Show Us Your Life - Wedding Flowers and Wedding Party

Kelly's Korner...a blog that I read everyday and LOVE does a different "show us your life" each Friday. I've been meaning to participate but Fridays always sneak up on me and I forget! But I finally remembered! Also, my best friend got married this past weekend and it made me want to get married all over again...to Jason of course! :)
This week is show your flowers and your wedding party, and because I forgot last week I'm going to show my wedding dress as well!

We got married June 9, 2007 at Lake Lure, NC. Lake Lure is very special to us and we always knew that is where we would get married. It was a beautiful and HOT day! I don't even know how everybody doesn't look like they are melting in our pictures because it was scorching.

Our colors were pink and brown, and the majority of the flowers were pink. At the reception I did use some cream colored hydrangea but other than that I used pink roses, carnations, stargazer lilies, and I think that's it! Well actually now that I'm looking there are some other sort of pink flowers but I have no clue what they are. :)

My beautiful bridal party!

A close up of some of the flowers on my cake.

My wedding dress was by Maggie Sottero and I absolutley loved it! I got it at Poffie Girls in Gastonia and it was one of probably a hundred dresses I tried on. HA! It is a gold color and the lace was ivory. I never thought I would get non-white dress...I actually told the sales lady who was helping me that I didn't want to take the time to try it on, but she convinced me that it would look completely different when I put it on and she didn't lie! I'm glad she was stubborn. :)

I loved the back of it!
Right after we were married. :)
And...just one of my favorite pictures! :)

I hope you enjoy!

Houston We Have A............

TOOTH! I can't believe it! Caden finally has his first tooth. I actually had no idea he was "teething". I mean he has been drooling, putting anything he gets his hands on in his mouth, etc. since he was around 2 or 3 months old. So there haven't been any other signs that he was actually getting a tooth...no fussing, no sleepless nights, no inflamed gums, no fever, nothing out of the ordinary.

Anyway yesterday I was nursing him and he "gummed" down and I thought it hurt a little more than normal but still didn't think anything about it. A little later in the day we were sitting in the glider in his nursery and I saw something white in his mouth and felt and sure enough there was a jagged little tooth!

I was very excited and couldn't believe it broke through without any major drama! Of course I'm not anticipating that all of his teeth will come in this easily but a girl can dream right? :) I will try to get a picture of it soon, but Caden's not too keen on letting me look in his mouth so we'll see!

4th of July Weekend

We had a great 4th of July weekend. I just love the 4th...I would have to say it is one of my favorite holidays, next to Christmas and Thanksgiving....and Easter. What am I saying? I love any and all holidays, but nothing says Summer like the 4th. We started off with going to the pool on Thursday. Caden loves it! He is such a people watcher (like his mom and dad), I'm surprised he doesn't get whiplash because he jerks his head from one side to another looking at all the kids. He also had some cantelope for the first time in his mesh feeder. He loved it!

Look Mom, no hands! He's already so talented!

On Friday Jason and I went and played golf. I haven't played in like two years and before that I probably played like 5 times. Needless to say I'm almost a professional! HA! Anyways I love to play and it is something fun for Jason and I to do together. I actually made Par on the very first hole! I went downhill from there but we still had a great time!

An action shot of Tiger.....uhhhh or Jason.

Then we went to Babies R Us to get Caden a new carseat. He has outgrown his infant seat (which was supposed to last until he was a year old) because he is so long. I can't believe he is so big already. :(

I also took a picture of Jason and Caden and his Father's Day gift. A little late is better than never. Right?

On the 4th we went up to Blowing Rock for the day. Caden loved it! Here he is swinging for the first time!

Caden and Daddy went sliding for the first time too. They didn't have very far to slide with Jason's long legs! ha

He wanted to climb the "rock" wall but they said he was too little. :)

He loves to touch the trees, the grass, plants, anything really.

His absolute favorite thing is to ride on Jason's shoulders! He can be crying and fussing and if Jason puts him up there he starts grinning and laughing immediately.

He loves to hang out in his stroller and look and smile at people.

After we went to Blowing Rock we went to Quint and Melissa's for a cook out!

Melissa and Caden!

May and June Pictures

So since it has been so long since I blogged and therefore haven't posted any pictures I thought I would just put the link to my facebook albums from May and June. If you don't use Blogger then you can't even imagine how long it takes to upload pictures and you can only do like 5 at a time. So here are the links to the pictures!

May - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2309632&id=11800481&l=ad6fe4f498

June - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2310122&id=11800481&l=691d434d55

Also, if you do use blogger I need some tips on uploading videos. I've tried and tried but it will never upload. I don't know if the format is not right or what? Anyway if you have any ideas leave me a comment! Also, a 7 month post is coming soon, hopefully before Caden turns 8 months old :). We are leaving for Seabrook Island tomorrow so we will be gone for the weekend. Hope everybody is having a good summer!

Who's Bad?

That would be me and my blogging (and a little shout out to MJ). I can't believe it has been almost 2 months since I last blogged. Ugh....honestly I've looked at it several times and it has been so long that I feel overwhelmed with everything that I've missed blogging about so I just don't do it. Basically I keep digging a hole that gets deeper and deeper. Anyway, I digress.

Since I last blogged we have been insanely busy, with just about every single weekend being taken up. It has been busy and oh so fun! I believe a bulleted list is in order to highlight the things have happened and things that we have done.

• Jason went to Oregon for a week. Caden and I survived! (even though he was sick with croup)


• Caden turned 5 months old.


• I had my first Mother's Day, and got the sweetest cards and a new digital camera to keep in my bag.


• Went to Pamela's bridal shower in Pinehurst and Jason got to play golf at Pinehurst.


• Caden started eating solids.


• Caden has his first boat ride on Lake Norman and we got rained on. :)


• We went to Lake Lure with Jason's family.


• David and Claire had their little girl, Katelyn and we went to visit them in Charlotte and met up with Ashley on the way. :)


• Caden turned 6 months old. :) He weighed 20 lbs and 7 ozs (91%) and was 28.5 in (98%) He's on the small side, but we we're working on getting him healthy.


• Jason and his friends went to Lake Lure for Jay's bachelor party.


• Jason and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary.


• Went to my cousin Maribeth's wedding.


• We went to Hilton Head with my family for a week.


• Jason had his first Father's Day. He got a "picture project" from me and Caden...picture of the picture coming soon. Got it?


• I went to Raleigh for Paemla's bachelorette party, and left Caden for the first time overnight. Jason and Caden survived! :)

Ok, so that is quick and dirty recap of what we've been up to and I'm sure that I have missed some things but you get the idea! I will do a current post tomorrow...since my baby turned 7 months old today! Craziness!