One Year Ago Today...

What started out as a normal day of cleaning the house and getting last minute Christmas presents together, turned into my amazing boyfriend asking me to spend the rest of my life with him. :)

 

 

Now we're 14 weeks away from being husband and wife!



Friiiiiiiiday.

Happy Friday before Christmas! I still have a few small things to pick up to complete my gifts but you better believe I will NOT be going to the mall or Target.

This is somewhat of a last weekend (ok, just Sunday) recap post since I never got around to it this week. 

Went to brunch on Sunday at Fat Hen. I had one of the top 5 best sandwiches of my life! It was the "PULLED BBQ DUCK SANDWICH with house made BBQ sauce, blue cheese bacon cole slaw and pomme frites."

 

Then, Emily and I went to our friend Stephanie's house for her 2nd annual Cookie Exchange! This year everyone brought sugar cookies and decorated them at her house.

Later that night, as if I wasn't emotional enough from the horrific Newtown events, I watched The Bachelorette wedding of Ashley & JP. I could not keep it together! That, my friends, is a tear catcher placed across my face.

I can't believe I just posted this awful picture of me.

What's on your agenda this weekend?
Saturday is shopping and a Christmas party and Sunday we're going to a friend's baptism of his son and celebrating our engageiversary!

Wedding Wednesday: Groomsmen Gift Ideas.

PS - Tomorrow marks our 100 day countdown! Yippee!!!

Day of Silence for Newtown.

A Rainbow When We All Needed It.

I have never been good with words or expressing my feelings, so today I will keep it short. 

Friday for lunch, my boss took us all out to for a Christmas celebration. Half way through, I checked my phone and came across the sickening news. Not many details were released at that time, but I was immediately shocked at the fact that something horrific like this could happen at such an innocent place. 

It didn't really sink in until yesterday when Cameron and I watched a news briefing online that showed the pictures and names of these sweet little children. I lost it.

 

But today, as all of the mommy's and daddy's were dropping their kids off at school, the most wonderful thing appeared. A rainbow to assure them that in the midst of all of this tragedy, He is with us and always will be.

Borrowed from 95SX's Facebook page.

If that's not a sign, then I don't know what is.

Random Friday Thoughts.

Happy Friday!

Random thoughts for your viewing pleasure today:

  

-Yesterday was my Aunt Sharlene's birthday. My cousin Sam looks more and more like her everyday. We love you and miss you, Aunt Sharlene!

Picture borrowed from Sam's FB page.

 -Here is our Christmas card this year! Cameron had a rule that we couldn't do photo Christmas cards until we got engaged so I was really pumped to order them this year! I was really impressed with Minted's quality and how fast I received the cards in the mail!

-We received a Christmas card in the mail on Wednesday from Cameron's brother, sister in law and neices. The card was super cute and his neices both look so old (they are 5 & 8), but my favorite part was how the envelope was addressed. I'm going to be an aunt! :)

 

-I got a bonus from work yesterday - thumbs up!

My car is in the shop today - thumbs dowwwwwn!

 

-I am not happy with Rugs USA. We ordered a rug for our dining room the day after Thanksgiving when they were having a 75% off sale. Received it the following week and it was the complete wrong rug. They have been so slow in getting back to us via email on how we go about returning the rug for our correct one. I called customer service on Wednesday to follow up and was told that our correct rug was now on backorder until December 31st. Not cool!  I just told them to refund our money. It's so frustrating because we have been trying to find a rug for that room for forever! Remember this post?? We never exchanged it for a bigger size because it was always on backorder. I kind of wish we would have now though since we would have it by now and not be going through this all over again. Hopefully we can just find one in a store and be done with it.

-Looking back for that rug post made me realize I haven't done very much updating to the house lately. Once we start to receive things off of our registry, I promise to decorate like crazy and post some updates! :)

Ok, that's all for now! Have a great Friday and a super fun weekend!

Wedding Wednesday: Bridesmaid Gift Ideas.

Before I got engaged, I always liked to see posts on gift ideas for the wedding parties. And once I got engaged, I created a "note" on my phone where I could save gift ideas as they popped in my head. My bridesmaids are getting one, kind of two, of these, but I can't spill the beans on which one(s) yet!

-Necklace or earrings to wear the day of the wedding, and after.

-Solemates to wear on their high heels for those outside weddings! 

-Monogrammed pashmina from Marley Lilly in case of a chilly evening.

-A cute clutch to keep lipgloss near by! Or your drivers license in case you get ID'ed halfway through the wedding reception like me! :)

-Any girl would love a monogrammed necklace!

-Monogrammed handkerchief to fold around the bottom of their bouquets and to keep afterwards.

-Monogrammed Tervis Tumbler, because you can never have too many tumblers!

Notice a trend? :)

For the married ladies, what did you give your bridesmaids?

For those of yall who have been bridesmaids before, what has been your favorite gift you've received?