Yesterday, we made the drive to Aunt Katie's house! We left around 8:40 a.m. and made it to the outskirts of St. Louis before Momma stopped for a bathroom break. A few minutes back on the road, and Julianne was out for her first nap! We had packed lunch meat sandwiches (lunchables for the kiddos), so we kept right on rolling through the lunch hour and nap time. We made another stop in Mt. Pleasant, IA; and as luck would have it, there were many trailer loads of tractors leaving town. The boys were in heaven getting to see so many antiques while pumping gas! By the time we reached Waterloo, all three kiddos were sleeping. They all slept for a little over an hour, talk about a quite van ride! We were so extremely pleased with how well everyone did...especially Julianne. She has never been a good traveler, but she rocked this trip. The last 20 minutes, she was pretty unhappy, but we could handle 20 minutes of a 10 hour trip!
While we were driving, Pa-paw, Ma-maw and Aunt Lisa (they drove out on Tuesday), we running errors for Aunt Katie. One of which included picking up drinks for the reception...
Today was spent making the cakes for the reception. Aunt Katie baked some of them last week, and Ma-maw finished baking the others yesterday. After an extra trip to the grocery for more icing coloring and supplies, we were able to get the 6 sheet cakes and the tiered cake decorated by mid-afternoon!
Those are (peppermint) snowflake candies on the sheet cakes that I had made last week! I also made some smaller ones in red and white to have on the dessert table at the reception.
The bottom two tiers are styrofoam, the top tier is a real cake for the bride and groom to cut at the reception.
After finishing the cakes, and cleaning up a bit, us girls headed to the "city" to have a little pampering! We went to the beauty college as the other places in town seemed to be highway robbery for the price to get your nails done. Ma-maw, Aunt Lisa, and Aunt Katie had both manis and pedis, while I went for just a pedi and Reba got her fingernails polished. In the end, we all had a good chuckle about the gals that did our nails. Let's just say my pedi and polish took the same amount of time as the other's manis and pedis! Either my gal was really slow, or their's were really fast!
A few before shots...
Then, Little Miss got bored and started using my camera...
She was pretty excited to spend the evening with the girls and to get her nails done.
Until next time...
