Heather's Wedding

On Saturday, Wayne & I attended my good friend, Heather's wedding at Stables on the Hill. It was gorgeous (although extremely HOT!) and the bride could not have looked more beautiful! We had a good time hanging out with my friends, Amber & Robert and Amanda & Nathan and it was a nice break for us~probably the last for a while with the baby due in 27 days!


I told you...she's Gorgeous!


Amber, Me, & Amanda


I love this one~she looks so happy!
The Girls! Love that we got this shot of the 4 of us!
Wayne with one of the horses. It was a beautiful location!

God was watching over this little girl...

Did anyone catch this story on the news tonight? Amanda in the video is my Sister-In-Law. She just moved into the house that the girl went to and was thankfully able to help her. It's too bad about her dad & sister. I was so saddened when I heard about this, but thankful to God that Wayne's sister & family were there so close to be able to help her. Please pray for the Harp family.

Sunday Funday

I'm so glad that Sunday was so much fun. It almost made up for Saturday sucking so much. [but not quite]
I started the day off by going to church early to see Cameron in the children's program. He had a solo singing part & was very good, I must say. After that we munched (too many) cookies and waited for "big" church to start. It was a special day~the Choir's Christmas Cantata! I love it every year-it's so moving! My sister, Angela sings in the choir & they had worked so hard putting it together.


These pics are TERRIBLY blurry due to my camera's suckiness.

Cameron is between the 2 guy's heads, to the left...

The cast of the children's program & adults who organized it (Angela is in red on the right, Cameron is front row)

Our awesome choir


After church, I ran home to eat lunch & spend some time with my favorite little man while Wayne got my car working!
Oh yeah-for those who don't know--my stinkin car would not start last week! Luckily, I was able to borrow my parent's car to drive while Wayne worked on it.



So anyway...Wayne got my car working just in time for me to drive it to Fayetteville to meet up with my best girly girls for a Christmas get-together. It was just my close friends Heather, Amber, Amanda & myself. We each brought food--and lots of it-& it was yummy. Then we went to a movie & saw some crazy one we hadn't heard of but sounded Christmasy called "Nothing Like the Holidays" [I think] Anyway, it had Debra Messing, Jon Leguizamo & lots of Puerto Ricans. It was funny & sad at some parts. There weren't many people in the theater at all & we were definitely the only white chicks. Hey-we had to represent our girl Debra. :)


Amber's gorgeous tree!


After the movie, we returned to Amber's for more food & a gift exchange. We drew names & Amanda received the gift I had brought. It was a foot spa. I have one & love it (although I need to use it more often.) I got the gift Heather brought & I love it. It was a bottle of Bath & Body Works lotion, a Ghiradelli dark chocolate bar (a BIG one) some cute painted blocks that spell "Friends" and the best part~a bottle of her fave Spumanti wine. Can't wait to break into that baby.
Heather, Amanda, & Amber


Amber opening a movie gift basket from Amanda

Wine-O

Amanda & the foot spa


I finally made it home around 9:00 to find Mason was still up~ waiting to see me. I was so glad because I really missed him all day! Thankfully he had a late nap, so he wasn't grouchy waiting up. What a fun, busy day!

Good Ole Redneck BBQ

Smoked ribs, half chickens & brisket + classic country + horseshoes & cornhole + kids running around getting dirty + tents + a keg + American flags = Good Ole Redneck BBQ!!!
And it wasn't even the 4th of July! I'm a little behind on blogging, so I'm getting caught up on the last few weekends. We went to Wayne's parent's for a huge BBQ for my Mother-in-Law's birthday. It was originally meant to be a family thing, but my FIl got a little carried away inviting friends. There were like 50 people there, 40 if which we did not know. Neverthless, it was a good time!!

Mason & cousin Lexi

Mason with the vacuum (his current obsession)

Rustic (and very rusted) old Jeep

Wayne with his sister Amanda & the kids

Holding hands with Lexi again

Haley eating a rib!

The cousins discovered a dog

Mason inside the front tractor tire...

and inside the back tractor tire...

and with Wayne

Thanksgiving Number 2

Saturday we had Thanksgiving with Wayne's family. It was the first year that our families had thier get-togethers on different days, so it was really nice to be able to enjoy ourselves and not be rushed or really over-stuffed.
Mason had such a good time playing with his cousins and was very well-behaved, unlike these pictures show! I got to looking at them and it looks like he's being naughty!

"Mine!" (he doesn't say that yet, but I know he was thinking it!)...with Haley


playing with a baby doll


Leading Lexi around as if she Was a baby doll...


Wayne's sister, Amanda with Haley


Wayne's Mom (caught her off guard-oops) sister, and bro-in-law