Eric & Tiffiany sittin in a tree {Tiffiany's Bridal Shower}

In 28 days my friend Tiffiany will become a Mrs. This past weekend we showered her with pretty decorations, great food, and lots of new stuff for her casa {which just happens to be one mile away from my house}. I helped with making decorations and making strawberries stuffed with cheesecake that was requested by the bride-to-be.

Banner came from here

Timeline of important dates in their relationship

Food was labeled with these cute printable and table was decorated with this

It's hard to tell but the cupcakes had rings in the center of them :)

Tiff loves scattergories so I got inspiration from here and made the game.

Addicted and I just can't get enough

It's a known fact that I like trying new recipes but the hard part is having an event to go to that people will be able to eat the sweet treats I make. Since Kyle does not like sweets and I don't need to eat 24 cupcakes all by myself I have used YL as my way to try new things and high school kids will eat anything if it's free ;) I made these cupcakes and they were actually pretty good. I'm not sure if they are really 100 calories each but I'll go with it.

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One of my favorite sites to check out daily is Money Saving Mom. I may not be a mom but I love saving money and this site offers all kinds of deals for great stores and shows you how you can use coupons to get cheap stuff. I especially like it for the free samples that they show. I have just started to get some of the free samples I registered for and it's fun to get something in the mail that I can try. I have gotten free things like magazines, detergent, face wash, coffee, and many other things that will be a surprise to me when they show up in my mailbox and I forget that I signed up to get a free one. Even if I don't want the free item I know I can give it to someone I know that likes it, if it's free why not try it out :)

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My friend Sarah turned 21 this weekend and I made her a cute vase to get her ready for her soon-to-be classroom. Sarah will be a Senior next year at Miami and she is will be a Miss Math Teacher before she knows it :) Here is the final product

{inspiration came from here}

Making His Debut {Steve and Tena's Wedding}

A few weekends ago my sweet nephew Jeremy made his debut as a ring bearer in a family friends wedding. I really hope he gets to do this more often and I hope I'm invited to the wedding to see it. He was so cute dressed up but what made it even better was that he did not want to be dressed up at all :) He would walk around with his arms straight out in disgust that he had to wear a suit jacket, it made for a comical night :)

Here are some pics. from the wedding {sorry for the poor quality of some of them...still trying to figure out our camera}

There's my cute nephew :)

My sister-in-law Cindy made all the decorations for the reception, she did a great job

Jeremy with Mamaw and Papaw

"The Big Apple" {NYC Day 4}

One of the things I really wanted to do was to see the Today Show. We got there a little late and could not stay that long since we were going to the Anderson Cooper show but we were there long enough to get on tv for half a second :) and I got to shake Al Roker's hand.

We headed from the Today Show to Anderson Cooper. I had never been to a tv show recording so this was also another first for the trip. We were at the show for a loooog time, we were actually part of three different shows they were taping. We saw Julianne Moore, Kristin Davis , and also people who have weird obsessions. After being at the show for four hours we were ready to explore the rest of the city. I had read on this fun blog about a restaurant called Jack Demsey's that would be covered in a sea of blue and since Kyle bleeds blue I knew he would love a restaurant dedicated to UK. Instead of blue we were greeted with a sea of green, the restaurant was covered in St. Patrick Day stuff and only a few UK items were on the wall. From our not so helpful waitress to the little UK stuff, we were not impressed with the restaurant. From the restaurant the boys headed to Madison Square Garden to see some of the Big East Basketball games while the girls explored the city.

We went to FIT and explored there Museum of Fashion and then we headed back to Central Park area to see a Civil War exhibit they had going on. To be honest after we got to the exhibit we were not really sure why we had traveled so far to see it. None of us like Civil War stuff and Kyle's dad LOVES it so I guess we thought we would be able to tell him all the cool stuff they had but once we got there we were so tired we barely looked at any of the stuff  :)

That's our trip to NYC! It was a great break from work that Kyle and I both desperately needed! Kyle's parents did a great job planning the trip and it was fun hang out with Timmy and Sarah!

"These lights will inspire you" {NYC Day 3}

We went to the 9/11 Memorial. The memorial is not complete but it was cool to see the progress they are making and I am excited to see it when it is finished. It is surreal seeing it in person since I remember exactly what I was doing when the towers were hit. It is really powerful being there and seeing all the names, the victims stories will always be told and they will not be forgotten.

FDNY Ten House is right next to the 9/11 memorial. It was a highlight of the trip for Kyle to see it and to see their fire truck.

We also made our way to Chinatown. We did not stay very long but did have an amusing story to tell. We were getting ready to leave and this cop randomly goes up to Timmy and asks him to take his pictures with a group of Chinese people. Once the cop goes over to the table where illegal gambling was happening, people started to scatter...it was priceless.

After Chinatown we headed to the Brooklyn Bride. What a cool place to see the city from.



I told you we did alot on this trip, next stop Central Park. It was such a beautiful place and it was neat to see a different side of New York instead of just tall buildings and busy streets.

We also went to Grand Central Terminal. The whole time we were there I kept thinking about this commercial.