Let's Dish

I was so excited to have my first shower a few weekends ago.  Rebecca, LeeAnn, Allison, Mrs. Paula, Annie and Melane were so kind to host a kitchen shower for me at the Lewis' house.  We had a light lunch and had a great time visiting.  I was so surprised and humbled by the amount of people there and the thoughtful gifts.

The invitions were so cute and came with a recipe card.  I am so excited about all the great recipes that we got from all the ladies at the shower.  I need to take pictures of the invite and recipe card, but here is the cute favor tag to go with the yummy cake balls Annie made to give out to the guests.

I was so excited and had such a great day.  I can't wait to use all the great new dishes, serving pieces, and kitchen tools cooking all my new recipes for Gill.  Thanks to my fabulous hostesses for all their hardwork making my shower so special!

A Few Engagement Pictures...

These are a few of our favorite engagement pictures.  Our great photographer, Kevin Beasley, did a wonderrful job and I can not wait for the pictures from our wedding!

Last Dress Fitting

Three hour ride.  Thirty minute dress fitting.  Three hour ride home.  But at least this time my dress and veil came with me!!

My Birthday!

I have had a great birthday this year... it was on the Friday before I started back to school on Monday this year.  It was a great way to end the summer!  I had a great dinner with my family during the week and had my favorite cookie cake from Albritton's! 

The day of my actual birthday, we went to Portico for dinner and then to Dawg House. 

We took a ton of pictures through out the night and had a great time! 

Centerpieces... Everywhere!

Mama and I spent last Sunday afternoon working on centerpieces for the wedding.  We bought everything the florist isn't going to provide and we needed to make sure we had everything we are going to need.  I also needed to know everything was organized, labeled, and stored neatly!  We started by soaking all the pieces to get price tags and stickers off. 

We decided the best thing to do was just to set them out in the living room...

We only ended up needing to pick up one more set and we are done with glass!  We got them all measured and all the candles ordered.  (The blue on the bottom is a label designating the table number where it belongs, I want to make sure everything is as easy as people for our sweet friends and family that have offered to help the day of the wedding!)

Gill had a great nap during the three hours Mama and I organized... but he was a great help lugging everything up and down the stairs for us!

Our First Purchase for Our House!

Gill and I will be living in his house in Haughton after we married.  Since we both own our homes already and with our new wedding gifts, there isn't much right now we need to buy for our home.  We have lots of plans for things we want in the future, but as of right now all we needed was a new TV.  We went to Best Buy on tax-free weekned and Gill got to pick out the new TV he wanted... he definitely has a better understanding about all that stuff than I do.  Our idea of fun on Friday nights has definitely changed!

Here is Gill and his new favorite thing!  Just in time for football!

We didn't measure for it to go on top of the mantle, but it fit perfectly!  (I originally wanted a new console table for it, but I didn't know these houses are wired for the TV to go over the mantle.  There are two big ugly plugs above the mantle!)

We still have to work on those cords... but at least it is up and working!  We went and visited with my mom on Sunday and she surprised us with a new TV for our bedroom!  We were so excited!

Sandestin

Gill and I went to Sandestin this past week and we had a great time.  We flew out of Shreveport and had no problems with our flight or rental car, which was so nice.  We were tired when we got in and just went at the pizzeria at the Baytowne Village.  We got up bright and early the next morning and ran a few errands and then went straight to the beach.  We had dinner at Finz that night and ate on the deck looking out over the beach. 

The next morning Gill explained to me how he strategically placed his dirty clothes on top of his suitcase so he could tell if the maid pilfered through his things.  Doesn't look obvious at all...

Our beach had waitresses, so we got to have some yummy sushi and drinks for lunch while never leaving our chairs.

We had a couple of people tell us to try The Back Porch in Destin, so we decided to go there and try it.

We kept seeing this cat walking around outside while we were waiting to be seated and then I noticed he had a little home in the flower beds in front of the restaurant!

We had a great view while we ate and got to watch it rain off the coast.

I think my favorite night at the beach was the night we spent walking around at Baytowne Village.  We wasted money on things like this:

We had a great dinner at Italian restaurant that was half blues club and then we went to Rum Runners and listened to a great singer and then dueling pianos.

We had to wake up early to catch our flight the next morning to leave (we had to get up aboout 5:30, but of course, I was up at 4:30) and it was pouring down rain and cold.  It helped our feelings that we were having to leave!