It's been a BUSY but FUN week...here is a RECAP!!

Well what a week it has been, I can honestly say that I am just sooooo drained. I took a BIG nap when I got home from church today, which was well needed! This may be a long blog so I hope that you can stick it out...here we go!!

MONDAY!

I worked on Monday and we made sure that we got out quickly since we were having a ROOTS outing that night! As many of the staff as we could find got together and headed out to one of our Favorite restaurants...OPA! It's a Greek restaurant and I LOVE IT!! Anytime anyone wants to go, call me I'm your dinner date!! We love having ROOTS parties and this one was extra fun because we were celebrating my upcoming wedding. I was very surprised with all they had done. When we arrived at OPA, I was greeted by big balloons that said Bachelorette Party, a Boa, a sash and a crown which I was made to wear. This was all kind of embarrassing because it's a really nice restaurant, but oh well you only get married once! So we had a delicious meal...many starters which we all shared... meatballs, flaming cheese, dip, calamari etc. Followed by our main meals which were sooooo delicious!! What was the best part I would have to say would be the desserts...I had a Vanilla Bean Cheesecake which was amazing! Everyone was so much fun and so sweet. One of my favorite customers, that is coming to the wedding, Crystal, couldn't make it to dinner but she gave me beautiful place mats from La Cache. Maria gave me a bag a sweets which all applied to Brandon and I which was super cute. My friend Sarah who is a talented artist gave me a beautiful card that she had painted herself, and my favorite guy Ryan gave me a handmade card that offered up his services as Godfather to out first child. Everyone there signed a really sweet card for me, which accompanied some gifts which I will not mention on my blog. We had a great night and they really made me feel extra special. I feel very lucky to get to work with such amazing people, who not only are my co-workers but my friends. Thanks a million guys you are one awesome team!!


TUESDAY!

Tuesday was my day off for the week, which is always a day i try to take advantage of for getting wedding things done! I was fairly productive today, which is always a plus. I had to go into Sears today to fix our wedding registry, which took some time but it's all better now! Mom and I headed out in the evening to look for fabric for my seating card table but really didn't have much luck...we did on the other hand have a lot of luck at the Paderno Sale at the Forum...mom just wanted to peak in, but I ended up buying more. I bought a lot of kitchen nick-nack tools and a toaster. We had not registered for one because Brandon wanted to pick out a good one, but when I saw this one I could not pass it up. It's a Red and Silver Cuisinart toaster that was regularly 80 dollars and was on for 24, it's perfect. So I took all my finds over to Brandon's that night to show it all off. I also took the kids over tonight for some fun...Jessica, Sarah and Jacob drove over to the Bing's to meet the newest member of the family- Lucy the beagle puppy! We sang Disney tunes the whole way there- which was a blast. The kids were not too sure about Lucy at first, she likes to nip at toes so she was chasing the kids around at first, Sarah was so cute, she jumped up on my lap to escape Lucy, and then spent the remainder of the night on the bar stool so Lucy couldn't get her. What is too funny is that Lucy is like the side of a foot, she is so tiny and cute!! Laureen showed me sonja's bridesmaids dress and it looks awesome- I'm so excited to see it all done!! She's also started the little girls dresses and I think they are going to be soooooo cute!! Brandon and I took the kids outside in the Hammock for awhile which was so funny seeing them squirming in it. We took a bunch of pictures, but here is a favorite of the kids! Brandon is so good with the kids, he's such an awesome uncle and I know that the kids just love him. We plan to have them over for sleepovers once we are in our new place! Although I think after our trip to DQ we won't be having any kids any time soon...we wanted to take them out for a treat so we went for an ice cream DQ run, well jake had his blueberry sundae everywhere...we went through so many napkins!! It was a fun night and I think the kids really enjoyed themselves. After dropping them off we headed home and relaxed the rest of the evening- watching some TV and playing with Lucy some more. She is too funny because she'll have so much energy and then all of a sudden just fall asleep- such a new puppy!!

WEDNESDAY!!

A Big Happy Birthday Shout Out for Josh on Wednesday he turned the big twenty four this year!! I headed over to the Blakeney Home for some birthday fun. Julia had a bunch of us over to celebrate and have some cake with Josh. I was really glad I was able to make it, and to get Josh his card on his actual birthday! Julia is such a good wife to organize all this for Josh, she had a super yummy ice cream cake and she brought it out while we all sang happy birthday. I really enjoyed hanging out with everyone and I can't wait until Brandon and I live close by so that he can come and hangout with everyone too. We had many good laughs that night. I also got to hold the adorable Morgan for the first time, i cannot believe how big she is getting! They grow sooooo fast, it seemed like just yesterday that she joined the MacLean Veinot Family! She was such a good baby tonight too!! Thanks so much for a fun time Julia you are the best!!!! Here are two more pictures from the night, one of out Hostess and our fellow blogger ashley!! and the other of our hostess with cutie pie Morgan!!

Check out the other pictures from that night, on facebook this week!!

THURSDAY!

Was Survivor Night and I didn't get any pictures but it was such a funny night. Natalie, Nicole and I hung out all night just talking about weddings, old school memories and playing mario party. It was too cute, Nicole's boyfriend Matt lives with Nicole and Kerry, so anyway he comes out of his computer room, and looks at me and tells me that I've started all this...hahha...he goes on how for the past three weeks all he's been hearing is "When I get married" and "for my wedding"...he was like I live here too, why can't we talk about things I like, which he went on to name a few...I'm not explaining the story well enough but it was too funny!! I love Matt, him and Nicole are such a cute couple, and I'm glad they'll be there to share in our special day...I hope though that being at the reception won't add fuel to the wedding fever that has been around the past few weeks...hahha!!!

SATURDAY!

I had my second wedding shower tonight which was a lot of fun. So many people came out to support me and i felt very loved again. Everyone participated and had fun...sonja did a great job at planning it and I appreciate it so much!! We played the toilet paper bride game which was too funny...it was very hard to find a winner...my nieces looked pretty darn cute, but Nicole's group was the winner her's looked really cute!! To see her winning picture check out facebook, I'm going to try to post the pictures this week. I was given many great notes of advice from all the guests that i will cherish forever, and put in my wedding scrapbook when I get around to making it. I big Hooray goes to my sister who knows me the best...she only got one question wrong...I was glad that she did so well, we've really become so much closer since she's ben married and I really appreciate all our conversations!! I feel very blessed to have so many great people in my life, they have all helped so much in the beginning of our soon to be married life. We got many beautiful gifts tonight and I feel so lucky!! I had a few unmentionables given to me tonight but I think I did much better...I had a slight sun burn so people couldn't tell if I was embarrassed as much- Thanks Brittany, Chelsey, Meaghan, Katrina and Sonja for that!!! When I'm in my Red themed Kitchen I will always think of Katrina!!!hahha!! My sister and the kids gave me another awesome gift, she really has done too much, she has started off stocking our fridge with all the beginning essentials- which is too crazy and sweet. They were all individually wrapped and my little helpers helped handing them to me. Jessica and Sarah we again great helpers and so well behaved!! My mom brought the tears to my eyes tonight by giving me a beautiful gift of Traditions...it meant so much to me and it is something that I will treasure forever. I think you could ask anyone that was there tonight what my best reaction was to a gift and they would have to say that it was my reaction to the label maker that my Survivor girls gave me...It is amazing and I cannot wait to use it, I just need batteries for it. It was so super thoughtful, one Thursday night we were watching a friends episode where monica says how 2 hours with her label maker was not a waste of time...and I said how much I wanted a label maker, and the girls remembered that and got me one. Which is soooooo amazing!! Now I just have to wait to use it!!! The food tonight was ohhhh sooooo good! I had to stop myself, or else I would not be fitting in my dress in 20 days!!hahha!! Everyone who brought something out did themselves, we were even sending people home with plates of food, so we wouldn't have so much left over! We took lots of pictures and the rest of them will be on facebook. A Big Thanks goes out to Sonja for a very fun night!! I feel very blessed to have her in my life! Now I just have to wait to use all my awesome new stuff, I cannot wait to move into the apartment and set everything up!! We didn't get home until late, and I then of course had to look at everything again , and call Brandon to tell him about my fun night. Thanks to everyone who helped make this day so special for me! I love you all and cannot wait to see you all at the wedding in 20 days!! I cannot wait to be married!!

So that is the rundown of my week, as you can see it was super busy but really fun!! I'm ready for this next week which will be filled with work and wedding plans...we are getting down to crunch time and I want to get everything done ahead of time!! Hope you enjoyed my update and I look forward to reading one from everyone this week!!!