We went to visit the kids again today since it was the first time since the funeral we both had a day off together. With a wedding to pay for, Des is doing overtime at every possible opportunity.
Des spoke to Adam (his twin brother) yesterday, and he confirmed he was definitely coming over from South Africa for the wedding! Wooo! He's coming over on 31st August 2009 and will be returning to South Africa on 19th September 2009, so he'll be here for 3 weeks!
Adam can't really afford the ticket, so we're going to pay for the majority of it. Also, he needs spending money, which I'll give him...We'll also need to pay for 3 days at the hotel for him. The final thing we'll need to do is buy his suit (which we were doing anyway) and shoes for the big day. Well, we can't have a wedding without a best man!
Adam is going to fly to Heathrow, and he wants to get the train to his parents' house from there, but I want to meet him at the airport so he has some friendly faces when he arrives home! Des kept telling him we were going to pick him up and Adam was saying that it's too far for me to drive! Well, it is a bit of a long one...Probably 5 hours each way and it will be a drive straight there and back for a total of 10 hours driving in probably an 11-12 hour period. We'll see though, after 2 years of not seeing him and being really close before he emigrated, we just can't wait to see him!
Geina - if you're reading this, he thinks the flight arrives at Heathrow at 6:25am, so our drive will be through the night. Hopefully we'll be taking him back though, so if that's the case then we'll probably come and visit on that trip!
Des and I have spent the last week looking for inspiration for our wedding cake this week. There's a few ideas we have, ready to see the cake maker a week tomorrow. Simple, yet sophisticated, and inexpensive! *Sigh* I guess I'll have to start doing some overtime to pay for it!
Another thing Des & I will be doing a week tomorrow is seeing the photographer to go through some of the photographs we definitely want. There's a few detail shots I want which can be posed after the ceremony, and then the group photographs. Oh, and the first dance! The hotel are using my wedding reception for their marketing (ugh), so they want some photographs too, which also means I need to get undressed halfway through the day so my dress can by hung up in the hotels bridal suite, along with Des' suit...And the getting ready pics are being done in the hotel, like the make up/hair etc...so I have to pose those later in the day too! Eek!
I'm thinking that we'll have the car and ceremony pics at the church and then the group shots at the hotel since the hotel overlooks some beautiful scenery. We'll see though!
Last week I stumbled across a WONDERFUL bridal store. I was actually at the hairdressers getting my long hair cut short and a woman was having her hair done and talking about her daughters bridal boutique. I asked where it was and took a trip there after my haircut. My sister actually went to school with this girls (owners) brother.
The girl, Sarah, makes all of the tiaras and hand sews all of the beading onto the wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses/clothing/shoes and her mum makes all of the dresses and clothing. My mum is having an outfit made, and I'm having a bolero jacket made. I'm taking one of my bridesmaids to get a bolero jacket made too, and we'll probably buy our shoes and jewellery from there!
So the kids update:
Emily was playing football with her 'boyfriend' all day, so we didn't really get to see her. We spent about 3 hours with the boys though.
The twins have a dairy allergy and a wheat allergy. It was nice to see Euan's skin so clear since Zoe has cut everything dairy or wheat related out of his diet. She tried to introduce a little wheat into Ethan's diet on the advice of the doctor...His poor little face was swollen and blotchy. Hopefully they'll grow out of the allergy when they're a bit older.
Uncle Des taught Thomas how to use a phone yesterday! He had another hearing test about 4 weeks ago and the test came back with just moderate hearing loss. His speech is coming on so much now, and although he's not clear with his words, he is 'speaking' more and attempting to copy words. He tends to copy actions more though! Tom is like my little mini-me! He LOVES 80's music, which means he loves my iPhone...We danced together in the sun for about an hour! Yes - I was knackered!
I only got pics of Euan and Tom yesterday...Here they are:
3 comments:
you know the kettle is always on for you!
i have THE most amazing cream (actually its more an oil) for eczema. the links in my blog. it really does work, ricks nappy area is all but clear now and it was baaaad. the backs of the knees were worse though and even they should only be a wee while.
I love reading your blog it always makes me smile, I cant wait to see the wedding pictures i am so excited for you, great pics of the kids,
not be long now till your wedding day the weeks are flying so fast,
love jayne x
Thanks Geina! I'll check out the link & link it to Zoe too. Apparently the rashes have faded. I'm hoping that the boys grow out of the allergy...if they don't, they'll never be able to have cake, toasties, cereal etc!
Thanks Jayne! I know, it's going so, so fast! 3 months today and I will officially be Mrs Middleton!
Claire x
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