'We thought you was a toad!'

This is our new porch toad.  He has been living on our patio for the last week.  The dogs get right up in his face and he doesn't even flinch.  He is pretty badass.

Bodie Huck Smith

My cousin Ellary (and future bridesmaid) and her new baby, Bodie, came to visit us last week. Isn't he the cutest?! He is such a good baby, too. Ellary is such a good mommy. Thanks for coming to visit, Ellie! Ellie's man, Blaine, joined her toward the end of her trip and it was nice to finally meet him. You can tell that he just adores Ellie and Bodie--and vice versa. I'm mad that I didn't get any pictures of him.

Bodie LOVED Grover and Waffles--and they loved him, too!

Bodie just squealed like crazy when he was playing with Grover.  It was adorable.

Grover had finally had enough of getting his beard pulled on and was ready to get down.

Now it is Waff's turn!

Bode and cousin Thad, fresh from his night of falling asleep on the highway and rear-ending a semi!!  I can't believe he made it out of that wreck without a scratch on him!  His car is another story, though.  I love the look on Thad's face in this picture.  Bodie is wearing on of the onesies that Aunt Sheba made him--it's got a band aid on it to cover his 'owie'.  He acutally looks like he has a grandpa belly in this picture.

I LOVE this picture.  He is so adorable.  And his hat is awesome!

I think he was probably farting in this picture.  He did that a lot.

We had so much fun with them.  I can't wait until they come back for another visit!!!

OMG!

I have to get one of these for Waffles and Grover!  We heart Airstreams.

My two furry boys.

Aren't they just adorable??!!

I miss you Papa.

Wedding Planning

I have been wedding obsessed here lately and have made a lot of progress as far as the wedding is concerned.  The details as of today...

Date: April 28, 2012

Ceremony and Reception Site:  Samuel Cedars in Rogersville

Wedding Photographer:  D. Coleman Photography http://www.dcolemanphotography.com/

Cake:  My very lovely and talented Aunt Sheila (I love you Sheba--thanks for everything!!!)

Colors:  Purple, gray and green

Wedding Dress: Vera Wang

Wedding Party:
Jessica Farrow--Maid of Honor
Autumn Clark--Matron of Honor
Ellary Huckaba--Bridesmaid
Kristy Bright--Bridesmaid

Noah Clark--Ring Bearer
Brooklyn and Mylie Bright--Flower Girls

Jeffrey Johnson--Best Man
Richie Gray--Groomsman
???--Groomsman
???--Groomsman

Bubbles Dunn--Usher
Thaddeus Dunn--Usher

My wonderful mom--walking me down the aisle

Wedding Hair Stylist (for me, Jessica and Autumn): Heather Heinrichs-Yazell at Mojo Pie

Bridesmaid Dresses:  Most likely Vera Wang--trying on dresses 6-26-11

Florist:  Town and Country (Thank you so much to Will's Aunt Karen!!!)

Invitation Printing:  Copy Biz (Thank you so much Debbie and Brad Branson!!!)

Reception Food:  Ott's Pasta--keeping it local and YUMMY!!

Reception Drinks:  Punch, a keg of rootbeer, water, 2 kegs of beer and lots of wine!!

That's about all I can think of so far.  I'm so excited that we are finally down to less than a year--324 days to be exact!!  I can't wait to marry my best friend!  I love you, Will!

The Know Nothings

A couple of weeks ago, ANPAC, the company that my mom works for, had their annual trivia night to raise money for The United Way.  They usually have themes and this year's theme was the 80's.  Jessica and I were sooooo excited!  We heart the 80's!  By the time we got there though, mom had already chosen our team name...the Know Nothings.  Seriously??  Not the Max Headroms.  Not the Go Gos.  Not the Material Girls.  Not anything that has to do with the 80's at all!!  Since we don't ever decorate our table, the least she could have done is come up with some sort of 80's themed team name!  Geez!  Oh well.  We still had a great time--even though we sucked horribly.  We usually win the trivia contests--or at least come in somewhere in the top 3--but not this year.  While we didn't come in last, we were somewhere in the middle and that is not good--especially because Jessica and I claim to be aficionados when it comes to that decade. 

One of the categories had to do with 80's music.  We were in heaven!!  They would play part of a song and then you had to fill in the next few words.  Everyone was laughing at us because we knew (almost) all of the songs and would sing loudly to all of them.  It brought me back to a simpler time when the cool thing to do at our house was to grab a hairbrush and jump on the stage (my bed) and  rock out to some 'Talk Dirty to Me' until we couldn't rock any more.  Ahhh...those were the days.

Our team consisted of the usual...mom, grandma, Sheba, Jessica, Pat, Carla and her daughter, and me and Will.  I had a great time hanging out with everyone. 

Almost forgot about Bubbles!  His only contribution of the night was totally WRONG!!  The question was 'Name the original 3 Taco Bell sauces'.  I immediately turned to mom (who was writing down the answers) and told her the answer...mild, hot and fire.  Well, Bubbles chimes in and argues with me that the answer is mild, MEDIUM and fire.  I know he eats a lot of Taco Bell but, come on.  Mild and medium are the same flippin' thing!  But he kept insisting that he was right so we used his answer.  Bad move.  He was wrong and I was right.

Will in his sexy new glasses.

Jessie, grandma and me.  Grandma also made a funny.  The very first category was about cereal and the first question was 'Which athlete has been on the Wheaties box the most?'.  We all agreed that it was Michael Jordan.  After the round was over and we all turned in our answer sheets, Kyle Bosch (the emcee), read the first question and right before he was about to give us the answer (and the room was VERY quiet at the time), grandma yells out Michael JACKSON!!!  The whole room errupted into laughter!  It was hilarious!

Mom!

Maybe next time we can start our winning streak again.