The talking heads are calling it Grace Kelly inspired.
I for one am happy to see retro patterns showing up at the fabric store. Although I have to say that even in the 50s nobody had waists that tiny.
And check out my mom. She had it down 2 years before Grace's nuptials. 
Our little princess is getting married in 8 weeks. Her dress is under wraps so you'll just have to stay tuned...
It was all about following an ingenius pattern that can sort of drive a person over the edge because everything is backwards or mirror imaged. It takes intense concentration which is probably why I'm pretty sure I ripped out more seams than I put into it. But somehow it turned out looking pretty amazing. Hats off to Kay McKenna--who has designed dozens of temple patterns. I truly have no idea how she does it!
Project #3: It's been at least 4 years since I made the trek down I95 to poke around in Ikea. I have wanted to wrestle together some bookcases for quite some time now which is what I did this afternoon:)
And last but not least my all consuming project of planning Laura's wedding has actually been pretty fun despite the sad fact that she is 2,000 miles away. On Saturday MK and I went to the bakery to taste and choose the flavors for the cake. While we were doing that Jordan and Laura were in St. George taking engagement pictures. Laura put up a sneak peak of some of the photos on her facebook and these are my two favorite:
In other news, we had Jessica and Mark AND his parents over for dinner yesterday. It was a lot of fun to get to know them. She brought me the Herndon Ward cookbook and everyone knows that ward cookbooks are the best cookbooks. Could I be planning another wedding in the not too distant future? Stay tuned....
15 years ago I clearly remember the entire family being sick with the stomach flu. As I was cleaning up someone's barf I had my first contraction. It was 12 days before my due date. Bruce was an hour away at work. He got home and even though I hadn't had another contraction we went over to the hospital to get checked out. I was dilated to 7. Best labor EVER. I got an epidural before I even had a second contraction. They broke my water and voila, out came Miss Mary Katherine Nielson. All 9 pound 9 and 1/2 ounces of her. She was my second biggest baby (Tom was 9 lbs 11 oz) but has become my most petite child. When she was little, MK was known as Mary the mute. She never said a word to anyone outside of the fam. She wouldn't give a talk in primary until she was 5. Being the 7th child and the baby she pretty much gets whatever she wants. When we were at Safeway we mentioned to the checkout guy that tomorrow was her birthday. He guessed she was turning 12. ha! It's been fun having MK stay so young. She would rather play sports than go to a dance and she is saving me a fortune because unlike her older sisters, she couldn't care less about fashion. Since it's her 15th birthday here are 15 things that would describe MK:
It has required lots of power tools and trips to home depot, but it will be nice to have them and not have to borrow them any more. The boys worked for 2 hours in Bro Kendig's garage under the watchful eye of Bro Neville who taught them how to use a table saw, band saw, miter saw and/or power sanders. They needed to make 16 of each of these pieces:
Ripping boards with the table saw:
Using the miter saw for a nice angle:
The deacons stayed busy sanding the wood and labeling each piece.
Bro Kendig doing his thing with the band saw:
All in all about 50 man hours went into the project. And when I say man I mean stud. The guys were all awesome to donate their time:) Especially with mulch madness looming this weekend! A big thanks also goes out to Bruce who made sure the boys got some chick-fil-a beforehand a to keep them happy. Even though it was cold (45 degrees) and we blew a fuse, everyone went home with all of their fingers so I'd say it was a huge success:)
