My Wedding Dress

Kelly is hosting Show Us Your Life and this week is Wedding Dresses! So here are a few pictures of mine. I only had a few months to plan our wedding, and I loved my dress, but honestly, I think if I'd had more time I would've chosen something different. It's not a big deal to me though. Jacob and I are happily married and I'm so happy I never have to go through wedding planning stress again!

I ordered my dress online and only had to get it altered a tiny bit! It was very simple, but it was "me." I wore my hair part up and part down with a small head piece and kind of big veil. At least the veil felt huge when I was wearing it! LOL!

I got bridal portraits at the Rose Garden

and at the Old State Bank...it was soo windy!

Me and my baby on our wedding day

My dress had gotten little wrinkled by the time I was ready to walk down the aisle, but it was fine.

Be sure to check out Kelly's Korner to see lots of other girls dresses!

Aunt Juanita's Cake

This is a super easy super yummy cake! The recipe originally came from my great-aunt Juanita. It's basically a Butter Pecan cake. What makes it unique is that you put the icing in the cake...believe me, it turns out sooo moist!

1 butter pecan (or plain yellow) cake mix

1 container coconut pecan icing

1 cup water

5 eggs

3/4 cup oil

Grease a bundt pan and preheat oven according to cake mix package directions. In a large mixing bowl, beat all ingredients for 30 seconds on low and 2 minutes on high. Scrape sides of bowl often to make sure everything gets mixed in evenly. Pour into greased bundt pan. Bake according to directions on box or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan about 10 minutes then turn out onto a cake stand or plate. Cool completely. Dust with confectioners sugar before serving.

Pregnancy Update: 16 weeks

I hate that all my posts lately are pregnancy updates!! I've got to get back into regular blogging. I guess the last month or so has been soooo busy with preparing for camp, traveling to PA for 10 days and now trying to catch up on all the laundry and stuff at home.

I can't believe that I'm 4 months pregnant! How crazy it seems. The time is flying by! I was thinking the other day that Jacob and I need to go register for baby stuff soon and we need to get started on the nursery and pick out a name for our littl

e girl. Wow, there's so much to do! When I first found out that I was pregnant, it seemed like December would never get here, but now it seems like it's flying towards me.

Here is a picture to show my growing belly!

Baby is the size of an avacado!

Pregnancy Update - 15 weeks

Ok, so this post is definitely late! I was 15 weeks last week, but oh well. I'm in PA at church camp and I don't really have good internet service...it's reallly slow!

We took 2 days to travel up here, so we were able to stop a lot, which was really nice! I'm feeling really well. My belly is definitely growing more each day...or so it seems! LOL!

BIG NEWS! My wonderful aunt did an ultrasound at the end of last week and IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!! We are sooooo excited! Don't get me wrong when I say this, but we were hoping for a girl. Of course it would be perfectly fine with us if it was a boy, but you know what I mean. I cannot wait to get big hairbows and cute dresses!!

Baby is about the size of an apple

Awesome giveaway!!

My sister at HappyHousewifeLivingLife is hosting an incredible giveaway in honor of her 100th post! She is giving away 3 prizes!

1. a super cute apron from Marie-Madeline Studio
2. a set of 3 handmade pottery magnets by Lily Pottery
3. the cutest button earrings by Edith & Lulu

There are several ways to enter, so you have lots of chances to win!! Be sure to hop on over and check out this "all-things-girly-giveaway"!!

Belly pics!

On the 4th of July my wonderfully talented sister took (and edited) some pictures for me. I really like how they turned out! The pictures were taken beside my Memaw's brick house and also some by the pump house in Memaw's back yard.

Btw, the baby is the size of a lemon now!

my little brother was doing tricks on his bike and distracted me. lol!

my personal favorite!

I think Myra did an awesome job taking these and editing them! I know who we'll get to take our baby's pictures!! Oh speaking of baby, we have an ultrasound on Thursday afternoon to find out if we're having a boy or girl!!! I CANNOT wait!!!!!

Pregnancy Update: 13 weeks

I cannot believe how fast this pregnancy is flying by! As each week rolls by the fact that I'm actually going to have a BABY becomes more and more of a reality! I'm SO excited!!

On Thursday I had my second appointment with my midwife. I just love her! The appt. went really well and we got to hear the baby's heart beat again which is soo awesome! Linda (the midwife) said that everything looks good with me and the baby. I'm drinking about a quart of Red Raspberry tea each day as well as taking Juice Plus+ and folic acid.

I'm starting to show a little bit more, and my clothes are feeling a little less comfortable lately. Oh well, that's part of it! Thankfully I'm able to continue working out at Curves and I've been swimming in my sister's pool about 3 times each week. I definitely feel so much better when I workout!

Here's a picture from the week:

Baby is the size of a peach!