Josh + Emily = Engaged

I can hardly contain my excitement, my beautiful friend Emily is engaged! 

The proposal was so sweet. I was truly honored to be a part of it.  Hiding in Vault Hemingway Stadium watching Josh propose to Emily was one of the best moments of my life. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.  Josh did such a great job planning and organizing everything. It was so perfect and I think it's safe to say that Em was completely floored. 

Josh called me Tuesday and told me he was planning on proposing to Emily Thursday at the stadium. He asked me if I would be willing to take pictures of the engagement. I'm pretty sure that was the moment I about wanted to throw up. I love photography and it is one of my true passions. However, it is SO nerve wracking to take pictures for friends. Especially when we are taking about taking pictures of major life changing events, such as engagements. 

I made it through the shoot, shaky hands and all. I was so excited and nervous all at the same time. I am truly amazed that all the pictures didn't turn out completely blurry because of the earthquake that decided to take up residence inside on hands. 

Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

Picnic on the 50 yard line

What they had on their first date.

About to pop the question..

If there was any doubt in your mind, she said YES!

The happy couple.

My girls! 

Josh did such a good job with the ring. Gorgeous! 

Saturday night we all got together to celebrate the engagement. Of course we had to have a mini photo shoot at the restaurant.

Emily and LP were rocking the floral. 

Sweet Em! 

Josh and Emily,
     I am beyond excited for you! It has been a pleasure to watch your relationship grow over the last few years. I am so blessed to call you guys my friends. You both mean the world to me! I can't wait to see what God has in store for your future. Let the wedding planning begin!!

 

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

What am I loving this Wednesday you ask? 

1. I am LOVING being back to the blogging world. It has been far to long ladies. I have missed all of you! Life has become a little bit crazy and hectic over the past few months and I have slacked off on the blogging a little bit...okay a lot a bit.

2. Spring break is in seven school days! Need I say more? I think my students are just as excited about this as I am. I can't wait to have nine whole days off. In a word, amazing. Hopefully the weather will corporate and we will have pretty weather. Since I live in Mississippi, I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm sure it will be 75 one day and 35 the next. Gotta love that southern weather.

3. So, I found my new favorite lip gloss. Big thanks to Birchbox for introducing me to my new obsession. This stuff is amazing. Like I loved my sample size so much that I ordered a full tube of the stuff. I would highly recommend my head over to Birchbox and buy yourself some.

Jouer lip gloss in Birchbox Pink

4. Baseball season is finally here. You have no idea how much I love this sport. Ever since I was a little girl I have been traveling all over the state of MS watching my baby brother play ball.  The season has just gotten underway and I am so excited!

5. Colored skinny jeans and shorts. I don't know why I love this trend so much, but I'm border line obsessed. I only have tomato red and bright purple currently, but I think I might be adding electric blue to my collection pretty soon. I got the cutest pair of sorts from Ella Ivy the other day and I can't wait for the weather to warm up so I can wear them. Please hurry summer.

I mean how cute are they. How could you not love these?

6. As always, I'm loving this sweet little girl. Yes, I love her even though she has the most awkward seating habits. 

Friday Confessions

Hey girls!!! We made it to Friday and you know what that means. Time to link up with Leslie for Friday Confessional!

1. I was asked to attend a Mathematics workshop today and I was not very excited about attending. I ended up have a great time and learning lots of new things I can implement into my classroom.

2. I was so pumped up about said workshop that I signed up for an intensive two week workshop this summer. Woot woot!! Math nerd alert.

3. I should totally be grading papers and working on my lesson plans right now, but instead I am blogging. Can you say addicted?

4. Have you girls seen the preview for The Vow? If not you are totally missing out. I can not wait for this movie to come out. I mean, who doesn't love a good chick flick? Even if you don't like chick flicks you would be crazy to not want to go stare at Channing Tatum for a few hours.

5. I have no major plans for this weekend and I am completely fine with that. Sometimes it's nice to spend the weekend at home in your pajamas all day.

6. My fourth graders have decided that I need to marry Tim Tebow. I have no objections to this proposal. Pun intended. What do you say Tim? Would you really want to let these sweet little kids down?

7. I ate this Monday of this week. I only ate half of it and I'm pretty sure it caused me to gain two pounds. Thanks Gigi!

Have a lovely weekend ladies. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as Tebow calls, or when pigs start flying. Whichever happens first.

Reunited

What do you get when you have a blonde, a red head, and a brunette in the same place at the same time? A good time, duh!! 

 I have missed these two ladies so much!! Last night we were all able to meet up in our favorite town and have dinner together. It was so nice to be back in Oxford with my old roomies.

Dinner at Chilis with my faves!

After dinner, we went to Lauren's house to see little Harp Harp!! Emily and I couldn't wait to get our hands on our little niece. I have missed this little girl!

Auntie Emily and Auntie Haley love you Harper!

And your mama loves you just a little bit too!

Lauren and her future hubby Mr. Cooper. Look how dressed up he got to meet us for the first time! Such a sweetie. 

Okay, this is where this normal little blog post about having a fabulous time with my long, lost friends takes an interesting turn. Very interesting. Lauren's brother decided that Emily, the city girl, needed to get a little taste of the country life. So the obvious thing to do was take her for a little ride. I think you can tell from the picture below how much she enjoyed it! 

Poor Em!

I'm fairly sure that by this point and time we were all fearing for our lives just a tad. You see we were in a deserted field that was overgrown with kudzu and Adam and Lauren were telling us about how some murderer used to live in this school bus. Oy vey! 

After Emily recovered from the trauma of seeing the spooky bus in the empty field, we got ourselves into another scary sistuation. Apparently, someone had kicked the door in on this building and the law had to be called to investigate the situation. 

I had a wonderful time with Lauren and Emily last night! We went through so much together last year in our little apartment. We survived Senior year at Ole Miss together, Senior practicum, Dr. Holmes, student teaching, and finding jobs. I really don't know what I would've done without them last year. These girls were my rocks. We will forever be tied together because of all the wonderful memories we made together in Oxford. 

Let's take a trip down memory lane shall we.....

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn