Red Bank Shower 6.28.09

As promised!! Here are a bunch of pictures from the Red Bank Baptist Church Shower that was on Sunday, June 28th.

There were four teacups (and saucers) on the piano and Patricia let me know that these were a gift for me! The COOLEST part is each is a pattern from Jason's grandmother's (Grandmother Lawhorn, Grandmother Cox, Nanny) and Jason's mom. HOW SPECIAL!!!

EMILY!!! :) She took a bunch of picture for me, and took over writing down gifts in the book when Alex had to leave. THANKS FRIEND!

My grandmother (on the right) meeting Jason's Nanny and realizing that Nanny knew my Papaw from school!

All the goods!! :)

My beautiful flower girl, Anna!

The cutest platter!! I can't wait to put it in the kitchen!

Alex was a huge help - she wrote down all the gifts until she had to leave. And took a bunch of these pictures. THANK YOU!!!

SWEEEEET!!!

Even baby Kate loves wedding showers!!

My (future) sister and flower girl - Jess and Anna! They became FAST friends. :)

My girls!!!

Shew... it took a LOOOONG time to open all these. :) Everyone was way too good to us!!

I LOVE YOU AND CAN'T WAIT TO MARRY YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Only THIRTY-NINE days!!!!

Blessed Beyond Belief

Friends, we are so blessed.

You wouldn't even believe how many people came to the shower yesterday at Red Bank. And the gifts... we are just BLOWN away by the generosity of our brothers and sisters.

I will try to get pictures up here tonight or tomorrow so you can see all our goodies! (Now we just have to find places to put everything!!)

FORTY DAYS!!!!!!!! :)

Progress - you should be so proud!

Five weeks ago I began the journey of... growing up and not biting my nails anymore. This is what my nails looked like after one week.


And now after 5 weeks, they are looking so much better!

You probably still can't tell, but BELIEVE ME - they rock!!

Confessions of a Shopaholic

No, I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have read the book. But no, this isn't about that!

This is about a SUPER FUN WEEKEND with my MOH and BFF Cara! We met in Atlanta at Lenox Square Mall and spent close to 8 hours shopping! The goal was for me to get "shower dresses" and "honeymoon clothes"!! We went a million places and got stuff from:

Dude, it was awesome.

I went on the trip with a set budget, and came WELL under that, so even though I got a ton of stuff, I knew I wasn't going over my original set limit. And get this - I even got a bunch of work clothes at Ann Taylor Loft, which I included as part of that budget, even though that wasn't really what I was supposed to spend it on. :)

I got some GREAT STUFF!! (including a super cute dress from the Loft that I will be debuting Sunday at the Red Bank Church Shower, plus the cutest shoes from DSW!) Cara made me try on tonnnnnnns of clothes, just to see how different styles look on me, and I've learned that I lean towards classic looks with pops of color. We found pretty much everything on my original list, and all in all, it was a FANTASTIC DAY!!!

Oh yeah, and the bathing suit thing. Don't mix and match bathing suit tops and bottoms from different brands in department store lighting and expect the colors to match in the light of day. And if you do, don't buy from Macy's where you can't exactly take it back the next day. Consider this a public service announcement. :)

Cry for HELP!

Okay, so I'm working on deciding music for the ceremony. Prelude, seating of the grandmothers, seating of the mothers... All that fun stuff. I think I've decided on the Processional and Recessional but I'm having a hard time with the others. WILL YOU HELP ME?!?

What did you have played at your wedding?

If you have favorites, or you just have a few minutes to browse around online, please suggest anything and I will be forever grateful. :)

Also - do you have any suggestions for Scripture or a poem or anything for the ceremony? I am having a hard time finding much more than "Love is patient, love is kind..." - not that there's anything wrong with that!! I just wanted to see if I could find something else to have read.

What Scripture/poems were read at your wedding?

Of course- all my not-yet-married friends - this is not a post that doesn't require your help too!!!

HEEEEEELP MEEEE!!!

Dog, meet Cat. Cat, meet Dog.

This past weekend we decided it was time for Snooker and Dash to finally meet. Jason held Snooker while she cautiously stared down this little creature that had walked into her house.

I let Dash go and he ran around the house like he always does, pretty much oblivious to the cat until....

Gotta love that arched back. She was not a happy camper! And he didn't understand why!

So we would try to put them together and it would be fine then Dash would get bored and walk away and here she'd come.. just stalking him.

We did, however, find something they were both interested in - the LASER!! She would chase it, then he would chase it, then Jason would point it right in between them and they'd realize they were close and they'd freak out and run.

All in all, it wasn't the best meeting ever, but they got to where they were tolerating each other. In 3 weeks when I move back home, Dash will be going to live with Jason and Snooker... so we'll see how that goes.

Who knows - they could end up being BEST FRIENDS!!!

Just don't hold your breath.

Now the whole WORLD knows!!

My mom called super early this morning.. okay, so it wasn't super early. I mean, my alarm had been going off for a good 20 minutes. But that's beside the point.

Mom called this morning to tell me that WE'RE IN THE PAPER TODAY!!!! AHH!!! I'm so excited! Check it out if you get a Sunday paper, or click below to see it! :)


Here's the site - we're the 3rd one down.