A few of my favorite things: October & Franklin

Franklin, TN - October 2014

wrapping up 2011

The Christmas holidays were jammed packed for us and we've been having lots of fun the last of 2011. And with so much going on I still didn't walk away from my Christmas break with any thoughts of I wish I would've done that. Christmas always makes a home feel its coziest, so spending time at home is my favorite thing to do. The snug nights when I watched countless Christmas movies and made plenty of peppermint hot chocolate {and even got around to trying the salted caramel hot chocolate} almost makes me feel like a kid at Christmas again. There's no other time of the year when watching Toy Story and Tory Story 2 back to back in flannel pajamas makes sense for a 27-year-old!

The last weekend before Christmas, we traveled to Tupelo for our friends', Maggie and Adam's wedding. It was definitely one of the most fun weddings I've attended and I was obviously having too much of a good time talking to college friends and dancing to the band since the only pictures I was left with afterwards were these iPhone pictures of Maggie and her family on stage {which I think is cute because even her grandmother is on stage with her!} ...and then the picture Wesley had of me on his phone.

Christmas weekend we spent time with my family and then traveled to see Wesley's family ....and Carlisle came along on the four hour drive. I think she enjoyed her time at the Stocktons.

I don't know why Wesley is looking all ticked-off when that cute little head is peeping up beside him, and anyways, doesn't he know taking family photos in the car is normal?!

We had such a great Christmas this year - We are really so blessed to have two loving families to share this time with! I met even more of Wesley's extended family for the first time this year and I wish we could've spent more time with everyone. He has a hilariously blunt, yet kind great aunt named Sue Alice who I was loving!

We barely had time to get settled back home before we headed out to Nashville. I will never get sick of going to Nashville and even though it was our first time for 2011, we were there three times in 2010 and it feels like my second home. Having lots of great friends that live there helps make it feel like home.

Wesley's main agenda was the football game, while I was there to have fun with friends and just enjoy Nashville.

I really should start back taking pictures with a regular camera at some point, but for now I am consistent with grabbing my phone instead.

Hope you found yourself with friends and family this holiday season!

you are the best thing

I'm so glad more friends were married in Nashville this past weekend. We had another reason to head back there and I loved every minute of it.My only picture from Friday night seen below is from dinner at Whiskey Kitchen. The lack of pictures was definitely made up for Saturday night...here we go...

The wedding and reception were both beautiful. Their band was amazing. The big time bands count on the bride for their bookings, so she was able to snag the best for the night!
Their first dance was to Ray Lamontagne's "you are the best thing", which if you will, is mine and Wesley's song. Two weeks before our wedding day I had actually talked to our band about playing it for our first dance but all I got was, "Mam, there's no way we can learn that song in two weeks". It was a major bummer and I probably told that story too many times wishing it could've been for us!

The M.J. gloves were passed out to all the guests. The night couldn't have been more fun. Congratulations to Liza and Evan. We had an absolute blast celebrating your marriage!

harper wilder and a wedding

Wesley and I loaded up and poked on over to Nashville for the weekend to see our long lost friends and to celebrate a marriage. We had dinner at Lime Friday night and then attended the bride and groom's after rehearsal dinner party at BB Kings.

 

Our weekend fun included a lot of this little guy below. His name is Harper. He is patiently waiting on us to take him along to the pool on Saturday.Sarah's wedding was in downtown Nashville and was stunning as well as the bride herself.

Her reception was at the Parthenon. Again, stunning.

So stunning in fact that people were taking solo shots of their spouses in front of the steps and we decided to mimic them.

Congrats to Sarah and Durham!

And why would we not ultimately end up taking a limo ride and in the VIP booth at "The Disco"?

We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Nashville as always. We love a weekend with the Wilders and the rest of our favorite Nashvillians.