baby shower

i'm off to nashville again for the weekend.

(and no, i am definitely not complaining)

tomorrow is my very first baby shower 

and i am so excited!

stephanie, ellen, and karlie have been working so hard to put this thing together

and i feel so fortunate to have such amazing friends.

nashville here i come!

photos from steph's visit!

all photos taken by and stolen from steph

steph!

my steph is coming to visit me for the rest of the week

and to say i'm excited is a bit of an understatement.

we have so many fun things planned
(the beach, eating, shopping, eating...)
i can't even wait.

a little going away party

saturday night

steph and my sister ellen threw us an amazing going away party.

she made delicious snacks and a peppermint punch

and ellen decorated the place with christmas lights and paper chains.

so many of our closest friends came to bid us farewell

and it really made me realize how much i'm going to miss this place

and these people...

lovely ashley

the food was amazing

me and the beautiful hostess

lovers

all photos taken by steph

crazy, stupid, love

last night, i saw crazy, stupid, love with stephanie
and i was shocked at how much i loved it!
few movies can make me laugh hysterically
AND fight back tears at the same time
and this movie did just that.

seriously, you will never forgive yourself if you don't go see it.

a break-in-your-wedding-shoes party

my best friend/roommate threw a break-in-your-wedding-shoes party

for me and our friend becca who is getting married in june.

all i have to say is that this should be a party every bride has before the wedding!

we invited our bridesmaids who were in town and everyone brought 2 things:

1) their wedding shoes

2) a bottle of wine

we snacked on delicious hor dourves and drank wine and played games

and had SO much fun.

i feel like she should win an award for coming up with this idea!

the brides!

first game: a cake walk!

becca and her bridesmaids

me and my bridesmaids (most of them)

last 2 photos taken by steph.

a little date

bennett and i went out the other night

on what ended up being one of the best dates ever.

we started out at the park and the weather was perfect.

i took pictures for my photo class

and bennett read

and then we talked about our future together

and got butterflies in our stomachs.

then we went to bobby's dairy dip and had the BEST hamburgers

and fried pickles

and fries

and sodas

and dipped ice cream cones

and then we went and played putt putt golf

(bennett won. by a lot.)

and i saw a lady with a baby who was eight days old.

eight.

and i almost cried because he was so precious.

we ended the night at the holland house

with stephanie the great

and we all drank weekender punch and wanted more

(but our wallets wouldn't allow it)

whew.

it was quite a good night.

hilton head photos

like i said before,

i'm spending this week in hilton head

aka heaven.

bennett's camping with his groomsmen for his bachelor party

so me, ellen, stephanie, and her boyfriend billy all came here.

the family i nanny for was so generous

and they are letting us stay in their beach house

(which is probably the most gorgeous house i've ever been in besides the biltmore)

and now we never want to leave.

lately...

- time seems to be flying by

- i absolutely cannot wait for christmas

- i am trying to be much better about saving money

- i am trying to be much better about eating healthy

- i am dying to open the wine i got from our trip to the biltmore

- i have been practicing writing jenny foster on every piece of paper i can get my hands on

- i have been so tempted to start listening to christmas music

- i have 3 rolls of film i need to develop and it's driving me crazy

- i really miss my baby sister

- i really miss my stephanie

- i fall more and more in love with my bennett every day and i cannot wait to be his wife

- only 6.5 more months to go...

happy birthday!

today is stephanie's 21st birthday!

she is the most wonderful and i love her so much!

here are the top 10 reasons why she is the best:

1. she wears red lipstick

2. she is studying abroad in tanzania this fall

3. because of number 2, she is shaving her head soon!

4. she is a really good snuggler

5. i can talk to her about anything

6. she's mostly just really, really cute

7. she has an awesome blog

8. sometimes when she wakes up her hair looks like a baby's

9. she is one of my bridesmaids

10. when she comes back from tanzania, she is living with me!

happy birthday friend!

charleston

so far my little vacation has been wonderful!

we went to the beach yesterday

(go here to see some pictures stephanie took)

and today we are going shopping.

tomorrow we leave to come back home

and then bennett comes back to me on saturday

...i just hope this warm weather is to stay!

so close...

spring break is in one week

and i can hardly wait.

this week i have so many tests and projects due

so i am in desperate need of a vacation

i am going to charleston with my dear stephanie

and we are going to go to the flea market

and the beach

and take SO many pictures

the only down side to this wonderful spring break?

i will miss bennett SO much

i don't even want to think about it...

red lips

i met up with the lovely stephanie for dinner last night

and we ate

and talked about our lives

and exchanged christmas gifts

and talked about our futures

and other exciting things

and here's the thing about stephanie

i absolutely love her

she has become one of my good friends really fast

and she is one of the most encouraging, honest people i know

AND she looks amazing in red lipstick

(see photo below)

so i went out and bought some tonight...

i wasn't so sure about it at first

but i think it's growing on me...

a little photoshoot

today

my wonderful friend stephanie came over

and she took a bunch of photos for one of her classes.

she is an incredible photographer and a beautiful person

here are some of the results!