Nashville Wedding Photo Recap & Some Very Exciting News!!! + Giveaway Winner Announced!

So the weekend in Nashville was amazing. It was so good to see old friends. most of whom i hadn't seen since they got married..and now most of them have 2 or more babies!! They got to meet sophia and see me in all of my preggo glory. Tricia and Phil's wedding was beautiful. I was highschool friends with tricia and we did a year of international volunteer work together straight out of high school for the Church. I'm so blessed to have such a great and holy friend like her! I'm so happy for them. Her whole family is fabulous..most of you know Anna from In Honor of Design..thats one of her big sisters. and another one of her sisters, Maria, is over at Going Natural Woman. 

Overall the weekend was a big adventure and we had fun with it! We brought a certain amount of money to spend...and then that was going to be it and we ended up being wayy under our budget for the weekend so i was very happy. Sophia was amazingly good in the car. it might have had something to do with ben and i singing the itsy bitsy spider for hours straight (hand motions included) but the 9 hour drive was totally worth it. I love getting to see old friends and meet new ones! I was so suprised when some of the other wedding guests told me they knew me..that i was the busy budgeting mama!! haha. so sweet and flattering that they read my blog! Some old family friends even approached me saying how they find me so refreshing when it comes to motherhood and they read my posts every day!! that just made me so happy..i was gushing. haha. here are a few (ok i know a million...) photos from the weekend! because we are camera happy people and i love looking at other people's photos..

so here you go. snoop away!

  

EXCITING NEWS TIME!!!!!

1. I was approached a while back by Lakehome and Lifestyle Magazine (based in Kansas City) to be an ongoing columnist for them..their "martha stewart/nate..hostess with the mostess" girl. ?!?

  I was soo excited for the opportunity and actually just sent in my first article last night! I'll share it with all of you when it goes to print! It was a fun project to do...it was all about outdoor entertaining. and i contacted some fabulous Photographers who let me incoporate their amazing images into some inspiration boards to go along with the article. I'll share them sometime soon.

2. This one is exciting..but overall just flattering! A fellow blogger e-mailed me the other day wanting me to check out a post....She said she was inspired by my post on our Gender Reveal Party and ended up throwing one for her BFF! It was so fun checking out her post and seeing some of my ideas as well as some new ones that were fabulous! Here it is!

3. Giveaway is over! not as exciting..

but....with the giveaway ending..that means a winner will be chosen! $25 Print credit to nextdayflyers.com. The winner is..................Jenn!! Congrats and thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway!

4. Speaking of Giveaways....my sister (founder of blanqi with sabina) wants to team up to do a giveaway over mother's day!So make sure you come on back then to enter to win your very own Blanqi. If not for you..it would be a great gift to any expecting girl you might know!! Everyone likes a product that makes them a hot mama...seriously. ps they just launched their website so you need to check that out. my brother did it and i loveee how it turned out.


5. I'm 24 weeks pregnant today!!! can't even believe it. time is flying by. sort of. 

So there you go..the exciting news in my life right now. feeling so blessed. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend as well! I'll be catching up on all of your posts tonight when sophia is sleeping!