Our favorite easter treats

My mom sent me this picture today of my favorite Easter treat so I could start getting excited for Easter at her house tomorrow:

Yum!! They are made from rice crispie treats - and she has a pan that's shaped like those little bunnies.  A few dabs of frosting and some eyes, and you're ready to go!

They are delicious and cute and fun! Thanks Mom.... can't wait to eat one tomorrow!!

So much happy!!

I'm interrupting the wedding recaps because I really really want to wait until we get our wedding pictures back from the photographer so you can see the best ones!

I am feeling overwhelmed this week by how amazing our lives are right now. Every once in a while I catch a glimpse of my hand with that extra ring on it and can't believe we're really married! It's so weirdly awesome to have a husband!

Our absolute best wedding present was Zac being offered a new job the day before the wedding! He started there on Monday, and so far, it's been great. He's much happier in his new role, and, for the first time in our entire relationship, he isn't working any evenings or weekends. IN-CRED-I-BLE!!! It is so wonderful to have him home every night and to eat dinner together before 9:30 PM. Once we figure out what the heck we should do on the first Saturday we'll ever together where no one works and we have nothing planned, I think that will probably be awesome, too!

AND... all over the place, there are babies! Not at my house (seriously guys - way too soon!) but one of my best real life friends is pregnant! She's my first so-close-that-you-get-to-see-the-baby-at-the-hospital kind of friend, and I'm so excited for her. One of my favorite blog friends, Biz, just announced that she's having a baby. Zac's cousin is having the first girl their family has seen in 57 years, and my cousins (who are sisters), are both pregnant - one with twins!

You know what that means, right? This girl gets to spend more time with her super cute husband, dreaming up sewing projects for all of these wonderful new babies. I can't wait to get started.

You know what feeling where you're just so happy, you can't stop smiling? And you wish you could bottle it up and feel that way forever? Yeah - I'm there!

FYI - it looks like this:

Side note: sorry that pretty much every sentence in this post ends in an explanation point. I can't help it!! =)

The best part of rehearsing - dinner!!

You might remember the slight drama we had with our rehearsal dinner a few weeks before the wedding. Thankfully, everything worked out perfectly and we ended up with an event that I think was even better than the original would have been.

We went downtown to a restaurant in Fountain Square called Via Vite. It's one of our favorites - swanky, modern, Italian. I love all of those adjectives!

Zac's mom put on a killer party. The food was delicious, the decorations were beautiful, and everyone had a blast!

Loved the table decorations!

Another shot - by candlelight!

Centerpieces - what a cool way to integrate tulips.

Monogram cookies!!

Action shot

Action shot, part II

The happy almost-married couple

My grade school friend Ali.

Some of our very best guys!

We had SO much fun at the dinner. We ate and drank, ate and drank some more, and enjoyed the opportunity to spend a quiet(er) dinner with some of our closest family and friends. We headed back to the hotel, where we got to hug all of our out of town family who had arrived in the meantime.

I turned in pretty early for some beauty sleep, though I'm pretty sure I only slept for about 5 minutes all night! Too excited for what comes next.........

Rehearsing

Our wedding weekend officially kicked off with our rehearsal, followed by a great dinner. Traffic was terrible for some reason, and almost everyone (including me) was about 45 minutes late to the church. Oops!

First, we went through the ceremony nice and slow. Nancy, our pastor, was absolutely amazing. Her calming energy was contagious. We also had some lovely ladies from the church who helped make sure that everything went smoothly. They were a little old-fashioned, but I'm not sure what we would have done without them!

And a fun close-up of my shoes:

We ran through the ceremony a second time, but this time, on fast forward. I, at least, felt way more comfortable knowing exactly how things would go the next day.

Next stop... dinner!!

I'm BACK!!!!

Hi everyone! We're home from the most amazing wedding and fantastic honeymoon!!! Slowly adjusting into our new real life - but so far, so good!

The wedding was absolutely wonderful. I never imagined that it could be so much fun, hold so much meaning and leave us with so many memories.

I'm planning a lot of wedding recaps for you, but here's one picture to hold you over in the meantime, while I pick up our lost luggage at the airport, do hundreds of loads of laundry and try to hit the grocery store so our first married meal at home isn't spaghetti noodles with butter!

Hope you like it...

We're getting married this weekend!!!!

I don't know what happened, but it feels like we turned a corner and it's a week full of Christmas Eve!! I woke up this morning feeling SO excited for the wedding this weekend!!

We have almost everything finished (those stinking vows are way harder to write then I thought they would be!) and are getting excited for family to start arriving on Wednesday. I have a few loose ends to tie up at work and then I'm out the door!

Thank you for all of your love and support during this process. Thank you for all of your well wishes, and your patience with me as I blog only about wedding stuff and not about sewing or crafting or house projects!

Next time you hear from me, I'll be married!!! Here's hoping married life brings more time for hobbies than being engaged did - see you in a few weeks!

We're trashing the dress!

Have you ever heard of a Trash the Dress photo session? Basically, you put your wedding dress back on the day after your wedding (yay for wearing it twice!!) and head out with a photographer to take pictures you could never take the day of your wedding.  Like this:

So far we're thinking about eating ice cream cones, shopping at the farmer's market and end up playing in a fountain. 

Have you ever done a trash the dress session? Any suggestions for things we could do??

The day our rehearsal dinner floated away

I think enough time has passed that this story can be funny. I think.

We booked our rehearsal dinner last summer. Zac and his mom chose The Waterfront, which is a swanky Jeff Ruby restaurant just over the river in Covington, Kentucky.  It is built on a floating barge, and is literally directly on the waterfront. It is known in the city for great steaks, a wonderful atmosphere, and incredible city views. Like this one:

A few weeks ago, Zac was in Atlanta for his bachelor party. I was trying to be studious and get ahead on school work, enjoying a marathon session of "Say Yes to the Dress." Around 11 PM, I flipped on the local news before heading to bed. And I saw this:

Yeah, that's the restaurant. Floated down the river. Stuck under a bridge.  You can watch a video of it here.

Long story short, no one was hurt, but they had to evacuate all of the diners and use tug  boats to push it back into place.  Oh - and it's not reopening anytime soon. Oh - and our rehearsal dinner was THREE WEEKS AWAY!!!!


Thankfully, it's funny now because we have secured a wonderful new rehearsal dinner location that we like even more. While all's well that ends well, it definitely gave us a bit of a fright in the short-term!

Hopefully that's the biggest mishap we face between now and the wedding! We got our marriage license today (almost) without a hitch - we're almost ready!!

We're getting married in 8 days!!!!!!!!!

Wedding Update!

We're officially 11 days away from the wedding, and I cannot wait!! We are almost ready... the seating chart is done, escort cards are started, programs and menus just need to be printed, pick the dress up on Saturday. We need to get a marriage license, and write our vows, and I think that's about it!!

This has been a crazy seven months. At times it still doesn't seem like the wedding will ever get here. I'm looking forward to that weekend so much! I'm also so excited about the honeymoon, and so excited to just come home and be married. We have so many wonderful wedding gifts to put to use, so when we get home, we're having parties!

I don't think I'll be too sad to have this behind us. Planning a big wedding is stressful, and I'm looking forward to just enjoying our life together, working on our house projects, and having things calm down a bit.

Any last minute advice for us as we prepare to walk down the aisle??

C-A-T-S and a House Anniversary!

Last night, Kentucky pulled out an amazing victory over #1 Ohio State. It was a late night at our house, but it was amazing!!

And... one year ago today, we moved into our house!! It seems like we've lived here so much longer than that. But... we also didn't quite get to all of our home improvement plans this year (shocking, I know), so I guess it really hasn't been that long!

We have our final wedding shower tonight - can't wait!! Hope you have a great weekend!