Wedding Weekend in Tucson!

Hello!

We've gone on a few trips this summer so I'm going to post about them in order :)

At the beginning of June, Alex and I got to fly home to Tucson for a friend's wedding!  It was a quick trip and we had a lot of fun!



The wedding was the evening of the day we arrived and it was at Hacienda del Sol, which is so pretty!

When we first got there we made a leaf on their cute tree picture with our thumb (our joint thumb) and signed our names.



The ceremony was in a really pretty garden area and it was so nice!  It was perfectly them, with great music, etc.  Then there was iced tea, lemonade, water, etc. and finger food for everyone in a courtyard area while the wedding party took pics.



The happy couple, Betsy and Myles!

It was perfect weather!  A few of Alex's friends from high school were there and we had so much fun hanging out with them!





Dinner was inside and it was delish.  Our place cards and favors were little jars of prickly pear jam!  So fun.



They had dancing in the room right by the dining room and out on the patio they had a Frost gelato cart for dessert!  YUM.  

They also had a slideshow playing on the patio of all of the pictures that the wedding photographer had taken that day!  The pics were great and it was fun to see all of them right there!

We slept well that night (we had been awake for about 24 hours!).

The next few days we had a lot of fun with Alex's fam!





Grace, Abby, and I got some cute matching rompers!



Thanks, Carol :)

We ate at some delish Tucson restaurants, which is always fun.  We got to eat lunch with my aunt Chris, too!



We also got to see Alex's aunt Laurie at dinner one night!

We got to snuggle with (and take pictures of, and play with) sweet Fiona!!







We love her so much!

The bag I used on our trip is new!  It was my anniversary present from Alex and I love it!



The brand is Treason Toting Co. which is a local Baltimore company.  The first time I heard about them was in a video at one of the first CreativeMornings I went to and I've been following them on Instagram since then!  Their bags are so cool!  Alex was super sneaky and totally surprised me!!

The bag is perfect for a weekend trip (conveniently called the Weekender) and it's so well made.  The fabric is really durable, the straps are nice, and the zipper is super heavy duty.  Also it's soo pretty!  Thanks, Alex!

We had such a great time on our quick trip to Tucson!  We just got back from a second trip there so I will write about that soon!

Thanks for reading!

Early Evenings

Hi!

I went to Michael's today and got some fun stuff!  I have a good idea for selling hair ties at the Christmas Market craft fair where I'm going to be a vendor.  Once I make some I'll post a picture!  All of the Halloween and "fall" stuff is 80% off so I got some more of the cork stuff (like the clothes pins I got last week!), too.  

I have another custom order on Etsy for wedding fans that I'm going to work on tomorrow!  The couple has a cat that they want to be on there somewhere so that will be fun to work on :)  Their wedding sounds like it's going to be so cute!!

My aunt and uncle (whose wedding we went to at the beginning of last month) went to Italy for their honeymoon!  Yesterday I got this bracelet in the mail that they got for me while they were there!

I love it!!!  That was so nice of them!  We actually get to see them this Friday!  They're going to be in Virginia visiting my uncle's daughter and her family so we're driving there to visit :)

Now that Daylight Savings has ended, it gets dark at 5pm!  It's so weird!!  I don't think I like that very much haha.  When I picked Alex up after school yesterday around 5:20pm, I realized I haven't driven in the dark in probably three months!  Definitely not since we've been in Baltimore.  Weird!

Speaking of driving, yesterday I found out that I won an Uber gift card from an Instagram contest that Strangers with Style and Uber-Maryland were doing!  I started following Strangers with Style, which is a website that posts about all kinds of fashion, arts, etc. things around Baltimore, after I went to CreativeMornings.  So that's exciting!  We've never used Uber before so now we have another reason to try it (the first reason being that we've heard so many great things about it from so many people)!

Thanks for reading!

Wonderful Weekend! (Tons of Pics)

Hello!

Alex and I are back in Baltimore!  We had such a great weekend!!  

Saturday morning we went to Most Sacred Heart Church in Eureka, MO, for my Aunt Ginger and Uncle Marty's wedding ceremony in the library there.  It was so beautiful!  My mom, aunts, and girl cousins (that were there) helped Ginger get ready.  I had fun doing her makeup!

The ceremony was so nice.  One of Marty's grandsons sang, and his daughter and I both did a reading.  We took lots of pics before and after.

Their first look!

Here's everyone on Ginger's side of the family that was there.
I had so much fun making the invitations, guest "book" sign, and fans for the wedding!  We had this at both ceremonies and I think everyone had fun writing their names in the balloons!  

I'm going to this to my Etsy shop as an example of something people can custom order!

It was so cold outside on Saturday!  Luckily, nothing took place outside so we stayed pretty warm.

We had a very nice lunch at Fleming's Steakhouse in St. Louis after the ceremony.  Everything was delish!  There was a table set up with bread, crostinis, and burrata for appetizers, then we were served yummy salads, entrees (there was a choice between chicken, filet mignon, and salmon), and dessert (carrot cake or cheesecake).  YUM!  I got the filet and Alex got chicken and we both picked cheesecake.  Oh my gosh, everything was so good!  The restaurant is normally only open for dinner, so we were the only people there and we had a really pretty room in the back to ourselves.

That night, Carl, Alicen, Alex, and I went to see the movie Annabelle.  Scary!  It had just come out the night before so the theater was packed and everyone was screaming!  That was fun.  A new SNL was on that night too, and Sarah Silverman was the host!  I love her.  It was a really good episode!  All six of us (my parents, Carl, Alicen, Alex, and me, and Dudie!) stayed at the condo so it was a fun slumber party!

Sunday there was a second wedding ceremony, this time at Mt. Nebo Primitive Baptist Church in Greenville, IL.  It's our cute little church that my family has gone to since it was built a looong time ago!  There are pictures all over the walls of my family from years and decades ago!  I love it there!

I got to decorate the chalkboard that was hanging near the entrance.  One of my aunts brought that and a bicycle that she painted purple (their wedding colors were purple and green) with balloons.  It was soo cute!  It made an adorable place to take pics.

This time, the ceremony was done by my cousin Anthony.  He did so well!  Marty's grandson sang an original song, another of his grandsons said two poems, my mom and two of my aunts sang a song and my uncle accompanied them on piano, and my cousin Marion also read a poem.  It was all so nice!

My cousin Brooklyn was the flower girl in both ceremonies and she did so well!!

The happy couple!

After the ceremony, there were pies and ice cream for everyone!  Chocolate cream pie, peach pie, and apple pie!  It was set up so cute.  There was punch and coffee to drink, too.  My aunt Brenda made adorable bicycle cookies as favors for everybody!  She also made a really cute banner that they hung on the wall.

It was so nice to see lots of family from my mom's side.  I haven't been able to go for Thanksgiving in several years and that's usually when I would see a lot of these people!  We visited and took lots of pics after :)

We flew home early Monday morning.  We flew into DC and we were in Baltimore by 10:30!  That seemed so quick!

Tonight, Alex's mom and one of his sisters are coming to visit us!  They will be here until Saturday afternoon.  That will be so fun!  I will post about all of the stuff that we do while they're here!

Thanks for reading!

Wedding Weekend, Here We Go!

Hi!

I haven't been able to post in the past couple of days because a lot has been happening!  On Wednesday, my parents, our doggy, and I drove from Baltimore to St. Louis (Alex is flying here right now!)!  It was a long ride but it went smoothly minus one construction hold up.  I finished This is Where I Leave You, which I thought was really good, and I started reading Gone Girl.  We got to see my best friend Brent when we drove through Columbus, which was unexpected and so fun!

Dude was my buddy the whole way here!

It's wedding weekend!  My aunt is getting married and so much of our family is in town!  It's so fun.  We just got home from a rehearsal-type dinner at Pi Pizza which was delish and very fun!  We had the entire back room to ourselves and there was a big buffet set up for us.  There was pita bread and hummus on the tables, two types of salads on the buffet, and then six types of pizzas - three thin crust and three deep dish.  It was all-you-can-eat and all of the pizza types were sooo good!  Oh, and there were cookies at the end too!  They made tons of little chocolate chip cookies and gooey butter cookies (SO YUMMY).  

The bride-to-be!

We're going to pick Alex up at the airport soon!  There are two ceremonies, one tomorrow and one on Sunday, and it's going to be so fun!!!

Thanks for reading!