"I want to dance with you..."

Whelp, this was one week that we will never forget...and boy was it busy! Having all of our Mississippi and Texas friends and family here with us celebrating this new chapter in our lives brought on an indescribable feeling. It meant so much having everyone here with us throughout the week. We are so lucky to have the best friends and family in the world. No, we are BLESSED.

Let me walk you through our busy wedding week. This will be great to revisit in the future which will only help me out even more when my future kiddos ask questions only to leave me with the realization that I am growing wrinkles and suffering from a bad case of memory loss. Thank Heaven for blogging. This really is a good hobby to have, eh? ;)

Josh and I worked almost up until the Friday before the wedding...literally. Those that know me well, know that I have to stay busy. Otherwise, I will hit the panic button...and quick. Look my name up in the Webster's and you will see the letters "O.C.D." plastered beside it. It's okay though because it keeps things interesting. ha (veeeeeeeeery interesting)

My Lovely Aunt Sue Ann and Uncle Marc, and their best friends, Jim and Cindy, drove over mid-week to help out with last minute wedding details. There are absolutely NO words to describe these people. Wow...let's just say we couldn't have done it without them. As they helped cover water bottles with labels, create cute decorative pieces for the kids' table, and box things up to take over to Park Heights, Lauren (my beautiful and incredibly talented cousin), worked herself to death at my house baking and icing cookies for the groom's table. We basically could have started a business this week...about nineteen of them. WORD. Those who have yet to begin wedding planning, bless you. Naw, really, it is such a fun experience, but if you are like me...the planning is not over until about an hour before the ceremony starts. That's just how we roll.

Now, for the remainder of this post, I'm going to let the pictures do all (majority) of the talking...

Bridesmaids' Luncheon

Home of Dr. & Mrs. Martin Lee

Friday, May 28, 2010



I love these gals...with my whole heart.



Rehearsal Dinner

Kirk's Grill

May 28, 2010

Wedding Day Brunch

Home of Mr. & Mrs. C.J. Roper

May 29, 2010

"Getting Ready"

Hilton Garden Inn

May 29, 2010

Wedding & Reception

Park Heights Restaurant

May 29, 2010

Honeymoon

Couples Tower Isle ~ Ocho Rios, Jamaica

May 30th - June 6th

Flashing Back Before Flashing Forward 2006-2010

FLASHBACK CENTRAL: Right Here. Right NOW.

Okay, so let me begin with telling you just exactly how I met this little love bucket of mine. Are you ready? BLIND DATE. Oh yes ma'am! You may be thinking that's nothing out of the norm...so let me top that. As for the REAL question I know you have all been waiting for me to answer, what did we do on our first date? Ahh, a lovely little fourwheeler ride through a creek shooting snakes. I mean...does it get any better than that?

BEAT. THAT. BACHELOR.
(...even though I love that show.)

No, but in all seriousness, shooting snakes in a creek marked the beginning of the best days of my life. I do not know what I would do without this man. God blessed me with a lifetime of happiness as soon as he walked into my life on May 29, 2006. 

Aren't we presh? God love us! HEEE he. Okay, enough with the ooshy gooshy, it's officially time for a flashback...FO' REAL.


Just for fun, I have decided to post a few pics from May 29, 2006 up until our wedding weekend. I'll save our wedding weekend for a blog of its own. It deserves it...I mean it WAS the best weekend of our lives thus far. So, there are albums galore catching dust in the top of our closet with pictures of every adventure we have taken from the day we first met, but unfortunately I am far too lazy to scan them, so below you will find a few of our favorites.

Yep, pretty sure I found my soulmate.

Hello World of Bloggers.

Hello there. First of all...T.G.I.F.

Okay, so we have officially joined the blogging society and have decided to start spreading all of our juicy life happenings to the rest of the world.

I have only ONE...problem. I'm not digging only being able to choose from five fonts to post my ever-so-amazing blogs. Get with it, people. I teach school here. We. Need. Fonts. Okay, now back to our grand entrance...(Attention Future Followers: Beware of Random Blogger)

As for the main reason for my starting this blog, whelp, I am tired of pretending that I am going to create a scrapbook of the past five years for my future kiddos to enjoy from the day my precious husband and I first met (May 29, 2006 <--Sorry, I had to.). In all seriousness, I would give anything in this world to have detail after detail of what life was like for my parents from dating until my brother, Michael, and I entered this world. So, needless to say, here we are.

Over the course of the next few weeks, we (or rather "I" if we are being honest...ha) plan to play the ultimate game of "catch-up!" I am going to travel back a few years and see if I cannot venture back into 2006 when I met my best friend and husband, Joshua Lane Herndon. (blushing) He is my little creampuff might I add...

Signing off for now...that is until I can figure out how to work this whole thing. I am a tad bit of a computer geek, so it shouldn't take long if I can learn how to balance my time between my obsession of watching Snooki, lesson plans, learning how to cook, stalking people on facebook, and well...living life.

Until next time, America...
I'll see ya' soon then. (Dear John is one my favs fa' sho.)