Slenker Wedding Weekend

This weekend we celebrated the wedding of our friends Tamica Rice and Jeremy Slenker. If was a very lovely ceremony and reception at the Elks Lodge in Columbia, MO. The fall colors were everywhere in the hall and the flowers and decorations were extremely beautiful. We had a good time hanging out with the "Columbians" and celebrating this marriage.

Here is a picture of Jeremy and Tamica during the ceremony. We were pretty far away from the podium site as it was more important for our group to be placed by the bar. We could see and hear everything just fine, just a long shot for the camera.


Here is Abby doing the Cha-Cha slide. She had the stomping and hopping down, it was quite a site. You can also get a better view of Tamica's dress. It was very elegant, Abby followed her around pretty much all night, I think she liked the dress as well.

Abby and Tim having a dance. This was getting closer to the end of the night. A little while later Abby came up to me and said "done" so we headed home to crash.

It wouldn't be a normal week if we didn't get something done with the basement.....



Here is a photo as the carpet installers are putting in the carpet on Friday. The carpet pad is on the stairs and the actual carpet is on the landing at the bottom. We'll have more photos of that to come in the next couple of days. It looks great and we're happy with how it turned out.
Here is a before photo. Tim and I were putting up trim until about 10:30 on Thursday night to get it all done for the installation on Friday morning. That part went pretty smoothly actually. There was a little bit of clean up with all the dust, etc. from this whole process but we're very happy with how it turned out.

Here is the new downstairs guest bedroom. You can see the paint color better with the contrasting white doors and trim. The drop ceiling is pretty much white as well. We'll be working on getting the lighting up this week prior to the party on Saturday and our house guests.Here is the downstairs hallway. Please note the lovely stair skirt on the left that Tim spent too many hours working on and developed a colorful vocabulary when discussing the skills of our original contractor. After some modifications it was successfully installed and the carpet installers were impressed with it as well and it looks great so we're all happy.

It was a very nice weekend to spend time with our friends and celebrate the Slenker's. The Slenker's and Rice's were both very gracious hosts and we had a wonderful time at the wedding. This week will be busy for us as well with preparing for Abby's party on Saturday, more house guests, and as much basement work as we can fit in. We hope to have a working bathroom and complete bedroom when it's all said and done.

Can't end the email without a shout out to the Hawkeyes and their win this Saturday over Penn State. If anything they helped out Mizzou a little bit in the standings. It's typical Iowa football though, they can have a mediocre season and then come out and beat a top ranked team. It was a good day to be in Iowa City.