Hot August nights, days, afternoons, evenings.....

Wow--what a scorcher it has been!  Thursday through Sunday a heat wave descended upon the region as our family bustled about participating in the events around my niece's much anticipated wedding.  It has been a year in the works and, despite the heat, it was lovely.  (And sweaty.  Very sweaty.)  Thirteen turned out to be quite the poised and charming usher while Ten and her cousin made lovely flower girls.  My niece was a beautiful bride.  

One of the many jobs toward putting on the wedding involved painting paint stir sticks.  My niece had been to a wedding where wedding programs were glued to paint stir sticks to serve as a fan.  It seemed like a cute idea and El Professor took on the painting task, depite the fact that up until the wedding we had been experiencing an unseasonably cool summer.  The heatwave showed up just in time for the festivities and, in the six o'clock-in-full-sun-nearly one-hundred-degree-outdoor-wedding, the program/fans were just the thing!  

With the rehearsal dinner-wedding-brunch-hustle-bustle over, the heat wave has hit the road and we are going to as well.  We are off to the mountains for more extended family fun and some MUCH needed R and R.