Show Us Your Life - Wedding Details

As I said last week...I love everything wedding so I'm joining in Kelly's Korner Show Us Your Life!


Our wedding was at Ella's Garden in Tomball, TX...it was a beautiful facility that housed our ceremony (outdoors) and our reception (indoors). It took place at sunset under a beautiful white gazebo!

(I took this picture from the upstairs dressing room right before our guests were seated)

My best friend, her mom (mom 2nd mom), and I made all the flowers for our wedding! And uh...evidently we took no pictures! LOL They were gorgeous though!


(This was from my prebridal shoot with Homeshade Photography...those shoes hurt real bad by the way!)

Our wedding party was small...3 on each side! My matron of honor was my sister, Sherie', my bff since 1st grade, Candace, and my college roommate and bestest, Marissa stood on my side. Mike, Shawn, and Eric, hubs fire brothers, stood on his side. Our daughters were our flowers girls and our nephew was the ring bearer. My ladies were chocolate brown and carried Fall colored flowers.



The ONLY thing I really really wanted at our wedding was a string trio. I was willing to splurge...say, um...$350 for 30 minutes for them!! (My dad actually ended up paying for this for us ;)



My girls trying to figure out how to bustle my dress after the ceremony!




The music for our ceremony was of course played by the string trio...it included...

Prelude
JESU JOY OF MANS DESIRING

Seating of the parents
ODE TO JOY

Bridesmaid Processional
CANON IN D

Bridal Processional
BRIDAL CHORUS

Recessional
WEDDING MARCH

These were our programs and favors...

And there's our ceremony...next week will be our reception! Ha! If you're not already bored to tears!!

Check It Out

Hey guys! Go check out the giveaway at Lil Bits of Life! You won't be sorry!

Socks & Shoes

Conversation between Hubs and I last Saturday:

Hubs: Did you clean the house today?

Me: Uh, yeah! Didn't you see me and CAN'T you tell?? (frustrated because the day before we busted our butts in the house...steam cleaned carpets, moved every piece of furniture, cleaned baseboards, windowsills, ceiling fans, window treatments...EVERYTHING)

Hubs: Oh, k...just wondering why my socks are still here? (On the fireplace)

Me: Weird, I was wondering why YOU left them there...

Hubs: So, why didn't you pick them up?

Me: Why did you leave them there?

Hubs: (No response)

Needless to say...I left the socks there...so did he...until TODAY...4 days later...

Text to Hubs today while he's at work from me: Lucee (the dog) is carrying your sock around in her mouth.

Hubs: Little shit, at least she picked it up though.

Me: Yep...and I think I'll let her carry around the two pairs of shoes you left in the living room next.

I haven't heard from him since...

Show Us Your Life - Wedding Dresses

Kelly's Korner is hosting Show Us Your Life and today is Wedding Dresses! Yay! I haaaad to play along because I love wedding dresses...and everything wedding related. I'd do it all over again if my husband would let me. ;)



These are a few of my prebridal pictures. I had the BEST photographer! She doesn't normally do prebridals because she doesn't do weddings but she agreed to do mine! Yay! Check her out here.



I loved my dress. It was champagne and ivory...we had a Fall wedding and I thought the colors fit. I had always wanted a wedding dress with a splash of color....way before it was popular and by the time it was my turn to get married dresses with color were/are super popular so I lost interest in that.



This is the only one I have of the back of my dress. This is of course my daddy walking me down the aisle!

What's In That Thing?

I looove BIG purses...I'm small...but just love big purses...my husband always says, "What's in that thing?!" so I decided to share...







1. My new black wallet. I love it!
2. Car keys
3. A flyer from Hobby Lobby showing how to decorate for a Pirate birthday party for my BFF's little ones birthday party.
4. Wintergreen Chapstick...I used more than half of it in Vegas!
5. Germ-X...don't leave home without it!
6. Excedrine Menstrual ;)
7. Nasonex...also used more than half in Vegas...not used to the dry air there.
8. Pressed Powder...you know, for my shiny face when my husband asks if I showered!
9. Sample of the new Coach perfume that the lady in the store gave us today.
10. Avon lip gloss...loooove this stuff!
11. Glasses case
12. Sunglasses
13. Cell...never leave home without it!
14. Huggies wipes...they are so soft and come in handy for sticky kiddo hands!
15. Pens & pencils
16. Candy & gum...those Altoids are lethal!
17. The $1 I have to my name right now. ;)
18. Checkbook...that's pretty useless. LOL

So, what's in YOUR purse?!

SYTYCD

I don't watch So You Think You Can Dance but I did happen to stumble upon this video clip of a routine performed on the show yesterday and it literally brought me to tears...just like most things have this past week. What's up with that?!

'SYTYCD' Top 8: Melissa & Ade's Contemporary Performance @ Y! TV

As most of you know my dad has fought cancer and like one of the judges said...anyone with cancer believes they can beat it. Luckily for my family, my dad did beat it but I have known way too many people who weren't so lucky. Watch this video...even if you're not a dance person...it will bring you to tears.

Wordless Wednesday

2 Hours Later

My 9am Astronomy class was cancelled at 11am via email...Thanks a lot teacher...it's always nice to know class is cancelled AFTER the fact...2 hours after the fact.

Dirty

This is what my husband said to me yesterday...

Hubs: "Did you shower today?"

Me: "Um, yes. I shower everyday (almost). Why?!"

Hubs: "You look dirty."

Seriously, wtf?! My face was a bit oily but c'mon, I had just hiked across the school parking lot in 125 degree heat!!

I Know...

I suck as a blogger right now! I just don't feel like it...how's that for a reason?! There aren't many things in my life that I can say that to/about...but I can say that about blogging and follow through with it! Like for instance...my husband has a "To-Do" list for tomorrow and Friday...tomorrow consists of taking down ALL of the blinds in the house and scrubbing and bleaching them...and Friday is shampoo the carpet day. Now, those are two things I'd LOVE to say "I don't feel like it" to but for whatever reason Hubs frowns upon that phrase of mine. Humph...the nerve! So for now...I'm not going to blog about my trip to Vegas...or my insane school schedule next semester...or the 3-4 hour naps I've been taking...or my children's birthday parties...or that fact that my cat vomited all over our bed and the dog vomited on the carpet...because I just don't feel like it!

I'll be back soon!

Umbrella Hater

I don't like hate umbrellas! There are many reasons for this...such as, what exactly ARE you supposed to do in the rare event that you make it to your car dry because you actually used the umbrella...do you get in the car while trying to close the umbrella outside the door? Do you close the umbrella when you get to the car and then hop into the car quickly? I haven't figured this one out yet...and I haven't figured out what to do with the WET umbrella once you do get it into the car? Do you drip it across the passenger seat and onto the floor? Do you put it down by your feet and run the risk of getting tangled up in it while driving and perhaps causing an accident? OR do you do something like this...

Once upon a time there were three young teenage girls who moved away to a wonderful college town just a mere month after graduating high school...some people refer to it as Aggie land...the young lovelies chose to call it "Coolage Sta." That name may or may not have been established after the consumption of alcohol...really, it's not my place to share that information. =) Anyhow, these young ladies had some weird aversion to school. It could have been the new found freedom they were experiencing, the awesome house they lived in, the cash flow their parents provided(none of the ladies worked), the alcohol consumption (again, not my place to share), ooor it could have been as simple as something called rain. Rain! Let me share a rain story with you about these three girls...

On one of the rare occasions that all three of the girls made it to school together it was raining! One of the girls, let's call her "Amy", was carrying an umbrella while hiking across the campus parking lot. Yes, am umbrella...you know, those stupid things that are supposed to keep you dry when its raining, well the wind picked up and flipped the damn thing inside out. Wonderful! "Amy" simply chunked the umbrella down, turned around, and walked back to the car. No words were needed...the other two girls followed closely behind. Once in the safety of their car, mostly likely "Rissa's" brand new Tahoe, they drove to Chick-fil-A and ate breakfast before continuing home to return to the warmth of their beds. (This last sentence could be true or false, most likely true because this was done on more than one occasion.)

So ladies, that is my third option of what to do with an umbrella when it's raining. It's really your choice...

Disclaimer: The above story may or may not be based on actual people named, Aimee', Marissa, and Amanda.

*Jamie - this one is just for your laughing pleasure!

Viva Las Vegas

Finally...the time has come for us (just the hubs and me) to take our MUCH needed and deserved vacation to Las Vegas! Our friends Shawn and Lisa are getting married there and invited us to witness their marriage. How can you say no?! ;) After all, Shawn was a groomsman in our wedding. So, we decided to make a vacation out of it. Although Shawn and Lisa will be departing Vegas on Thursday to continue their honeymoon in Cali, we're staying until Sunday. I've made a "to do" list of things in Vegas...places I want to eat...places I want to see...things I want to do...and we've brushed up on our craps skills. We didn't get to go on a honeymoon after our wedding because of my school and the kiddos school so this will also be a kind-of-not-really-because-i-want-to-go-to-Hawaii honeymoon for us as well! Hope you guys have a great week! I'll be back next Monday with lots of pictures, I'm sure! Also, follow me on Twitter...I'll send lots of updates and pics!

4th of July

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Happy 4th of July my pretties! I hope everyone has/had a wonderful day, enjoying our freedom! Hubs and I stayed home and grilled chicken wings, corn on the cob, baked beans, and salad...and now I'm hoping to convince him to take me to watch fireworks. We'll see how that goes. ;)