Late Night.

Staying up late tonight checking into wedding stuff.

It's tough. I'm not around {UT} to do the footwork.
(I'm not sure if I mentioned that Lex's wedding will be in UT, not CO.)

I'm not making the decisions, but I'm searching (endlessly searching) for the best options available, so my inexperienced-wedding-planning decision-maker daughter can choose wisely, while still getting the wedding of her dreams.

We've been stressing about choosing a venue asap.

To cater or not to cater - another question.

I worked most of today, but was able to make a few calls, check out some new options, and internet hunt like a crazy lady. My neck hurts.

I'm also trying to organize myself in preparation for the

Syddall Family Christmas Extravaganza!

It's getting so, so close.

I was reminded of that when we made our Christmas countdown chain tonight for FHE.

We each wrote up a service or family Christmas activity to do on each one, with the agreement that all in our framily would complete the task each day. Mostly simple things like, "Smile and say hello to a stranger," and "Text your whole family that you love them," and "Give someone a hug who needs one." (Bill came up with the one pictured... "Sing a Christmas song to a neighbor." We all love to carol around here. cough, cough)

I managed to get a few gifts wrapped over the weekend, too.

The last 3 or 4 years we have labeled our packages with pictures from Christmas Past.

I haven't taken the time to find new ones... I just use the same pictures year after year.

I print the page, punch 'em out, run 'em through my Xyron (which makes 'em into a sticker... love that), and pop 'em on the package. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

I did have to hunt down a couple new(er) pics of some new-and-almost-new family members:

...and for whatever reason, I had to print Wonderful Sweet Scarlett's in color (the rest are black and white).

Oh, I have so, so much to do (and so, so much I want to do but probably won't get around to) in the next week-and-a-half. I'd better go lay this tired old body down and rest up for tomorrow.