Seville's Wedding!

I'm a little behind and posting about Seville's wedding because I have been moving into my new apartment which I will try to update on later. Back to the point Seville's wedding was simply wonderful! Steven and I drove up Thursday and got their in the afternoon for a wonderful reunion with my freshman 'roommate'!

Friday Seville and Sebastian became Mr. and Mrs. Strickler at the Portland Oregon Temple. When they walked out of the temple they were beaming and so cute! We went to Fuddruckers afterwards and it was fun and delicious.

The happy couple met up with the rest of the wedding party again later on Saturday afternoon while we set up for the ring ceremony and reception. The ceremony was lovely and so sweet. They are the cutest newlyweds and beamed with happiness all the time! The reception was way cute and everyone had a great time. I love the happy couple and wish them only the best in their eternal marriage!

The Mushroom Chair!

The famous (among my cousins and siblings on my mom's side) mushroom chair! For as long as I can remember this chair was in my Great Aunt Joan's house. (it unfortunately matched the shag carpet in the living room) but was kept mostly in the den. Joan passed away recently and things got divided up among the family. The one thing I really wanted was the mushroom chair :) I found out that it was actually my mom's when she was a teenager. Yes, her room was green and orange (very popular in the 70s she assures me). As much as we all love the green mushroom chair it doesn't quite fit in my brown and pink theme room so my mom and I went to work today recovering it (we also had to do it because the foam was disintegrating :p) Here are the results...

First we took apart the chair (fabric and foam):

It left residue all over the place!

Then we cleaned it and restuffed and recovered it!

Boston was curious and wanted to help :)

And voila!

But don't worry! A little bit of the loveable green fuzz is still there it was stuck so some nails we reused to secure the top to the base :) A little hard to see in this pic but it's there!

Mini Golf and Boating!

Steven and I decided to go mini golfing at Scandia for a date night this week. We had lots of fun and played both of the courses they had. Both of us cheat...a lot :) But in my opinion cheating is what mini golf is really all about! I'm pretty sure that on a lot of the holes they shot really strong air out the hole as I was putting cause the ball would jump away! I lost one of my golf balls in the water when we got to the castle...oops! But we had a ton of fun cheating and missing the hole half the time. Although we both did got a hole in one on the first hole of the second course we played. It was pretty exciting :) Even more exciting was the Steven got a hole in one on the 18th hole where it is like the caged in giant volcano thing and won a free drink! Yay!

Also this week I went boating with Alison, Travis, and Brett. Sadly, Steven had to work :( We missed having him there but did still have lots of fun. We were tubing most of the time and it was so much fun. Alison and I went together a bunch of times. It was a blast we scream like crazy but it is way fun. We mostly went next to each other but when the boat was going straight we tried some other ways. It was quite interesting but fun :) The water was so warm it was amazing. I'm happy it was because when it is freezing cold being in it isn't so much fun. I also got to drive the boat so Travis could get a chance to go tubing as well. I also towed him when he was skiing. Brett and Travis tried water skiing. Alison and I didn't cause it was getting late and we were getting tired so we went ahead and passed for that day. It was way fun even though both Ali and I were super sored the next day!