Flanagan Clan

Well, Rachel was married 6 days ago, and yet I am still trying to catch up in the aftermath of her wedding. I guess it doesn’t help that I’m sort of trying to a really thorough early spring cleaning as I catch up on the housework, so things are taking a lot longer to get done than they might normally take. I’ve been devoting at least an hour each day to an different special task, in the hopes that I won’t burn myself out with the spring cleaning too quickly. Today the task I had in hand was to wash the walls on our staircase. You see, the boys will sometimes get away from me with sticky hands after they eat, and over time there have appeared many little dirty hand prints on the walls all the way up the stairs. So, today I cleaned everything off, and it’s amazing what a difference that little task did to our staircase! So, I’ll probably take a break from this new cleaning method for Saturday and Sunday, but I should be back on track on Monday morning and trying to get this house back to a happy, clean state 🙂

So… I’m sure some of you are wondering about the wedding. It went pretty well. Rachel made a beautiful bride, and I’m really happy for her and Alex. The wedding went pretty well. It was definitely a lot different from mine, but Rachel got what she wanted and I think that’s what is most important.

The boys have been doing pretty well. Liam has been such a sweet little baby lately. He’s absolutely adorable and I have a hard time getting anything done when he’s acts so cute and smiley. Ethan’s been starting to say more words- he’s definitely been one of the more shy of the boys, but he’s coming around. Sammy is also exploding in his vocabulary, and he’s starting to ask “how” for everything! Patrick is doing really well, too- he’s always been the responsible big brother who looks out for the younger ones, and he’s becoming more and more helpful around the house.

Here are a few pictures, as promised:

Rachel was trying on her dress at my house so I could hem it, and she left her petticoat in Liam’s room. Sammy found it and came down the stairs wearing it, proclaiming that he was getting married. Yeah, he’s a little confused, but it was awfully funny!!!

Sneak peak at the flower girl dress that I made. Hannah Scott, our pastor’s 6 year old daughter, was the flower girl and Patrick and Sammy were the ring bearers. They were both quite positive that one day they would marry Hannah!

Back of the flower girl dress

Silliness with boys!

Liam got to hang out with the girls before the wedding

Rachel getting her hair done

Patrick in his outfit. All four boys matched 🙂

Liam having fun in his swing!

Cutting the cake (sorry, I have no pictures of the ceremony, but hopefully the photographer will put those up on her website soon!!!)

Tossing the bouquet (Rachel’s new niece and next door neighbor caught it!!!)

Well, that’s it for now… I have to run!!!!