Mandy and Trevor Get Married

One of my best friends from my good 'ol high school days married her best friend on the 16th who also happens to be a part of my high school circle.

There were all kinds of preparations and parties to attend and I was in heaven getting to see old friends and celebrate with the bride to be.

First up was her "Panty Party" hosted by her sister.

It was a really cute concept. I must be getting old though, because I had never heard of such a thing! haha.

Anyway, with any good panty party comes a trip to Victoria's Secret, naturally.

Jake loved carrying around the pink bag.

(Shh. Don't tell Cameron.)

Another good friend of mine, Megan, got to come into town.

We had our traditional Mimi's breakfast and she helped Mandy craft together her birdhouse favors. (They were SO cute.)

Here she is with me and Jake.

Megan and I helped with food at the panty party.

She and Mandy made these adorable edible undies!

I attempted to make these panty cupcakes from a picture I saw online. :)

But, I did nail this apothecary candy jar concept. I was proud.

The planner and the bride.

Mandy also had a normal bridal shower, but I forgot to take a single picture!

That's okay, because I know what you really want to see.

US!!!

No?

Mandy? Her dress?

Oh. I thought so.

Isn't she gorgeous?

More of us... because it is our blog after all.

and Jakey too. :)

My precious little boy.

Yogurt and a Tie for Easter

Here is a random post of overdue pictures. We have been teaching Jake how to use a spoon. The biggest reason why being that he really wanted to try and would throw a fit any time we tried to help him. But, I am happy to say, he is doing very well!

And since I never finished my skirt for Easter, there were no Easter family pictures.

I did, however, manage to buy Cameron a new tie and make one for the little Jake

Here he is sporting my creation. :)

Four Egg Hunts and a Birthday

Easter was eventful this year. My goodness!

Please excuse the picture overload. This is after I pared WAY back.

First, we attended an Easter Egg Hunt one Saturday morning at church.

Egg Count: 1

This picture is so random, but I love that you can see Jake and his buddy Cody.

Same with this one.

Our next hunt was with some friends at a small community park.

Egg Count: 3

And now for Easter morning. Between conference sessions (see, not our whole day was consumed by consumerism) we did a little egg hunt with Jakey in our backyard waste land.

He really started to get the idea behind picking up an egg and putting it in the basket and then knowing that he got to keep the basket after all was said and done.

Egg Count: 14!

After searching for eggs for about 15 minutes, we came in to find the baskets that the Easter Bunny left for us.

Mom got a Dove Chocolate Bunny (Jake was using my basket in the egg hunt)

Dad got a chocolate bunny and some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

And Jakey was spoiled with coloring books, Tadoodle crayons, a police car book and a new Elmo movie.

He was really cute to watch disect the entire basket piece by piece.

We let him have a few bites of his first chocolate Easter bunny.

An artsy moment at the last hunt of the season.

Together with the cousins, we hunted for more Easter eggs.

Egg Count: maybe a dozen?

There were a lot of eggs to go around.

All the cousins.

Jake and Gabe just because it is cute.

To wrap up our Easter we celebrated my step-mom, Louise's, birthday with a giant cake.

It was a great day and we really enjoyed our relaxed day at home with regular naps, conference and some quality family time. Hope your Easter was great as well.