15 hours later (cumulatively) the Wedding Album is finished! Hoorah! Slight problem though. I have proofed it three times and everything is perfect. I go to order it and am so excited because I should receive it by the end of the week. I enter in the coupon code that should give me a flat rate for the entire book instead of a small fee per page after the first 20 pages. I have the maximum pages of 100 so that adds up after awhile. The coupon code is entered and I push the adjust total button. Nothing happens. I do this again and again. I log out and try again. Nothing. Boo. Of course, it is Sunday and their customer service isn't open on the weeeknds. So tomorrow I will call and try to work everything out because I'd rather pay $20 that $70. The coupon is still good through the 19th so I shouldn't have a problem as long as I get through to someone at Customer Service tomorrow. I hope it works out. I read all the specifications at least a dozen times and read all the details of my book and it all looks like it matches up. Of course, there are always little loopholes and it would be just my luck to fall into the not applicable category. Oh well. This book is so amazing it will be worth it if I have to pay full price. And it was completely random that there was a coupon at all. But let me tell you a little about this amazing book. The cover is leather in the color of coral coast, perfect for our wedding since the bridesmaids dresses were light coral. Our names are embossed on the front right corner. Like I said, there are 100 pages of wedding goodness. The pages have a mixture of layouts including a full page picture of nine small boxed pictures. Everything goes in chronological order. I considered putting the girl and boy getting ready pictures together, but decided to do all the girl pictures pre ceremony first, then the boy pictures, then the ceremony, then the reception. I like it that way. All the page backgrounds are black, very classy and makes the pictures pop out. Most of the pages have no writing on them. I feel like the pictures are self explanatory for the most part. But a few have little one liners under them and two pages have the Scripture passage our challenge from Pastor Doug was based off of and our vows since they were unique with the traditional tagged on to the end. Everything fits perfectly and looks fabulous. I am so excited to have the book in my hands to peruse at my pleasure... which will probably be several times a day for the first week or so!

I cleaned the entire house today since the vacuum was plugged in to recharge. I hate it when we forget to plug it back in when we're done. Yesterday I went to clean and the vacuum just would not work. Since I do the floors first it would have set my whole system off. So I cleaned today. I even scrubbed our shower and bathtub nice and good to bring it back to the clean white surface it originally was. There is always some pink splotches around our bathtub. I don't know where they come from since neither of our soaps or shampoos are pink. But they clean up easily enough. I also did an hours worth of dishes. I used lots of dishes and pots and pans this week. I kept meaning to do them each night so the buildup wouldn't be so bad... yeah, that plan didn't work. But now the kitchen is spick and span once again. Woo.

I love the feeling of a nice clean house. Makes me want to have guests. So if you're available this week after 6, then come on over! I'm always up for visitors! I always have tea or lemonade and some sort of dessert!

Life is wonderful. Truly wonderful. I finished Paul's letters to the churches of Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, and Collosse. I learn something new every time I read them. Galatians is one of my favorite books of the Bible. I think I figured out how I feel about predestination. It seemed so clear when I was reading the passage in Ephesians... but I'm no Bible Scholar so I'm not sure if it's correct or not. But I don't agree with Calvin on these terms so it's always up for discussion and friendly argument. Maybe I'll share my thoughts sometime. Not this post though. Now I am moving on to the Book of Job. I can learn a lot from Job. I always save the Prophets for last when I read through the Bible (I rarely read through from cover to cover, I like to skip around to skip repetition- such as the Samuels, Kings, and Chronicles or the Gospels). They are the books I know the least of so many I should rearrange my reading schedule. We'll see after I'm done with Job. I've really enjoyed reading through my Bible this past year. Matt keeps getting aggravated with me because I read my Bible "too much". But then he feels convicted and reads his with me. It's a good system.

Alright, now time to take a break from the computer since the Wedding Album can't be ordered yet and from cleaning the house and smelling like Clorox. Gilmore Girls break! And then time to make some delicious dinner. No idea what I'm making yet, but I'm feeling good so I'm sure I'll think of something tasty.

Have a great week!