The big 2-8

Today kicks off our season of "events"...

Melissa Birthday: 12/12

M & M's 1st date: 12/18

Mark's Birthday: 12/21

Christmas: 12/25

We basically give each other presents all month long!!!

It is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C

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Today was/is great. Mark woke me up with the world's largest chocolate chip cookie for breakfast and then proceeded to shower me with gifts that he found on MY PINTEREST!!!! He actually learned how to use "that crazy picture thing" and ordered presents for me. I am just SO lucky :). He is the best.

***Sidenote. One night when I was pinterest-ing Mark said it is like hoarding and oversharing at the same time in a digital world. I about died laughing.

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Tonight I am off to a very small dinner - will report on that later.

Then, on Saturday, we will go to lunch with BOTH of our parental units. Mark's parents come in on Thursday for the weekend to celebrate our birthdays. So exciting!

I hope you are all having an awesome day as well

xoxo

The Wedding

Hi All!

I could write an entire book on our wedding. We were so blessed to have the wedding of our dreams in beautiful Colorado. I promise to go into further detail about various aspects of the wedding at some point, but for now I am just going to do a brief overview!

Thursday Night Get Together

On Thursday night we invited everyone who was in town to come to the Hotel Jerome for a casual meet up and a few drinks. It was SO FUN!

Mark & Melissa

The Parentals

(Steve, Kristen, Donna, Milo)

Melissa's Godparents

Kevin & Susanne Avondet

Some of the beloved friends!

Brooke, Alexandra, Kendall, Elizabeth, Whitney, Anne, Kate and Melissa

The Rehearsal Dinner

Our rehearsal dinner was so fun! It was a casual BBQ at Snowmass Valley Ranch which was the house/ranch where the rehearsal dinner and wedding took place. It was G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S. The food was fantastic, catered by the Hickory House in Aspen. If you have never been there before you should add it to your bucket list - it is amazing.

The Wedding Party

The Bridal Luncheon

Two beloved ladies in my life, Joan Katz and Debbie Kalas, hosted a wonderful bridal luncheon in my honor. It was a very special time and the food was fantastic. It was so special to be surrounded by all of the women in my life + Mr. Mom.

Debbie, Owner of the Restaurant, Me, Joan

Getting Ready

Getting ready was so much fun. By mid afternoon I was in a complete daze and it is all sort of a blur to me now but I was so lucky to have all the special ladies in my life surrounding me!

Mark spent the day with his buddies and family playing whiffle ball and just hanging out (there might have been some drinking involved and there was one EPIC footrace) and then got dressed at the Jerome Hotel.

The Ceremony

My uncle Todd Smith married us - I can't even put into words how magical the ceremony was. It was everything I have ever dreamed of and I will always cherish those minutes in which I became my best friend's wife. I have never felt so much love in my life as I did saying my vows with all of my friends and family around me in such a beautiful setting.

The Reception

SO MUCH FUN. Words cannot even describe it!

I know this is a brief overview there is SO much more to show and tell - if there is anything you are specifically interested in, let me know!

xoxox

HELLO WORLD!!!

It has been wayyyyy too long since I last posted!

A LOT HAS HAPPENED!

• We got married on July 16th
• Mark took the job as Diageo's Director of Marketing for Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma
• We went on the DREAM HONEYMOON
• We left CT (Mark by plane, me in the coolest rental minivan ever) and moved to DALLAS!!! (squeals and tears of joy everytime I get to write that!)
• I roadtripped across America with Lillabelle and saw my awesome family
• We rented the cutest little house in the world
• We unpacked...and unpacked...and unpacked...(still unpacking)
• We went to the Cowboy's game a few times
• The Avondets, Browns and Luskeys hosted a fantastic cocktail party for us and the Mathis parentals came to visit
• We went to Salt Lake City to visit Andrew and Josey
• Val and Ed came to visit and we went to my first NASCAR race
• I became obsessed with Pinterest
• Our family grew by one (not what you are thinking - we adopted a dog!)
• We went to North Carolina for Thanksgiving
• And so much more in between...

Needless to say, we are feeling extremely blessed.

I am really looking forward to blogging about each of these things!!! Now that I am finally out from under the travel/move/unpacking I can give the proper attention to this blog so all of you can be up to date on the going ons of our little family.

I will also be doing some updating on the blog - am thinking about changing it up a bit.

Exciting Times!

2 Weeks!!!

Two weeks from today I will be a married woman!!!

I cannot wait!!!

xoxo

Honeymoon is Booked!!!

In celebration of 75 days until we become "legit" we booked our honeymoon. After months of research, conversation, and general hemming and hawing, we decided on the Maldives!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxo

I MISS MY BLOG!!!

I have had NO time to blog lately and that makes me sad.

A fun photo I found today via Green Wedding Shoes - my favorite wedding blog.

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I need to own these. I would wear them EVERYDAY!

I promise.

From the Jessica Kagan Cushman Collection

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