Summer's starting

..and still no pictures of the kiddos!  I need to get the camera charged and out! These pics were from a wedding this past weekend and we got all the peonies from the cutting garden - there's still some blooming by the way if you haven't gotten any!

 We celebrated Father's Day with Mom and Dad C at our place.  (Dad took some pics and I'll steal some later, they're just a tad busy packing up their house!)  Ida had a 103 fever all weekend so we kept it low key.  Mike grilled.

Steak with blue cheese mushroom sauce for Mike and chocolate bread pudding with bourbon ice cream for Dad.  It was a hit - and the ice cream was really killer!  And I don't even like ice cream that much.
Mike asked me what bourbon I used, I didn't realize we had more than one.  And I naturally missed the plastic bottle and went right for Mike's birthday bourbon...  but it made good ice cream!

Happy Father's Day Mike, the kiddos and I are so blessed by you!

And Pop and Dad and Opa!

And we launched Asa into swimming lessons.  He started Monday in 50degree weather with rain.  Thankfully, they heat the pool.  He comes home to teach Ida everything they did that day.  He did tell Nana he didn't speak to any of his classmates today, so that's our goal for tomorrow!

Happy 1st Anniversary Mark and Carolyn!

Happy first year you guys!




Mark and Carolyn's Wedding from Mike Church on Vimeo.

4 years ago...

 Pretty crazy how fast it's gone by!!!

Flower Buddy

 

Weddings mean an abundance of the extra big flower boxes - and Asa is having a blast.  (especially since he gets to stay up late playing in them to see Mike come home.)

 

Luke and Suzy's Wedding

Continuing through more footage - here's Luke and Suzy's wedding. Kajsa actually shot a fair bit of this since we were juggling Asa and our camera. So good job Kajs!
Here's the link for it on vimeo.

Mark and Carolyn's Wedding

Mark and Carolyn's Wedding from Mike Church on Vimeo.

I'm finally getting around to editing some of our Flip footage. We have a large backlog from this summer/fall.  Anyway here's a start with Carolyn and Mark's wedding!
Here's the YouTube link although I'm not sure it's working.

Wedding Weekend

Mark and Carolyn's Civil Ceremony

Sneak Peek: Mark and Carolyn's Wedding

Carolyn's Shower

Last night we went to Carolyn's bridal shower. Here's the hostesses with Carolyn and my mom!

Laura's Bouquet

More pictures here.

Caleb and Katie

more pictures here

Katie's Bouquet

Wedding Inspirations

I've been working on ideas and designs for upcoming weddings from Spring to Fall, so here's some inspiration!

Spring (Martha Stewart)

Summer (Images from Style Me Pretty)

Fall (Image from Blooms by Martha)

Summer Wedding Idea!

I love this combo of orange and yellow! So cheerful!

(photo from ruffledblog.com)

More of Lisa's Flowers

Lisa's bouquet- a mix of cream, red, hot pink, bright orange, light pink roses and spray roses to create lots of textures and colors while only using one kind of flower.

75 Cream roses for the pews- they smelled wonderful!

All 14 of the bridesmaids' bouquets.

Pew Cones - we made these out of cream cardstock. To tie it into her theme we put the black scroll that was used on her invitation on the cone.  (After many trials, I now have a great cone template that I'll try to post at some point!)

Guest Book arrangement.
 

(Thanks Bekah, Rachel, Carolyn, and Christine!!)