Teacher Shower: Opening Gifts and Everyday Dishes "Thank You!"

It makes me and Aaron feel so blessed o share all of this wedding excitement with so many people! It is so much fun and means so much to us to have these wedding showers. We love getting to see everyone and feel so incredibly blessed to be surrounded by such loving people.

Here are some "gift opening" pictures. (Notice the ones of me opening the canisters that the hostesses got for us....I was a LITTLE excited!!!)

So now.....lets start the "Thank You's!"

First off: Everyday dishes!

We love everything about our everyday collection! Red, Red, Red! Fabulous!

Thank you to the following people for thoughtfully contributing to our growing collection: Ms. Blackwell; Ms. Villines; Ms. Faucet, Ms. Nalley, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Jordan, and Ms. Elmore; Granny and Grandpa Langley; Ms. Thida; Mr. Dedmon, Mr. Covington, and Mrs. Gattis; Bob, Debra, Jennifer, and Jamie.

Thank you all so much! You will never know the impact your kindness has had on us! I can only hope that my many "Thank You's" will, at least, halfway express how much we appreciate each of you!

*Weekend plans: After work tomorrow, I am driving up to Fayetteville for a 3 day weekend! I'm so excited to be the one doing the traveling this weekend. Aaron has been so sweet the last several weeks by driving in for all of the wedding activities, etc. I'm happy to be able to give him a break because the weekends between now and the wedding are slimming down! Which is exciting, but that means more driving for him. (Sorry, Aaron! I just want you to know how much I apprectiate you! I'm glad you get to take a a break this weekend!)

Our plans include..........LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIVE!!! We are both so excited to OFFICIALLY begin the search. Wish us luck!

Teacher Shower: Family Photos!

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I'm already up a little later than normal, but I promised to do a better job of blogging! So that's what I'm gonna do!

Here are a few family pictures from the Teacher Shower:

Both of our moms! We love you both! Thank you for all that you both have done for us already!

My sister Leah, my granny, my grandma, Aaron's Memaw, Aaron's Mamaw, and Aaron's aunt Karla.

Aaron and I are so lucky to have such supportive family. They are always involved and willing to help with anything and we are so thankful! We love you all very much!

Teacher Shower: Gift from the Hostesses!

The super sweet Hostesses didn't only plan a PERFECT shower...they, also, gave us an amazing gift! Aren't they fabulous?!? Aaron and I found these canisters at Smith-Caldwell (in Benton) when we first began to register for our wedding. We both love red and the design on these canisters is absolutely beautiful! This was the very first item we registered for and our entire kitchen was put together based off the look of these canisters! (By the way, I still get so excited to call things "Ours!" I can't wait!) The canisters are part of the Drake Design Home Accents Collection. There are several pieces from this collection that we love and have received as gifts at Christmas or at other showers. We decided to mix and match the red and chocolate pieces and its gorgeous!

The Hostesses decorated a beautiful table. Everything was so beautiful and delicious!

Again, I want to give a big "Thank You" to the Hostesses for all they did and for having such kind hearts! We appreciate each of you!

P.S. I realize I did a T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E job of blogging last week! I apologize! We all had a long weekend around here being that it is Memorial Day, which meant Aaron was home. We all know that our opportunities to spend time together are few and far between, so we had to take full advantage! I promise to do my best to make the blog more interesting this week!

"Teacher" Shower Hostesses!

This weekend several of Mrs. Hilborn's (Karen...I promise I'm working on that!) co-workers hosted a "Teacher" Shower for us. It was such a great time! Aaron showed up for the last 30 minutes or so, which was great! It was so funny to see him get swarmed by all the ladies as soon as he walked in the door! He's such a charmer ;) We all love him!

Here is a picture of all the hostesses, except Mrs. Trantham who lives out of state, now, and couldn't make it. (We really missed you!) Remember no last names...except for this time! (Its hard enough for me to try to call my own Future-Mother-in-Law by her first name): Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. Fite, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Stout, Mrs. Tanner, and Mrs. Fulcher.(Aren't the flowers beautiful!?! We see you back there Mrs. Long!) All of these ladies are soooo sweet!

Aaron and I appreciate each of you for putting together such a wonderful shower! Thank you so much for thinking of us and for being such great friends to Mrs. Hilborn!

Flower Girls' New Puppy!

Our little flower girls were so excited when they got their new puppy last weekend! Jill is a Mountain Feist and is adorably cute! Their family already had one Mountain Feist named Jack, so when picking out a name for their newest addition they had NO trouble! Now they have a happy pair of Mountain Feists: Jack and Jill!

Here are several photos of the sweet, playful pup!

Gracie totes the poor puppy around EVERYWHERE!

Ashley loves to cuddle with the little pup!

The whole family with their newest addition!

Sweet Jill had a blast playing with Grandma Janet's Mother's Day gift's wrapping paper!

Grandpa Eddie enjoying some time with the puppy!