When it comes to wedding showers, apparently my crew knows how to do it! Chad and I had two amazing wedding showers in one packed weekend and we are truly overwhelmed at the love everyone has shown us! Let's start this blog post with how packed the weekend really was.
                                         1) Got in Friday night
2) Dress fitting at 9 am 3) Drive straight to the shower thrown by Chad's folks from 2-4 pm 4) Pack up the cars and have our wedding counseling from 5:30-8 Sunday Morning 5) Get to the wedding shower venue thrown by my family at 9 am 6) Help set up until 2 pm 7) Shower went from 2:30-5 8) Pack it all up and clean up 9) Go check out space for the rehearsal dinner Monday Morning 10) Leave at 8 am
WHEW!!!! I mean it could not have been a more packed weekend!

 This is some of my crew. They were amazing! Paige and David flew in for the weekend to do this. Andy and Christen left Atlanta at 6:30 am that morning to come help set up (and they were life savors). Sandra came and was my right hand man and Nana was the overall supervisor!

Each person contributed so much and it appeared that they were doing something they were good at. For example, David was in control of the lighting and sound, Mom was in control of cleaning some dishes, Peggy was in control of setting up the food, Andy and Christen did a duet for hanging up the curtains and making them look amazing, etc.

Overall, I am just overwhelmed at how much love was shown to Chad and I. Thank you everyone!

I'm so overwhelmed with love

This is, what you could call, a countdown chain. There are 50 links on this chain with each link having a piece of advice/note from someone who cares about me! I begin to use this chain on August 17th-this will be 50 days away from my wedding day! Christen Ruff put this procedure together and had me open it over Skype. Once I opened it and realized what it was-I was overcome with emotion. Having someone love me enough to put this together and use all the resources in her power mean so much to me. Thank you Christen and thank you to everyone who made this possible! I have displayed this in my living room right about the TV-so I see it all day long! I can't wait to start looking and reading each link!

Trip home=wedding plans executed!

Sorry I have not updated in a while, I've been crazy busy with wedding plans. I did want to tell you that I had a wonderful trip home!

For starters I got some time with my parents. We went to Ober Gatlinburg and spent the entire day up there! It had been forever since any of us had been up there! I was home for about a week and a half and it literally flew by!

 Soon after I got back to Tennessee I was lucky enough to have Christen and Sandra help me pick out the bridesmaids jewelry! They were the ideal people to have with you when you need to make a decision!!! I picked it out, but had their "support" in the decision making process-this may be a better way to describe that afternoon! Then after that, they brought their bridesmaid dresses (along with their new jewelery I might add) into the the bridal salon and I had MY FIRST DRESS FITTING!!! Mom and Dad were there as well. It looked and fit perfect!!

That night, Christen and I went to yoga with mom and then after that Paige came in!! The next morning was all business. We accomplished some serious wedding plans.

Here we are at Greeks Bearing Gifts. This group (plus Nana) is the core of everything wedding. They got the showers together, the invitations, napkins, parties, YOU NAME IT and they had something to do with it. This "team" is why wedding planning has not been a burden-they make it so much fun! Thank you, each one!!

My trip home was super busy, but very successful. One of the last things I got to do was record some more music.

For Chad and I's wedding favors, we are putting together a CD of some of our performances. There's going to be about five songs of him playing the piano and five of me singing. For two songs, I took the cd he made for me and sang over him playing! I'm excited to put these together. It will be a great favor that I think reflects us well!