Meet one of my favorite people and blogger

Happy Thursday y'all!!  I wanted to introduce to you one of my most favorite people in my world and universe- my cousin Lauren.  I cant even begin to tell you how much I love her and scary connected we are. My husband says all the time "you sound like Lauren just then" or "Lauren resembled you when she did that"  and how we have many of the same mannerisms.  There is a large age distance between us with Me being the oldest of the two.  That doesn't matter at all when we are together! She is my soul sister and one of THOSE friends that really Get me.  There are times that don't need explaining with her that would be different with someone else.
 A few years ago, her husband Chris got a job opportunity in Texas and they moved close to Dallas. It was one of my most favorite moments ever! It really was only for a moment because soon after, the job wasn't a good fit and they moved to North Carolina once they left Texas.  I miss her everyday but we email, text, facebook and call every chance we get. Lauren is from Georgia and luckily, her job was able to get them back to Georgia this past year and things are going great for them.
Lauren was my first person I knew personally that had a blog and I had read it for years before I was finally inspired to start my own blog 3 years ago.  She has changed it around over the years as far as format and name of it just like we all have.  Lauren even has a partner blog that she shares with one of her best friends called Curvy Moi.  This blog is so fun and its for you guessed it- those of us who are more curvy and not skinny girls.
If you're looking for a good honest God Loving precious blogger visit her here: Hope for the Moment.  This is Lauren's personal blog and if any of my followers have suffered with infertility, unfortunately she can share that pain. She has a section on that topic on her blog. Oh and did I mention that she was my wedding photographer and for my engagement pictures?! She is so amazing and talented.
I don't know about you but many of the people I follow are because they are friends of friends, word of mouth, etc.  I love being on one my friends blogs and notice they follow many of the same ones I do.  So go meet my cousin/soul sister and tell her I sent you.

Have a wonderful day!

Wedding anniversary is almost here

Hey y'all, sorry I wasn't able to post yesterday.  I have a lot going on so its quite likely this will be the last post this week . Maybe. We'll see.  I cant believe its almost September in just a few days.  Something else is in just a few days and that's my one year wedding anniversary! Whoop Whoop!
Sunday is the actual day and we plan on celebrating it by eating dinner at the same nice restaurant he proposed to me at.  Have you ever been to a Three Forks?  Todd proposed first to me and then we ordered food.  I got so emotional that I had huge lump in my throat and then I had hot flash and was soooo crazy hot and sweaty (in December).  I totally lost my appetite and took  it home for leftovers.  My loving awesome fiancé at the time actually ate my leftover dinner for his lunch the next day and I was furious!!  I can honestly say that I have never eaten there - just had a glass of wine and got very emotional. haha!  I'm excited to have a "Do Over"  and enjoy it this time even more.  I had the scallops and they were ginormous.  I love good scallops!
This Saturday we have a baptism and a birthday party on same day for 2 different people. We will be really busy but i'm looking forward to seeing everyone. My stepsister Rachelle and my niece Paloma are flying in from California for the weekend and I love visiting with them every chance I get.
While thinking of our wedding anniversary, I have looked back at all the wedding pictures, engagement pictures and the day I picked out my wedding dress. So many wonderful memories while at the same time going through my Dad's transplant and his healing. 
I thought I would post a few pictures of some of the dresses that I tried on and were in the top running .

 

I think I tried on over 25 dresses total between the 3 places we had appointments at . What's funny is the one I chose was from the very first place we started.

 

Photos taken by the most awesome photographer ever: my cousin Lauren .

If I don't talk to yall sooner, have a wonderful and safe Labor Day weekend!!

 

Happy Independence Day!!

After a long exhausting week even though tomorrow is a holiday- I am so ready for it to be Friday!
Working through this merger, my team is not allowed to take any vacation days off at all the whole month of July. I will appreciate tomorrow a great deal!  We have a some dear friends who are having a party tomorrow night to celebrate one of them becoming a US citizen.  Mike (the husband of Caroline ) is originally from Canada and has completed all the courses, signed the forms, taken the oaths, etc and is an American as of just a few days ago. I think its great timing to celebrate his being a US of A citizen.   I hope we can see some fireworks from somewhere nearby.
I am super duper excited for a family party out at my uncles house in East Texas on Saturday.  My most awesomest ,lovely, bestie cousin Lauren is driving down from Georgia to see her new nephew ( my newest cousin) and the rest of the fam.  We are taking Jax too for his country adventure. I even bought him an Old Navy July 4th t-shirt for him to wear.  It will be nice to see Nanny again too since it's been 2 weeks.
Sunday we have some friends coming over for dinner after church so we have a pretty full weekend planned.  Please be careful out there and have tons of fun!
Remember the most important thing: we are free BECAUSE of the brave!

God Bless!