as you can see – i’ve been showered with wedding love from the beginning :
cousin love
*this morning, i woke up to the sweetest message from my cute cousin, kelly, from alabama about my blog- she’s precious and i have always loved her so much. i grew up babysitting her and her two younger brothers – we weren’t just cousins- we were friends and grew up playing on our grandparent’s farm/at our houses while our parents laughed & socialized- often 🙂
she’s so cute.
her, james, and our amazing grandparents – right before our gramps passed away in 1993.
her parents are hilarious… last night at the airport- love this!
this wasn’t the first time- she’s posted a few times before … so sweet and appreciated 🙂
she’s an aMaZiNg artist – when i used to watch them, we would play ‘art’ every single time 🙂
it paid off.
aunt pam – her mom- who i also LOVE at my brother’s graduation party in may 2010
we love her boyfriend, michael- he fits right in with our craziness, games, drinking, laughing… he’s in school at auburn studying to be a vet/they are making the distance work- how cute are they?!
kelly- YOU are an inspiration to so many… and i appreciate all of your love and constant support.
throwback
last night ~
tim has had some very long and stressful week at bank of america lately (he was in the office until midnight last friday) so i called him up and offered to ‘cook’ for him last night- i had a lot of ideas, but after a really long week three months (this is our first free weekend since maybe january?!) i decided to pick up our favorite italian – chicken penne vodka- from mama ricotta’s and wine/salad at trader joe’s and we lit a candle and relaxed – a little cuddling/some breaking bad episodes- it was so wonderful. i could feel stress and pressure leaving my body… it was nice to be together and to not be running around …
i fell in love with trader joe’s in college when my dear college roommate/best friend in college, meme, and i would travel to cincinnati to buy soy nuggets (it helped that we were both starting to date guys in the area/matt is now her husband 🙂 but yes, we would drive 45 min each way- haha) and it’s been my favorite ever since. i adore whole foods too, but the prices at trader joe’s are so fantastic/my strong love has been there since the spring of 2005 when i was introduced.
*meme called me this week to tell me that she is coming to our wedding- she is due at the end of august and i am blessed and honored that her and matt are making the trip from chicago- i love you so much – congrats on your baby girl- you will be the BEST mom. xo
thank you joyner for the wine 🙂 so good.
my favorite salad dressing of all time- i recommend- sold exclusively at tj’s
this morning we have pandora blaring/i am organizing things that didn’t get done from the week … it’s so nice to have a saturday morning free!
*we’re off to look for our wedding bands later this morning 🙂 and i FINALLY get to get my ring taken in- it makes me nervous how big the size is right now (especially when i am teaching- i feel like it’s going to fly across the room…) – a result of my weight loss since last july- currently down 30 lbs 🙂 wahoo. i haven’t felt this great since high school! … more on this on a later post- but talk about SUPPORT – esp. by my unbelievable co-workers!! always there for me. but tim is so excited for today and so am i~ it’s crazy to think that we are going to pick out rings that we will wear forever… …
this makes me think of charleston, south carolina- where he proposed on june 2 2012- so near and dear to our hearts- here is one of my favorite pics – taken in the summer of 2008 by my sister, jess – at the battery where tim proposed …
