My mom, Chad and I are in the car heading down to Portland to meet up with my grandmother and her side of the family. The last time we saw them was when we went down for my grandfather’s memorial service and Chad was really sick and had to go to emergency. I spent the night at their house with a 103° fever. In the morning I threw up in their garden on the way to the hospital. I got to have Elisa stay up with me, caring for me in bed. That was the first night we “slept” together. It will be fun for them to meet him when he’s well.

This week has been insanely busy. We are so beat. Luckily the first half of the week we were able to take it easy. Tuesday morning Chad came with me to the temple and sat around waiting to go on the 7:00 am session. I also sent a box of delicious cookies Chad and I made, to Jason. But they were scheduled to arrive Thursday. They will probably be stale if they ever get to him.

Wednesday we mowed the lawn and weeded to get ready for Cheryl and Sean’s rehearsal dinner.

I made my first wedding cake. Tada! It was chocolate with a whipped Bavarian crème filling and Chocolate ganache poured over the top. Ganache is a kind of chocolate frosting. My mom helped me out with putting it together and decorating it. But I got to do most of it on my own. It turned out very nice. I am pretty pleased. Too bad I had nightmares that I dropped it and that I was late delivering it for a few nights. Elisa woke up every hour.

While I was making the cake, Chad was off single handedly getting six round tables and 36 chairs from the church to our house for the rehearsal dinner. We had people at the house practically all day Friday setting up and cooking and running things over. It was a little chaotic. It all ended up well, though we never want to haul tables and chairs like that again.

Saturday was the wedding. We started the day out by returning the tables and chairs to the church at 6:30 am. It was early. My reflexes weren’t very good so I started off the day by smashing my wrist under four tables. We were driving to the chapel on this smooth, straight road (at about 25 mph) and suddenly two tables jumped and bounced out of the truck. I still don’t know how it happened. We just ran out and rolled them to the side of the road. A half hour later, after we had cleared room in the truck, we finally went back and picked them up. I’m done moving tables.

When we got home we finished up decorating the cake, got ready and ran out to Seattle to greet Cheryl and Sean’s guests. The ceremony was very nice. We got to dance at their reception which they held at an old ballroom across town. Chad and I were in charge of cutting the cake and then we left to get a quick nap before we ran off to the reception of one of the guys I grew up with. They held it at a home just down the road from my parents. I was asked to sing a couple of sets of cheesy love songs. I got to hear Elisa sing two sets of songs and hear her practice. I was happy to have the opportunity and especially pleased to see how well my friend is doing now.