TGIF

It has been a loonnggg & emotionally draining week, with me being sick and funeral arrangements, due to a death in my family. I am looking forward to this weekend and being with Brook. Unfortunately, it will not be a relaxing weekend! We will be in Grand Rapids for part of it . . . celebrating Halloween tonight at McFadden's and attending Jennifer and Tyler's wedding at the Amway Grand with so many of our close friends Saturday. Sunday, we head back to Jackson for our required 4 week class "Overview of the Catholic Church." (Poor Brook . . . so much driving back and forth lately.) We have to take this course to get married. I love being Catholic, but come on . . . I have been a strong Catholic my whole life and Brook is going thru the RCIA classes to become Catholic. Oh well, it is only 4 weeks and is worth it to get married in the Church. Maybe we will learn something this weekend?

Anyway, my goal for the weekend: get some pictures of the BRIDE & GROOM! Since there will only be 50 people at the wedding, this shouldn't be difficult. Wish me luck!

Home Sick

I have been feeling under the weather for the last few days and decided to stay home from work today, instead of spreading my germs around the office. And since I am incredibly bored, I thought I would do a little blogging.

Last weekend, we went to Kelly Hull and Melissa Ott's wedding. (Kelly is Brook's cousin on his mom's side.) The wedding was beautiful and we had a great time with the Bildner side of the family. Once again, I did not get any pics of the bride and groom (I really need to work on that!), but here are some of the moments I did capture . . .

Trent, Brook and Carey

Brook's parentsApril (Trent's wife) and I

Blessing of the Pets

In honor of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, our church did its annual blessing of the pets today. Brady and Prince (Veronica's dog), along with about 8 other dogs showed up in the parking lot of Queens for the blessing, accompanied by their owners. The dogs received a short blessing and (their favorite part) animal cracker treats.

Engagement Pictures

As promised, here is the slide show of our engagement pictures. As a side note, if anyone is looking for a good photographer, we would highly recommend ours! His name is Barry Tilson - he is very reasonably priced, great to work with and does awesome work.