Golden

Well, Im getting old.

I am having my golden birthday on monday, I am turning 24 on the 24th of August. No major plans really. Just going out with some friends this weekend and then on monday I have the day off and hubby and I are going to have a day of shopping and dinner at the OG..."Olive Garden" for those of you who didnt know. See where we live in Kentucky, it is like the capital of restaurants. We have every restaurant known to man, except an OLIVE GARDEN! So we use any excuse, well I do anyways, to drive to the OG nearest to us -- about 45 minutes away.

Nothing much going on with us lately. Last weekend we had a big weekend full of entertaining at our house which was fun. Last night we waited for our good friends Jordan and Amanda to deliver their new baby Anslee into the world which finally happened at 12:20am this morning so congratulations to them on their healthy new little girl!!

This weekend, my niece Kendle has her 1st soccer game and of course it's my birthday on Monday. I will try to post some pictures of all of the festivities later.

One more year left until I will be a qaurter of a century old!!!

Weekend Re-cap

You know those lazy weekend days where you just lay around the house on the couch watching movies and sleeping late?? Well we never have those weekends!! I think sunday we decided we wanted to sleep in and woke up at 8am!!

Friday night we had a fun night out with our friends the Colemans. We went to dinner and bowling. Of course we had to bet on the game, girls against boys. Apparently Mrs. C and I are cooking breakfast for the boys on opening day of duck season, before they leave at 3am!! Obviously we lost =(

Saturday we got up early and got some things done around the house before we traveled out to Andy's parents house for lunch with the Alford Clan. After lunch I dragged the hubby around for some shopping. I wanted to find some a new coffee table and end tables set. After hitting about 3 different places with no luck he finally talked me into going home. He bribed me by offering to take care of some things on the honey-do list if we could just get home! haha Isn't he sneaky! Then we got home and did get some the rest of the trim put up which I was most excited about!! Now all we have left is putting something above our kitchen cabinets and our remodel will finally be complete (for now). My dad is coming out tuesday to help my hubby finish up the job. Then we were invited by the Colemans again to join our friends out for a night on the town. After some convincing, we finally agreed we were still young and could drag our exhausted butts out of the house (although our plan was to just stay home and watch a movie). We had a blast though so it was a good decision.

Sunday we attempted to sleep in. Woke up at 8am, of course. I cooked breakfast while the hubby did some things outside. We worked more around the house until the Jones clan, (my family) came out for dinner last night for our first big party at the new house. After everyone left we crashed on the couch and FINALLY watched our movie.

How sad is it when you have to schedule in time just to snuggle on the couch with your hubby and watch a movie!!

Show Us Your Life

Kelley's Corner is hosting Show us Your Life-Wedding Reception and Honeymoon so I thought I would participate although I am still new at the blogging world and have never done this before. Of course I just posted a few weeks ago about our whole honeymoon but I have never really posted much about our wedding other than a few photos.

As far as our reception goes, I really wanted to have a fun reception so during the planning process we really put an effort into the reception being fun. I wish I had better photos of the reception but I think our efforts paid off because everyone still talks about how much fun they had at the wedding, GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!!

Above is one of my favorite pictures of us from our reception only because it is just so typical of us! I am the one posing and smiling for the picture and Mr. A is eating and making a crazy face, as usual! Not to mention the fact that we both were starving at the reception but when the time came to actually eat we were so overwhelmed that we hardly ate a bite! We stopped at McDonald's on our way to our hotel later that night!

Here we are being introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Alford. You can't tell from this picture but everyone there was laughing because me being the sneaky bride I was, I wanted to add a little suprise in the mix for my husband for putting up with my OCD for the last months of the planning. See he is a farmer and works for a farm equipment company in sales. So for the introduction of our bridal party we played I'm Your's by Jason Mraz. When it came time to introduce us, I slipped in something. If any of are country music fans you would appreciate this. I changed us to be introduced to the song "International Harvester" so as the DJ starting saying our names a revved up tractor was playing in the background. Mr. A couldn't believe I had done this and you can see in the picture his suprise! I had some doubt if this would be too "redneck" for some but everyone seemed to get a big kick out of it!

This pictures is only about half of our wedding party lined up, we had 14 attendants, 4 ushers, 2 ring bearers, 1 junior groomsman, and 1 flower girl for a grand total of 22 people plus the bride and groom!!

You can somewhat see in the top of this picture the lights that we had draped from the ceiling. The pictures turned out really dark but I was really happy with the lighting effect we had. I really like candles and lights, I think it puts off a really romantic atmosphere. You can't tell very well in the photos but we had a black and white theme with red accentend throughout. The chairs were black and we tied white satin bows on all of them. The tablecloths were black and we had mirrors on all of the tables with a mixture of glass bowls with floating candles or glass hurricanes with tall candles and all tables had many small votive candles all over them. Luckily we had no fires! I was really disappointed with our photographer that he didn't get any photos of the centerpieces especially considering the long list of DEFNITE photos I wanted to get. So needless to say I dont have a single photo of a centerpiece! Oh well, it's over now though right!

Here are some more random photos from the rest of the reception:

For those of you who havn't seen it before, here is the link for a sneak peak at our wedding video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/digitalcraftpro/video/x8x623_alford-highlight-movie_people

I will leave you with my favorite picture from our wedding (although it is not from the reception) and then a few from our honeymoon:

I loved this picture just because I thought it was so cute! My little cousin in the front covering his eyes cracks me up everytime I see it!

We went on a wonderful cruise to the Carribbean for our honeymoon:

So there you have it, our reception, in a nutshell! We had a blast at our reception, especially since the stress of the day and everything was behind us! We hope that everyone that attended did as well!

Roxy Alford

Here are some more recent pictures of our "child". Who can say no to that sweet face?!!

"Rub my belly Mommy!!"

She is not spoiled at all!

On another note, a drunk driver wrecked right in front of our house last night. Its a miracle he is alive because his car flipped and landed in a ditch but he walked right out of it. Luckily no one else was on the road at the time! Drive carefully!!

Guard Dog's and Rodents

So I havn't talked much about our baby (and by baby I mean our dog) Roxy. I have talked a lot about our wedding and our home remodel but have never brought up our pride and joy, Roxy, and considering the night we had last night, I figured this was just as good of a time as any to talk about our favorite little fur ball.

Andy bought Roxy for me about a year after we started dating. I was living by myself and really wanted a puppy. I had researched and knew exactly what I wanted and even had her named Roxy before she even existed! Well Andy found her for me (what a good hubby!)! She is a yorkshire terrior who came from Missouri. We drove four hours there and back in one day to get her and at the time, she could fit into the palm of our hands. She weighed a whopping 1.5 lbs when we first took her to the vet. When I get some more time I will have to scan some older pictures of her when she was so tiny but for now, the picture below is one of her and my hubby (boyfriend of one year at the time) snuggling:

Roxy is the sweetest little thing. She loves to snuggle, be rubbed, and play with her mommy and daddy. She is great with kids and my niece Kendle loves her more than me I think! She is now four years old and weighs 5.5 lbs! What a fatty huh? I don't know what our life would be like without her!

Well back to the reason for this post, Last night. Roxy has always been the root of many jokes within our friends and family because she is so small and cute! And Mr. A and I always laugh back and say she is our gaurd dog. Since I did live alone for a while, I loved having her with me because although she is small, I always felt safer having her with me because she would always let me know if something was coming or around. She always barks when someone comes to the door or growls during the night if she hears something spooky. Well last night was no different.

The time was 3:30AM when Mr. A and I were woken up by Roxy barking like crazy. She had been out in the house for some reason and was barking and had come back into our bedroom which is really unlike her. Since she is of course spoiled rotten, she has always slept in the bed with us (usually her head on my pillow and my head pushed off onto the mattress although her favorite spot is between Andy and me). For her to be going through the house in the middle of the night was really strange.

Of course Mr. A and I were really freaking out thinking someone was in the house or who knows what. Well I grabbed Roxy and Andy, well he grabbed his gun. (Of course!) He walked out of our bedroom behind the door very slowly with gun in tow sneaking around to see what was causing Roxy so much trouble. Then he saw it. He snickered a little bit and said "Oh your going to be mad". (Knowing my OCD I have had lately regarding bugs and rodents since we have moved to the country). So you know what it was.....Drumroll please....A MOUSE! YUCK! Well I don't know if Roxy had scared it to death or what had happened while we were still asleep before she went crazy but Mr. A said it was still alive but it wasn't moving much. I of course was freaking out that it was playing dead and as soon as he tried to get it the stupid thing was going to run who knows where throughout the house. So without him walking towards it anymore he needed a box to try to catch it in. (Can't you just see us now, Mr. A chasing a mouse through our house at 3AM???)

So he slowly walks back into our bedroom looking for a shoe box and the first thing he grabs is this off of our nightstand:

This box was something my sister had used as a gift box for one of our wedding gifts and it matches our comforter. So he grabbed this decorative box we have on our night stand to catch a nasty rodent! Typical Man!! He slammed the box on top of the mouse quickly, which if the mouse hadn't already had a heart attack due to Roxy chasing it or who knows what I'm sure he did then. Now A is wondering how he is going to get the lid on. He slides it underneath and there you have it, mouse in a box. Probably the nicest and cutest place that mouse had ever lived!!

So see, Roxy really is our guard dog!! We really praised her after that for finding that critter in our house and hopefully she will continue this pattern and scare to death any unwanted guests we might have in the future!

Good job Roxy!!

I will leave you all with our Christmas Card photo from a couple years ago with our little furbaby we love so dear: