Happiness and Sadness

I've been up since 6am, making and baking cookies. We have yet another reunion on Mike's side. Dear god that kid has a huge family...what am I getting myself into? Haha.
We were at Mike's parent's place last night for dinner which was nice. We ate chinese food and Barbara and I drank some really nice wine. She told me funny stories about her childhood and about how her and Peter met, fell in love and go to where they are now. In the past week she's the second person to tell me of how she met her true love. I think when wedding time gets closer people just want to share their love, whether it be stories, gifts of physically (hugging, kisses). We haven't really done too much on the wedding preparations. I am just so worried about our 'friends reception' simply because there will be a lot of our friends there and I really don't want to screw anything up. I think I'll be relying on Mike to help me organize things and to come up with ideas...he's been to more weddings than I have (I think like 8 in the past year and a half). Right now I am more focused on houses and Mike is more focused on finding work. I would love to secretly elope somewhere, but I would be shot at dawn by my family. We're looking at houses tomorrow with a realtor, which should be fun and eye opening I think. There is one that we're particularly interested in, but we haven't even seen it, so who knows right?
I found out that my dad is coming to town tonight, (which is exciting) and he'll be here until Wednesday. He hasn't really seen Heather, and I worry that she'll grow up not knowing him that well. I think Mike and I will have to make the effort to visit him in Arizona when she gets older (and I become less paranoid).
I heard some sad news last week. A man, Dallas Bittner, that I was in the Cap Textiles Program with committed suicide on July 7th. I haven't seen him in almost two years, so I had no idea that he was in such a dark place. I remember that he always seemed so calm, very spiritual and down to earth. His textile work was amazing too, and he had a great love for natural and synthetic dyes. He also worked in the film industry doing textiles/costuming. Suicide is one of those things that can either be categorized as tragic or selfish. I think it really depends on the circumstances and the closeness that you had with the person. For Dallas I see it as a tragedy.
Mike is still waiting to hear about a job, and I am trying to figure out what I am going to do with Heather once he goes back to work and school. There will be some days when I won't see him at all. I don't know if it will affect Heather, not having two parents around, especially Mike. She loves him so much. You can just see their closeness, it's beautiful really.
Well I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Try to stay out of the rain.