two (2) time champions!

The Bride & Groom  just celebrated their two month anniversary!

And what a great team they make together!

Champion newlyweds?

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“Perhaps?”
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“Duh.”
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“Yinz know it!”

(giggles)

Another look back, on their wedding day, takes us this time to review

the clever table names & centerpieces they choose.

To compliment their Wedding theme of…

“All Things Black & Gold”

they departed from the traditional table number scheme

and instead

selected the names of various Pittsburgh affiliated athletes who

represented the (University of Pittsburgh) Pitt Panthers, Pittsburgh Pirates , Penguins, and of course

Super-Bowl Champions

the Pittsburgh Steelers!

All of their favorite Pittsburgh Champions were well represented!

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The very first thing we did was to collect various gold or black picture frames. Some were new and others were repurposed and refreshed with the help of brilliant-gold spray paint!

After the groom personally selected the players nearest & dearest to his heart, we printed photos of each player to place in every frame.

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There was a lot of ink needed to print off photos of such great Champions!

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Besides a photo,

there were also Black & Gold Ribbons attached to each frame;

so that all of the guests could easily find

their assigned tables!

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Guests could find their tables by name, photo or the player’s jersey-number!

The centerpieces themselves were trophies we spent months collecting from various locations.  Some as far away as England!

(Thank goodness for Etsy!)

Cuppycake assisted in making platforms,

if a trophy was in need of one,

and as expected,

Allburn’s Florist  did an outstanding job

filling each one with

the most beautiful floral arrangements!

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(The trophies have worked well even post-wedding reception, giggles!)

Champions deserve to be honored.

And these two honored many that day!

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But just like Moses,

they knew of whom

deserved the greatest honor & glory.

And indeed…

they honored Him well.

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Photo courtesy of Danielle Hartland Photography

“Moses built an altar and named it The LORD is My Banner;”  Exodus 17:15

Who are some of your most favorite Champions?

hugs n’ blessings to all the Champions I am blessed to know!

The first man she ever loved…

 

Dad’s first look at the Bride

and

as always…

she took his breath away.

The first man she ever loved…

“Does my wedding gown look pretty, Daddy? Daddy, don’t cry”

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Photo courtesy of Danielle Hartland Photography

And because it was too hard to say out loud

the words she wished to say,

she instead placed them on a video

in a very special way.

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“Oh, with all that I”ve done wrong I must have done something riight.  To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses… I couldn’t ask God for more… I know I gotta let her go, but I’ll always remember Every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses…”

 

hugs n’ blessings to all the daddy’s who let their little girls go, so they could change their name …

especially this Father’s Day Weekend.

“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.  You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

the ripest apple on the tree…

It’s another Wednesday for Saint Maria Faustina KoWalska (what else,)

with a brief reflection on the Divine Mercy of God!

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Originally aired in 1965 by Paul Harvey (1918-2009.)

 

Somedays we look around us to see and hear what is happening in our communities, our country, our world and we can’t help but say…

“These are very sad times we are living in.”

And we wonder to ourselves,

“Are these the days predicted in Revelation?”

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Jesus spoke to St. Faustina and asked her to write this:

“Write this:  before I come as the Just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy.  Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort: 

All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole earth.  Then the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights which will light up the earth for a period of time.  This will take place shortly before the last day.”

Paragraph/entry (83) in the Diary of Saint Faustina Maria Kowalska called “Divine Mercy In My Soul”

The Church prepares us for the end times.

Hatred never has the last word.

We already know the end of the story.

God will always win.

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hugs n’ blessings to all those who refuse to eat from the apple & keep their eyes fixed on Christ.

Jesus, I trust in you.

*this post was inspired by lafayetteangel.