just anotherrr monday

well, actually, not so much.

because of the labor day holiday, mike had this brilliant fun idea of going up to mt. charleston today to have a bbq/picnic with the whole family. so we did. we crammed all of ourselves - 10 adults and 1 child and trays of food for our baon - in my mommy's expedition, turning a fairly huge suv truck into what seemed like a sardine can, in a 45 minute-1 hour long drive (and that's just one-way) only to find out that it was pouring hard rain up there, so hard as if all the rainfall that vegas did not get during the scorching summer were saved up and collected to pour down up there today. and of course, because of the rain, it was also 40 degrees colder than the average summer temperature. anyway, we ended up going back down and looking for a spot near the highway us95 where we could park and get our grub on since at that time, after two hours of being crammed like sardines in the car, we had not eaten our lunch yet. (we were going to have our lunch at the planned picnic.) grrr... good one, husband. ehh, it's not so bad, i guess, coz it's rare nowadays that all of us (my family and mike's family) could get together like that even though our picnic turned out to be a super long butt-numbing "joyride" because all of us have different work and/or school schedules. we're now at our house and decided to continue our bbq thing here for dinner instead.

so i heard from mike's aunties this weekend. auntie joy had been in touch with us since last weekend as she was trying to book their (auntie joy, auntie faith, and manang jenny - mike's cousin) trip here for the wedding! then, auntie faith (she and i claim to be the great beauties of the fam... muhahaha) was also telling me how they are already talking about what they are going to wear for the event. exciting, but at the same time, mike and i were like, "whoa! this is it. people are actually planning for the wedding now. no turning back now. we have to have the wedding." weird, i know. we're getting cold feet as if we have not been married for the past 9 months!

james also came over yesterday to show me his samples that he created for the wedding invite. the concept was pretty impressive! [yiheeeee... awesome job, james!] although there are still some room for enhancement, aylaveeet! we are going to be busy with that in the next two weeks. we are shooting to mail out by week of 9/17. (i know... urrrgh, a little last minute, but virtually all of the guest list have already been informed about the event anyway. it's just a matter of putting it in writing.)

so yes, this is it! it's crunch time!!!