Officially Married...

Well the wedding and honeymoon are officially over and Chase and I are officially married.  Our wedding day was perfect...for us.  We loved every aspect and trust me we have dissected it alllll the way to Lake Tahoe and back and we could not find a part we weren't happy with.  There were so many people that helped make that happen from the rehearsal dinner to the wedding and we are so thankful for all of you!  There are definitely too many to name but a special thanks to my Mama, Daddy, and Scotty along with everyone else that did SO much.  We loved it and we will be talking about this forever!  Our honeymoon was just as great.  We spent the week in Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California and San Francisco.  It was amazing and we enjoyed every minute.  From the amazing food, to Alcatraz, to beautiful Lake Tahoe....it was a trip that we will never forget.  And instead of adding a link to 500+ pictures from the wedding, here is a video of the wedding and reception.  I'll add pictures from the honeymoon later.  Hope you enjoy because we sure did. 

http://youtu.be/iX0EVB4Y5_s

A Whole Host of Showers....

So yes I'm well aware that I've been slacking on the blogging during this wedding season.  Therefore, I'm going to do triple duty here about three showers I've had lately.  
The first shower was a couple's shower that my Sacred Heart friends/co-workers gave us.  Chase and I had so much fun just relaxing at Camp Lee eating good food, socializing, and the guys actually shot carp with bows and arrows (strange I know).  This was gift card shower and by the way it's definitely one of the best types of showers a bride and groom could possibly have.  This was my type of shower and the teachers I teach with know me so well; we had chocolate cupcakes and used my red vintage suitcase (that Chase said was a waste to buy....proven wrong....thank you very much dear). Anyway, we received tons of gift cards to anywhere from Target to Dicks to restaurants and we loved it.  I really want to thank Mrs. Pullen, Mrs. Coplin, and Mrs. Batey for putting this together for us.  I am so lucky to work at such a great school with wonderful people.  

The next event was the bachelorette weekend...sort of.  Me, Amber, Kristen, and Meggie went to dinner and Sipsnstrokes (which is one of my favorite things) and we had a great time. Of course, I had tons of wedding-ish things to do so it really turned into a wedding shopping weekend for jewelry, dresses, and such but Amber and I did manage to get a facial while shopping.  We both had never had a facial and it was nice....well Amber's was really nice...I had a psycho facial lady that pretty much ruined mine but it was an experience.  First time for everything I guess.  Anyway, I had a great time and got a ton of stuff accomplished.  Thanks sister for putting it all together and for not being ill that I completely passed out when we got to the hotel because by 11:00pm I'm completely exhausted on a school day and that the bachelorette weekend turned into Paige checking things off her to-do list because she's crazy.  I love you sister!  

The last shower I had was one with my WPA competitive cheerleaders.  We had an Around the House shower, which basically means every girl got a room in the house and they were to buy something for that room.  I thought it was a really cute idea and the girls loved it.  I got great gifts and had such a good time getting to see the girls in something other than practice clothes and they probably enjoyed it because I wasn't yelling at them.  My girls are from 6-11 years old so I decided so make them a little something for the shower. So, I used my new obsession Pinterest and made a cute little Halloween dessert I found.  And if you do not know Pinterest...you should. Check out these witch hat cookies...not only are they cute.. they are delicious.

We had a great time and the girls really seemed to love it. Here we all are...aren't they precious!! (By the way this is only half of them...it is Fall Break for some schools so they were out of town) 

And here is a picture of "Ask Miss Paige Anything Time".  They only had one question which was....When are you going to have a baby?  I explained that I deal with them on a daily basis so NEVER and they said they would love to babysit HER.  I told them they were too young to babysit AND what if the imaginary baby wasn't a 'her'?  They preceded to explain that if you add all of their ages they were plenty old enough to babysit and Lily explained that her Mama just prayed that she would be a girl and it worked so that's all I would have to do to ensure I had a little girl.  I finished the conversation by assuring them it would be awhile before babies.  

Thanks Donna for putting this together!!