No, it hasn't taken us 7 months to pack up our old blogs and unpack them here (that only took 1 evening); it's just taken us 7 months to update our blog. Not that we haven't had any exciting news to share with you (yes, "you" audience of 5...maybe less now that we've moved) we've been busy with; work, school, wedding planning, and doggies-yes that's plural.
In January we expanded our happy family of 3 and got a New puppy (YAY!), Penelope Cakes Young. We thought Porkchop would like to have a his own dog but when he refused to take her on walks and potty train her, we realized that a 8 week old puppy was (is) a lot of work. When you get one 5 months before your out of state wedding, you're silly or an over achiever. -We will let you be the judge on that one.
There she is below (8wks old), our little Penelopoopers loving on her big brother. Yes, we decided to go with another
Westie. When you have an awesome dog like Porkchop, you have high hopes. We are safe to say that Porkchop was false advertisement! They have the same tendencies but very different personalities. Penelope is VERY hyper (yes, she's a puppy-we are well aware), super cuddly and malleable. Kind of a weird word to use to describe a dog but we can literally fold her leg under while she's laying and she doesn't flinch. OR if you pick her up she will lay anyway you place her. CRAZY! -We know!!I have been working on training Ms. Penelope but all she knows thus far is how to sit and lay down. Oh, we of course have a video! Our first Penelope edition! ooooooh ahhhhhh lol
and here's a video of Penelope playing Fetch with Scott
Aside from spending 2 months on potty training Ms. Poopers, we've had a couple of pre-wedding celebrations. We flew to Ohio mid March and did all things wedding; cake tasting, food tasting, met with the priest, engagement pictures and my mother-in-law threw us a lovely couples shower all within 2 days! My mother also flew to Ohio and met Scott's family for the first time.Prior to our couples shower we took engagement pictures at the family cottage; which is right off of Lake Erie. Our wedding photographer met us there and spent a couple of hours capturing us in a couple of different outfits. It was freezing (according to me) but despite the cold weather it was a lot of fun. On the right is one of several pictures we took.
We also had a wonderful shower thanks to Scott's parents, and all of our friends and family who traveled to be there with us.
In April we celebrated Natalie and Gregory DeCuir's wedding. They got married April 24th. Natalie and Greg had a beautiful wedding at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in downtown Fort Worth. Their theme was "It's a bird it's a plane.." Playing off Greg's occupation as a pilot and their decor of peacock feathers. Scott and I had a blast. Here are a few pictures from their day.
In May we celebrated our Bachelor(ette) parties on the same day-not together. Scott's friends flew down from Ohio and stayed for along weekend. My friend *Carly* also flew in from Ohio and secretly planed/organized my entire Bachelorette party-which was amazing!
Scott celebrated his bachelor party for that entire weekend. Part of his festivities included visiting several "classy" restaurants in Texas; ex., Twink Peaks, and Bone Daddies. Establishments similar to Hooters but according to the guys they're "better".
The guys did lunch at Twin Peaks-which is where the wait staff's (girls) uniform consists of a tiny flannel top, short khaki shorts, and mountain boots. The guys came back home several hours after lunch wanting to share pictures with me. I honestly am not the type of girl who wants to see what her future husband is doing at his bachelor party (this case bachelor weekend). But after Carly gave it the look over and laughed, which deemed it "okay" I decided to and had a good laugh as well. Apparently at Twin Peaks the guys were all talked into trying on the girls flannel top on for a free shot and a photo op. The photo below was one I actually took off of Twin Peak's facebook page. lol
This is the 4 that agreed to try on the tops! lol
My bachelorette party was an all day affair, rather than an entire weekend. Prior to the festivities I had my final dress fitting. The day was planned by Carly and I was along for a super fun ride. We had lunch at Joe T. Garcia's, which consisted of yummy mexican food and Margaritas. Later we headed to downtown Fort Worth and checked into a large suite at Sheraton. At the hotel we had mimosas, played games, and I got spoiled with lots of amazing gifts; 1 of them being a huge box from my maid of honor (who couldn't make it down from Portland) Andrea. Carly made dinner reservations at Piranha Killer Sushi (it was the first time I'd ever been there and it was Super yummy-I ordered the "Marry Me Roll" :-D ) and we had a fun girls night out in down town Fort Worth.
That was a fun weekend for the both of us. After our parties our wedding was a couple of weeks away. I ended up flying to Ohio May 29th and my maid of honor Andrea flew in the following day. I would loooove to blog about our wedding because it was also a huge event that took place during my blog absence BUT due to the overload of info in this blog I will save the wedding part for another blog-perhaps one that is titled "Our Wedding".
While blogging Porkchop came up and decided to lay next to me. I just so happened to capture the picture with my laptop. Thought I'd share. Love this little guy!!
yup, that's Mr. PC resting his head on my arm.
All piled high into Laurel’s explorer… if you couldn’t tell, this is Scott sitting in the back of the explorer
