Weekending - July 6, 2018

Oh Weekends - why do you have to pass so quickly?  This weekend seemed to go by in a blur.  On Friday as I was leaving for work, it seemed a bit warm in our house.  We had just had the air conditioner repaired a few days ago, so I thought it might just be my imagination.  As it turns out, it was definitely not my imagination!  Long story short - we had to have a new unit installed.  Luckily, we were able to get all the repairs completely on Saturday and had cool air flowing by late afternoon.  Hopefully our air conditioning problems are behind us and we won't have to deal any issues for a long, long time!

As soon as the repairman packed up and left our house, we packed up too and headed to my home town for a BBQ at my nephew's house.  I'm not going to lie, we had had a stressful couple of days dealing with our air conditioning problems, but seeing the faces of the little ones in my family melted the stress away.

When dusk fell, we watched the city's awesome fireworks display.  They were a perfect end to a great evening.

Sunday was my future sister-in-law's bridal shower.  The wedding is just a few weeks away and a group of us gathered to celebrate.  We started the shower with mimosas and followed those with games and refreshments.  What a fun day!

 
  

By the way - that dress I'm wearing was a fantastic Amazon deal (under $20!).  I didn't have time to go shopping for a new dress, so I took my chances on Amazon.  Thanks to Prime, it was on my doorstep in two days.  Check out this one and many option fabric options HERE.

Any spare moments I had was spent reading The Ocean Liner ($5.99 for the Kindle version on Amazon).  It had been setting in my Kindle for a while and finely bubbled to the top of my read list.  So far, I'm loving it!  Here the summary from Amazon:

Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive a hazardous Atlantic crossing.

Among their fellow passengers fleeing the war, each with their own conflicts, secrets and surprises, are the composer Igor Stravinsky, making a new start after a decade of tragedy, and Rose Kennedy, determined to keep her four children from harm. Particularly worrying to Rose is her daughter Rosemary, a vivacious but troubled woman whose love for a Californian musician may derail her family’s political ambitions. And then there’s young Thomas, a Nazi with a secret…

But, under the waves, the Manhattan is being stalked by a German U-boat. Will any of those aboard the ocean liner ever achieve their dream of a new life in America?

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This is going to be a super busy week - we have a wedding work day at my house next Sunday for my September bride.  My July bride's wedding is in two weeks so I'm fast and furiously working on that one also.  Have I told you how much I love weddings?!?  Weddings are truly my favorite thing to work on.

Hope you have a fun week ahead!  See you back here soon.

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