Wedding weekend

Last Saturday was my cousin Julie's wedding. I was looking forward to going because I love a reason to get all glammed up. She got married at the church around the corner from us and I had originally thought we'd walk to the wedding, but it was too stinkin' hot. So we drove a block and parked. Oh well. We went to the reception at the former Holiday Inn. It's now called The Decatur conference center... or something to that effect. Everything was really nice. It's the kinda wedding I would have planned for myself if I had had an unlimited budget. *sigh* but I digress.

Here's a shot of Dan and I. My eyes look a little droopey. I think I was gettting ready to blink.

This is my cousin Shay. He played an sang during the coctail hour. He's amazing, he only started playing piano in college. He never had any lessons, one day he just sat down and started playing. Keep your eye out for him. Someday he'll be famous.

I love her dress.

If it's not one thing, it's another...

About an hour ago I was standing on my enclosed front porch watching the rain come pouring through the ceiling. I collected as many buckets as I could find and that helped some, but there was just too much water coming in. We've lived here a year and this is the first time this has happened. Here's why: yesterday we had new gutters installed on the house. They angled the front gutter towards the porch roof and from there it's supposed to run down and collect in another gutter. Well... that wasn't working. I could see from my dining room window that the water was shooting out onto the porch roof, which meant it was shooting up under the shingles, hence the reason it was raining inside my porch! Ah, the joys of home ownership. It seems we've been given an unfair amount of water issues. But, the silver lining in all this, the basement stayed dry!

Happy 4th of July!

This morning our street had its 48th annual 4th of July parade and party. Our street is known for its social gatherings that happen several times throughout the year. On the 4th, the kids decorate their bikes and wagons and at 9:30 am the cannon is fired and the kids race their bikes down the street and back. It's so cute to watch the kids and all their decorations. Some of them really go all out. The parade lasts all of about 3 minutes and there's no candy throwing *sigh*, but it's still in the spirit of the day. After the parade of bikes, we all wandered over to the neighbors that were hosting and we enjoyed fruit and baked goodies and chatted with people we hadn't seen in awhile.
People that previously lived on the street come back to Cobb Avenue for this annual event. One man who returns every year brings his homemade cannon and fires it to signal the beginning of the parade.
Here are a few pictures from today's event's. (sorry they're not in order, had trouble uploading them)

The man with the homemade cannon gets ready to light it!

Everyone is getting ready and waiting for the parade to start.