a stl wedding shower

the mom . the bride my mom wrapped her gift in wrapping paper that her mom purchased for her wedding shower shelly . sophie . missy the shower throwers julie . paula . marilyn . jeannie . bonnie . marilyn . pat campbell . shelly . sophie . missy . barb ...

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i heard the bells

today is the fourth sunday of advent. the fourth sunday of expectantly waiting for the coming King. his hope. his peace. his love. his joy.  earlier this month at church i was re-introduced to a well known christmas carol. i learned that the song we now know as "i heard the bells on christmas day" was originally a poem penned by henry wadsworth longfellow entitled "christmas bells". henry wrote this poem in the midst of personal tragedy. his oldest son had been severely injured in...

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the wedding website

our story about us donald marsh dyer junior was born and raised in raytown, missouri with his two brothers and one sister. he has a degree in psychology from sbu and currently works in the psychiatric department at the university of kansas medical center in kansas city. donald loves movies, pizza, fantasy football and playing cards. he is looking forward to the many adventures he will have with shelly as she broadens his travel horizons. shelly lynn williams was born and raised in st. charles,...

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donald loves shelly

for everything you've ever wanted to know about the wedding of the year... www.mywedding.com/donaldlovesshell...

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the one with the invisalign

fourteen months, fifty two trays and countless public restroom visits later... ...

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a practical wedding

i’ve looked at more than my fair share of wedding books and magazines over the years because, let’s face it, i love weddings. i always have. and i  imagine i always will. and as someone with an extensive background in the industry, you’d think i would have seen this coming.  here’s what i have discovered about weddings. for someone who is a painfully slow decision maker, seriously dislikes shopping and has an aversion to spending money, no matter who said money belongs to, planning...

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save the date

i love a good countdown chain. really, who doesn't? there's one particular countdown chain i've been waiting a looong time to make and it's finally here...we have a wedding date! donald and i are getting married january 26, 2013 at pere marquette lodge in grafton, illinois.   it's really fun to relay this information in person because we get to see people's eyes bug out, especially when talking with a wedding industry professional. it's going to be quick, but in the end what...

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i said yes to the dress

in a shocking turn of events, i picked out and purchased my wedding gown exactly two and a half hours after the search began. no one was more surprised by this than me.   kim, missy and my mom joined me for what was to be an initial scouting trip. the goal for the day was simply to try on a lot of dresses and get an idea of what i might be looking for. when they asked what would happen if i found 'the one' on this visit, i chuckled. given my poor shopping and decision making abilities,...

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the ring bling

i love my new ring.  i love it a lot.     the meinhardt family is lucky enough to have our very own jeweler. my cousin eric, the third generation of our family jewelers, made my ring with a stone that belonged to my mom. his grandfather, walter goerss, made my grandparents wedding rings; his father, bill goerss, made my parents wedding rings; and now eric will make ours. this ring was pretty much perfect to start with, but the family history makes me love it even mo...

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i said yes

october 4, 2012 started out like any other thursday. i had a job molding young minds at pleasant lea middle school, where i spent the day helping seventh graders write expository paragraphs. yes, that is in fact as thrilling as it sounds. i had an oil change appointment scheduled right after school so as soon as the kids were gone i was out the door, ready to be on my way...and then the day got interesting. i rushed to the parking lot and was surprised to find donald waiting by my car. since he...

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oh pinterest

i love pinterest. it's one of my favorite inventions. i like being able to save all the websites and links i want in one place. and i love browsing everyone else's pins and copying their creative ideas. here are few things i've made with the inspiration of pinterest... donald has been wanting some 'art' for his wall, so i made this sign out of some old pallet wood i couldn't go to honduras myself this year, so i sent some  sponge balls for the kids at project manuelito to play...

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the tour de donald

sixty two hours and fifty three people later (which may be a low estimate), the tour de donald is complete. we had a whirlwind weekend in st. louis where i impressed even myself with my scheduling abilities. there was not a moment to spare as i tried to squeeze in a meet and greet with as many friends and family as possible.   we rolled into town on friday afternoon and after a quick stop at dr. jack's we headed straight to donald's first high school football game experience....

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like daughter, like mother

i am not known for always having a kitchen full of food. in fact, what i am known for is spending an astronomically small amount of money on groceries each month. it's something i've sort of perfected over the years, without being able to totally explain how i make it work. at some point it stops making sense even to me.   my kitchen only has two staples...cereal and milk. everything else is optional. this works well for breakfast, but is not especially helpful when it comes...

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oh canada : the travelogue

last year our mother/daughter road trip took us to the east side of our neighbor to the north, so this summer we decided to explore the west. we rented a little blue fiat, piled in our luggage and headed up the sea to sky highway... whistler : british columbia this quaint little ski town was not only the host mountain resort of the 2010 winter olympics, it was also my favorite stop on the trip. there was quite a bit of hiking involved as we explored the capilano suspension bridge,...

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d.w.d.w.d.

even with the lure of free chicken, sitting outside in a parking lot for twenty four straight hours on a 100 degree day probably doesn't sound like an appealing option to most people. it wasn't donald's first choice either, and since he was such a trooper at chick-fil-a, i thought he deserved a little treat. so on friday he got to choose everything we did, all day long. it was the first ever d.w.d.w.d...or 'do whatever donald wants day'.   since donald's day doesn't really start until...

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will sweat for chikin

my second first 100 was a smashing success. the lee's summit chick-fil-a just opened this week (finally...chick-n-mini's for breakfast!) and i was lucky number 16. my first camp out was back in november, when i was wearing seventeen layers of clothing and hibernating in the tent for warmth. this one was a teensy bit different in the sense that if i hadn't been able to borrow a canopy to block the sun, we would have certainly withered away in the scorching heat. but the weather wasn't...

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hillbilly heaven

awhile back i was lamenting with some of the behrs about the fact that we haven't been able to take our annual beach vacation the past couple years. we decided that if we couldn't make it to the beach we should at least do the next best thing, which is obviously branson. we took a short but sweet trip to the ozark mountains to eat deliciously authentic mexican food and play at silver dollar city.   waiting in line to see the pretty girls at the saloon show megan . jacob . shelly . matthew...

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33 pennies

it's pretty standard for my birthday to last longer than just one day and this year was no exception. the free food started rolling in about week early, but the best part came on my birthday eve. we rolled in from omaha around 9pm and the most spectacular birthday penny scavenger hunt you have ever seen was waiting. there were thirty four pennies hidden all over the house, one from each year i've been alive. (yes, technically that makes the title of this post incorrect, but i'm only thirty three...it's...

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we're cheering for the umpire

kim and i have had quite the string of house guests lately, the most recent being christy (my second cousin), tommy (my second cousin once removed) and my mom (still my mom). my house was the halfway point on our journey to visit matt (christy's brother) and watch him work. but before we headed north to cheer on our favorite umpire, we had a little fun kansas city style. since tommy is a big fan of all things lego, we hit up the new legoland at crown center. we played, built, rode and watched...my...

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july 4th @ the twogoods

ah the fourth. america. freedom. hot dogs. explosions. as the great jim gaffigan once said..."it's what the founding fathers would want". and no one i know does explosions quite like kelly twogood. with lots of food, lots of friends and a table overflowing with fireworks we celebrate america in what i can only describe as uncontrolled chaos. which i suppose is what you get when you put a bunch of dads in the street to set things on fire with an innumerable amount of small children running...

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for the love of meinhardts

such a good looking family we are.  and we're funny too....

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bring it on summer

lately the vast majority of my life has consisted of the following things... teaching. painting. catering. and a variety of other odd jobs. but soon and very soon, it will instead be filled with... waking up whenever i want to. going to the pool with kim. and eating more cherry blasters than is probably wise. ...

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