Rehearsal Dinner-November 22, 2013

I am beyond behind on posting all of this, but we've been busy living our "newly wed" life! 

But now, the time has come!

 I am so excited about rehousing our wedding weekend and sharing it with you all! 

Our rehearsal dinner was a dream. 

We couldn't have asked for anything better! 

Family, best friends, and many people that mean so much to us.

WONDERFUL food.

Beautiful decorations. 

The kindest words we've ever heard. 

Enjoying and celebrating life with the people that mean the most to us!

We wouldn't have changed one thing about the night. 

We are so thankful and so blessed to have the family and friends that we do. 

We are forever grateful and love you all, so much! 

Barbie Bash Bachelorette Weekend

Last weekend, me and the girls headed to Nashville to celebrate my bachelorette weekend!

We had a blast, had a lot of good food, great shopping, and just having a big ole girls weekend. 

I am so thankful and so blessed by each and everyone of these girls. 

The Lord is so good and I see so much of His provision in my life 

through the people He's placed in my life. 

As always, here's a few pictures:

All of us at Jackson's eating a delicious meal 

Cookie Dough Egg Rolls--heaven in a crust! 

Some downtown scenery

Love these people so much and so happy to share this time with you all! 

In one of our favorite cities, enjoying beautiful weather!

Las Paletas--Gourmet Popsicles

Hot chocolate with chili, Pineapple Raspberry, Strawberry Cream, Chai, Banana Nut and Avocado!

Since we were in Nashville the weekend following Halloween, we decided to dress up---what better way to celebrate than to dress up as different Barbie! I present to you Bridal Barbie's Crew:

Vet Barbie, Greek Barbie, Winter Barbie,
Rock Star Barbie, Monster Barbie, Biker Barbie,
Hippie Barbie, Vintage Barbie and Indian Barbie. 

The whole crew

We ate at a delicious place called Cabana's--it was so awesome! We had our own "cabana" with our own tv, music hook up, and it was closed off, it was so cool! 

So thankful for you and putting together such a perfect Bachelorette weekend!

Friends since 99' and still going strong!

We ended the weekend eating breakfast at the best place--Pancake Pantry! 

Thank you Jesus for the beautiful scenery on our ride home! 

13 days and counting until I am Mrs. Jason Ellis :)

BYOP

The week of Halloween, Jason and I decided to have a few people over for our first annual BYOB&P. Not good with acronyms? Bring Your Own Beer & Pumpkin! 

If you know me at all, you know my obsession with everything pumpkin. 

Any pumpkin flavored food, all pumpkin scents, you name it, I love it. It's bad news when the fall season rolls around and all I see are pumpkin cookies, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin spice coffee, and pumpkin shaped Reese's' Cups! 

The theme behind our party was obviously, pumpkins. 

We told people to bring a pumpkin (or 2) to carve and then also bring a pumpkin flavored food item. 

Jason and I made pumpkin nut muffins and wait for it....PUMPKIN CHILI!

Which turned out to be absolutely amazing!

My pumpkin muffin ingredients 

annnnnd, the end result! 

Jason's amazing pumpkin chili---that we WILL be making this again this season! 

Melissa's pumpkin cake 

and you can't have BYOB&P without the B--Pumpkin Beer 

and then for the challenge, the competition, the mess, the fun---carving the pumpkins. 

 the final master pieces...

 It's always fun doing things like this to make the holidays feel special. 

Hopefully we've started a tradition that we will carry on through the years ;)

Church Bridal Shower

A week ago yesterday, I had my bridal shower that was thrown by some women in the church. 

It was such a sweet and special day--having a shower in the church that we've been in for 17 years. Having most all of the people we've known that long attending, and getting to celebrate this exciting time with our closest friends and family. It was a great day! 

I loved this sweet little table--pictures of us when we were younger, my favorite dolls, they made this so special!

Welcome and Sign-In Table

This was amazing! 

Some of my best friends :)

Jason's Mom and Sister and his sister's children--SO SO SO happy to share this day with them!

...and here we go! Mary Claire doing such a good job with her MOH duties ;)

Beautiful Monet print from Mrs. Lisa! 

My peacock platter from Jason's Mom! 

Mrs. Linda Beaty, a church member, drew this with pastels! Beautiful!

Hayden kept them busy! Bless it. 

So sweet getting to share this day with you! 

My Aunt and precious second cousin made their way to see us and celebrate with us!

Love this woman so much! Thank you for all that you did for us that day! Sweet picture of you and Mom. 

Love these two women more than they will ever know. I am so thankful for them and so happy and blessed to get to spend all these events with them by my side. What a blessing!

It was such a fun, special day and I am so thankful to everyone who was a part of it! 

We are down to 48 days everyone!!!!!