This Wednesday, we packed our bags and dropped the kids off with my in-laws. The hubby and my mom and I got in the car and crossed state lines to take part in my cousin's wedding. My husband performed the ceremony, my mom played the piano, and I sang two songs while the grandmothers and mothers came down the aisle. My dad and sisters joined us later in the weekend and we had a really lovely time together.
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| The rehearsal dinner was at a park. We may or may not have had some fun on the playground.... |
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| I think we clean up pretty nicely, though. |
Read This Week:
The Magician's Land
By Lev Grossman
Landline
By Rainbow Rowell
Posts from this Past Week:
It's Monday
Reviews of The Virtues of Oxygen, The Visitors, and If I Stay
Reading Now:
The Hundred-Year House
By Rebecca Makkai
Up Next:
The Snow Queen
By Michael Cunningham
What are you reading this week?
Congrats on the wedding and I love how everyone in your family has a part in the ceremony--how special! Yes, you all clean up well, and I love the color of your dress. I think I would like to read The Snow Queen, need to know a bit more about it. Have a good week.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to be a part of the big day and it meant that we drove up early and were able to help with some of the last minute details.
DeleteI adore Cunningham's The Hours, so I'm excited to read his newest book.
The wedding sounds like a fun occasion, and you look beautiful! These look like good reading selections. I am definitely interested in The Snow Queen.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Irene! :)
DeleteYou have a lovely family. Congrats on the wedding! :)
ReplyDeleteYou have good reads this week. Happy reading!
Thank you! Now that everyone is grown up, it's so nice to have occasions to spend time together. :)
DeleteCongrats on the wedding! Just added The Snow Queen and The Hundred-Year House to my tbr. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteThanks B. This meme is always trouble for my tbr list too! :)
DeleteSounds like you had a lovely time.
ReplyDeleteKeep on reading!
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
We did have a great time. Now I have to get back to real life!
DeleteIt's so nice that everyone was involved in the wedding! Hope you enjoy The Snow Queen.
ReplyDeleteThanks JoAnn! I am looking forward to reading it.
DeleteSounds like a lovely family wedding! I have been interested in reading The Hundred-Year House. Not sure about The Snow Queen . . . I'll be interested to hear what you think!
ReplyDeleteI just finished The Hundred-Year House and found it just ok. We will have to see how The Snow Queen goes!
DeleteI read Landline this week too! What did you think?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it. It was a perfect book to take on a trip! :)
DeleteIt sounds like a lovely wedding! Nice pictures! Enjoy your books this week. I'm between books. I finished "Mexican White Boy" (a young adult novel) yesterday, and I'll start a short book on engaging kids with math either tonight or tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI might have to check out the book about kids and math! It's not my strong suit but I don't want to pass on the fear to my kids.
DeleteNice pics, and looks like a great wedding! Hope Landline was good- her books are so popular right now.
ReplyDeleteLandline was a fun read, but it also had a lot of good insight into marriage and relationships.
DeleteI look forward to your review of Landline.. I love hearing thoughts on books I recently read... Well, who am I kidding, any old book really. Haha!
ReplyDeleteI've The Hundred-Year house awaiting me on Kindle, I'm really looking forward to reading it!
Looks like you had a lovely time at the family wedding!
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Bits & Bobs
Haha, that is the life of a booklover! Any review will be good. :)
DeleteI liked The Hundred-Year House but I didn't love it. I will be interested to see what you think!
How is the Makkai book? I read The Borrower by her and liked it a lot. Curious about this one.
ReplyDeleteThe wedding sounds great, that are some fun pictures there :)
Have a great week.
I liked some of it but there were other parts that bothered me. I think I'm still sorting out my thoughts!
DeleteSooo dying to read The Hundred-Year House! Cheers to fun family weekends. :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't love it....but maybe you will!
DeleteSounds like a lovely wedding. I am curious about Landline.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great weekend! I really enjoyed Landline. Have you read other books by Rowell?
DeleteYou do clean up nicely! :) Weddings are awesome. You had some awesome looking books too. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThanks Heidi. I hope you're having a great week too!
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