Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Alex Edwards!

well this weekend alex and toni got married. so amazing. it was the first of my real close friends to get married. i have had friends get married before but not like alex. i had the honor of being one of alex's groomsmen. the first wedding i have been it. that was really fun. everything (and everyone) was really beautiful. the whole weekend was really fun. the funnest weekend i have had in a long time.

anyway one of my favorite stories from this weekend.

in the little "how i know these people standing next to me" thing for the program alex wrote "thomas has the talent of coaxing any woman into making him cookies" so friday night at the groom's dinner the maid of honor (maggie) and two bridesmaids (alisha and abby) (all of whom i had only met once before 2 years ago) all told me that there was no way i was going to convince them to make me cookies. well by the end of the night i had one agreeing to give me a quiz on a story she told and for every question i got i would get a cookie. a good start.

saturday we had the quiz and i got fifty questions right. and convinced the other bridesmaid to make me a dozen. then came the wedding and the dance and all that jazz so most of the afternoon there was no tie to "coax" that night the parents had a sweet after party and i decided to use the straight forward approach to get maggie to make me some cookies. i told her "ok last night all three of you said you wouldn't make me cookies, the other two already are, it would make a way better story if i got all three of you to make me cookies." she said "but for me its a way better story if all three of us said we wouldn't make you cookies and the other to cracked and i didn't. i a going to stay strong i am never going to make you any cookies." at this point steve (he played guitar for the wedding) got up to get some of the left over oreo dessert stuff. i did some convincing/coaxing and right when steve sits back down maggie cracks and says "oh i could make you a giant heart shaped cookie in the sweet new heart shaped pan i got" steve is awestruck "what happened, i left two seconds ago and you were so strong, you were never giving in. i come back from getting oreo stuff and you are making him a giant heart shaped cookie. how does this work?!"

amazing in a little over 24 hours a complete 360 of three girls from never making me cookies to making me cookies. lots of them. the final tally was 1 giant heart shaped cookie from maggie, one (or did i get it up to two dozen) from alisha, and 60 from abby. there was also talk of brownies, cakes, and pot roast (all of this on top of cookies).

good times.