Sarah and Jordan are Married!!

This weekend, my good friend from college, Sarah Opitz, got married! Sarah and I met the very first day we moved to college because we were suite-mates, then we pledged EEE together and have stayed friends ever since. She married Jordan Bone who she met at OBU as well. What a sweet couple!
I love a Christmas wedding, and this one was done so well. Sarah was gorgeous and so was everything else.

Here is a picture of our fam with the Bride. (Disclaimer: Tilly attended only the reception. I'm not a believer in babies at weddings--always a pet peeve of mine for so many reasons.) So, it's not the best picture of Eric--doesn't he look sissy-prissy! (Good thing he doesn't read this blog!)
Here are a couple of us girls (Terry, Sarah, Hilary, Rebecca, Katie and myself) at the bachelorette party which was about 2 months ago. Gotta love a good reunion like that!

Mandy, Katie and I at the rehearsal dinner.

Here is another group of us girls at the reception. Jennilee, Ashley, Katie, Amy, Laura and me.

Now, when I said "A Christmas wedding done right," I meant it. Check out this centerpiece. The picture doesn't even do it justice. There were so many neat things done at the wedding. My favorite was the artificial snow used on all the tables which was also used to throw in the air when sending off the bride and groom. How beautiful it was!

Congratulations to the happy couple! Have fun in St. Lucia!

Isabel's Birthday Party

Now that I have let you know about Tilly's birthday party, I want to share about Tilly's friend Isabel's first birthday party. The girls are 13 days apart--Isabel is older. Her mom Holly and I have been friends since the third grade and got very close as we were pregnant together and now that we have these girls at the same time. Lots of fun!



Now, here is what a first birthday cake should look like. Isn't this precious??!!! The top was Isabel's to eat all by herself.

Here's the fam...Chris, Isabel, and Holly. (Just FYI: The bow she is wearing was one of her gifts from us. I made her a bow hanger and about 4 or 5 bows.)

Well, you know I had to put a picture of Tilly on here too!


Here the girls are playing. At a glance, it kinda looks like Isabel is choking Tilly! However, they played nice, and Isabel shared her toys.

Tilly's First Birthday Party

It is hard to believe that it has already been a YEAR since Tilly was born. Even though her actual birthday is not until the 20th, we went ahead and had her party on the 14th. It was a great party, and I think Tilly had a pretty good time. Here are some photographs from the party:



Here is Tilly before the party--looks like she's really fired up, huh?!

One of our latest "tricks" is asking Tilly, "How old are you?" And she puts up one finger, then we all clap and say "Yay!!!" Here she is mid-performance:

Here is the food for the grown-ups...we only had 3 kids there, and of course, all they cared about eating was cake and crackers!

Here is a picture of the 2 cakes...Looks okay from a distance, right?Here's a close-up. NOT SO GREAT! Let's just say that I was less than thrilled, but of course, it was eaten anyway!

Here is one of the highlights, which made me forget about the big cake. It was no surprise that Tilly tore in to that sucker! Here she is doing one of the things she does so well:
How thoughtful, she's trying to share...uh, thanks, but no thanks!!!

The aftermath....anyone for leftovers???

Here she is opening some gifts--there were TONS, and they were all wonderful! She didn't really rip any open like I thought she would. However, there were about 30 sets of eyes on her, so maybe it was just stage fright... These are the ear muffs we got her in hopes to help with ear infections. (We are getting tubes after the first of the year--turns out she even had an ear infection at her party.)

Happy Birthday, Tilly!

PS: I was almost afraid that the blogger.com people would fire me from this since it's been so long...sorry!

Fancy Photographs

Of course, when I say "fancy photographs" I don't mean any that I have taken!

We had Tilly's one year and Christmas photos taken last week at Amber McAdoo's studio. Amber did our wedding, and now she does all of Tilly's portraits...we've gone full circle people! If you have never seen Amber's work, you should check out her website. It is www.mcadoophoto.com. Amber is incredible, and we are so proud of how well the photos turned out. If you want to look, go to her website, click on "enter site," then go to the bottom and click "clients." The password is warford (all lowercase.) I think they will only be on for like 7 days. You should also check out Amber's work--you'll want to schedule a session immediately I'm sure!

Let me know what you think!

Sad Stocking

Poor little Tilly is just tormented that she can't touch her stocking. I would like to say she is sad because Santa has not yet filled her stocking, but honestly, she is throwing a fit because I said "no" when she tried to touch the sequins on her stocking! Then, she sat there just looking at it and acting totally pitiful. Good thing she knows nothing about Santa or I would have had to really say the mom thing like "Santa doesn't bring toys to bad girls and boys..."

Anyway, here is the picture of the aftermath...How rotten is this girl?!
Just pitiful, I know! My mom will say "bless her little heart" when she sees this...I guarantee it!!