Alyssa & Jason Chambers

Yesterday I had the absolute privilege of being the Matron of Honor in one of my best friends weddings. She is one of the sweetest, smartest and most caring people I know so that is why it was such an honor for her to want me to be up there next to her as she said "I do" to her forever.

We started the morning off by arriving at the venue, Butler's Courtyard, in League City and hanging out in the cottage with each other as we got hair and make up done.

I was the first one up with hair :)

Then it was time for the lovely Taylor from Sunkissed and Made Up to work her magic with my make up

And then it was time for every to start getting dressed for the big ceremony!

And then you always need a great group picture!

The lovely bride and bridesmaids :)

Then the big moment was upon us and it was time to watch Alyssa and Jason become Mr. and Mrs. Chambers!!

First Kiss!!!

For the first time Mr. and Mrs. Jason Chambers!!

and then it was time to party!!

Me and the lovely bride

The husband and I are the reception

The Brides Cake

The Grooms Cake

and last but not least posing for some of their "goodbye" photos :)

It was one of the most beautiful weddings I've ever been in or seen and I cannot wait for Mr. and Mrs. Chambers to come back from their honeymoon and tell me all about it!

What did you all do this weekend?

Until the next time!

Throwin' it Back on a Thursday

So basically every Thursday I see everyone posting their #tbt pictures and occasionally (if I can find a decent picture) I go ahead and jump on the band wagon and do one of my own so today since I had a few free minutes I decided I would just post some of my favorite throw back Thursday pictures :) 



Senior Pictures circa 2006



Senior Trip to Disney World



Our First Picture together <3

Our first Christmas tree in Our New House

Me and my Love Jennie

Always a good time at the Hideout with Shara

The first time I get to meet my nephew Peyton

Engagement Picture Day!!

My favorite picture from our Engagments

One of the best and funniest games I've ever played in my life!

My Favorite Bridal Picture

Brandon, Grammer and Myself at our Wedding Reception

and last but not least...

All of our amazing friends and family that stood up next to us on the day of our Wedding

Now I know that was a whole lot of throw back but those are some of my favorites :)

I guess this means I'm off the hook for the next few weeks!

Do you have a favorite throwback photo?

XOXO



Alyssa's Last Single Weekend!!

This weekend I had the honor of helping throw a bachelorette party for one of my very best friends Alyssa. Now knowing that Alyssa isn't really into the super girly and raunchy traditions of it all we kept things pretty low key, however, being the friend that I am I felt I should take it upon myself and at least try to embarrass her as much as possible.

I started my prep on Saturday morning with a little truck art since I knew I would be driving the ladies around to our destinations.

Once the car was all decorated and loaded up I headed over to the bride-to-be's house and waited for the rest of the ladies to show up. While we waited we got to play with my cute nephews Junior and Fletcher :) and even squeezed in a few pictures with the lady of the evening!

Me and the lovely bride-to-be!

Once the ladies were all accounted for we loaded up in the party truck an headed down to Webster for some yummy Mexican food at Chuy's per the brides request for some creamy jalapeno dip!

Then it was time to get the party started with a few of their "Perfect" margaritas!

After dinner and a lot of convincing to try to get Alyssa to get to Renos and sing the night away we headed back to her house to have an old fashioned girls night. We played apples to apples and even turned it into a drinking game with one rule- Alyssa had to drink out of the biggest penis straw I've ever seen! (Special Thanks to Brittany for that!!) Now most brides wouldn't be hesitant to go ahead and hit up the penis straw but Alyssa isn't really into all that hype you can certainly tell from these pictures we snapped of her!

But FINALLY she gave in!!

After our game of Apples to Apples and random story tellings we decided to wrap up the night with a movie classic- Mean Girls :) Not everyone made it through the entire movie- ok well no one but Hannah made it through the movie- all of the old ladies called it a night pretty quickly.

The next morning we wrapped up the weekend with a girls breakfast at IHOP- Now the countdown begins for the big day!!

XOXO

Commit for Life

Today my hospital partnered with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center and had a blood drive for the employees to participate in. Being a universal donor myself I always feel like I have a responsibly to donate every time I am able.

Today was especially interesting because I got to not only donate but donate my red blood cells instead of doing whole blood like I normally do. First I got hooked up to a very fancy smancy machine...

then it got busy taking my blood

BUT the cool part of donating this way is that I recirculated my platelets back into my body with a saline solution mixed in so when I was done I didn't feel queasy or anything- as if any of you have donated blood before you have to know how bad/awful that can feel.

All in all it was a pretty great day especially knowing that being able to donate can save someones life is a pretty amazing feeling so I encourage you all to donate any time you can!

Have any of you done anything extraordinary lately?

Easter Festivities

This weekend Brandon and I had the lucky experience to go camping with some of our best friends for Easter weekend. Brandon packed up and headed out on Thursday and I followed along on Friday afternoon. All of the boys had the campsites all set up so it was smooth sailing once I got there.

We even got to see Kristin cleaning her first fish!!

After an evening of competitive corn hole and some washers we all gathered around Joe's awesome campfire for a little "Never have I ever" and story telling

Then on Saturday morning we were all up bright and early (and cold BRRRRR) to go try our hand at fishing.

But since it was too windy to head out on the boat we all made our way down to our little sliver of beach and tried out hands at fishing on the shore



My sweet honey fishing



Even Harley got to try her hand at catching a fishy or two

Then Oliver's grandparents got to the camp site and Grandma tried to catch a fish or two herself

Kristin's Big Catch of the Morning

We then grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed to the other side of the campgrounds to see if we could find some more delish fishies for our fish fry but we only had one lucky fisherwoman this weekend...

and even Oliver got lucky!

We didn't end up with enough fish for a fish fry but we did end up with a private concert from Mr. Willingham!

All in all it was a wonderful weekend with great friends and family and we cannot wait to do it again!!

How was your Easter?

XOXO