Birdies and Brides...

I appear!!!!

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat !

Did ya miss me?... Huh? Huh? Huh?...

To say that things are a little busy around here would be an understatement for sure..

But we are still alive and kicking.

The thing is... everything is starting to come down to the wire now and I have learned first hand that the odd little game of wedding planning is definitely a hurry up and wait and then hurry up again kind of game.

All these details and issues that I have swirling around in my noggin ....tend to make me a little scattered...

OK...OK.. ALOT scattered... more so than usual...

Take for example... The other day I was heading over to Nancy's ...

Suddenly from the West ...... "The Red She Devil of Spring! "Mama Robin..

You see Nancy's lovely wreathhas made a comfy and atheistically pleasing home for a family of robins.

The little fake wren on the left is what probably gave them the idea in the first place !While everyone took turns peeking in on the peepers

One of us stood watch for the incoming Kamikaze dive bombings

Between the Mama and Papa..

They let us know full well that they were ticked off.. Their Ariel attacks and loud calls were indication enough to know they were NOT happy with us peeking into the nursery...

But come on....

Who could blame us for wanting to gaze upon such beauty?

I think between all this excitement.... wedding planning ... and adrenaline pumping through my system I am beginning to see things.

Visions from the future.. and even the past..for instance right before my eyes I see an apparition of my brother's hands when he was a little boy...

Oh wait.. that isn't Gino's hand...

but hey.. it looks just like his did at the same age..

No... it's just one of my favorite nephews getting back to his homework... Doesn't he look pleased? He is actually a very smart little guy... and will spell the pants off you.

Another fun event taking place was... Maria's Hair Do dry run.

(I know for a fact that the day of the wedding there will be Mimosa's so perhaps that is why they call what happens this day a "Dry" run ?)

But I digress...
This the day one goes with their veil to try and figure out what your hair will look like..and how to place the veil... You need to be ONE with your hairdresser...

Lucky for us we know a good hairdresser... We think this is what it will look like( except the stray pieces curled )

The end result will be just beautiful... that is along as we can keep Nancy away from those darn Mimosa's...

In the mean time I thought I would give Maria lessons in wedding picture poses...

(FROM THE 80's !!!)

That's what Mom's do.. they try to help their "CHICKS" as much as possible..

You just don't mess with motherhood...

Exhibit A.

Well kids..

I will try to "Swoop" in here now and again.

It may be a little sporadic...

But... I would ask that you don't lose the faith and check in to see what is going on here in the epicenter of crazy..