Here Comes The Bride

One of my best friends, Caroline, got married the weekend after Christmas.  Livi and I were so excited when she asked us both to be a part of her wedding day!  Caroline and I met our freshman year of college when we were paired as roommates.  It couldn't have been more perfect, we've been friends for more than 16 years!  While in school, we met Kathy, Jonna and Jenny and the 5 of us became insperable throughout school.  I love these girls!  Jonna and Jenny both have girls who are the same age as Alyvia.  All 3 girls were asked to be flower girls for the wedding.

Evie, Alyvia and Addison

We started celebrating Friday evening at the rehearsal and then dinner at Weaver Ridge, a local golf club.

Flower girls and their daddies

Jonna, me and Jen

I have so much in common with both of these girls and I love them so much.  It makes me sad that they live 2-3 hours away from us :(  Whenever we get together, no matter how long it has been, they are the kind of friends that you pick right up where you left off from.  I miss them just thinking about it.  Our girls are such good friends too and always get along so well when they see each other!

Alyvia and Addy (poor Evie didn't feel good Friday night and fell asleep)

Caroline got the girls gifts for being a part of the wedding and we were all surprised by how awesome the gifts were!

Each flower girl got a "Caroline" American Girl doll

We got up bright and early Saturday morning to get ready for the big wedding day!  I did Alyvia and Addy's hair at our house.

This girlie has a lot of hair!

Then we met up with the rest of the bridal party at Caroline's parents house

Me and Jonna

The flower girls coming downstairs for pictures

Sweet friends

Alyvia walked down the aisle with the 4th flower girl, little Ella.  She is the grooms niece and she just turned 2 recently.  She was trying so hard to be like the big girls :)  Livi did such a good job guiding Ella down the aisle and making sure she got to her grandparents at the end. 

It was the end of December and the temperature was in the upper 30's and sunny!  It couldn't have been better weather for the time of year.

Hubby, Me and our flower girl

 The wedding party rode on a trolley to the reception.  The poor girls almost fell asleep on the way there!

When we got to the reception site, the little girls were starving.  So Alan stopped at McDonalds and rescued them :)

Mmmmm, chicken nuggets!

The reception venue was a country club and it was decorated so cute.  They brought in couches for a lounge feel on either side of the dance floor, so fun!  And they had a band for the music and they were super fun.  It was such a fun weekend celebrating!

Me and the beautiful bride

Livi & Caroline

Flower girlies and the bride
Alyvia, Addy, Caroline & Evie

Bradley girls
Kathy, Katie, Caroline, Jenny, Jonna

Jen and I

The little girls loved the party!  They had so much fun dancing to the band!

I wish I had a picture of the bride and groom.  I guess when you have kids in the wedding, they take precedence!  We had so much fun celebrating their wedding day and we wish Caroline and her new husband Jim, the best for their future together <3

A Visit With My BU Girls

This past Saturday we drove up to Jonna and Shad's new house for a visit.  It's so fun to get together with these girls (and their families).  We have been friends for 15 years!!!  It seems like just yesterday that we were all at BU together having such a fun time :)  I love that we don't have to have an activity planned, we just hang out (drink a bit of wine) and catch up on our lives.  It's relaxed and fun and perfect.  It's even better that our kids are the same age and play together too!  We're already making plans for May and right now it's a "girls only" date-woo hoo!

Colson was into tackling anybody!

Go BU!

Tonight was our first Bradley basketball game of the 2011-2012 season!  We were so excited for the Bradley season to begin.  We have a new coach this year and we are hopeful that we're going to have a good year!

My guys-Cole was excited...at first anyhow!

Mmmm, dippin' dots-the best part of the game for the kids!

 The kids were both tired at the game.  Cole was starting to get sick too.  On a positive note, Bradley did win-unfortunately I didn't see much of the game.  It's definitely harder taking both kids to the game, especially since Cole is SO BUSY these days!  We're going to have to come up with a different plan for any other games if we take both kids...we'll see I guess!

Red & White Scrimmage

Tonight was Bradley basketball's spaghetti dinner and red vs.white scrimmage.  The kids and I went with my family since our daddy is still working in the field :(  We had lots of fun and the kids were really good!  We had a yummy dinner with Nana, Papa, Uncle Shane, Lindsey and Aunt Anne.  Uncle Shane had to go to work before the game and Un Cha came with us to the game. 

Go Bradley!!

The cutest BU cheerleader!

 The only bad part was at the end when I got stuck in the parking deck for 35 minutes with two tired kids :(  I have no idea what the hold up was, but we got out and home...finally.  We are super excited about the upcoming BU basketball season and about our new coach, Geno Ford!  Go BU, Go Go BU!