because it all ends tomorrow. rachel, joe’s sister, is getting married a week from saturday. tim, joe’s friend, gets married two weeks later (on my birthday, coincidentally), so the chaos is about to ensue. let me share with you a glimpse of what will be known as the month from hell. 🙂

tomorrow night is rachel and dave’s blessing at their synagogue. on saturday night, joe will be in athens with the boys and i in atlanta with the girls for the bachelor and bachelorette parties. *note: must pick up bachelorette party items*

then on sunday it’s breakfast at the original pancake house in atlanta, hopefully with wendy and her boyfriend, and then heading back here for bridal day at belk. we’ve already got everything planned, but we figure we’ll get some fun free things. 🙂

next friday we have to be in duluth, about an hour from here, for rachel’s wedding rehearsal at 4 p.m. yes, you read that correctly, four in the afternoon. sigh. that seems like a terrible time for a rehearsal. luckily i’ll be able to leave work around 2, which means *loooooong* hours the rest of the week. at 6:30 we all head over to the rehearsal dinner, followed by dessert at the hotel.

saturday night is the wedding, a nice 6 p.m. affair, followed by a four hour reception. let me just say that joe and i will *not* be at our reception for four hours. hehehe. we’ve decided two hours tops. 🙂

on sunday, we’ll wake up bright and early for a wedding brunch, and then head home. home! relaxation!

we have one weekend off before the wedding cycle hits us again. joe at some point will be heading off with tim and his friends for tim’s bachelor party, which joe is planning. tim’s rehearsal is scheduled for saturday morning at 8. 8?? seriously, *what* was his fiancee thinking. we don’t even get up that early when we go to church! so joe will be leaving here a little before seven and heading to dallas, about an hour away, where he will practice walking in a straight line. then he will rush back here to pick me up and head to my parents’ house, which is about an hour and a half away, for my birthday lunch. we always do birthday lunches the sabbath before a birthday. i’m excited. 🙂

then on sunday, back to dallas we go for the next set of nuptuals.

sigh. we have so much to do in the next few weeks! i think the weekend after tim’s wedding will be spent vegetating on the couch with a stack of movies and the phones turned off. sounds good to me. 🙂