That's all I have for now. Its probably enough for me to tackle.
Happy and safe travels to all and to all a wonderful tomorrow.
Maid of honor (best friend) and mom
That's us leaving at the end
Number one niece and husband in background. I love this photo.
Table settings. Doesn't really do it justice. It turned out to be a beautiful day but it had rained and rained and rained for two days before. Many shoes were ruined this day. Anyway, I think the flowers were bright and festive and just gorgeous.
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Cake cutting
Guest book
Hair
Cake
ROUGH Diving! - Getting back on the boat after this dive, the boat lurched, I wracked my shins on the second rung and literally thought I'd broken both my legs. Luckily not so, but still have serious huge wounds from it.
Hawaiian totem protecting an old leader, I think.
Honeymooners..... ahhhhh
Fishes in the deep (or shallow).
Happy Holidays to all. Enjoy, relax, revel, reflect a little, love a lot, be peaceful in fact be rather jubilant and be safe.
xo
Me
For those interested that is.
Well, it turns out the internet pretty much does know it all. Type in bath salt or whatever into Google and there are just tons of recipes for homemade relaxation. So, that's what I did this last weekend. 
I found some seasonal fabric, glued to the tops of cute little squatty mason jars filled with assorted salts and scents. I used essential oils, tangerine, lavendar, cucumber, apple, plumeria and coconut/lime. (Not all in the same jar.) 
lids and you can have literally any season of gifts at the ready. If you were really on top of your game, you could have the little lids already made up in a zip-loc bag or something and whenever an event precluded a cute little gift, choose the flavor of the day and Voila! You are done and impressive. Well, I hope impressive since I'm giving these out this Christmas season.
I don't know about you, but for my family, holiday gatherings involving food always includes the dreaded green bean /french fried onion casserole. Truth be told, I loved that dish. My mom always used frozen onion rings instead of the canned fried variety. I would volunteer to make it each year and I would layer in several layers of onion rings, it was almost more onion than green beans, but I digress. I've since stopped eating that recipe because I don't really do dairy and neither does Mister. Have to avoid the lovely cream of mushroom soup because of it. So, I found THIS recipe on a vegan food site that I rave about all the time and am going to make it for a Thanksgiving gathering. Let's hope it turns out as fantastic as the old standby.
Happy Thanksgiving All.
The photo doesn't do it justice, but, I'm not really a professional photographer and when you consider this was taken whilst driving down the highway, its a fine photograph. You can see a much better pic and the Wiki link above.
I love all the colors and layers, the purples and pinks and I hope this comes through on Blogger. Sometimes I find the beauty of pics gets lost in the translation and the reflection in the building and the automobile lights and street lights and people are up and going somewhere with purpose and a lot of them won't even realize the sunrise is amazing and right there for the taking. But a lot of us do take in the morning. Morning is great!
Mt. Hood
Crappy pics, but, lighting isn't the best at night in an old house. 
Check it out. Its very nearly disgusting. Well, to me anyway. Mister and I are solidly placed in the middle of the middle class. We could go to Disneyland if we wanted, but it starts with saving. It's never a whim to go on a vacation. Its a planned event with much scrimping and saving and not having and then there's usually a little debt. How could there not be. Hello! Have you been anywhere lately, its expensive to live here in the land of the free. So anyway, back to the disgust. I see that $25,000 dessert and I read the article and I am flabergasted. How is it the Britney Spears, a fine model of womanhood and humanity (ahem) can have in her pocket each month something like $747,000 of disposable income? She's just an example, but she's a train wreck, whether she's got talent or not is irrelevant when she conducts herself like she does in her personal time. There are sports icons and movie stars and so many other people who YES, entertain us, but, but, but,.... I don't even know what my point is. I'm just so appalled for some reason. It doesn't effect me directly, but it does indirectly. Almost at the top.
View at the top. Two lakes, East and West Paulina. 
We hiked from the shores of the closest lake in the pic (above) to the peak (pic below). I guess technically that's the one on the left. Its difficult to see, now that I try to describe it. Anyway...
My bro and his girlfriend having lunch. Good friends and family and I'm happy. 
Its an amazing chocolate cake that has coffee in the batter and brown sugar in the frosting. Ooh yeah baby, its delicious. But, this is the second time in the three times I've made this cake that terrible things have happened. The last time I made it, and you have to know that its meant to be a three layer cake so lots of batter and lots of ingredients, so the last time I made this cake, I have two pans in the oven with 1/3 waiting on the counter to go into the oven after the first come out, 'cause you know three 9 inch rounds just don't fit into my sized oven, yes a personal problem, but there you go and when the timer buzzes and I open the oven to toothpick test the cakes, well, they haven't risen - at all. The are two seriously thick, dense about 1/3 of an inch high cake rounds. Nasty! Seems I'd forgotten the baking soda. Oops! I start over and eventually, there's a superfantastic cake but only after much toil. Sooooo, I frost the cake and I may have been in a little bit of a hurry, but I really still believe the cake was cool enough to frost and its three layers tall, remember, and its all frosted and quite pretty 'cause I'm taking it to a gathering and in the morning I open the fridge for something and I see that the top layer of the cake has split in three pieces and are all slowly sliding away from each other. You can't imagine the horror. So, I take some really gorgeous 4-inch wide w/gold stitching or something amazing ribbon and wrap it around the cake like a corset and cinch the cake up until the three misbehaving pieces come back together. What else are you going to do? I tie the ribbon into this huge amazing bow with long trailing ends which I decoratively wrapped/draped around the cake sides. It turned out pretty cool and fancy. Well, why didn't I take a picture? Good question, but I'll never forget how cool it was. I've since ribboned up cakes that I had to take places just for the fun of it. Anyway, I get to the event and its time to cut cake... hmmm.... just exactly how do you cut the beautiful cake when there is ribbon surrounding it! Well, you take the ribbon off and the frosting which is between the ribbon and the cake sticks to the ribbon and the most beautiful cake becomes an, albeit really tasty cake, a rather hideous one.
My point, evil cake!
Made the cake tonight for the weekend, my bro's birthday. I put all the ingredients in, including homemade vegan buttermilk (1 cup soy milk and 1 Tbsp vinegar let sit for 10 minutes)
and coffee and much flour and sugar and just over a cup of dutch cocoa and when I pour the oil in, it smells just a little odd, but I thought to myself.... its oil, it isn't going to smell like roses. I think nothing more of it. I take out the batter beaters and do my usual little taste AND ITS HORRIBLE! The oil was rancid!!! Can't tell you the annoyance. I had Mister come and verify and yes, RANCID.
I started over... I would share the recipe with you, but I was sworn to secrecy when it was given to me and seriously, do you want the evil cake recipe? I don't think you do!
My ordeal in photographic form.
Ok, so its not all that pretty. It was my first time trying out my new pastry thing-a-ma-jig that you put frosting in and magically you have professionally decorated cakes. Well, not so much. It was very difficult at best. Oh well, it will still taste good.
