with decorations and planning and all that, but, now that I'm down the cleaning of the house, grocery shopping, preparing food, and all the last minute things...I'm a bit worried. I'm sure it will be fine, but depending on other people to show up on time makes me crazy...
It'll be fine and I'll get some great photos to post and Molly will be super happy, I think. Here's hoping.:)
Off to clean the house!

Country Music

I may have said this before, but I absolutely love country music. It's such an honest genre and the people are so free and normal and I just love it. I love that Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley got up there to present and did some fun little songs off the cuff about the events of the year. I love that they made one about Kanye West being such an idiot. I love that Taylor Swift is so tall and gangly and innocent and beautiful and that she won so many awards INCLUDING Entertainer Of The Year over ALL the guys! AND she invited her whole band up to receive the award with her! Now SHE is a role-model for all the young girls out there-not Miley Cyrus! I hope that Taylor stays innocent and doesn't get caught up in all the ridiculousness of fame and fortune because she is so cute and awkward...even when she's trying to be a cool performer: her opening performance for the CMAs was so adorable and hilarious!
I was sad to see Brooks and Dunn leave the stage-they were my first country love with "My Maria". But their final performance was awesome!

And I thoroughly enjoyed the beauty of Kenney Chesney and Dave Matthews' performing together.

And I totally am in love with "People are Crazy" by Billy Currington.

Country Music is beautiful.

Winter

Today was the first day of real snow in Maine, and, as I remember, the weather man didn't know what was going on.:) He said the snow would flurry on the coast through the night tonight, but it was spitting snow when I walked out the door this morning at 5:15am.:) It was neat to drive to work with the snow flying at me-I was much less nervous than I thought I would be. I remember always feeling like I had knots in my stomach every time it snowed when I had to drive to school! The snow stopped about 9am and then started up in HUGE, wet flakes when I started home around 3:30pm. Snow is strange, though, because the flakes were HUGE at Lowes, in Brunswick and the ground was very wet and the temp was 34, so I was worried about the roads getting slick, but, by the time I got to Bath (a 6 mile drive) it was raining and 35.
The moral of the story is-there is no reason to freak out, just take it as it comes and drive slow. Still no snow on the ground, so no photos yet, but they'll come. It's my first winter home in Maine in a long time, so I am sure I'll be photographing A LOT of snowy scenes.:)