Leigh Anne's Wedding Shower and more trips to Pickwick!

(Written a few months ago), Leigh Anne is getting married in a little over a month and her bridesmaids and I threw her a fun ladies bruncheon shower at the home of one of her bridesmaids moms lovely home. My mom and Joan also helped host the shower and we used a lot of my mother's beautiful antique mismatched china, vintage tablecloths, bud vases and apothecary jars. It turned out just beautifully. I created the invitations on antique handkerchiefs with the help of my new favorite website www.spoonflower.com  She got some lovely gifts and overall it was just perfect!

We've made a few more trips to the lake this summer. And the boys always have a ball!

Then of course, we had the big trips this summer Leigh Anne's bachelorrette party in Lake Tahoe, NV with all but one of her bridesmaids and one more girl made the trek out to Reno in July. We all flew out on Thursday afternoon and arrived late in Reno and stayed at a casino and partied the night away.

The next morning we made the drive up into the mountains to a lakeside hotel where we all enjoyed a catamaran cruise on the lake which was so fun and gorgeous weather and scenery. Leigh Anne had bought us all straw hats and had them all monogrammed which was so cute in our pictures. We had a total of 9 girls and we had not the least bit of drama the whole trip! We stayed at Trey and Leigh Anne's uncle Gene's condo in Incline Village, CA. I guess since it was a snow skiing resort where we stayed and at a higher altitude, the change in air quality really got to me and TJ's sister Meghan. We both got extremely sick and were feeling awful. We did get dressed up however and made our way to dinner where we all dressed in black suits with bow tied "tuxes" and Leigh Anne wore white.

It was super fun and we turned heads where ever we went. We enjoyed a fun dinner then exhausted from all the days events made our way back home and got up for a river rafting day the next day (I opted out of this because I still felt so bad from the altitude sickness and had no sleep because of it). Then we had a lingerie shower and left for home the next morning. I flew from Tahoe to Ft. Walton to meed Trey and the boys who had gone down on Saturday for his work convention and James and Joan were also apart of as well. That was great because I had missed them so much and the boys were having a ball at the beach and at the massive hotel pool(s). The conference is always fun and we enjoyed meetings, Bloody Mary Bingo with the ladies and dinner presentations.

We stayed at the Hilton San Destin. Super nice!!

The boys had hotel sitters for some of it, and the rest of the time we just enjoyed the scenary. I was still not 100% so I didn't even hit up the outlet malls! (gasp).

 

Brooksie "chilaxin"

 JoJo with the boys in the ocean. They were having an absolute ball!

 So that should tell you the power of altitude sickness. I learned I will never go on that family ski trip that we all have been talking about for years....I just cannot do that high altitude stuff. OTher than that we have been gearing up for Leigh Anne & TJ's big day and now Tracy and Kyle's as well. Plus Camden is starting Kindergarten soon!! Summers will never be the same!!