My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
~Mr. Darcy--Pride and Prejudice
Well, seeing as how I've been doing such a horrible job with this whole blog thing, for which I truly am sorry, I decided that because Porter is sleeping that I would sit here and update.
Let's see, the main events that have happened... February... ah yes, Vanessa's wedding. That was... interesting. The ceremony took place in Kevin's family church (LDS) and let me just state this out in the open... I HATE KEVIN'S FAMILY!!! Anyways, we get there early to get ready. People were coming and going and so it was just basically strip down wherever there was a space. LOL. Her colors were black, red and silver so I had a black dress that sparkled and some really pretty silver sparkly heels. I had gone out and bought a whole bunch of jewelry, necklace, bracelets --I bought 2 so that Vanessa and I would both have one, earrings and some hair clips. Vanessa ended up doing my hair while I hurried with my makeup. Both of us just ended up pulling it up anyways. Haha.
Vanessa's dress was very simple, but gorgeous! Cap sleeves and it laced up in the back. But I think what made it more special to me was that she wore my tiara and my veil from my wedding. We both got our nails done matching with a red stripe thingy across the middle of the nail. So cute!
Well, the piano started playing and I walked out. Mind you, I'm trying to be happy and smiling while I'm walking down the aisle, but Tim STILL isn't talking to me, so the first thing I see in the hallway is him glaring at me. Grrrr.... But, I didn't let it get to me. The ceremony was short and very nice. But, when the bishop said to kiss the bride, all Kevin did was a little peck. So me being the loud one, I guess, yelled, "Awww, c'mon! You call that a kiss?" Yeah, I got some looks from that one. ROFL
We changed and went to lunch at some really weird hick cafe, but the food was really good. Then it was back to the church for the reception.
My uncle Brian was doing the pictures and oh man was he bossy. Grrr.... And to make it worse, when they did the family shot of Pamela, Tim, Vanessa, Ben and Joe, I wasn't allowed to be in it. Because I'm apparently "not family" Pissed me off so bad. They let me be in the pics with just the siblings or the ones of the aunts and uncles... the Bird side. Gah, seriously, I'm really the only family Vanessa's got. But it was just cuz Tim didn't want to be in the pictures with me. He really needs to get over that. Vanessa decided to do a line. Ugh, so mad. And so I'm standing there between Pamela and Vanessa and Pamela kept introducing me as the "matron of honor." Yes, I was, but "Liz, Vanessa's sister" would have worked just fine. People kept saying to Pamela, "Oh you have 2 very beautiful daughters" and we just smiled and nodded... if they only knew... Then Libby and Tessie show up. Yay for besties! I didn't care if anybody got mad, I was sick of standing there talking to complete strangers that I wasn't even going to be related to.
But then more drama. Libby and Tessie hate eachother and they showed up at the same time. Joy... But when Libby showed up the first thing she did was lift up the back of her shirt to show me her wicked cool new tatoo. Yeah, that didn't go over well with the family. Tessie was supposed to get there way earlier, but supposedly got lost or something... one of her many excuses.
Then Vanessa changed and Kevin and her drove away in a nice white stretch limo off to their *cough* romantic *cough* honeymoon in Provo. *gigglesnort*
March... ah, Vanessa's birthday and Easter
And the drama continues... Vanessa's birthday we went to go eat at Cowboy Grub up in Salt Lake. We have been going there for as long as I can remember, so of course Vanessa is going to want to go to dinner there. I show up with Porter cuz Seth had to work, and there are some chairs open down by my cousin and brothers. So I sit there since it was away from everyone and the only chairs. Well, Tim says hi to Porter and completely ignores me, even when I make the effort to be nice. Whatever. So I'm texting Keren and we decide to bring Josh into the conversation. So I yell down the table to my mom, "Mom! Josh's Awake Live DVD comes out May 6! Can you believe it? 3 days after my birthday!" She just smiled and went back to talking. WTF? THEN, she's like, "Come down here so we can talk. There's chairs open." So I go down and nobody bothers talking to me. So I continue to text. Later I realize that everybody has their food except me. I had gotten my coke, but that was it. So frustrating. Not a good night. I seriously drove home in tears listening to You are Loved and Smile.
Easter... That was better. It was at Merry and Brian's and we just ate and had an easter egg hunt. Nothing too special about that.
Porter is 2 now! His birthday was on the 11 of April. We had the party on the 12 since it was a Saturday. Seth made the cake, it was a Lightning McQueen cake, and both sides of the family showed up. And Libby and Tyler and Cameron did at the very end. Nothing interesting except all my nephews and my brothers were playing baseball in the front yard and I was soooo paranoid that they were going to break my brand new windows. That would have pissed me off so bad. I kept saying, "You break 'em, hand over $4,000"
And now I think we are up to date. I just finished spring break and I keep telling myself... only 5 weeks left, only 5 weeks.... And of course, the kids are super hyper cuz they've been out of school for a week. And Karla is still in Hawaii, so I had to do lunch duty by myself without any notice whatsoever. But on the bright side, Memorial Day weekend, I'm gonna be in Vegas! Woo!
I know when my family knows me way too well when I say I'm going to Vegas and the first thing they ask is, "This has got to be Josh involved." Yeah, way too well.
And only 2 weeks left til the DVD is out! Soooo happy!!
