Flourish + Fun

Jodi & Chris, June 27th {a gracious, kind and loving couple and their absolutely perfect wedding} The groom, Chris, serenading his beautiful bride, Jodi!  The darling couple, newlyweds!!! {Aren't they the cutest together!?!} God sent them a rainbow (but it didn't even rain, whaaa?) and a pretty cotton candy sky! For dessert, fresh mini-donuts for the guests  {delicious!!!} And to top it off, a fun sparkler send off! Vendors: venue-Thousand Oaks Ranch in Pismo Beach, Caterer-Dickies BBQ, Flowers-Dawn, Bride and Friends, DJ-Johnny Walker, Hair & Makeup- Queens Bees, Dessert-Sugar Lips Mini Donut Truck, Coordination-Planimation Events

Susie & JJ, June 20th {vintage decor, a kind and relaxed bride, and board games + cupcake decorating for the guests} The father of the bride, and his daughter JJ & his darling bride, Susie!  Delicious dinner eats, compliments of Petra The sweetheart table for the newly weds Dainty wildflower arrangements with vintage glass vases and decorative gold trays! The wild garter toss, in our custom made lounge!  Vendors: Venue-SLO Botanical Gardens, Caterer-Petra Greek Restaurant, Florist-FluidBloom Floral, rentals-Embellish Vintage Rentals, Coordination-Planimation Events

And some more photos... :) Sliding into Kindergarten... Diploma in hand... Ready for the future! ;-)

Look who's all grown up... Well kind of! Voted "best of friends" meaning she's everyone's best friend. How cute is that!? The walk... Singing songs... Getting flowers, and now here comes the fire truck!!! Family photos And a few friend photos These girls! Ready for kindergarten!!!

My darling friend Amanda and I hosted a shower for our sweet friend Emily at my home this past weekend. Amanda did most of the heavy lifting for this one, so to speak! She did such a wonderful job with the prep, the menu, and almost everything in between. Despite lots of fire drills that arose while we were prepping for the party (oy, haha!), the actual shower went great (thankfully!) we had a great time celebrating Emily and her baby girl!! We can't wait to meet her!

This happened almost two weeks ago... #toddlertantrum+stairs But then I forgive her because she's so sweet "Ava sowwy, mommy I wove you" Then when the crazy exhausting week is coming to an end, Em decided to accidently take a head dive into the patio cement (ouch!!) So to make our (hurt)selves feel a tad bit better we headed to the pier for amazing whale watching (it was seriously perfect timing, so incredible!) and some uplifting sea breeze. It was the perfect start to the weekend!

Our neighbors throw an annual (this is the 6th year) crawfish cookout, and it's kind of amazing! Prior to cooking they have crawfish Olympics where the kids pick one each, line it up in the center of the ring and then they all race! It is so fun. The center point is the start of the race.... After the race, they'll boil the crawfish with seasoning,  potatoes, sausage, corn, artichokes, and of course, tons of crawfish. Everyone sits down to a huge long table covered in tablecloths and they pour all of the food onto the table, and everyone digs in.