Arkansas Bride

Our engagement has been featured in Arkansas Bride!  I was so excited when the story popped up on my Facebook newsfeed....

Go on over to the Arkansas Bride blog to read the full story and leave us a comment!

Our Engagement Pictures

Saturday was a day I've been looking forward to for soooooo long.... We had our Engagement Pictures made!  I've always been so excited for the day when I would get to have engagement pictures made with the man I was going to marry. After "ooing and awwing" when my friends had their's made, it was finally my turn!

We chose Anthony Byrnes to be our photographer for our entire wedding experience.  Now.... I'm one of those girls who researched wedding photographers long before I met my groom :)  Anthony had big shoes to fill and he over-exceeded our expectations.  He was absolutely wonderful to work with and made Jeremy and I feel so comfortable.  The day was so much fun!  Anthony was willing to go wherever we wanted, even risking his life on the train tracks (haha) and his freedom by sneaking in to Razorback Stadium.   Luckily we didn't get caught :)

I could go on and on about how impressed I am with the pictures Anthony captured of us. I am so pleased with just our "sneak peek" and cannot wait to see more when he's finished with them.  So if you're looking for a wedding photographer, I HIGHLY recommend using Anthony.

Jeremy was so wonderful throughout the entire photo session.  He humored me and all my crazy ideas, went shopping with me for clothes to match my outfits, and did not complain once throughout the day.  He wanted me to feel so special and I absolutely did thanks to him.  I still can't believe this is my life, he's so perfect for me and I never thought I would find him.  

God's timing is always right.  Always.

November Days

Friday night was an important game for BHS.  The Bentonville Tigers played Fayetteville!  Bentonville is currently ranked #1 and Fayetteville was #3 on Friday night, they are always one of their biggest rivals and every year the game is intense!  This year even more so after FHS beat BHS in the Championship game last year by 1 point.  Friday at school was a hustle of activities preparing for that nights' festivities.  Days like those always wear me out.

Jeremy and I met our friends Steve and Brittany for dinner at The Flying Fish before heading out to the stadium.  Little did we know, the Bentonville square was hosting the annual Toy Fair.  It was a madhouse there.  Arriving before Brittany and Steve, we walked around the square for a while and quickly noticed that we were the ONLY ones there without kids.  Haha.  At least Jeremy got to see the cool cars used in the newest Batman movie :)  He was amused.

We had a lot of fun cheering BHS on at the game afterwards.  It was a perfect night for football.  The tigers ended up winning 24-17.

Saturday was another Razorback Football game day.  We had breakfast with our friends Kendall, Carrie and their little boy Owen at Mimi's Cafe.  If you've never been there for breakfast, you need to go!  It's one of my favorite breakfast destinations.... I love their quiche, but really anything on the menu is great!

After breakfast we headed to Razorback stadium.  It really made me sad to see how empty the place was, when considering just a year ago you couldn't even get tickets!  Now... tickets are easy to find.

At least we came away with a win over Tulsa, and it was fun watching sweet Katie Waldrip crowned Homecoming Queen!  It's always great to see such a high honor go to someone so deserving.

All my favorite local boutiques have had sales this weekend on their hogs apparel and I've definitely taken advantage :)  I'm so excited for my new hog clothes that I get to wear to the basketball games... Yes... basketball is starting and my fiance loves ANYTHING sports and Razorback.  So, I guess my Saturday's of football are just being traded in for weekday nights and weekends spent in Bud Walton.  Can't say I hate it though :)

Birthday, Wedding & Powderpuff

This past weekend Jeremy and I traveled to Cabot to visit family and  celebrate my niece's birthday.  I absolutely cannot believe she is TWO already.  It seems like just yesterday we were anxiously awaiting her arrival.  She's starting to warm up to Jeremy finally :)   At first, all she would do was stare at him.  Haha.  Now she calls him "Me" (short for Jer-Me) when she sees his picture.  It's pretty cute. 

Heelyn is at such a fun age right now.  Her vocabulary is growing so fast and hearing her form little sentences is just so cute.  She was totally into opening all her presents, but wasn't that excited about the clothes, haha. 

After Heelyn's birthday party, my mom and I went to Searcy to look at a Christmas decoration store.  My mom had noticed that they had tons of burlap decor (which is what I'm wanting for the wedding).  I'm so glad she noticed because we got SO many cute things to decorate with!  I'm so thankful that my mom is the amazing decorator that she is... AND she knows exactly what my wedding vision is.  She came up with so many creative ideas.  Starting to get decor only makes me more excited for July to get here.  I absolutely cannot wait to marry that boy!

Right now I'm smack dab in the middle of competition season for Cheerleading.  This time of the year is both really exciting and super stressful.  We are putting the peices together on our routines and tension is extremely high.  Practices are either great or awful.  I love this time of the year... when it's competition day.  Haha.  There's so much hard work that goes into the before that it makes you forget sometimes the outcome.  

Anyway....  we decided to take a short break from practicing to play in a Powderpuff game against the varsity cheerleaders benefiting United Way.  It was SO SO SO much fun!  My girls were so pumped up and had a great time.    Even though we didn't win, we all had a great night and are already talking about a re-match.  Ha.  Who knew girls could love playing football so much??

Tis the Season for Pumpkins

Lately it seems like every weekend it rains....   This weekend, it was pretty welcome.  After several busy weeks & weekends, it was nice to have an excuse to just be a little lazy.  Friday night was the big Bentonville vs. Rogers HS game.  Typically RHS isn't a rival for Bentonville, but this year they were undefeated so they might have given us a little run for our money.   Well.... they didn't.  In true Bentonville style, we killed them.  Oh well, at least we get to watch one winning team!

It's tradition at BHS to wear camo on the day we play RHS.  Aren't my girls so cute?  They were on my good side that day ;)

Saturday Jeremy and I invited Megan (his sister) and her fiance, TJ, up for chili and to watch the Razorback game.  My guy makes the BEST chili.  Hands down. 

The way he eats his chili is a little ridiculous.  Crackers AND Fritos.  Yuck.  Meg and I may or may not have skipped on the last half of the game in favor of shopping at the Promenade.

 

On Sunday, Jeremy made good on his promise and took me to a pumpkin path near by.  It was SO much fun!  We went on a hayride and got to cut our own pumpkins.  My sister says ours looks like its rotten.   I disagree!  If you want a fun date I highly reccommend McGarrah Farms in Pea Ridge, AR.  They had TONS of pumpkins of all kinds!  I wanted a "bumpy" one, a big one, and a green one.  Oh and then I had to get some little baby pumpkins too.  Haha.... poor Jeremy. 

 

Sunday evening we lit the first fire of the season.  It's been chilly up here!  I just love the way my pumpkins look next to the lit fireplace.  Ahh... I love fall.



 



Long Time, No Blog

 

What a month September was.   I can honestly say we've been absent from the blog because we have been SO incredibly busy.   Football season is so much fun, but man does it wear you out having to see your team loose every weekend!  Haha.  Poor little hogs, and poor fiance.  Jeremy has stressed himself out so badly over the hogs losing season.   At least we've had a "winning" season of tailgating and hanging out with friends :)

School has me totally swamped right now.  Jeremy and I have barely gotten to spend any quality time together anymore.  I got in WAY over my head this year and while I truly love every minute of it, it leaves me pretty exhausted and overwhelmed lots of days.  Jeremy is so great right now.   He helps me out, listens when I feel overwhelmed, doesn't mind eating out a lot, and still surprises me with sweet gifts and date nights :)   I still can't get over how amazing he is.   How did I get so lucky?

Lately, Jeremy and I have begun attending a new church.   After much prayer we felt led to look into other churches and tried out Fellowship.  We LOVE it.  The main thing we love about Fellowship is how authentic everyone is, and the applicability of the message each Sunday.  We've even joined a community group!  We look forward to Sunday each week and are so glad we found a church that we can grow with.

So that's a quick update our lives lately.  Promise I won't stay gone so long next time!

Family, Friends and The Razorbacks

Jeremy and I decided to head down to Little Rock this weekend to spend time with my family and watch the hogs play at War Memorial Stadium.   We should have known part of the weekend was doomed (haha, poor little hogs) before we even left Bentonville.  The skies turned an earie grey and as I was driving home from work, whole families were standing in their yards watching the clouds as they tumbled in.  When I see people outside looking up at the sky, I start to get a little freaked.  I had just pulled into my garage when the bottom literally fell out of the sky.  Jeremy had beat me to my house, so we quickly grabbed my bags and left trying to beat the weather.  It took us about 45 minutes to reach Fayetteville, and with the weather being clear, we decided to grab dinner and run by Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a shower gift.  Bad decision, as Jeremy then had to drive in the monsoon like weather the entire way to Cabot.  Poor honey.  We made it to Cabot around 10:30 Friday night, pretty much exhausted.

 

Saturday morning we cooked breakfast with my parents, and then Mom and I headed to Chenal to do a little quick shopping.  My sister met us over there with my precious neice Heelyn.  I take any opportunity I can to spend time with her because it KILLS me that I live so far away and can't spend more time with her!  She's getting to such a fun age and says the funniest things!

 After shopping, we grabbed a quick bite at Chick-Fil-A and who doesn't love playing in the play area?  Heelyn didn't want to leave, I can't blame her!

Jeremy spent the afternoon grilling out with friends, and then I met up with everyone and we all headed to War Memorial to cheer on our hogs! 

All I'm going to say about the AR vs. ULM game was I had a very sad, depressed fiance driving me home that night.

Sunday we went to church at New Life in Little Rock.  Neither Jeremy nor I had ever attended NLC before and we both loved it.  The pastor is absolutely hillarious!  He also tells everything just how it is which we both love.  I think we will have to add him to our list of podcasts that we enjoy listening to.  Lunch was at Taziki's, and then we headed back so Mom and I could attend a Bridal Shower and Dad and Jeremy could golf.

One of my childhood friends, Christi, is getting married in a little over a month!  I will be the last of us to get married, I can't believe it.  I remember talking back in high school and we always thought I would be the first!  Ha.   Little did we know ;)  

Anyway, Christi met her future hubby Chad in high school and even though they have lived in different places for much of their relationship, they made it work and are going to finally become husband and wife!  I'm extremelly happy for her, Chad's a great guy!  It's so crazy to think of the first bridal shower we all attended together, to some of the lasts.... we are seasoned pros by now :)

It was great to get to catch up with some of my closest, longest girlfriends... whom I wish lived closer to me!  Although I absolutely cherish my college friends and beyond, no one understands you quite like the girls who you attended every school prom, cheered beside, and graduated with.  Although the friendships may change, the bonds are forever.