Cupcakes, Black Nail Polish, and a Tacky Red Necklace...it Must be Valentine's Day

Special days, Oh how they come punctually every year on their appointed date. And Valentine's Day is no different, as soon as Christmas is over the hearts, stuffed animals and red heart shaped boxes of cheap chocolate start making their appearance on store shelves. For some its a day to show that special person how much they mean to you and for others well...they refer to it as "Single's Awareness Day".

This year I'm afraid I find myself in the camp of the later group, but being like any girl worth her weight in mascara I won't let the chance to have a themed celebration pass me by. My sisters Eleanor, Maggie and I made strawberry

flavored cupcakes with pink and red heart shaped sprinkles (what is a cupcake without sprinkles? It's kinda the same concept as a rose by any other name...) even the the muffin cups we bought have hearts on them. My Mom is planning on making her delicious traditional Valentine's Day dinner of Lasagna, green salad, and rolls.

A good friend of mine recently told me, this year she planned to paint her nails black for Valentine's Day and every year following till she is engaged, then she will proudly paint them red. I decided I must do the same (I know, I know... I said black nails were for dead people...or those in mourning:)

While I was at Walmart with Maggie the other day picking up the needed items for our "Love Day Cupcakes" as she called them, I stumbled across the most tacky red necklace, with its oversizes red jewels hanging linked together and suspended from a red ribbon. Why in the world would I buy such a tacky piece of adornment you ask? Well for no other reason that it was the exact same red as the heels I plan to wear and I needed something to liven up my otherwise dull outfit of black dress pants and off-white fine knit sweater...Oh and it was 50% off. One must dress for the day you know.

Y'all have a great Valentine's day, and remember we can love because He first loved us.

(1 John 4:19)

The New Mr. and Mrs. Scheuerman

This past weekend I had the honor and privilege to be apart of my cousin Joanna's wedding to the man of her dreams. After dating for about a year and a half in July, Daniel asked her to be his wife. The couple decided to enter into that wonderful covenant made between themselves and God, called marriage, on the 2nd of October surrounded by only family and a few good friends. The ceremony was short but sweet, held outside on a friends beautiful and newly refurbished patio. So wrapped up in each other and the

this special moment they didn't even notice it began to rain.

On the way to the reception both Bride and Groom thought the whole thing went off remarkably well, and said they couldn't have asked for it to go any better.

The reception was in the fellowship hall of The First Baptist Church there in Champaign. After the reception was done, pictures taken and good bye hugs given... the new Mr. ans Mrs. Scheuerman head off to spend a week in Hawaii

Below is a quick slideshow of the highlights during the past weekend. (I apologize ahead of time for its sad lacking of professional quality of both the slideshow and the pictures.)

The photographer Ashly Goetsch was absolutely amazing I can't wait to see more of the pictures she took and I defiantly plan on hiring her for my wedding.

Visit to the Dodges

I spent a great week,last week down in mid Illinois with my cousins. The following pictures are just a few random highlights from the visit.

Whoever said lint rollers couldn't be microphones?

-Gangster Bridesmaids

Bekah and I decided we need to try our dresses for the wedding on (and the guys hats)

-Introducing a Brother-Sister modeling team

James showing off his outfit that Bekah and I picked out for him (minus the shoes lol)

The leaning tower of hats.

Bekah holding onto the hats we found for the wedding

Smiles

Bekah and James took me out Zas' for a Birthday lunch/dinner

Guess Who...

Gathering of the CPC

On the 20th of May the CPC gathered once again for more memorable times catching up with old and meeting new friends, while we laughed, played games, danced, ate, sang, and were blessed witnessing four more Eleders being brought in to the CPC.
Below is a link to the album I posted on Facebook of the weekends happenings (there was too many pictures to post them all on the blog :)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2062001&id=1481888915&l=f3b2727be2

The Gingerbread House

Every year our family makes a gingerbread house. Here are some pictures of this years fun.

The empty canvas inviting for inspiration.

Ahh the importance of a sturdy foundation (or walls in this case)

Mother and Father look on, as their children show forth their artistic abilities

the finished product.

maggie's 5th birthday

Here are some of the pictures we took during Maggie's birthday last Saturday.

Reformation Day Fair

Last weekend I went to a Reformation day fair in Morton IL. I had a really great time and look forward to next year.

The Yen family who so kindly adopted me for the weekend. Thank You guys so much.

On our way to dinner. We thought they added a finishing touch to our outfits.

Smile

The very impressive wall outside of the church. I'm sure it took lots of work to create.

I had a great time being with and catchin' up with friends.

Miss Tara Y.

Charlie Zahm

after our breakfast in the hotel well felt wee needed to work off a few pounds. :)

a bunch of pictures...

since our Internet connection was slowed down for ssssooooo long I wasn't able to update my blog. But now that we are back to almost normal running speed. Here are some highlights of whats been going on in July and the beginning of August.



Ele's Birthday

At the beach

Old World Wisconsin with the Yens :)

Jonathan Erber's Good bye/ bowling party

Father Daughter day at the Hills

-thanks Hills for hosting that

over the last few weeks we have spent a lot of time going back and forth the the Dodges (my aunt's house)

Going to see a movie in 3-d with my cousins and jo jo's boyfriend