Making Lemonade : Where we've been

We've been a busy family for the last 2 months. So busy that even if I wanted to (which I do!) blog there hasn't been a free moment to 1. find camera cord, 2. upload pictures to computer, 3. cull and choose pictures to blog, 4. upload pictures to blog, and finally 5. write.

But since I am enjoying a rather relaxing (yet cold) Memorial Day at the beach, I figured it was time (you're welcome Mrs. N!). So here's what we've been doing as we've traveled near and far to celebrate brides, babies, birthdays, and weddings!

1. Getting to know our new town. We've been finding new restaurants, a new grocery store, a new dry cleaner (that's a story for another day), and new places to explore- like Home Depot. It has been such a change leaving ARL, it's been my home for 3 years, but we're adjusting.

2. Meghan & Mike's Annapolis Wedding: My little met a boy, fell in love & got married! It was such a wonderful day from beginning to end and we loved celebrating with them. They got married at the Naval Academy and their ceremony was at The Annapolis Yacht Club. And as always, time with the Gardiner family was a blessing and a blast!

Naval Academy Chapel

The ceremony of swords for the newlyweds

The New Mr. & Mrs. Brant were greeted by hundreds of onlookers at The Academy cheering them

With the beautiful bride

What a view at the Yacht Club

3. Tucker turned two and we drank wine: It's hard to believe our furbaby turned two years old! We were supposed to be moving on T's birthday but because we had another unfortunate renovation issue we had to push our move back by a week. So how did we celebrate T you ask? Well we let him meet a baby and we drank wine of course!

T loved his new collar

New tennis balls and a birthday scarf

We met some friends at SugarLoaf Mountain to enjoy the sunshine and wine. Tucker was very interested in baby Luke, they both loved the sun and wished for us to share the wine.

Love the faces on these two

Happy Birthday Tucker!

4. Tucker plays with his brother Forrest: Tucker got to meet up with one of his brothers, Forrest for a play date and together they explored a new dog park. Forrest was bigger and more fiesty than T but they had a great time tiring each other out.

Fighting or dancing?

5. Drew & Lauren's classy wedding in Harrisburg PA: We had the honor of being a part of a beautiful union of two amazing people!

The bride and her parents arrived in a horse drawn carriage

Cutest groomsman in the wedding!

D&L put pictures all around the cocktail hour of family & friends who have gotten married & been an example to them in marriage. It was such a huge honor to find our wedding pictures there!

Long tables at the reception made it feel like we were in Hogwarts!

With the bride & groom

6. Celebrating Liz and her baby girl: we spent a perfect Saturday at the spa getting manis and pedis and celebrating the beautiful mother to be

Treasures for mom and baby

Treats: puppy chow & oatmeal cinnamon chip cookies

Favors: homemade truffles and nail polish

College friends

7. Spending lots of time with the best and cutest puppy around. There are too many cute T pics to not share a few!

An octopus for the summer months

Finishing off the peanut butter jar T grammy's house

8. Leslie's bridal shower: last weekend while my hubs ran a half marathon I headed down to Richmond to celebrate this beautiful bride's upcoming nuptials. It was a great brunch get together & makes me even more excited for her September wedding.