Ren & Brittany's Wedding

Our second family wedding of the year! My cousin, Ren, married his high school sweetheart in Atlanta, Georgia last weekend. What a beautiful weekend it turned out to be after we drove through Tropical Storm Andrea the whole way to Georgia. The wedding overlooked a polo field at the beginning of the North Georgia mountains. 

Family weddings are always my favorite with a family like this one!

Whether we are in South Georgia or North Georgia - these cousins know how to have a good time!

Congratulations Ren and Brittany!

Spring is Here!

I have done a terrible job of updating this blog this year! My sincere apologies, it has been a crazy few weeks! Since my last post I have had a few events to help welcome the Spring season. Thank goodness, because it has been one cold winter! I am welcoming Spring with open arms! 

We had a fun family trip to the farm for Easter and I got to play hard with my nephew and take these fun pictures of my niece in the crimson clover.

We had another Pirate Wedding! My ECU friends Chris and Leanne tied the knot in Durham, NC with the reception overlooking one of the best views in the area! Since Chris and I went to high school and college together, I was able to see a lot of old friends that I haven't seen in awhile. What a fun day to celebrate with the bride and groom! Of course they joined us at Chapel Hill's Top of the Hill after the wedding to watch the semi-final game of the NCAA tournament. True North Carolinians ;)

Last weekend I made a trip to our nation's capitol with Monica and Taylor to chaperone some of our students in the National Cherry Blossom Parade. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the cherry blossoms were showing off their perfect blooms. The trip to Washington DC was just the escape from everyday life that I needed. 

My calendar is quickly filling up of other springtime events. Stay tuned for more exciting stories and pictures of what I'm up to!

A Christmas Wedding

Last weekend we had another Pirate wedding! It was a beautiful Christmas wedding full of Christmas lights, poinsettias, Christmas trees, stockings and candlelight glow. Brittany went to ECU with me and she married one of my UNC Dental School friends, James. I am excited to say that I was there when the first met and I am so happy that I get to see them start this new chapter of their lives together. 

This summer Brittany and James asked me to choreograph a dance for their bridal party. With a bridal party of 18 this presented a slight challenge as most of the wedding party does not live in North Carolina. Have no fear - with a huge thanks to technology, I was able to teach the entire wedding party the dance over the internet! The bridal party arrived at the wedding rehearsal after learning the routine through videos and did an amazing performance Saturday night! Check out the link here and let me know what you think. 

Alyssa & Mike Tie the Knot

What a beautiful wedding I attended last weekend at Carolina Beach! Alyssa and Mike tied the knot, Sunday November 3rd, 2012 on a beautiful Fall afternoon. Alyssa is not only a dear friend of mine from ECU but she was my PEPI partner our Senior year of high school and my roommate for 4 years. We have too many memories to begin to count. We laughed, cried, cried because we laughed so hard, watched a million episodes of One Tree Hill and The Bachelor, waved towels by the fire alarm while the other tried to take care of the burnt dinner, had the best pillow talk ever and had way too many late night dance parties in our apartment to the High School Musical soundtrack. I was so happy to share this beautiful day with Alyssa and Mike as they start their new chapter of their lives together. 

I just love Pirate weddings!

  

I love these pictures of me and Alyssa our Freshman year in college. Yes, we even dressed the same!

And we had matching chairs, and matching bedspreads in our dorm. 

What a beautiful bride!