A Few Things On Friday

1. My first wedding shower is this weekend! I am so excited! I have seen a few things for the decor and lets just say that Pinterest has come to my house thanks to my sweet sister!! 

2. My aunt Amy and sister-in-law, Lindsey are helping throw the shower so Aunt Amy, Olivia, Linds, and Virginia are all here! So much fun!

3. My cousin, Olivia loves to ride horses so we set it up for her to have a lesson while she was here. Yesterday, we headed out to Silver Lining Farms which happens to be quite close to where we are getting married. Here are a few pictures from our afternoon...

It is BEAUTIFUL out there...

Liv did such a good job. She loves it and I was so impressed!

3. As I mentioned.....this little angel who also happens to be the flower girl is here!!

4. It is the official first day of fall!!! Hoping for cooler weather very soon but if it doesn't get here until November 12th then that's fine! :)

5. 50...that's right 50 days until this is my new monogram!! :) I am just a little bit exited!!

I hope you all have a great weekend!! More on my shower after tomorrow!!

Proposal and Engagement Albums

A while back I found a blog that I fell in love with. I was inspired by the albums that she made for her engagement pictures and her wedding pictures. I knew that I wanted to do something similar for my pictures. I was lucky enough to get pictures of the day that Brett proposed. For this album I followed Elise's instructions almost exactly. I even used the same little mini binders that she used. Now, I enjoy creating things like this but the whole cutting it down to size and all of that, I was not a fan of. I just did not have the patience for it at all. I know...I know...not that hard but somehow, I got frustrated. In the end...the album turned out cute. Not perfect but I was pleased. Here are a few of my favorite pages...Sorry about the quality of the photos that I took....

I kept the cover pretty simple. I just used chipboard letters. 

Photos in the book were taken by Judson Meherg...We are so blessed that we have these pictures!

I actually created that book a long time ago but am just now sharing. This one of our engagement pictures I just finished and I am WAY more pleased!! I really love it!! I bumped up to an album that would fit 8.5x11. Now, yes, you do use more ink and since I printed all of these pages at home that is something I had to take into account. I thought it was worth it. I just like seeing the images bigger. I chose a Kolo album/binder and was so pleased! If I do this with wedding photos I will probably use another one of these binders. Here are all of the pages in this album. P.S. the images in the book are amazing quality...my images of the album, not so much. Sorry! All of these images in the book were taken by Bayleigh Murray. I cannot say enough great things about her!!

I love both albums but especially the larger one. A couple of differences in the text of the books....For the proposal one, I basically told our story of how we got engaged. It even was almost a letter to Brett..I called him "you" throughout the book. I started doing that for the engagement album but scratched the idea. I decided to go through 1 Corinthians 13 with the text on the pages. I also added a couple of other passages of scripture as well. All in all, LOVED creating the pages in Photoshop! I really loved the digital scrapbooking and that I got to decide how the pages were going to look. 

Thanks for listening to the rambling. I just thought I'd share how I decided to create everything so that these pictures were all in one place! 

In other news.....65 days until I am married. Gracious....hurry up! :)

Brynn and Richard are MARRIED!!

This weekend was fabulous! I headed to New York for Brynn and Richard's wedding weekend! Here is the weekend in pictures....Yes, there are a lot!!

Laura Jo, Rachel, and I on the way to the rehearsal dinner!

Bride and groom!

The other side....

Bride and bridesmaids....luhhhh them!

Oh hey! We're both engaged! Oh wait...now you're married....

men...

ok...presh.

Going out after the rehearsal dinner....

Now...wedding day!!!

Getting her hurr did!

Tim Horton's.....necessary.   :)

YAY!!

Cheers!!

Looking at her flowers...

Our dresses and hers...

Ahh!! BEAUTIFUL BRIDE!!

LOVE YOU!!

Brynnnnn and La Jo!

Oh there they are....

Leaving for the wedding....

Reception time....

Luh you Barrett!!

first dance....love it.

"Isn't she lovely....Isn't she wonderful?"

We straight tore it up on the dance floor......

Before Rich ditched me and wouldn't take a pic with me....whatever. Don't know why he was so ready to leave....gosh! :) 

Such a fun weekend!!! Congrats Brynn and Richard!! LOVE YOU BOTH!!

Virginia's Second Birthday

After weeks of planning it was finally time to head to LaGrange this past weekend to celebrate a very special girl. Birthdays are a big deal in my family most of the time. As we have gotten older, they are not  celebrated with a big bash as much, but with family and are slightly more low key. However, this little girl is one to be celebrated....and that she was this weekend! A few of us headed up on Thursday and the festivities began on her actual birthday which was on Friday!

((Warning....lots of pictures!))

Cheesin' with Aunt Amy

This girl loves to jump and has finally mastered actually getting some air!! :) 

Cookin' in her new kitchen!

We kicked off the day by heading to Monkey Joe's....

Monkey Joe's is an indoor play place full of huge inflatables, slides, etc. Look at this face....she LOVES it!!

Hey mom!

After Virginia was done playing, all the adults were wiped out, we headed to Virginia's favorite restaurant....."Chick Lay"

We went to the Dwarf House which is a Chick-Fil-A where you can sit down and order and you don't have to do the fast food thing. Same thing really but there are more options and you are served...

We actually went on cow appreciation day so this little peanut loved seeing the cow...

Cheeseburger!!!

Enjoying a little birthday ice cweam....

After a little shopping, we headed home to put her down for a nap. When she woke up there was more celebrating!! We ate dinner and she got to have an M&M cookie.

So excited for her "tweat"!

After V went to sleep we began setting up for her Minnie Mouse birthday party! Here are some pictures of the decor....

Pictures of her second year...

And food.....

Cupcakes Aunt Amy and I made....

Mickey Cheese....

Mickey jello jigglers....

Pudge and Mom

Time for a birthday cupcake...

Blowing out her candles....

Present time...

Literally.....18 adults and 2 children.....haha.

Virginia's bestie....HABEN (Haven)! :)

V got a swing! Uncle Brett and Uncle Pudge helping her try it out!!

Party animal!

Two little wiped out girls!

It was definitely a weekend to celebrate! Virginia Louise, you bring so much joy to our lives! I am so thankful for the last two years we have had with you!! We love you so much sweet girl!!

Engagement Pictures

At the end of May, Brett and I had our engagement pictures done. I knew when I got engaged that I definitely wanted Bayleigh to do my pictures! I met Bayleigh through Katherine and have obsessed over her pictures for a long time. I had a lot of ideas about what I wanted for engagement pictures and she did such an amazing job! It was hard to choose what to share so there are a lot of pictures but I don't ever upload anything to facebook anymore so I figured this is how I would share! 

Enjoy!

Outfit change! :)

Love this shot! 

Brett was such a good sport! I kept telling him thank you during our shoot and he just kept saying..."This is your day!" Thanks sweet boy! So....that is why he got this shot....he wanted one with the no swimming sign..go figure.... :)

Why are you smiling? haha...

Our relationship during football season.... :) haha. jk

"Grow old along with me....the best is yet to be!"

I love you!

All of our photos were taken at the place where we will say, "I do" in just a few short months! We had a beautiful day and that plus the location made for some pretty amazing pictures! Praying for beautiful weather on November 12th too!!

Thank you so much Bayleigh! You did a great job!

Have a great Fourth of July!

A Week With V

Two weekends ago, Eric and Linds moved into their new house. We got a good bit done that weekend but there was definitely still a good bit of unpacking, cleaning, organizing, etc. to be done. Well, when you have an almost 2 year old, that can be a bit challenging! So, we offered to take V home with us for a week of fun at LiLi and JimPa's house! We swam, shopped, played hard, ate, and had so much fun with this sweet girl! We also decided we would have pictures made of her. That didn't work out so well but Amy and I felt that we might could get at least a few decent ones! Between she and I and about 400 pictures, we came out with plenty of great ones! Here are a few of the pictures we took at Springhill College....

The trees make for a pretty backdrop...

Cheesin....

"CHEESEBURGER!!!" Her favorite thing to say when having a picture taken!

Sweet girl...

Lovin' her LiLi

I know....I know..... :)

Reading her books....

She is just beautiful!

She loves her aunts!!!

And we love you too little peanut!! Cannot believe we will be celebrating your 2nd birthday in just a few days!! Sorry for all of the pictures.....it was tough to choose though! 

Happy Tuesday!

A Vacation With the Kittrell's

Wow. It has been a busy few weeks. I got back home last weekend but didn't stop because we brought sweet V home with us for the week. But, more on that later. The two weeks before I was with my future in-laws. No, we didn't get to go to Costa Rica but we still made the most of our time together. 

We headed to the mountains of north Georgia for a few days and also made a quick stop in Chattanooga and went to the aquarium and walked around. I really loved downtown Chattanooga. It was so pretty and seemed like there was so much to do!

Brett took on the challenge of finding us a cabin in Georgia so that we could get away for a few days. He definitely delivered. It was BEAUTIFUL!! (I didn't take any pictures of it but...so nice.)

While we were there we were able to do a lot. We went on a hike and had a picnic at a beautiful waterfall....I loved it because I got to take pictures which I like to do...just a bit. :) We also stayed in some, grilled out, fished, and went tubing down the river! 

May not be a hiker but I look the part....right?? :)

Drew is pumped.... haha

Around our cabin there were deer EVERYWHERE!! I mean..usually 5 to 10 in our yard. It was crazy. On the last day we were there Brett got a biscuit and the deer came really close. It doesn't take much to excite me so I thought this was great!

The few days to get away were great! It was fun to spend time with family and rest after a stressful couple of days with Brett's grandfather in the hospital!

I will be back soon with more updates! Sorry for the being a blogging slacker! The weeks are flying by and are so busy it seems!

Final Disney Days

I'm sorry. I promise after this to stop putting up pictures of my sweet niece for a while. Wait...she is coming to town next weekend...Umm..We shall see. She is just adorable though. 

The last two days at Disney were a little more low key. We did some shopping and then took Virginia to the playground at the hotel, where I snapped a million pictures. Our last day we went to the Magic Kingdom again. Here are a few of the last batch of pictures from the week....

 Weeeeeeeee!!!!!! 

 Aunt Amy was blowing bubbles for her!

 So beautiful...

 Mmm....love Florida. The weather was perfect!

Try and tell me she isn't the most adorable little girl!

A little blurry but she was playing football with daddy.... :)

This trip was so much fun! This little girl is an absolute joy with the BEST personality! She is so happy all the time! It was such a great week with my family and nice to get away! Alrighty....I am done. Thank you for sticking around as I showed a whole lot of blog love to this sweet girl on our family vacation!

Hope your weekend has been restful and fun!

Chef Mickey's, Animals, and Fun

Today we went to breakfast with the characters! Everyone who is anyone was there.....Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto!

 Eating a Mickey waffle!

Happy Birthday Linds!

Sweet girl!

Then we made a quick trip to Africa and saw some animals.....

Hello Simba

Then we went to the Lion King show which was FABULOUS. We have a friend, Diana, who was a Jr. Miss that stayed with us a few years ago, that works at Disney. She dances and does many different shows. Today was Lion King and she got us VIP seats and a meet and greet with the cast. So fun!

Tonight we are heading to Epcot...Miss Priss is gonna stay home and get some rest tonight with LiLi and JimPa! Thankfully, we have a restful day planned tomorrow!

Magic Kingdom and Tampa

On day 3 of Disney we headed to Magic Kingdom! This was so much fun for Virginia because most of the rides are ones she can go on. Mom was pretty excited too! Here are some pictures from Sunday and Monday...

Seriously.....how adorable does she look at Disney!

Riding the carousel  

Dumbo

Our favorite mouse couple!

Hey sammy

Cute dad....

Waiting for the parade

Classic mom

Loving the parade...

And....the electrical parade...

How cute is her minnie shirt Aunt Amy made for her!

Yesterday we went to my Aunt Amy's house. She lives in Tampa. It was so good to see her and my uncle and cousins and also my grandmother who we affectionately call Ding Dong.

We rocked some Just Dance...

My brother...

Get it Linds and Eric!

Sorry for the millions of pictures. And.....there are more to come! 

Happy Birthday to Lindsey today!