Why do I always do this?

Why do I always forget to post....

I think part of it has to do with the fact that I really don't like uploading my pictures from my camera onto my computer.  It just always seems to take so long!

Also, once I get out of the habit of posting, I forget to!

Oh well- hello again!  How are you?  We are just great here in the Vestring house. 

Here is what we have been up to lately.

We celebrated Mimi's birthday:

We celebrated some pretty cute moms-to-be:

We went to Texas for OU/Texas Weekend:

 

 

 

We celebrated Great Grandma's Birthday:

Halloween 2013- Can you guess what we were?

We saw my little brother in "Carousel" at OU (look at that hair and beard!)

Also, we've really gotten the hang of this wedding thing...

Happy Monday!

Grace and Jeff's Wedding Weekend

We had a blast this weekend celebrating Jeff and Grace's wedding!  It was such a beautiful, elegant wedding.  Everything was so sweet from the colors, the cake, the flowers and the Bride.  She looked so gorgeous and made the absolute perfect Bride!  We started the weekend off with a Bridesmaid Lunch, and Nail Party and ended it by dancing it up at a fabulous reception.  Everything was so planned and organized (in true Grace fashion) that the weekend was so smooth and relaxing!  Here are some pics.

Rehearsal Dinner

Beautiful Bride!

We like to dance

We love... Love

Oh MY word, is it the weekend yet?  We are just coming off of a very busy weekend in the Vestring house.  A fun, but busy weekend.  We spent the weekend in Tulsa celebrating the wedding of our friends Erin and Connor.  You know, the Erin from this post.  We drove to Tulsa on Friday and I attended her Bridesmaid Brunch, helped decorate and then rehearsed for the Big Day!  Saturday was spent at the church getting ready for the evening ceremony.  I get a bit nervous with these things but the wedding was beautiful and went so smoothly.  Jeff was a groomsman, and it was very fun to be in a wedding together.  It's just wonderful to see your friends get married and say their vows after anxiously awaiting their wedding for months.  Erin's a dancing fool, so of course the reception was a blast!   We danced to Beyonce like she was going out of style (as if that could ever happen).   

Sunday, we continued to celebrate love with a Couples Shower for our friends Grace and Jeff.  We thought the day after Erin and Connor's wedding would be perfect because our friends were all together in the same town.  Because none of the hostesses lived in Tulsa, we opted to have the shower at a restaurant.  We made the shower a "tailgate" theme so that it went with the restaurant/bar venue.  Despite the stress and craziness of the weekend, the shower turned out pretty stinkin' cute (if I do say so myself).  Our friend Evan had such good ideas when it came to decorating and it all ended up looking prettttty awesome.  We can't wait to celebrate Jeff and Grace in just 3 short weeks! 

Now, on to planning a Halloween and tailgate for this weekend.   More on that later.... but here are some pics from this weekend.

Bridesmaids at the Bridesmaid Brunch

We were decorating fools!

 

The Bride

Rehearsal

 

"Get Me Bodied, extended version must be played!"

 

Couples Shower

 

My Love

Beautiful Vermont

You may remember from this post that we went to Vermont for a wedding this summer.  It was a super fun time, and it's kiiiiinda fun to look back on it.  We were able to take a detour through New Hampshire on the way to Vermont, and then to Maine on the way back.  We love the Northeast!

Here are some pictures from that adventure.



In beautiful Portsmouth, NH

Dorset, VT

I'm sure one of those beers was empty- right Jeff?

Kennebunkport, ME was such a cute town!

Adorable little candy shop!

At Mabel's in Kennebunkport.  We found out later that we were sitting at the Bush's table! (might have been obvious had we looked at that picture behind us, in which they were sitting around the table....)



whoa, looking at these pictures makes me want to go back!   Now, please.

I Love Great Weekends

This weekend was great.  We did lots and lots and honestly it wasn't very relaxing, but it. was. great.  Sometimes you just need those really good weekends that leave you feeling happy and content and this was one of them.  Friday night was one of those rare Friday nights this summer that we didn't have somewhere to be.  It was wonderful!  We hung out for a little bit, and then decided to go here to The Plaza District's "Live on the Plaza".  It was something fun and different, and I got a yummy taco from a food truck, cuz I'm just crazy like that.

I also got to make these delish cinnamon rolls.  They are so yummy!  You can find the recipe here.  It's from one of my favorite blogging ladies- The Pioneer Woman.

Jeff's family was coming in town to help him build a deck in our backyard, so before they arrived on Saturday I headed to school to get my classroom in order.  Because I started in the middle of the year last year, I didn't make any changes to my classroom.  It needed a little somethin' somethin' but I just didn't have much time to work on it. This year I wanted to add some color.  Honestly, there's not much you can do to cute-ify a computer room but alas, I tried.  It looked like this last year...

And now it looks like this....

I like the change.  I think it was good for that little room :)

I headed home on Saturday afternoon to make Jeff's birthday cake.  I was excited to use my new measuring cups (I'm a dork) and I think I had the cutest cake-making helper there ever was!

My precious nephew

Here's a picture of the finished product.  Yes, I realize it's pink.  That's what's so great about my Jeffrey.  He knows that strawberry's my favorite and he claims to like it too, but I have to wonder if it's just a ruse to appease his strawberry cake loving wife.  Jeff, if you're out there- is this true?!



Saturday night, I (Jeff stayed home to work on the deck) went to my friend Anne's wedding.  You might remember another wedding I went to from this post.  I love weddings!  And wedding cake.  I really, really love wedding cake.  I had the beeeeest time at Anne's wedding.  My friends and I danced the night away.  They're just so fun.  And I have fun when I'm with them.  I won't lie, I got a little emo. on Saturday night thinking about how much I love my friends.  Here are some pics from the wedding...

The Bride and her sneaks.

I mean, really... they're so great.

No Words.

Sunday, we relaxed a little bit, I made another cake for my Mom's birthday (she and Jeff share a birthday). We ate both the cakes, and sat on our deck! It really was a good weekend, and it gave me lots of joy to start off this crazy week (school starts on Wednesday!).

I'm grateful for good weekends, good friends and good family.

Pay no attention to the 'rusty table' behind the curtain







Yes, our yard's dead.







Leaning candles on momma's birthday cake.  Texas sheet cake's the best.

One of my favorite moments of the weekend. 

Our Deck!!

 The End.