My baby sis got married!!! - COMPLETED & PHOTO ADDED 10/21!!!
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**DopeyGirl** · 07-20-2004, 02:08 AM

Destination: the beautiful state of Oregon

Dates:

Monday, July 26, 2004 until Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Adventurers:

Me, Sarah (27)

DH, Mike (28)

DD, Emilie (3 ½)

. . . with appearances by DM, DF, 2 DSis, soon-to-be DBIL AND a plethora of old high school classmates, friends and enemies!!!

Resorts:

My old bedroom in my mom and dad's house!!!

Celebrations:

Holy Cow!!! My baby sister is getting married!!!

AND it's time for my 10 year high school class reunion!!!

Well, fellow PassPorters, this won't be your typical trip report!!! I decided that to get even more familiar with trip report writing, I would do a little one about my sister's upcoming wedding in mid-August!!!

So here's the pre-trip report and a little background!!!

First of all -- for those who haven't seen who I am yet, here I am!!!

---- Hey there, Hi there, Ho there! This is me! DH insisted on taking a pic and I gave him a smart-alecky look, so this isn't the best! ----

My sister, Julie (22), and her fiancée Robert (22) have been dating for as long as I have been married!!! (I have been married for 5 ½ years!!!) We have expected throughout the last couple of years that Robert was going to propose, we just couldn't figure out when!!! All of their close high school friends had married each other last summer (yep, they did) and I think, in a way, Rob was feeling the pressure a little!!! He and Jules talked about it and didn't decide anything from it. Fast forward to early December, my family is all getting ready to head to WDW to meet DH, DD and I there . . . Julie called me at home to tell me that she and Robert had gone shopping and that he proposed to her that day!!! They purchased their wedding bands that day as well!!! So, we celebrated their engagement at WDW (without Robert

)!!! Where else to celebrate but there?!

Fast forward to March now . . . plans had all basically been finalized and everything was purchased and reserved, all except the bridesmaid dresses!!! This is where I come in to play . . . I am the matron of honor!!! Julie couldn't pick between Tina (our other sis) and I so she chose us to both be "of-honors" and she is having no other bridesmaids. Which made me feel real special!!!

So, I flew out to Oregon in March and tried on dresses . . . got to buy a dress a size smaller than I normally wear (SO excited!!!) and purchased the shoes. Quick and painless!!!

----- Our dresses (for the color anyways!) and the shoes!!! -----

I came home and started planning the bridal shower (and my 2 upcoming Disney trips!!!)!!! Julie and Robert called a few weeks ago to tell me that they have decided to spend their honeymoon at Disneyland!!! (Jealous!!!

) They got a great deal on hotel and park passes so they jumped on it!!! The whole package cost $500 and that was for 5 nights at a Disneyland Good Neighbor Hotel, 2 &#8211; 5 day Park Hopper Passes and 2 meals in the hotel restaurant!!! GREAT DEAL!!! I helped her out with making PS's for meals she really wanted to do at DL -- it's looking like Blue Bayou (inside "Pirates"

and possibly Napa Rose!!! Those were the last of the details to be finalized and now all there was to do is sit and wait (and cry when Jules graduated from college

GO DUCKS!!!) !!!

----- Julie and Robert at her graduation from the University of Oregon (June 2004) -----

So, now here we are in late July and DD and I are getting ready to head west again!!! Flying out next week for a month to get my dress altered (it has to be taken IN!!!!), attend my 10 year reunion (DREADING IT!!!), attend the bridal shower and wait for the wedding!!! DH doesn't have much leave left (enough for this trip and October's WDW trip!!!) so he will be flying out the week before the wedding to meet us there. He is an usher, so EVERYONE is involved!!!

I will be checking the boards as often as I can, and will post a full report when I return in August (hopefully with pictures of everything)!!! My main goal, photo wise, is to get a pic taken with ME in it . . . I don't have any good ones, as you can see by the first one posted here!!!

I will return in August with all the details!!!

**chezp** · 07-20-2004, 02:11 AM

Wow - you're going for a month!

It sounds like there'll be plenty going on and I can't wait to hear all about it. Just as well you've done all your PS's for WDW this week!

I hope it all goes well for you.

Jennifer2003 · 07-20-2004, 06:24 AM

No wonder why you needed to get in those 1000 posts!

I'm just kidding...you better check in often because we are going to miss you!!!!!!
Have a fun trip!

Jennifer

**Colexis Mom** · 07-20-2004, 07:13 AM

Wow Sarah, what a great start

What are we going to do without you for a month

Hopefully you can check in every now and then! Good luck with the wedding and the reunion

and can't wait to hear about both when you get back

vsonnier · 07-20-2004, 08:29 AM

Hey that dress and those shoes look aweful familiar! I had the same color in my wedding with silver shoes. I let all of my bridesmaids pick the style dress they wanted to wear so each girl (and guy) would have what looked best on her (or him) Everyone wore red dresses then silver shoes. I'm sure your sisters wedding will be absolutely beautiful!

Teddysmom · 07-20-2004, 11:45 AM

Sarah!!! I love your pic! I hate having mine taken too so almost every pic we have of me has some variation of the face you made.

A WHOLE month! What are we gonna do without you? I hope you don't see too many enemies. I can't wait to hear about this when you get back. Are you gonna miss us?

GoofyMom · 07-20-2004, 11:47 AM

Wow! So much going on! I hope your sister's wedding is perfect. And

for the reunion. I'm sure it won't be as awful as you think.

wdwlovers · 07-20-2004, 12:27 PM

Have a great time Sarah! Enjoy your reunion! Mine is Labor Day weekend and still not sure if I'm going.

Wow, a whole month you'll be gone?! We'll miss you here! Can't wait to see photos from the wedding!

loobyoxlip · 07-20-2004, 12:32 PM

Heh, Sarah! Great to see a picture of you and put a face to a name

Where in Oregon are you from? I have relatives in Beaverton, Springfield and Eugene. I love it out there, everything is so green and beautiful!

**DopeyGirl** · 07-20-2004, 03:52 PM

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Where in Oregon are you from? I have relatives in Beaverton, Springfield and Eugene. I love it out there, everything is so green and beautiful!

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I'm from a small town (8000 people) about 25 miles south of Eugene!!! My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc . . . all still live there!!! My youngest sister lives in Eugene and my "middle" sister lives in Warrenton, which is just about as far north and west in the state as you can get!!! So far, I am the only one who has moved away from the state

(besides my parents in the 70's and 80's when dad was in the Navy!!!)

The only thing I never liked about the Northwest was all the rain!!! Soaked my socks inside my birkenstocks!!!

(For those who have never been to the Eugene, OR area, we have kind of a "hippie" mentality . . . a live and let live type of attitude . . . and yes, we wear birkenstocks year round with and without socks!!! Even though I left the state, that part never left me!!!

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Anyone thinking about heading that way, visit Crater Lake and drive through the lava beds in central Oregon

But the drive up the coast is really nice as well!!! And the drive up Interstate 5 (my town straddles I-5) is a nice one as well!!!

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Wow, a whole month you'll be gone?! We'll miss you here! Can't wait to see photos from the wedding!

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Oh, I will be here . . . just not nearly as often as I am now!!! More than likely I will drop in once a day, if I can, and check in!!! Mom and dad are still dealing with really slow computer issues and even slower dial-up!!! They're wanting to get DSL, but the area for DSL stops about 100 feet down the road from them (they live in the country) -- phone company said hopefully by year's end they will expand that way for DSL!!! Well, doesn't help much NOW!!!

I added a couple of photos here -- got them from David's Bridal to show what our dresses will look like!!! The dresses are "Apple Red" in color, like the picture, and the shoes are "Sterling Silver" colored. (I wish I looked like the girl in this picture does with this dress on!!!

**DopeyGirl** · 07-20-2004, 04:16 PM

Oh yeah . . . a little backstory on my reunion as well!!!

We had 141 people in our graduating class back in June 1994 -- in fact, here is a photo of ME on that day . . . my, how I've changed!!!

Lots of folks from our class never left!!! A lot of those who did leave "town" never really went too far away!!! There are just a few of us who found ourselves out of state or even across the country

Our reunion is taking place over an entire weekend at the end of July -- one evening (bowling?!) just for the alumni, one "no kids invited" night and one day for a family picnic. I am only doing the second 2 --- I'm not a bowler!!!

Not only am I dreading just going to my reunion weekend, I am dreading going ALONE!!! Since DH didn't have enough leave time to come out with me the whole time, he isn't coming out until well into August. My reunion in the last weekend of this month!!! Luckily, I am still very close with a couple of old school friends, who I know are going solo as well, so we'll just go together!!!

I think the thing I am dreading the most is seeing the girl who was my WORST enemy in middle and high school . . . I haven't seen her in years!!! She was really very torturous to me in school and I've never forgiven her for making my life heck . . . I used to be one of those kids that was so small I got shoved into lockers and I usually came home from school bruised!!! A few months back, she found me through Classmates.com and we've since became "friends" and have been talking through e-mail. Also, when she found me on Classmates, she said she picked up the phone and called my mother (she didn't even have to look up the number, as she had it memorized from the times she called - mostly pranks in high school - all those years ago!!!) More than 10 years, she had that number memorized!!! Mom gave her my number here and she called me just before Christmas -- it was THE WEIRDEST phone call I have ever been on!!! We still haven't seen each other, as she lives in Washington, and she's never apologized though, so it is still going to be VERY awkward!!! . . . and I have to deal with it all on my own!!!

I know it will all turn out fine . . . and the best part is that I will more than likely be driving my parents truck (that they DON'T drive) so if it gets too weird, forget my $40 -- I'm out the door!!!

RobinKay6573 · 07-21-2004, 02:51 PM

It sounds like you have alot planned for next month!! My goodness!

I didn't attend my 10-year reunion in 2002 because my silly classmates scheduled it for the day after Thanksgiving. I always head to Vermont for Christmas but never for Thanksgiving so I couldn't go. Anyway it was at a bar (my Class was known as the Brew Crew of 92) and I am not a drinker. My class was just the opposite of yours most of my class moved out of Vermont upon graduation in fact we even had two Rhodes Scholars. I just moved to Michigan and ended up kind of stuck here!

Have fun at the wedding the dress is beautiful!! I love shoulder wraps they are so elegant!

BritDisFan · 07-23-2004, 06:54 AM

The dress looks beautiful Sarah, hopefully your class reunion will be fine, I haven't been to one but DBF Allan went to his last year and he loved it, he said even the nasty people at school were very nice.

Karen

luvnwdwgal · 07-24-2004, 12:02 PM

I'm sure you're going to have a wonderful time!! Enjoy your loooong vacation!!

**DopeyGirl** · 07-26-2004, 02:46 AM

Well, fellow PassPorters . . . I am on my way!!! We're due to board our plane later today and we're all packed!!! Well, for the most part!!! Still have those last minute items to toss into the seemingly OVERSTUFFED suitcases!!!

You can definitely tell we're going for a while . . . DD seemed to think she needed to pack every toy she has, so we had to go through and pick out a few and limit it at that!!! It also doesn't help that we're having to take our fancy clothes with us too!!! Takes up a LOT of room!!! The good thing is that when we return, I will more than likely be able to fit the smaller suitcase inside the larger one!!!

The big one will be 95% empty on the way back!!!

(Except I have to bring home my bridesmaid dress and shoes!!!)

So, we're checked in (online . . . what a great feature!!!) . . . we have our boarding passes . . . bags are ready to go (sort of) . . . just have to check the bags once we get to the airport, which should be quick and painless . . . then we're off into the wild blue yonder!!!

I've said it before, but I might as well add it to this post too . . . I will stop in and visit as much as I can!!! Mom has an old, slow PC and even slower dial-up so once a day for a few minutes may be the only time I get!!! Plus, with my father being a police officer, mom is really picky about how long everyone can be dialed out . . . "can't tie up the phone line!!!" We are SO praying the phone company extends the DSL area another 100 feet on their road so they can get it and mom can stop worrying!!!

I go from my house (with DSL - I'm on the computer a few times a day!) to mom's house where I start to snore waiting for things to load!!!

See you all when I get back!!!