Shower Success

The bridal shower I hosted for Julie on Saturday went really well! We ended up with a good size group of ladies, we ate lots of yummy food (that my mom helped me prepare) and we did plenty of socializing, and even played a game! I thought everything turned out really well. Here's how it went:

Greetings, mix & mingle.
Eat!
Open gifts.
How-well-do-you-know-the-bride game.
More eating & mingling.

Menu:
-Chocolate sour cream cupcakes with cream cheese icing (YUM)
-Fruit Salad
-Raw veggies with cucumber dill dip
-Pinapple pecan cheese ball
-Fillo cups with chicken salad
-Sausage balls

I would definitely recommend this menu, or a similar one, if you are hosting a shower for up to about 25 people. We had more food than we needed, but leftovers are always good :)

Pictures to come soon. The bride-to-be and I wore the same dress! I guess that's what happens when you've known each other for over 2o years.

Weekend Trip

I'm excited to be headed home to NC tomorrow for a 3 day weekend visit (even though I was just there for the holidays). Its going to be a very special trip, because I'm hosting a bridal shower for my best friend from childhood, Julie, who is getting married in March, and so sweetly asked me to be her maid of honor. I am so excited for my shower, and for her to get hitched in just a couple of months! I have all the food planned, but I'm still lacking on games/other entertaining activities. Any thoughts or suggestions? I'll happily take anything you have to offer!

Catch up

Hi friends! I feel a little like I've been playing catch up since I got back home from the whirlwind wedding weekend. It was absolutely fabulous! I promise I will devote another post to the details soon, but for today I'll just share a few photos of the happy ocassion:

I absolutely adored Sara's gorgeous train!

Happy couple.

High school friends!


Me, being a stalkerazzi, and cake cutting.

You can tell from the beautiful pictures what a fabulous weekend it was! I am so thrilled for Sara and Eric, and cannot wait to continue our (long) friendship throughout their marriage.

As for life in general, I've just been working and still nursing a little bit of sickness. I did purchase Skinny Girl margaritas and white cranberry cosmos, and I'm really looking forward to partaking! I've got fun weekend plans to hang out with John and other friends, and I'm really looking forward to it! Also really looking forward to baking and eating my famous chocolate chocolate chip pound cake. Yum.

Hope you all have fabulous Veteran's Day weekends! Any good plans going on?

Bachelorette Recap

Hi Friends! Sorry again for the silence last week. I was in Tampa for work, and was either really lame and working and going to bed early, or out having fun and not remembering to blog! We had a good week with gorgeous weather (hello 38 degrees this morning in Atlanta...not appreciated) and really good food. But I was happy to be home Friday night, and actually enjoy a low-key weekend in Atlanta for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, I've been a little sick with either sinus issues or a cold, but I'm slowly nursing back to health thankfully. Must be healthy for the big wedding weekend in NC! I took it easy most of this weekend, but John and I did go to the shooting range with some Half Off Depot coupons yesterday. It was really fun! It was my first time ever going to a range or shooting a gun, and I enjoyed it. I had pretty good aim too!

Back up to the bachelorette weekend. We had such a great time! I think we all had a lot of fun at Dip n Dab making beautiful paintings and drinking wine. Saturday we shopped the day away, and then had a fabulous dinner complete with belly dancers at Taverna Plaka followed by a VIP table at the Gold Room in Buckhead. Needless to say, we made sure the bachelorette had a fantastic weekend!

In other news, I finally bought and iPad and I could not be happier. I wish I had done it sooner! It made my travel last week so much more enjoyable! And now I can play Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends (for any of you who might be interested). Yay!

Now just a few workdays to get through before I hit the road to NC to help my dear SCD tie the knot this weekend!

Good Things Happening

Greetings from the Quad Cities! I'm in Sheffield/Florence, Alabama this week for work, and I'm really enjoying myself here. I've been twice before, and I remembered having fun here, but I've really grown to like Florence on this trip. The weather is amazing (think 78 degrees and sunny), the scenery is gorgeous (I drive over a big bridge over the Tennessee river to get to work from the hotel in the morning) and the town is so quaint. Big trees and big old houses, very cute shops and a local university (UNA). I had a very long walk through the downtown yesterday, and its so pleasant to see an old downtown in a little town that's actually bustling. I'm looking forward to another walk today, and hopefully i'll get some pictures to share with y'all.

That's pretty much been my whole week thus far, just working and enjoying some small town life. Not looking forward to a 5 hour trip back to Atlanta tomorrow, but things could be worse :) I am, however, looking forward to a long-overdue haircut on Friday, and a trip to Raleigh and Winston-Salem next week! Oh, and a holiday from work on Monday (thank you, Christopher Columbus!). Homecoming, the State Fair, so many friends and family...it might just be too much for me to handle. Then after that, I'm hosting SCD's bachlorette weekend in Hotlanta and am taking another trip home after that for her wedding. I am so so looking forward to the next month's worth of activities. And on top of that, my best friend from childhood, Julie, and her fiance Michael just got engaged last week and have set a date for March 24! That's my half birthday :) I can't wait to be in both of these weddings. So much fun to celebrate my favorite people!

You know what else is fun? Eating at Bojangles. Yum.

And, something else? Seeing my fridge fill up with pretty invites (thanks, Sara :).

Too much good stuff

Lydia and Warren are married! And I had the best weekend I've had in a loooong time. Being around college friends is always the best, especially at such a happy and wonderful occasion (and being at the beach doesn't hurt either). Here's a run down of the fun:

-Emily and I have a fabulous road trip down to Florida on Friday, complete with McDonald's Happy Meal Barbies.
-I saw the ocean for the first time this year and ate some delicious shrimp and grits with my hot date.
-We made friends with some WF boys in the elevator, and were so happy we had someone under the age of 50 to talk to at the beautiful cocktail party on Friday night.
-Em and I got really, really sun burnt while over-zealously laying out all Saturday morning.
-Erin and Al arrived and we had the best night ever at the wedding, cocktail hour, reception and after party. Too much fun (and too many drinks) were had by all!
-We enjoyed a delicious brunch back at the Ritz Carlton on Sunday morning (dining at the Ritz 3 days in a row has really put a damper on my normal life now that I'm back home, fyi).
-Al left us, but Erin, Em and I had a lovely afternoon of Loop milkshakes, shopping in historic Fernandina and having a very romantic dinner on the waterfront. Bliss.

And then Monday morning arrived and we had to go home (SAD). But here's a few photos to reminiscence about, and for y'all to enjoy!

Fresh Air

Its amazing what one lap around my building does to get my blood moving. I feel so much better already. I hope this weather keeps up so I can go out walking more!

Just found out the news that one of my favorite people from Wake is newly engaged eek!! Congrats to the lovely couple (I won't post names since I don't know if she has told everyone she wants to yet). I am so excited for them:)

TGIT

Happy Thursday! Luckily today is the last day of the work week for me. This afternoon i'm going straight home from work to throw on a tshirt and shorts, watch Gilmore Girls and get some lovely sleep that I didn't get enough of last night. Sounds exciting to me!

This morning I had my interview that I wrote about yesterday. I think it went well, but i'm not sure i'm quite what they are looking for (or that they are quite what i'm looking for), but you never know! Hopefully they'll make a decision by late tomorrow. We shall see. Otherwise today is pretty boring. Last night I saw the House Bunny and thought it was hysterical. I probably appreciated it even more than most because I definitely related to the dorky, unfortunate sorority (Kristin, you will laugh out loud at how similiar it is to what we've always talked about at Wake--go see the matinee). In a lot of ways, its very typical ditzy-blond-gets-a-life kind of movie, but I actually really enjoyed myself and had a good time watching it. It helps that I didn't have to pay:)

I'm off to the beach for the next 3 days! Happy wedding to Jessica & Josh. Hopefully i'll post some pictures once I get back. And hopefully i'll get reeeeally tan. Hah.