Tangled and Duck Dynasty.... :D

The next morning, I woke up around four in the morning.  I tried to just go back to sleep, but I couldn't...and by the sounds of things, Flynn was up too. 
My face mashed into the top of the dresser, I sighed and drearily lifted my head up to look at Flynn through the dimness. 
"Did I wake you up, hon?"  he asked immediately, situating himself on his side. 
"I guess not...why are you up anyway?" 
"I got one of Tangled Fan's shirts out of the dresser drawer to use as a blanket.  I was even starting to get chilly, so I figured you definitely would be cold.  She forgot to shut the window last night.  Oh, and I checked up on the girls.  They're still warm.  And I was kind of marveling at the fact that you were sleeping in the position you were, faceplanted into the dresser, without being uncomfortable." he whispered. 
I suddenly became aware of the fact that there was, indeed, a shirt spread over me.  I nodded and laughed through my nose. "I dunno..I was pretty comfy..until I woke up and realized I couldn't breathe."  I joked. 
He gave me a grin and then kissed my forehead, pulling me close to him.  I wiggled down into the makeshift blanket and enjoyed the warmth from both the shirt and his gentle arm around me. 


When I woke up again around eight thirty....(not even the vibrating phone woke me!) I smiled to myself and turned to look at Flynn.  Only...he wasn't there. 
Wait a minute.  Where was he? 
I jumped up, narrowly missing the bench before I remembered to duck, and then I scrambled out from under it. 
Rayne was the only one up. 
"Do you know where Flynn is?"  I asked her, wide-eyed. 
She shrugged.  "I thought he was with you?" 
"He..." Panic gripped my heart, knotted my stomach, and I trailed off, covering my mouth with my hand.  "What do you think happened to...do you think Tangled Fan..."
I cast a quick, careless glance around the room, but couldn't see him. 
"The girls are still asleep, so I'm going to go look for him.  If they wake up, do you mind watching them until I come back?"  I asked. 
"Yeah, that's fine.  Go," Rayne said, eyebrows furrowed with concern. 
I wheeled around to begin my search...and he was just climbing up onto the dresser. 
I gasped and dove for him, grabbing him into a relieved hug. 
He caught me (luckily.  If he hadn't, I would've gone over the edge of the dresser!  Why am I so accident prone??  Disney princesses just aren't that accident prone in the movies...) Anyway.  He caught me and held me close for a moment, chuckling. 
I pulled away from him.  "Where on earth were you?!  You scared the tar out of me!" 
"I went and asked Tangled Fan if we could have the laptop back here.  She said she'd bring it back in a few minutes...And then I invited the 18 inchers to come to Tangled Fan's bed and we'd all watch Tangled, and some Duck Dynasty.  Why were you scared?"
"Oh, okay.  You could've told me..but oh well.  That sounds like a lot of fun!  I was just scared because I woke up..and you weren't there, and then I couldn't see you anywhere...and I just sort of freaked out, I guess."  I laughed at myself thinking about it now. 
He nodded.  "I'm sorry...I was going to tell you, but I looked at you and you were sleeping so peacefully...so I figured I'd be back before you were up.  Sorry," he repeated. 
"It's fine.  I'm just overreactive," I chuckled, and he pulled me close into another hug. 
After a couple seconds, though, the door burst open and Tangled Fan came in, plugged the computer on, and set the Tangled DVD into the dvd port. 
"It's all set up for you guys, Flynn.  Enjoy,"  she said, and before anyone could answer, she was gone.

After awhile, once everyone else was up, we made our way onto the bed. 

Elizabeth, Hailey, Julie, and Christy were already sitting there, waiting for us to start the movie.  Even Punzie was there!  I smiled and while I waited for everyone else to get settled, I talked with them. 

Here's our decently-sized crowd! :P  I laid on my stomach with Hallie, to make sure that little Julie could see... :D 

The movie was awesome!  I guess I'm just about as indecisive as the movie character.  We all got several good laughs out of it.  At one point, I laughed so hard I cried!  And during the lantern scene, I almost accidentally started warbling along with "I See the Light".  I'm not the greatest singer...not the worst, but I'm not as good as Mandy Moore, who voiced Rapunzel in the movie, let's just put it that way! :D  Flynn started up too...he's not too bad a singer!  Merida just laughed at us.  Hey, at least we didn't make the babies cry or break anything from our singing. 
Oh, and then there was the scene where Mother Gothel kills Eugene in the movie.  Rayne was crying, Hailey and Elizabeth were crying, Blondie sniffled a bit...and then I was bawling like a baby...and Merida just rolled her eyes and muttered something about 'us Rapunzels being overreactive'.  She may be right.  :D  I was a little concerned that Jase would get scared at the end of the movie, but she seemed fine. 

Sometime during the scene where Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair off and then he dies in her arms, my Flynn started stroking my hair.  I turned to look at him, about to tease him and ask if he was thinking about cutting my hair..and then I saw he was teary eyed.  Ohhh boy.  Even HE was going to cry about his character dying?  I dunno.  Regardless, I gave him a small smile and turned back to the movie in time to cry my eyes out to Rapunzel crying out the rest of the healing incantation song. 

 

Whew.  I'm glad we watched the movie before we watched Duck Dynasty...at least we could get light-hearted again after watching that movie!  I liked it, but the end is so sad...I mean, until Eugene's healed and everything.  :D 
We watched about an hour of Duck Dynasty.  EVERYONE got a kick out of it!  I laughed...Our Jase was beyond excited to see the person who shares the same nickname as she does. 

After that, and everyone had left, Eugene--whoops.  My FLYNN*...I'm going to have problems not calling my husband Eugene now, because in the movie, his name  *technically* was Eugene Fitzherbert..or however you spell that last name... :D  Anyway...my FLYNN and I decided that we definitely really needed to work on the month in review posts now...how long has it been since we posted them, seriously??  We're hoping to get at least 1 or two done today...but we'll see! 

Quick drop in...

Hey everyone (:  Refreshed after sleeping in after a longggg night up with Hallie - thank goodness she didn't wake up much, after 3AM.  Anyway.

Today, Tangled Fan got it into her wonderful little head to totally rearrange EVERYTHING.  We're on a complete opposite side of the room, on a bookshelf.  Rayne, Merida, and Blondie are all on the same shelf as Flynn and I - and let's not forget Allie, Hallie and Jase!  

I'm a bit..okay...a LOT disturbed by this.  About a month or a month and a half ago, I would've LOVED to have been on the same shelf as Rayne, Blondie and Merida.  But now that I'm married with Jase AND Hallie, I would kind of like a bit of privacy.  Our shelf was where we were able to talk wholeheartedly and display affection.  But now that we're up with EVERYONE ELSE, it's kind of embarrassing!  Make that a LOT embarrassing.  I have no clue where we're all gonna sleep!  Ugh.  :(  The only plus side is that we're closer to the 18 inchers.  But we're the whole room away from the chair and the window!  :[ 

So, when Tangled Fan randomly snagged me, Merida, Rayne, Hayley, the two toddler dolls, and Punzie, to have a photoshoot to get a picture for her A Dolly A Day blog, we decided to forget what the word cooperate was.  

Cooperate?  Uh...no habla Ingles!  ;} 

At first glance, this one might be okay.  But none of us are looking at the camera, or at least in the same direction.  Scratch that one!  

This one might look okay enough at first glance, but then there's this dilemma:  

Merida decided to pull some of my hair over her face at last minute.  

Scratch that one too!  

I guess she just gave up and used this one for her blog banner.  We got tired of being away from everyone else and being dragged around into different positions every ten seconds...so we randomly all remembered what 'cooperate' meant. 

By the time we were done, I was sooo ready to get back to Flynn.  I was mad that he wasn't brought with for the banner.  But oh well... 

Here's the 'new' bookshelf.  

Toddler Merida & Toddler Rapunzel are right below us, and Punzie and her friend, BFC Ink Addison (Aka Addi) are below them.  

And this is the top level.  

At least Flynn can stand up without being all hunched over - it was really doing a number on his back!  So I guess there's that.  

Several times after I got back, Flynn started to lean down as if to kiss me, but realized everyone was up there and half were looking in our general direction, so he would freeze and stand upright again.  I suppose I'll wait until it's dark out and just dim enough that nobody else can see, and then I'll just give him a kiss so he can quit looking odd, bending over, looking around, and then standing back up.  Heehee..poor guy.  Well, this new display shelf is awkward.  Sooo soooo soooo awkward.  I figure Flynn will have a rant posted here within the near future...if he doesn't, I'll be surprised!  =D  

Flynn here...Monday confessions

Hey everyone.  Yes, I am stealing my wife's title for today's post - I couldn't think of anything else  :P
Last night I had the most awful migraine ever, and so we both stayed up till really late.  I was surprised to awake at 6 in the morning, when Rapunzel woke me up by pulling her arm out from under my back.
I looked at her groggily and told her good morning.  I heard how gravelly my voice sounded, so I cleared my throat.  She took a deep breath and pulled her pretty face up to smile at me.
"Morning - feel any better?"  she asked, turning her head to look at me with a creased brow.
To attempt to lighten the mood, although I still had a tiny bit of a headache, I said, "Right now, I feel pretty great," referring to the fact that my wife was at my side.  I gave her a squeeze with my arm, which was around her.  She rolled her eyes, which was at least halfways the response I wanted, and I added, "No, really, I feel a lot better than I did last night, that's for sure!"
She leaned over me and gave me a kiss.  I could see the relief in her eyes.  "I'm sooo glad."
Which was what was nagging at me in the back of my mind.  If these migraines turned into a chronic event, I didn't want her to be worried all the time about me.  She deserved much better than that.  I bit my lip.
Rapunzel sat up, and so I did too.  She turned her face towards me and smiled, put an arm around my waist, and asked, "What?  I know you're thinking about something."
I looked at her, too, and watched her blink her big, emerald-green eyes at me, waiting.  I put an arm around her and held her tight to me for a few seconds.  Then  I stood up, and headed for the 'deck' in hopes of clearing the thought about chronic migraines out of my head before she hounded at me too much.  But it was too late for that..she followed me out and waited.
Finally, I spoke my concern, and told her that if she didn't want to deal with that chronic possibility, we could call it quits and I would understand.
Her eyes teared up, and she grabbed at one of my arms, smoothing my sleeve with her hand.  "Oh, Flynn...no way, never, ever in a gazillion trillion years, am I leaving you just because you might have a bad headache once in awhile!  Now I know it's not as bad as I thought it was originally.  In case I've never told you, I love you so much.  And if you ever end up in the Dumpster, I hope I go at the same time, cause I could never live without you.  And if you think I don't want to be your wife anymore because of some piddly headaches, you've got another thing coming, mister!  Regardless, she [Tangled Fan], said it was from sleep deprivation, not just because."
My taut, knotted-up stomach immediately relaxed, and I felt relieved.  I found her hand and loosely held it, until she grabbed me up into a hug, sniffing and wiping her eyes.
I kissed her hair and wrapped her in my arms, and we just stood there.  Eventually, she pulled away from me enough to see my face.  "You get some idea like that in your head again, and I'll swat you one," she joked, winking.
I smiled at her, and she pulled away to braid her hair.
I went off towards the other end of the 'deck', to go peer out the window, wondering if it was going to be another crummy-weather day.  It didn't seem like it!
When I heard Rapunzel grumbling, "Stupid ribbon anyhow...can't get it unknotted to save my life...why won't this loosen up?  Rrrgh!" through her teeth, I turned to look at her.  As soon as I did, I saw she was trying to hold her braid in place in one hand and unknot her ribbon..using her teeth.  I started laughing and strode over to her.  "Spit it out and let me get that for ya."  I picked the knot loose, tied her hair up for her, and finally stopped chuckling at the situation.  We'll not elaborate on the fact that the ribbon was kinda damp from her spit.
"Thanks," she laughed.  I nodded.  I would've kissed her cheek, but we both turned when we heard the babies waking up.
We both sat down and picked them up and hushed them before they started to even whimper.
"We're getting to be old pros at this."  Rapunzel giggled, and I was amused, because I'd been thinking the exact same thing.  I slung my free arm around her and nodded in agreement.
She leaned over to talk to Allie.  "Tell Daddy he's silly, huh!"  I felt a warmth envelope me to hear her call me 'daddy' when she was talking to Allie.  I don't know why though, but I just did.  I plopped a kiss down on Rapunzel's head, and Allie grinned.  I could tell Rapunzel was wrapped around the babies' little fingers.
And then Jase came tearing over.  Rapunzel scooped her up, too, and then Janet came out as well.  She talked with both of them for a few seconds, and then turned to me, and asked if she could take the girls out for a girl's day out.
I agreed to care for the babies and that I would be fine.  She handed Hallie over to me and leaned over to kiss me goodbye.  "See you later."  She said, smiling.
I shifted the babies to one arm and brushed some hair away from her face, pausing to cup my hand over her cheek.  She gave me a loving look and put her hand over mine, squeezing it.  She seemed to stand a bit reluctantly  when Jase came back over.
Pretty soon, Merida was working her way down the shelf, and they all left.

I blinked at the deafening silence...for a few seconds.  Hallie started huffing, so I took them out on the 'deck'.  I walked back and forth for awhile, and then went back onto the shelf when they had both fallen soundly asleep in my arms.  Smiling to myself at how serene they looked, I set them down to nap and yawned.  I was still tired, and I could feel my twinge of a headache start to worsen, so I retreated to go nap myself, in hopes of making the headache go away before my wife came back home.

I got up a few times with the babies, but they were pretty good.  After awhile, my headache finally went away - thank goodness!  It was afternoon before the girls finally all came back home.  Jase and Janet left to play in the corner, and Merida and Rapunzel came over towards me.  Linking her arm in Rapunzel's, Merida cocked her head and said, "And here's yer lovely wife."  She giggled.
Rapunzel laughed at Merida, but then randomly ran and scrambled up to Rayne's shelf.
Merida looked at me with a brow quirked, nodding her head towards where Rapunzel had stood seconds ago.  I shrugged, frowning in confusion, and she shrugged too.
When Rapunzel came back a couple minutes later, Merida turned towards her.  "Don't need to worry about coming back quick - I can watch these gals for any amount of time.  It's boring up on that shelf!"  When Rapunzel gave her a thankful smile, she added, with a grin that spelled 'trouble', "Now, go enjoy your hubby and smooch while you're not interrupted by the kiddos."
It worked.  Rapunzel put a hand over her eyes and turned a lovely shade of crimson.  "We don't...well...we talk, aaand walk, and-" I came up behind her, gave her a peck on the forehead, and felt the need to tease as well.
"And smooch."  I grinned, and she gave me a shove.
Merida was laughing at our antics.  She snorted when Rapunzel shoved me, and that made her laugh even harder.
"Shush," Rapunzel told me.  "It's not all we do.  I take it you're feeling fine now, 'cause you're back to your usual self!"
"Just go!"  Merida was fighting laughter now, but her eyes were tearing from her effort.
Rapunzel laughed a thanks, and I led her down to the floor.

When we were down there, Rapunzel took my hand and we walked.  She had a carefree spring in her step, swinging her arm back and forth, [and my arm too], and chattering about her day.
"We had a lot of fun today.  Thank you so much for watching the babies!  How were they?"
"I'm glad you had fun.  They were really good, actually!  So what all did you do?"  I enjoyed watching her talk with a sparkle in her eye and such an innocent smile on her face.
"We went over to visit the 18 inchers.  Merida visited with Angus, and Jase got to sit on Angus with her.  She really enjoyed it - we'll probably end up having to ask Tangled Fan to find a horse for Jase, based off of the huge smile on her face! Janet visited with the mini dolls, and I visited with Julie, Elizabeth, and Christy.  They're so nice!  Kailey's still a bit off-putting, but I just don't talk to her, cause I know she doesn't like to be friendly, or whatever her problem is. Thank you so much, again, for watching the babies!"
While she talked, I started to think about what I wanted to tell her.  You already know I'm not the best with words, so I was pretty nervous.  Finally, I stopped walking.  Rapunzel turned around and asked me what.
I pulled on her arm carefully, and it sent her right into me. "What?" she repeated, putting her arms loosely around my waist.
I wanted to tell her, I really did.  And there was something else I wanted to say, too.  So instead, I made a joke.  "Just...I dunno.  Just cause you're my wife, and I love you to plastic bits and pieces."
She giggled,  and I got that funny feeling in my stomach again (the good kind, not the migraine kind :p).
"Oh, you.  You're bad!  But I love you, too.  And I'm glad you're back to yourself!"
 I put an arm around her, used my other hand to remove one of her arms from my waist, so I could hold her hand.
Rapunzel leaned her head on my shoulder for a few minutes, but then she looked up at me with questioning eyes, slipping her hand away from me.
"Why're you so, like, affectionate with me?  I mean, it's not like I don't like or appreciate it; but I was just curious why."
I took  a deep breath, and told her my fear that our marriage would fall apart because I rushed her.
And then I decided I wanted to tell her the other thing, too.  I opened my mouth, but she stopped me.  "Before you go on, I want to say this - Don't you ever, EVER, think our marriage will be wrecked 'cause we moved quickly. Or because of injuries or headaches.  It was just as much my fault as it was yours that we moved fast.  And mine that you got that headache.  And truth is?  I'm glad we got married so soon - I can enjoy you as my hubby for longer, now!"
I was going to contradict her, that she wasn't at fault for anything, but I just smiled hugely at her, relieved. She smiled back, and my heart sped up as I considered what I wanted to say next.
I led her up onto the chair, but then I decided not to say anything.
"Whatever it is you wanted to say, I won't laugh or anything.  Just say it," she smiled still.  Obviously, she hadn't forgotten, and wouldn't drop it, either.
I fidgeted around plenty, and then I just spilled my guts to her, with all I wanted to say to her about how much I really did care about her.
When I opened my eyes, which I'd squeezed shut while speaking, to keep focus, Rapunzel was crying openly.
I panicked.  "I told you I wasn't good with words.  I'm so sorr-"
She broke me off.  "No!  You..you were perfect!"
I smiled at her and reached to wipe her wet cheeks.
"You gave such a gorgeous speech.  For a guy who supposedly is awful with words..I don't think you give yourself enough credit.  I feel the same way about you.  I still get the butterflies and a tingle up my spine when I see you, and I feel like a little schoolgirl with a gigantic crush, every time I see that cute little grin of yours - yeah, that's the one" - she said when I grinned at her - "and you're so handsome, and soo impossibly sweet.  It never fails to amaze me how gentle you can be.  I mean, in the movie, you were some ruffian...but I guess after you met me in the movie, you turned into a sweetheart.  But anyway.  You do have a way with words, by the way.  You make my knees go to Jell-o...either that, or it's just this heat - but I don't think so. And I just love you!"  She finally finished, and I was fighting tears myself - one tear had already escaped.  It takes a lot to make ME cry!  She gently wiped the tear from my cheek, and my heart nearly faltered.
I leaned into her until our foreheads touched.  She and I stared at each other, but she quickly shut her eyes when they started to cross [I kid you not].  Abruptly, she pulled away.
"What?"  I asked, wondering why she was so jumpy about displaying her affections.
"They can probably see us from here," she said, casting a guilty glance up towards the shelves.  "And I dunno.  I just feel a bit awkward being so open in our affection - but you know what?"    
"There's no other place around here that we CAN be at that dolls aren't gonna see us."  I finished for her.
"Exactly."
"So why feel awkward?"  I asked, confused.  "If it makes you feel weird, I'll.." I started to withdraw my arm from her shoulders, but she snagged my arm and held it.
"No.  You know what?  I'm gonna stop holding back and feeling awkward about it. If some doll has an issue with me loving you, they can keep it to themselves!"
I felt like teasing her after that.  "So you won't mind if I do this?"  I tried to ask with an innocent expression on my face.
"Do what?"  she asked.  I grabbed her and started to tickle her.  [even though we're plastic, we can still be ticklish, mind!]  She yelped in surprise and elbowed me.  I made an exaggerated fall backwards, as if she'd knocked me down, and she flopped down as well, dissolving into giggles that made me grin.  I slipped my arm around her, and she rested her head on my chest and smiled sweetly at me, laughter still glimmering in her eyes.
After not too long, she dozed off, exhausted from her sleepless night, probably.  I looked at her to make sure she was asleep and not just laying really still.  Her eyes were shut, a peaceful grin still played across her pink lips.  I slowly stroked her hair, hoping not to wake her up.  And then I guess I must've nodded off for a bit, too.
When I woke up, the sun was starting to set - I glimpsed it through the window - and Rapunzel was still out.  Her smile was still on her face and I hated to disturb her, hoping she'd wake up without me doing anything to wake her.  But after it grew dark, I knew we needed to get back to Merida and the kids.  I tried to ease her up off the chair to carry her to bed, but she quickly woke.
"Flynn."
"What?" Even though I knew full well what 'Flynn' meant.
"Put me down."
"I'll just-"
"Put me down.  Please,"
I sighed, but did give in, lowering her legs, but still keeping a hold around her shoulders.
"Thank you," she said, kissing me on the cheek.
So then we went home, and were greeted by Merida.
I peeked around and saw all the kids were sprawled out in random spots, played out and sleeping hard.
Rapunzel and Merida chatted quietly for a few minutes, but then she left, and my wife turned towards me, unbraiding her hair.
"And thank you for this wonderful day, again."  She grinned, then went to lie down behind the lamp.  I followed her and sat down.
Leaning down, we shared a goodnight kiss, before I lowered myself down beside my wife.  Rapunzel fumbled around till she found my hand and grasped it, with a smile that lit the darkening room.  I smoothed my hand over her hair over and over.  "You're the best wife anyone could ever ask for, and never forget that I love you." I whispered to her, though I didn't think she'd soon forget the love we shared for one another! Anyway, then I was asleep too.

I'm hoping Rapunzel wants to keep the tradition of having evenings to ourselves, because I've begun to really like it, and I tend to be able to tell her lots of things that are on my mind, during then.

Wedding Day!!!!! (=

Hi everyone!!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for...well, at least..the moment WE'VE all been waiting for over here!!  

The morning of July 4th dawned horribly muggy and rainy.  Again.  But that didn't dampen our spirits!

I also finally decided - Merida would be my maid of honor.  Rayne agreed and was actually relieved that I chose Merida.  Win-win!

I had spent the night with them up on the shelf, to keep tradition - The bride and groom aren't supposed to see each other the day of the wedding.  I think that you humans have that tradition as well?

We rummaged around in the dresser for a good while.  Blondie found a hair clip that matched PERFECTLY with Merida's dress -we'd found a fancy Barbie dress lying in one of the drawers back over at our shelf, and decided Merida should wear it to my wedding because she was the maid of honor.  Merida was not amused, but she's such a good friend that she agreed to wear it anyway.

Rayne pulled Merida's hair up (which was NOT an easy task! :P)  and clipped it carefully with the hair clip.

Blondie's hair was braided, and Merida wrapped a necklace around her neck several times until it was short enough for her to wear.  

And then Rayne and I exchanged dresses.  

Although they'd all seen me in Rayne's wedding dress before, Merida gasped, pointed, and said, "Now THAT is perfection!"  

Blondie gave a little, excited giggle, and Rayne clasped her hands in excitement as well.  I felt a sudden wave of embarrassment - I wasn't used to so much attention!  

"C'mere," Merida said, gesturing.  I did, and sat down.

Merida knelt behind me and got to work with the hairbrush.  She's actually quite the hairdresser!  

We tried two different looks.  The first one was having my hair loose, and me holding the engagement ribbon...

And what we were planning to do anyway - braided hair with the engagement ribbon tied in place.  

We decided that the braid worked the best.  

Annnd here's a picture of all us gorgeous gals.  I think Merida looks best - I heard that pink doesn't look good on redheads, but I think she looks AMAZING in that dress!  I think she was starting to even like it.  

Suddenly, though, we heard familiar whistling.  Flynn!

"Oh no!" I squeaked, pulling the veil off, crouching and twisting the skirts around my legs so the skirt wouldn't poof out so much.  

Merida and Rayne stepped in front of me, and Blondie in front of them.  

It must have looked pretty amusing to Flynn, - Blondie's pretty small compared to the rest of us.  

I heard Flynn ask where I was at, and they said that he couldn't see me anyway, because of tradition.  

"The ceremony's about to start, and the 18 inchers" - I peeked upwards towards the dresser, and saw that Elizabeth, Christy, and Hailey were watching us with smiles.  Oh, and there was Julie! I wanted to wave but didn't want to be seen by Flynn.  -"are getting a bit restless."  

"Okay.  Well, turn around, then."  

He did, and with a lot of skirt rustling, Merida and I slipped around a corner until Flynn 'assumed the position'.  

Rayne and Blondie walked down the aisle side by side, and then turned off to the side to sit and wait for the ceremony.  As we waited to make our grand entrance, Merida talked.  I was starting to feel queasy. 

"Should I be doing this?"

"Yes!  Of course."  Merida said.  "Ya like him, don't you?"  (Oh - you may notice that I've been typing Merida's monologue without the Scottish accent attempt - it's to make it easier for everyone else to read.  :P)

"Yes.  I love him.  But still - we've only known each other a little while since we've been out of our boxes."

"But you've known him for a good while overall?"

"Yeah..."

"Then you're good to go.  No secrets?"

"No..."

Suddenly, we heard Blondie call out a question as to where we were.  

"Showtime," Merida said.  

I followed her out, clasping at my stomach when I felt nauseated.  "I can't do this."  I mumbled quietly.  I tried to turn around, but Merida kept me snug at her side.

"We're right in front of Flynn, and he's seeing every move you make, so don't do anything 'less you mean it.  Rapunzel, we all know how you are with important decisions.  Do you want this guy, or do you not?  Because I think you're about as ready as you can be.  But if you don't want to, better decide now, or forever hold your peace."  she whispered.

I finally looked up and saw Flynn waiting.  For me.  Just a few steps and I would be a married doll, to the doll I did, in fact, love dearly.  

With a deep breath, I took a sudden step forward.  Merida was a bit surprised, I think, but she tried to keep in step with me.  

When we were in front of Flynn, Merida gave my arm a squeeze and then went to sit by the others.  

Flynn gave me that adorable grin of his and held his hands out.  I took them and grinned too.  Merida jumped back up, untied the ribbon from my braid, and handed it to us. 

The doll marriage tradition is that the engagement ribbon is held in both the male and the female dolls' left hand, then tied in a knot.  

And here's the knot!!  We managed to get it right in the center of the ribbon, which was pretty cool :D

As soon as the knot was made, Flynn dropped it, tipped me back, and we kissed.  

After that, I scooped up the ribbon and Flynn linked his arm in mine, before we walked side by side back down the aisle.  He took the ribbon from me and set it in a safe place.

And then after that, we had to have a quick photoshoot, of course.  We didn't get as many pics in as what I was hoping, but oh well!  

I just noticed that I didn't get a picture with Rayne and I! :(  

Then I gave everyone hugs and thanked them for participating and making the best day ever even better! :P

After that, Flynn and I headed back to our shelf and just sat and talked...   

..For a little while, anyway.  After a short amount of time, Tangled Fan suddenly bustled into the room, picked us both up, and tossed us onto the bed, asking us to model for her while she drew.  (See...she even DRAWS Tangled stuff. It's a bit creepy, actually; how much of a Tangled Fan she really is.)  

I was a bit miffed, naturally.  Well, wouldn't you be, if you had just gotten married less than two hours ago, and were recruited, quite quickly, to model for drawings, rather than relax?!  Regardless...I requested some more pics - since she had her cell phone with her anyway.  And she told us that whatever sketches were good enough to finish up, we would be allowed to have hung up in our little shelf spot.  

So this was our first modeled position.  I guess it was supposed to be like from the movie, where Rapunzel and Flynn are dancing in the Kingdom Dance, and finally run into each other just as the music ends?  I'm not sure, though.

And I guess this was supposed to be like in the movie, where Rapunzel finally realizes that Flynn isn't coming back for her.  We had a bit too much fun with this one.  I kept giggling.  

"Oh, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, what is wrong, my dearest?"  Flynn joked.  I have no clue how he kept a straight face, because I couldn't!  

Still keeping my position, I busted out laughing so hard I had to lean up against him.  

That's when Tangled Fan glanced over.  She looked at us, looked at her paper...looked at us...with a confused look on her face.  If I would have had tears to run down my face from laughter, that's what would have been happening.  Even Flynn lost his composure.  

"Very funny, guys..."  I guess she finally ditched that position idea, because she erased a lot off her page and explained to me what she wanted for the next one.

I actually liked this pose, and she showed me the final sketch, which was also good.  

Then we were able to have some picture taken.  

As you can see in this picture, I have to stand on Flynn's boots, on my tiptoes, and Flynn STILL has to ben down some in order for us to kiss.  It stinks being short!  =P

And this one looks funny.  In reality, Flynn was just holding my hair.  But at the angle in which it was taken, it almost looks like he's wrapped in my hair.  Like in the movie :D

'Stargazing'...only there weren't any stars to gaze at.  

Suddenly, Tangled Fan dashed for her window and slammed it shut.  

"Rain was coming in," she explained. 

She left the room, and we clambered up onto the windowsill to look out the window. 

"I so wish it would stop raining so much.." I grumbled.  

Flynn nodded, and then stepped aside.  

"What?"  I turned my head to ask him.

"I have...well, that is..."

"Spit it out," I urged with a chuckle.  

"Tangled Fan came to me this morning before the ceremony, and said that she'd found some little five-year-old girl in her closet that would make the perfect first kid for us."  He said quickly, then grinned.

"Note how she told you, not me," I muttered quietly.  

Sure, I'd thought about kids.  I wanted kids.  But that was definitely moving too quickly.  Not only were we married already, but having a kid around already, too?! 

"Flynn."  I wasn't sure what to say, to explain myself, so I just gestured.  

He caught my hand mid-gesture, and pulled me in to him.  "It's fine.  I can understand why you don't want to. I just would really like a family, and when she said that she'd likely be either selling her on eBay or sending her to Goodwill, I just thought it would be a great opportunity.  She said it would take quite a while before we would actually become the guardians of her, so it's not like we'll be parents by TONIGHT or anything.  Even I know that that would be moving too quickly!"  Flynn explained.  "But if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine as well." 

"She'll be gone soon? Like if we don't say we'll take her, she'll be gone by the weekend?"  

"Likely, but I'm not sure."

I shrugged my shoulders and pressed my chin up against my one shoulder, turning away from Flynn to think.  

I remembered how I'd felt when I'd held Julie.  I'd suddenly felt the need to have a little child to tend to - it would sure take the dullness out of the days.  But then I wouldn't be able to go exploring the room with Merida anymore.  Unless, of course, those days would be when Flynn watched her.  And an older child would be perfect to start parenthood off with - not a wee baby, although I wouldn't mind having one of those, either!  Oh, goodness.  There I go again with the big decisions!  I needed to talk with Merida, or Rayne, or someone.  I could talk with my own husband,  (oh, he can be a bit of a risk taker, but I still love the guy - enough to  'squee' when I typed that!) Anyway, but Flynn was pretty biased.  Och.  

Finally, I turned back to him and looked at his face.  He looked like an excited little kid himself.  I imagined Tangled Fan telling that little girl she might have found a home for her.  I bet she had looked just as excited.  And then maybe I could take her with me and Merida when we went to visit with the 18 inchers, so she could play with Samantha, Julie, and Nell - they'd love that!  How disappointing would it be to Flynn if I told him no?  Would he hate me forever, for giving up the chance to save a doll who'd likely been here for a long time?  Us dolls have to stick together, you know.  I know he would probably respect my decision as his wife, but then would I hate MYSELF if I told him no?  Maybe I'm thinking into it too much.  I tend to do that, in case you haven't noticed already :P  I had to say something.  

"Why don't we sleep on it?  And I want to talk to Merida or Rayne, as well." 

"What is your personal opinion?"  Flynn asked, still looking a little hopeful.  

"I don't know, hon.  I just don't know...it's been a really long day and I just need to sit and think - you don't make life-changing decisions on a whim-" 

"But we've already made two of those life-changing decisions on whims within the past two weeks or so."  Flynn finished for me.  "I understand, and respect that."

We started to go back to our shelf.  

With a sigh, I asked him if he'd hate me forever for not wanting to take her in.  

"Rapunzel, I just took you as my wife today.  If I would hate you forever over something like that, I don't think I would be being a very good husband, do you?"  He asked, half-joking.  Then he turned serious.  "I love you.  Whatever decision you make is fine with me.  Just remember that I'm here if you want to talk about it, and I'll try not to be biased."  He put an arm around my shoulder and kissed my hair.  

Leaning my head against him as I walked, I told him I loved him too.  

What a day it was...I'm going to leave it at that and try to think about it some on my own before I go talk to Merida and Rayne tomorrow.

And on another note, happy 4th of July to all my readers!  I hope you all have a safe and wonderful day.  I know I had probably the best 4th of July a doll could ever have!!  (=