Weekend Whereabouts!

Friday:

Shopping with K, new dress for $15, "last day of summer break" swim party at D's, hanging with my extended family, asleep by 10!

Saturday:

Up at 10, showered, dressed, packed and out the door by 11, in Athens by 12, doing updo's for 3.5 hrs.

I had about 2.5 hrs to waste and still needed to touch up my makeup and change clothes, so I meet up with M who was already at the venue with BIL/groomsman.

So we: sat in the car, did our makeup, I changed and fixed my hair. then we sat around the chapel and watched the bridal party take pictures and I was blowing up L's phone because he was running late and not answering. And then finally the wedding started.

It was a beautiful and amazing wedding. I don't know two people more meant for each other than Beau and Nikki. It was only the second wedding Hubby and I have gone to since our own so even though I was mad a L for being late it was still very surreal to sit there with my husband. And it was very nice not to have to get on the dance floor and pretend like I cared to catch the bouquet!

The reception was really nice as well. The food was delicious even if I did eat something that I thought was spinach artichoke dip but then turned out to be bacon blue cheese dip (barffff) and L went home early cause he wasn't feeling good.

 I didn't get home til after 12 and went straight to bed. It was a long and exhausting day but all in all it was wonderful.

The one picture I have of the happy couple taken back in Oct 2010

Sunday:

L still not feeling good, I went to church and lunch with K and my parents. Went back to parents to do K's hair, caught up with Mom, got back home at 4:30 and soon after drama unfolded (more on that later), dinner, L went to bed at 10 and I'm sitting here watching tv and blogging and getting excited about my first day back at work tomorrow.

This weekend was full of ups and downs. Filled with family, friends, and the joining of two lives forever and I'm so glad I was a part of it!

Hope Y'all had an equally great and blessed weekend!

LOVE

Love is in the air... Headed home from Athens and my amazingly beautiful friends' wedding! Congrats Beau and Nikki! Love Y'all :-)

(details to come tmrw)

What If...

I'm not usual one of those people who wonders "what if" but I find it fun to go down that road ever now and then.

I was in the car with my twin sister M a couple of months ago, she is in the process of buying her first house with her husband J. Just a little back ground my parents started my sisters and I in private school in Monroe when we were in the 6th grade. That was in 1996, ever since they decided to do that they were trying to sell our house in Snellville, it took on and off for over 5 years to do so, in the mean time we would drive around Walton Co pretty much every Sunday after church looking at houses, dad breaking into letting himself into vacant houses and getting lost on back roads.

Well there was this one house that M and I absolutely loved, I don't remember why my parents didn't buy it, I'm sure mom had a reason. but anyway back to the point. Megan and I were talking about what if we had bought that house, how would our lives be different. Well I know that I probably wouldn't have meet my husband and some really amazing friends. See this "dream" house was on the Conyers side if Monroe compared to the house my parents bought and currently live in which is kinda on the Winder/Loganville side. So when I started college and was living at home I went to Loganville to find a job instead of Conyers. I found a job at a local Italian restaurant waiting tables and there in the kitchen of that tiny family owned restaurant I met the love of my life.

I don't believe in love at first sight, I believe love takes a longer look (L says otherwise but that's his story and this is mine) but I had a feeling very early in L and I's relationship that he was going to be someone special.  I fully believe God puts people in your life for a reason, he makes things happen so your life will go as he has planned it and whether your listen to his callings or not that's up to you, but I'm so glad I did. I love my husband with every ounce of my being, without him and his love I wouldn't be the person I am today, and I know he feels the same.

Do you ever think about that movie Sliding Doors and think where your life would be if you had missed/caught a train or worked in a different restaurant/ city?