Emily & David's Fairytale Wedding...

This past weekend, our good friends, Emily and David, got married!!! For once, I actually knew the couple! I also helped Emily a little with her wedding planning, so it was very exciting!!











The day before the wedding, she had a Tiara Tea Time bridal luncheon for her bridal party. I, as Mrs. T. Potts, served them tea, played Disney Princess music, gave them hand treatments, played a "game", and dressed them up in boas and tiaras. I made her princess sugar cookies match the colors of her wedding. They then whisked off to have their nails done while the groom-to-be helped me clean up! haha!


The next day was their wedding. The ceremony was in the most beautiful church downtown. I'm pretty sure I took just as many pictures of the church as I did the actual ceremony. Emily dress was beautiful. Her train had gorgeous lace designs. The reception was in at a social hall in Hopwood. For Jan, the reception was a mini high school reunion! In fact, Jan-Michael, David and Emily all graduated together! When the newly weds made their rounds and came to our table, we got up to take a picture with them. In that 5 seconds, the wait staff took all our food away! It was hilarious! Well, my father-in-law didn't think it was funny, but we still laugh about it. All day and all night, random people would ask me if I was Emily's sister or relative. What a nice compliment. By the end of the night, Emily and I decided we would just tell people "yes"! It was too confusing and hard for people to believe that I didn't even know her until a year and half ago! Her bridal dance was hilarious. They would not let poor David through... Finally, some guy got knocked down and they let him grab her! David, you get an A+! Tara, Kris, Nicole, my in-laws, Jan and I were the last to leave. We closed that reception down! It was a lot of fun.... Congratulations Emily & David!!!!!!!

Indiana Reunion

Last weekend I drove to Indiana for the Thomas Family Reunion (my Mom's side of the family). We only get together every 2-3 years, so I'm glad it was close enough for me to join. It was a whole weekend of family fun. By the time you're getting used to seeing everybody every day and enjoying their company, everyone leaves. I think family reunions are teasers for "what could have been" if everyone lived in the same state. Dang it! I'm truly blessed to have such wonderful family members. Day one, we had a pot luck with games and photo videos. After the "reunion", we went to a family pizza joint where the kids could go crazy playing games. Day two, we went to the Indiana State Fair. Boy was it HOT and HUMID!! Didn't make for a very long day two. Then everyone went back to their home states. Day three, my Mom and I went to this cute cafe by her new house. It's themed after the Andy Griffith Show!! It didn't rain all weekend, but of course rained on my drive home. I had to pull off twice because I couldn't see. See you all in a couple years!!

FC Fair '09

Last year was my first visit to the Fayette County Fair. I noticed there were a ton of buildings filled with items that people had entered. I thought, "Wow that's cool!". Then I found out that my husband, his brothers, and pretty much everyone I know has entered something in to the fair at some point or another. I decided that this year, I would enter! With moving, I only had time to enter a photo though I had planned to enter some brownies.... Obviously, I'm no photographer, but it's a cute picture. What do you think Delia?! Anyway, I bedazzled the frame so that everyone could easily find it (because WHO does that?!... oh me!). Yet, no one could! When we finally went to the fair to see if it won, it was all the way at the very bottom and with no ribbon! haha! No wonder nobody could find it! Oh well. It was really fun to do it and at least I had something there. I have the bug now, I think I'm going to enter stuff in every fair I can find, wherever I may be living. Anyway, here are some fun pictures from our day. Yay cows (just for you Ellen & Steven!)! I tried some new foods this year- perogies and a fried 3 Musketeers bar. I love to eat at the fair =)

Into the Woods... Musical Series Ends

Our CLO Summer Musical Series officially ended this past Saturday. We saw our final musical in Pittsburgh. It has been awhile since we went to one. Legally Blonde and Joseph were blocked very close together. Our last pick, Into the Woods, was also the last musical in the series. No more dressing up and driving to Pittsburgh for musicals. Sad sad sad. They were really fun "girl days" for us. Anyway, so yes, we went to our final musical this past Saturday. Into the Woods is a fairytale musical, so I was especially excited. However, of the 3 we went to, I'd say it was my least favorite. It wasn't as funny as I expected and the songs weren't as catchy. But, it wasn't a bad musical. If Miss Summer was going to be in it, I'd see it again =p It's also a long musical. Three hours. Seriously, I thought it was over by intermission until I remembered I'd only been watching it for an hour and a half. In my opinion, they could just cut out the 2nd half.... though the princes were funny. Afterwards, we went out to dinner, as usual. This time, we stayed out of Pittsburgh and went to a restaurant called Atria's. Yummy. I hope Ellen and Renee will fly out to CA and watch a musical with me!

Cheering in the Wrong Section... Go Dbacks!

At the begining of the summer, I checked the Pirates schedule (Pittsburgh's baseball team) to see when they were playing the AZ Diamondbacks. I haven't been to a Diamondbacks game in years! So, I got a group together (Ellen, Stacey and Renee) and we went on the last day they were playing the Diamondbacks. It also happened to be "Free shirt Thursday" and 'College Night", which meant that we got in for $10 each (even without College IDs! YAY!) and were given a Pirates T-shirt. Way cool, I know =p According to Ellen, sitting anywhere on left field provided a fantastic view of the city. She was so right! Our seats were awesome! The stadium is right along the river's edge and you have a perfect view of Pittsburgh. Gorgeous! For that reason alone, I loved the stadium. The game- whew was it long! I'm pretty sure the Pirates and Dbacks were tied somewhere along the 7th inning and that lasted until the 12th! 12 innings! Probably the longest game of my life. Towards the end of the 11th, I decided I was bad luck for all AZ teams. I mean, after the Cardinals lost, how could I show my face around here if the Dbacks did too? So, I got up and left! It worked! Suddenly bases were loaded and I was back in my seat as the runners were rounding home plate. Hooray! They racked in 5 runs at the end and we were out of the park just after midnight. It was very strange for me to be opposing the home team for once- in their actual "arena" that is. When everyone stood up and cheered, I stayed in my seat. When I was clapping, people were booing. It was quite the experience!

Tiara Tea Time & Cookie Lee

Recently, I had been asked by adults to do my Tiara Tea Time parties for their bridal shower. So I thought, why don't I add bridal luncheons? Luckily I know a bride who is willing to let me try it out =) At the end of this month, I will have done a REAL bridal luncheon. But in order to prepare and get some opinions of other adults (kids are so easy to please, I wasn't sure about adults LOL), I had a mock bridal luncheon with my friends! Just to jazz it up a bit, we also had a Cookie Lee jewelry consultant come who let us play with jewelry =) It was a ton of fun! I'm happy I have friends here who would come over, get dressed up, and pose just so I'd have pictures for my website! Hooray! Thank you!

Here is a picture from MY bridal luncheon..... And now you can see why I've agreed to do them =p











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