Magical.

Due to the last post I wrote about last weekend that got erased..........(I almost started throwing things....).... this one might be rather short.

I will go as far to say that I have the BEST friends and family. Every day I'm reminded how blessed and lucky I am to be surrounded by such incredible people.

With that said........this weekend at home was magical. Magical literally being the understatement of the century. My whole family combined with Mitch's whole family in one house for a three day weekend? Wild. We were literally soaking in our family from morning until night for a whole weekend..... people sleeping on every square inch of the floor in the house......pretty much on top of each other...... just kidding. But seriously, it was something like that.

Our lives were changed when we took our huge house full to Grimaldi's Pizza and experienced heaven....or the closest thing to it on this earth. We went hiking and danced in the SUN (YES, I said SUN... it's been a foreign concept to those of us up north whom the sun has found obsolete) and rode the tandem bike till our legs were about to fall off. We took a break from Pat's traditional Acai berry breakfast smoothies and temporarily made the switch to Mitch's moms orange julius..... and oh boy it was a hit (of course... they're to die for). We all sat around the kitchen in our pajamas till 11 AM and ate from nice china (classy reindeer cups for the orange julius) and had good quality conversation. When you combine the two families, you get grade A humor. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

Anyways. Bridal Shower #2 was the cherry, sprinkles, peanuts, and hot fudge on top of a perfect weekend. It was SO beautiful, I am soooo very grateful for all who's hard work and love went into that thing....it was amazing. And the FOOD!!! Don't even get me started. I'm not even embarrassed to admit that not even one ounce of guilt came over me as I went to town on the four tables of scrumpt deliciousness. I'm going to be forever searching for a recipe to even SLIGHTLY imitate the orange dreamsicle cupcake and raspberry swirl bread. To die for. I need to get acquainted with whoever made all of that food....because they are holding back secrets that could possibly bring peace to this chaotic world.

Here are some pics from the beautiful day. The boys were out golfing. We told them to take pictures but.....they weren't interested. The only thing they were interested in was making it to the shower after it ended to eat left overs. I don't blame them....























And yes....... that is an apple cinnamon sugar cider slice of scrumpt heaven that you are currently drooling over in the last picture. Or maybe that's just me....

I am so so so so grateful for everybody who has been involved in this wedding process. It has been a blind journey for sure, but I have loved every second of the celebrations and the stressful days too. I know that in 15 days, and when all of this is over, I'll be wishing I would have written every day of my engagement down....so much has gone on and so much has changed, when someone finally catches up with time and finds out where it goes, let me know.