Our Fabulous Weekend {part 2}

{read part 1 here}

So, on to the next event of Saturday night...the Chili & Beer Tasting Party for St. Patrick's Day!! It also ended up as a UK game party since they were playing the Sweet 16 game! We invited our Life Group friends over and had a blast!

Mom & Dad kept Harper for a couple of hours on Saturday night so we could all have some fun! In the invitations, I had asked each couple to bring a beer from a different country ~ without telling anyone else what they were bringing.

After they arrived, I shoo'ed them out of the kitchen so I could set up the beers! Then we had the contest! Each person was able to drink a shot glass full of beer and then write on the black paper where they thought it was from! After everyone had guessed, I told the answers! It was fun! Then we enjoyed the beers we liked along with Chili {spicy and regular} and Pimento Cheese Pinwheels {recipe soon}.  The boys had a great time watching the game and screaming at the refs on TV together, while the girls enjoyed talking and playing some iPhone app...I know, try to not be jealous of our wild night.  It was so great to have everyone over, but I must admit, I was happy to have my head hit the pillow after a non-stop day of fun! {and to see my girl!}

Decorations &Food:

favors I made on Picnik, rainbow twizzlers

Appletini's and the Beer Bucket - soon to be filled up!

Beer Tasting Station! "Get Lucky" Banner

Friends:

cute Nola!

covered the beers in st. pattys day paper

the girls - amanda, me, allison (and walker), jordan, alison

my sweet hubby

On Sunday, we played with our nephews and my family and went out to eat with the whole crew {all the kids are SO good!!} and had Harper's 6 months pictures taken! I can't wait to share! We also started the sleep training to a whole new level...we decided to go ahead and put Harper in her crib! I mean, we can't get much worse with the lack of sleep happening right now!!  The first night, it was super rough...but it's gone better each night. We are SO hoping that all this routine stuff, the cereal, and now the crib will help our little one sleep through the night...and most importantly, let MOMMY & DADDY sleep through the night!

Oh, PS, UK won ;)

Hope your weekend was great, too!

Life Group Game Night!

The other weekend we had our Life Group friends over for pizza and game night!  We seriously missed Amanda and Philip! :(

We had a super fun time playing a new game called Wits and Wagers. It was kind of like a poker game betting over dumb stuff you'd never know the real answers to! :)

Thanks friends for coming to our home and hanging out with us, and of course loving on Harper! :)

the girls :)

Nick & Alison

the Nick's

Harper just chillin' through the game

me & Jordie {she was my 'big sis' in our sorority}

life group, Granny's 90th, & OOTD4

We had a busy weekend last weekend! But, aren't they all busy in December?!

My wonderful friends in our Life Group changed their dinner plans so that we could bring Harper! We went to DeSha's and she did pretty great...especially since we started out a little later than she is usually out!

so glad my friends love harper too

amanda + philip

nick + jordan

alison + nick

Then we had my Granny's 90th Birthday party open house! It was fun and sweet to see all her friends come see her!

Granny

aunt dorothy

And her next Christmas outfit shown above is her Christmas smock she'll be wearing to our big Christmas Eve.  I love it! :)

Happy 4th!

So, really, is it just KY, or is it everywhere that more than not sometimes Independence Day becomes White Trash Bash? Ok, that was mean.  Let's just say I saw my fair share for the year of shirt-less men {and women, whoa}, cussing parents to their kids, and shoe-less folks this weekend! Yikes!

I started out the holiday weekend watching my friend, Allison's, girl, Nola! I love her. I've watched her before, but her Mom and Dad let me watch Nola for a full day! We had lots of fun playing in the sprinkler, playing with her doll, and really, who knows what all ~ I think me chasing her around my non-baby-proof house! It was so fun, but I was so exhausted by the end! Uh-Oh!! :)

Yea, she totally has a monogrammed bathing suit. Probably why Allison and I are friends - we think alike! haha


After Brian got home from golfing Friday, we went to the new Mexican restaurant! Still can't so their meat, but I did enjoy a cheese quesadilla! It was fun having a date night on a patio that was enclosed with fans! haha


On Saturday we went to the pool with our friends! It was pretty fun despite a few raindrops here and there! Then we headed to the annual Red, White, and Boom! This used to be THE BEST thing ever. It was downtown, free, concerts, fair food, and you could bring your own cooler.  Well, it's gotten a little out of control and trashy, so they moved it to the local triple A baseball field and charged $5 ~ still not a bad price! So, we went with Amanda and Philip after eating at Pazzo's first! It was fun and the multiple country artists were great.  Brian's favorite was Craig Morgan! After the concerts they had a pretty good display of fireworks. However, I think this will be my last year making an appearance at RWB. I don't know that I can see the girl who was wearing a bikini with her boobs signed by the singers again ~ nor let Harper see such a thing! ha! I would have loved to hang out longer...but alas, my pregnancy mode was in full affect! It was SO FREAKING HOT outside, my feet were huge and aching, and I was so tired! So I went home to bed while poor Brian watched a movie by himself!

Sunday afternoon we hung out with Brian's sister who was up from ATL and his cousin, Kelley. I was excited to show them the progress on the nursery! Then we were off to our Life Group's cookout at Alison and Nick's house! It was super fun and she made the best homemade ice cream! They also had next door neighbors set off for-real fireworks! We had the best seats!! Although, we each got hit a few times with the debris! Ouch!! I wish we could have caught it on camera better, but the fireworks were sort of better than Red, White, and Boom's! We decided it was a new tradition to have 4th of July at their house! *We missed Amanda and Philip! They had to work. :(

And for the real 4th of July, we went downtown Lexington to CentrePointe where they had tons of stuff to do! It was so fun! I got some non-alcoholic Bahama Mamas (yes, Jen, I swore those off, but these are different, right?!) and some yummy Kettle Korn! There was tons of music playing, yummy fair food, and all kinds of things for kids! The weather was great ~ but hot again, so I got puffy again! ha!  Then we met Brian's sister and his cousins one more time before his sis left for ATL.

Hope you had a great 4th, too!