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Friday, February 8, 2013

St. Louie Bound

...To celebrate Katie's 3rd Birthday!

Batley & Wishbone have joined us for the ride!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

All Things Wedding: Bridesmaids & Flower Girls

219 days to go!

After deliberating for days and losing just a little bit of sleep, I finally decided on bridesmaid dresses! The lady I mentioned in my original post about bridesmaid dresses never responded. And I never found a dress similar to the champagne dress I mentioned so I went a completely different route. I picked four dresses and each lady can pick whatever style they like. I officially have eight beautiful ladies who have agreed to stand up with Sean and I as we say our "I do's."

Cara, Jenny, Laura, Elizabeth, Carrie, Ashley, Brittany, Brandis

All of our Flower Girls are also set! Thanks to my crafty Mom, we are going make their dresses. I'm uber thankful that we won't have to go through the process of picking out a flower girl dress! That was one thing that I knew what I wanted before we even started.

Lucy, Katie, Addison (in no particular order!)

Sean is responsible for asking the rest of the grooms party - his Best Man said YES! Yay! And he also asked one groomsmen... five more to go! Plus we need to ask our ushers, and two of the three ring bearers. I know this seems like a huge wedding party, but I am not able to pick favorites and we're both lucky to have a lot of awesome people in our lives.

I'm excited to start focusing on other things like flowers, catering, ice cream cake, finding shoes to wear, tuxes, invitations, music and all of those other glorious details that are not totally necessary, but wanted at our wedding.

More to come soon!

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Wobbly Wednesday & My First Whole Foods Experience

I have lots of things I could write about but I don't have lots of energy to get the words flowing. Since I've dedicated this little blog to a Wobbly Wednesday post every Wednesday, it works out pretty perfectly that I'm back from traveling and have no exciting pictures to post at this time.

I should have taken a picture of my lunch today, it was delicious! After spending the last four days eating scrumptious but VERY high calorie food, I knew I wanted something on the lighter side.

I went to Whole Foods for the first time ever and my first impression was ~~how insanely expensive the green peppers were~~ that the store smelled like rotten fish.

The poultry and fish department are all the way in the back of the store, so I was a little leery about being able to smell the fish AS SOON as I walked in the door. But, I wasn't there to buy fish and I've heard lots of good things about the store. Specifically, I've heard how yummy their Chicken Salad is and since I had my heart set on it I decided to brave the rancid fish smell.

And I'm so glad I did.

I purchased a 1/2lb of the Sonoma Chicken Salad and also a bag of Sea Salt Pita Chips - yum! Also, I picked up the biggest bottle of water I've ever seen for only $0.99.

Best.Chicken.Salad.EVER.

I highly recommend it to anyone who needs something on-the-go. According to www.myfitnesspal.com it has 416 calories in 1/2lb. Add some pita chips and you're at about 600 calories for lunch, which is a little high but nothing that can't be offset by a workout video and a light dinner.

Onto some motivational posters for Wobbly Wednesday!