Day 85

I cant believe we made it to August. July seemed like the longest month possible, though I would say summer is flying by quickly, July really lasted longer than I would have liked. 

A few days after my last post I contracted "Iritus." It was like a week long migraine above and below my left eye. Letting any amount of sunlight hit my eye caused me enough pain to bring tears to both of my eyes. After a week, I went to my regular doctor who told me she was sure it was not pink eye, however she had no idea what this abnormality really was. In fact she called three other professionals in to check it out. She gave me antibiotics and told me to check into the ER if my eye didn't clear up in two days. Sunday rolled around and nothing had changed except that I was irritating my eye more by putting dang eye drops in every two hours. 

On Monday I went to see my eye doctor. He is the one who was able to pinpoint what was wrong with me. He had to dilate my eye and gave me different drops to put in. He put the first drops in and I had to go to work. Because my eye was dilated I had to wear paper sunglasses over my regular glasses. The kids at work were certain I was  blind. They crack me up.  After about 10 days of drops I was able to put my contacts back in, which is a blessing because my glasses are not the most recent prescription and they were making me blurry. 

Our RSVP's are due next week and we are still waiting to hear back from about 40% of our guest list. I know we wont get 100% participation but it would be nice to not have to make phone calls. Since we are sticking close to a budget it is important to get a close headcount.

I built a mock center piece with my samples and I have to say it turned out pretty well. My cousin Cristy went to the beach a few weekends ago and picked us up a bag of driftwood. She and I are going to have a craft party and get through all the little things we can do here before the wedding. 

I mentioned the headcount, the space we are working with is fairly small and we have to arrange everything accordingly. At this point we are unsure if we are going to be using round or rectangle tables. Which doesnt seem like a huge decision but you have to get linens in the correct size and shape. And the arrangement of centerpieces and their parts is important. If I am having rectangle tables I want rectangle mirrors and if I am having round tables I want circle mirrors. 

A past co-worker used his abilites to create a version of the room with to scale tables and chairs. This gives us the chance to play around with the set up. Thank you Tony!

Eren came over and we did practice rounds of make up and hair. For the limited supplies I had at the apartment, I think she did a pretty good job. However, we are still looking for 
 inspiration. 

Possible hair

Possible make up

Eye make up for the wedding

The year of the babies update: I now know only 8 pregnant women! Danny's step sister Beth and her husband Peter welcomed their baby boy into the world on July 26th. Foster Glein was 6lbs and 15 oz. At exactly two months old, you would think he would be the youngest guest at the wedding. However, my cousin Samee is due to have her daughter in early September. I have been hearing all sorts of pregnancy, nursing, body and baby stories throughout the weeks from my pregnant coworkers. All of the women who are now pregnant or just had their babies in the last month,  that I know, are all first time moms (except one). First time moms are always excited which is a great energy to be around.  Working with all the prego's is fun because I get to help them plan and understand everything that is happening but I don't have to go through it myself! Not to mention I get to tease them by telling them all the difficult children we work with will be what they having waiting in store :)

Danny decided to shave his beard and go with a stache....until I told him no way!

Working with kids has its advantages