Wedding #3

Liz and Glenn's wedding was the 3rd we went to in October. It was such a wonderful day and I even survived all day in heals, which was something I didn't think I would be able to do.

This wasn't the wedding cake, but it was the bridal shower cake. I really liked how all of the flowers looked. 

Wedding #2

The second wedding we went to was Jenny's (Viddy's sister). Jenny was a beautiful bride and we loved spending time with the family. I have to thank everyone for all the help with the food. We wouldn't have been able to do it by ourselves. 

The weather couldn't have been better.

Wedding #1

The first wedding that we went to in October was Viddy's aunt Diane. It was wonderful, and what made the whole day even more special was when Donavon was sealed to the newly married couple. 

All the May siblings 

The first official wedding cake completed by Jessica and Viddy. And it didn't turn out too bad if I do say so myself - it's amazing what can be done and how funny it can be at three in the morning. 

Awesome Food

We participated in a few weddings in October and we had the opportunity to do the catering for my younger sister's wedding and here are a few pictures of the food. I think we will open a catering business when I finish grad school and we have a little more spending money. We had a lot of fun and a lot of help

We made an edible bouquet of fruit. Basically a bunch of skewered fruit sticking out of a pineapple. My brother built us a stand so the pineapples wouldn't fall over. Fun.
We made a couple thousand truffles of various shapes and sizes...There were mint, oreo, chcolate, and cookie dough truffles. We also covered pomegranate in chocolate.
These are called Canapes. It's nearly impossible to pronounce correctly or at least remember how it's pronounced correctly so everyone started to say it like a Samali pirate. It was more fun that way.
This is how the food was served and displayed... You can see that we had an abundance of awesome food and didn't even mention the hundred of mini-tarts that we made that all turned out really well.

Jenny's Wedding cake...Dad decided chess pieces make the best cake topper. There are edible diamonds and pearls decorating the cake and it took a long time to make, but turned out better than I even thought it would.

If you need catering we can probably help, for a price. We were so exhausted after the reception we didn't function well for a week, but we had a great time and it was so good to see family.

Viddy has Talent!

The other week Viddy and I were sitting at church when the person conducting stands up and says that the person who was supposed to do the musical number wasn't there and they might call someone out of the audience to improve. For some reason Viddy gives him an enthusiastic thumbs up. As soon as Viddy did that I turned to him and said, "Are you crazy? Why would you do that? Now he is going to ask us!" Sure enough now three minutes later a note is brought down from the stand asking us if we would be willing to do a duet. The small amount of singing that I do is limited to the shower, the car, and the little boy I nanny. I don't really like performing in public, although it has been done before, and there is no way that I could do it without any practice.
So Viddy and I discuss what we should do. I don't have my flute with me, and there isn't time to run home and get it. We can't really pull off a duet on the piano without running through it at least once. So Viddy returns the note and says that he will do it. After much debate about which song to do, he finally settles on Lord, I would Follow Thee. Viddy walks to the piano with nothing in hand, opens the hymnal that is at the piano to the page and then proceeds to play an amazing piece which unless you had been there and witnessed the whole thing, you would never believe he had no time to practice and was just looking at the music in the hymnal. After he was done (even I was impressed and I know what Viddy is capable of) the girl next to me turned and said "I have no idea where he was able to pull that from."
Moral of the story is, don't give your bishop a thumbs up when he announces that the person doing the musical number is not there. And I have an incredibly talented husband!

He's not single!

October was the month of weddings for us. We went to three, two in Utah and one in Arizona. It was a lot of fun. One of the funniest things that happened was when we were at Liz and Glenn's wedding. We were at the reception and all the single guys had been called up to try and catch the garter. Viddy and I were sitting back enjoying it all, when out of nowhere the DJ says "You in the back, someone with that hair style has got to be single!" That's when I proudly held up my left hand and all the bling that is on my ring finger. The DJ didn't quite know what to say. He got out something that kind of sounded like "Wow" but I can't be sure. :) All I can say is that I'm glad that I had just had my ring cleaned the day before because it was extra shiny and could be seen across the room.