Jon and Lauren Are Gettin' Hitched!

Our friends are getting married!!! Eeeeek!!! I am over-the-moon excited for them!

They're gettin' married!!!

 Miguel and I really wanted to celebrate with them so we threw a little cookout at our house! It was thrown together pretty quickly so we just invited everyone with a Facebook invitation, but I created this in Photoshop to use as the picture in the event page. I was, of course, inspired off of something I saw on pinterest!

I love being crafty, so I made a banner using the cricut my parents gave me for my birthday! It was so much fun learning how to use that! Holy cow! I cannot wait to do so many more things with it! 

grrr, I didn't notice that the H and E in SHE were flipped over when I took this picture...

I also got Jon and Lauren's families involved by asking them to send me photos of the lovebirds from over the course of their relationship and from when they were little and . They really delivered and I had tons of fun looking through all the photos! If only I had had more time to do more with them! I had an open frame at the house (I was planning on making a jeweler y holder out of it, a la the one Mrs. Mills did) that I took and glued some twine to. Then I printed out some of my favorite photos of the future Mr. and Mrs. and clipped them to the twine using tiny clothespins. Two of my favorite pictures are of Lauren and Jon as children dressed in a wedding gown and tux! How perfect?! 

I couldn't stand not to use more of the pictures, so I created a slide show and had it playing on a loop on our TV during the party! I really got a kick out of surprising Jon and Lauren with this! I think they were genuinely tickled and surprised by it. Plus everyone else at the party enjoyed seeing a glimpse of Jon and Lauren from a time before we knew them! I had other songs playing on the slide show so there was never a lapse without music, but for some reason when converted to the YouTube video it only picked up one... but if you want to see the cuteness check it out below:

I was pretty worried all week that the party was going to get rained on since we were still dealing with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Beryl, however, the rain storm seemed to part around our house like the Red Sea. People got to our house and said they had actually driven through bad weather on their way there. We only briefly got sprinkled and that even wasn't bad enough for people to go inside!

I was actually pretty good about enjoying the night and didn't focus on taking an overwhelming amount of photos. But I did snap a few.

I love this moment captured here!

I got a top hat for Jon to wear and made a veil for Lauren... but at some point in the night I borrowed Jon's hat =)

Love this girl!

The dogs had fun too!

We had a good time celebrating with friends! I'm so thankful that Jon and Lauren chose to start their lives together here in Savannah and that we have had the pleasure of getting to know them over the past year and a half! I'm excited to see what the future holds for these two! =)

Plus, isn't Lauren going to make a beautiful bride?!

Puppy Crutches?

Emma and I have spent the morning at the vet. Unlike Jack who thinks the vet is a great opportunity to make new friends and investigate all sorts of interesting smells, Emma chooses to have panic attacks. So basically I spent the last hour on the floor of the vet trying to comfort a very upset dog while at the same time gallons of dog saliva and pounds of tiny black dog hairs collected all over my clothes.

Yesterday Jack and Emma were rough housing and Emma ended up hurting her leg. For the past 24 hours she hasn't put any weight on it and has been hobbling around like a three-legged dog. Actually, Emma is pretty impressive and agile with only three legs, but I'd still prefer her to have four working legs!

Emma protested to the vet in every way. She whined and whimpered so much that it brought tears to my eyes and gave the vet a very hard time trying to determine where exactly it hurt on her leg. We ended up having an X-ray taken of her leg and paw. Thankfully there are no breaks. The vet has Emma on some anti-inflamatories for the week to help the swelling and pain go down. He also told Emma to "take it easy". If anyone knows a good way to explain this to Jack I'd be eternally grateful... =)

I've put a blanket down on the couch and let Emma get up there to rest. It seems to be the only solution I've come up with so far to separate the dogs. In theory they know they're not allowed on the couch so Jack should leave Emma alone up there...

... unless you go to grab something from the other room and come back to this...

Bad Beryl

Tropical Storm Beryl visited us in Savannah today. Holiday weekends + tropical storms shouldn't mix together...

Thankfully, Beryl was a good tropical storm  and didn't mess up our weekend with friends though! 

We've had really lovely weather - though it's a bit more windy than normal =) Smiles for living at the beach!