One Year Ago Today (part 4)

Imagine it's December 18th...!!

This is the blank slate that we started with on Thursday! Your eyes do not deceive you... that IS Zoey down in the bottom right corner. The pups came along with us one night when we hauled stuff out there. They loved it. When they barked, it echoed, and they got real freaked out.
But I digress...! Thursday was spent decorating the 4-H Center. I loved it that we could do pretty much whatever we wanted with the room, AND that we had tables and chairs for free (I'm telling you, they were very generous). Right away, we started rolling out the tables and the chairs and setting up everything where we wanted to go. The deliveries came that day and everything went very very smoothly. My folks, Bill, and Donne showed up to lend hands (THANK GOODNESS!) and really took over on jobs. Julie was also awesome and decorated the trees for us (very well, might I add). My dad and Bill were put in charge of hanging the icicle lights alllllll around this giant room. Everything was perfectly straight. Things were really getting rolling when.... the lights went off. They were working on some construction nearby, so they shut the power off on us! As you can see from the pictures, there are NO windows in this place. But there WERE two giant doors on both sides that rolled up. It was chilly, but we had just enough light to keep on going. We made sure the lights would be back up at some point before the big night (and they were, like 2 hours later...). Again, thank you to EVERYONE who ran errands, helped decorate, and picked things up for me. Couldn't have pulled it off without such a great crew.
The rehearsal was just one day away...!