Just Another Wedding Related Weekend

Hi everyone. Sorry about my lack of posts since Friday, it's been a wild weekend up here. Including the weather...monsoons anyone?

The weekend started out on Friday night with some delicious Italian food followed by a production of Willy Wonka Junior. One of the third grade kiddos I tutor was an Oompa Loompa so we went to see her big play deput. I can't post pictures because I don't post kids pictures, but trust me it was cute.

Other important weekend highlights included...

Cake tasting!!!

Yum- we tried a LOT of cake: vanilla with raspberry, marble with mocha filling, carrot cake, red velvet, lemon with lemon/orange filling, some kind of canoli cake, a regular chocolate with buttercream frosting and I think there was some sort of liquor cake.

Like everything else with wedding planning, there were multiple books of cake designs. But Eric and I are quick decision makers when left to our own devices. We decided on a beach themed cake with shades of pink sand (obviously the pink was Eric's idea...ha). My favorite cake was the marble cake with mocha filling, so that is our bottom layer and our top three will be red velvet, Eric's favorite. This means we'll cut into my favorite at the wedding and Eric will get to keep his favorite for after the wedding (probably not until our 1 year anniversary though). What can I say? We are fabulous compromisers.

I also attended my friend Sarah's bridal shower. Sarah and I go back to freshman year of high school when we met through soccer and a bunch of classes together. I think our high school selves would giggle at the fact that we are getting married within 2 months of each other, but I think most people who knew us then wouldn't be surprised at all. Despite being two ridiculously good two shoes kids, one of my favorite Sarah and Kelly moments would have to be the first time we tried kahlua...without mixing it. Sarah goes, "hmm it tastes like vanilla" and I start to say, "oh that's not bad" and then she says..."vanilla extract!" haha. EW. Ah, to be a teenager again...

Anyway, Sarah's bridal shower was a lot of fun. Instead of gifts, everyone brought a scrapbook page decorated with a recipe and a picture of themselves with Sarah. I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of mine before I gave it away! Sarah's sister made it into a run recipe/scrapbook. As it turns out, a bridal shower without gifts is a lot more entertaining for everyone involved (well at least for me). We got to play games like Sarah & Brian trivia (which I actually was not terrible at, yay) and we even had a toilet paper wedding dress competition!

I actually liked my dress haha. And I won the competition! I shouldn't really be too proud of myself though, I was just the model for my team and the two other girls were basically responsible for making the dress, I think it's clear I have no real talent in the fashion field. It was fun though.

Other than those events this weekend was a major wash out, quite literally. Eric and I had about a million errands we wanted to get done and the rain made doing those errands SO much more difficult. Every place we stopped we'd get more soaked until we finally just gave up and decided we didn't need half the stuff we thought we needed. Also, my grocery store ran out of Oikos yogurt and canned pumpkin which means I have to motivate myself to go back out in this terrible weather at some point...or deal without those two items, which at this point I'm about willing to do. The fact that this weather is supposed to continue into tomorrow does not make me any more pumped about a Monday AND I lost an hour. So overall, I'm already ready for next weekend. Every Monday I ask my kids at work what their favorite part of the weekend is and one of my kids said, "when do we get to say the worst part of our weekend?" I'm thinking tomorrow will be the day haha.

What was the best thing you did this weekend? What was the worst part of the weekend? :)