Weekend Recap! :)

Hiya friends! How was the weekend? Mine=gooooood! The weekend was a busy one, but was definitely good times. :) Before I start rambling about it and blasting you with photos, I wanted to tell ya I have a guest post on Tracy's blog today about St. Lucia! Go check it out if you're like me and feeling like you need a vacay!  :)

Okay, now for the weekend!

Friday, I had the privilege of attending Project Hope's annual fundraising event, Kwero, with Maria at the Mayo, a historic hotel in downtown Tulsa that's been completely restored. :) At each place setting was a little bookmark with the photo and hearbreaking, yet inspiring story of an orphan in Uganda. All donations went to help build an orphanage, medical clinic and school in Lira, Uganda, known as “Calo Me Lare” or “Village of Redemption." Check out any of the event's linked websites above for stories about the orphans, the mission, etc...

The below is a horrible photo of me, buuuut it's the only one we remembered to take. (I know.. who am I? haha). :) Anyway, we enjoyed our fans and wanted to pose with them. (of course).  As far as Friday nights go, it was definitely 5 star. :)

Saturday, I actually headed BACK to that historic hotel, the Mayo, for a wedding! But, not just ANY wedding... MARY'S WEDDING! :)  I blogged about her shower a couple weeks ago and have been so jazzed to celebrate with her and Bryan! :)

The decor was gorgeous...

The couple is perfect...  :)

...and my date is kinda awesomesauce (and he even accidentally matched their lavender decor...haha).

Aren't they just glowing?! :) I don't cry at weddings...usually. But, I definitely fought back some tears for these peeps. :)

"The family." Mary (bride), Dennis, and me all met at the law firm. :) What started as a few lunches and stopping by each others' offices turned into a great friendship that's lasted years after we all left the firm. :) Oddly enough, we all left within the same calendar year...and none of us really do litigation anymore. Kinda random...

Mary's husband, Bryan, is a very talented musician in his spare time. He used to play in a great, local band called Taming Enos. :) (As I type that, my mind rushes back to college, live music, buckets of bud light, and entirely too much fun swaying around on the dance floor) Anyhoo, Bryan actually wrote a song for Mary and sang it for the first time at the reception! :) (I SO have it on video, but was having issues uploading).

The room was definitely not in a shortage of musically talented people! Bryan and Mary's good friends, David Cook and his band, were also in attendance. (David Cook and band are from here). :) So the reception closed out with a really fun jam fest of some pretty talented folks!

An absolute blast with some really fantastic people that deserve all the happiness in the world. :) Eric and I headed home and thought watching Lost would be a totally good idea (Have I mentioned that I've gotten him a little hooked? He's on Season 1!). Things you shouldn't do when you're exhausted from a long week and have had a few glasses of wine: lay down to watch a television show. The next thing either of us remember is waking up on the sofa-him on one and me on the other-at around 9am the next morning. My mascara-coated eyelashes were glued shut and my contacts felt like I'd used a blowdryer in.my.eye...

haha.. Good grief... :) #exhausted #toomuchgoingon (<-- I like to use hash tags when I'm not on twitter. Whatever).

Had plans to do lunch with some of Eric's friends, so headed out there mid-afternoon Sunday. Nadine (his friend's wife) is from Sri Lanka and prepared an amazing Sri Lankan meal! I'd never had Sri Lankan food-good stuff, friends. Good stuff indeed. :)

Random: So... a girl at the wedding had on an awesome little gold necklace. I complimented her on it and she said someone had brought it back from NYC for her. Anyway, decided to look on etsy for something simple and gold and I found the EXACT necklace! :) And it was under $30! Awesome necklace for the win!

From http://www.etsy.com/shop/simplybybluebird

Soooo that was the weekend! Hope yours was good, friends! :) SO glad winter seems to officially be behind us!

Oh and um.. I have a quick confession... I woke up this morning and my first thought was how excited I am to see these two again tonight... Not sure if that's sad or awesome. Let's go with awesome. ;) 

Gossip Girl is BACK!!!!!!!!!