Pinterest inspired “Rings in Sand” picture from our Honeymoon in Jamaica.
Of course, ours was taken with our waterproof camera at a bad angle with some sea trash on the top right hand corner, but its ours. You can also tell that my hand was a little more wet then his as seen in the smudges of my palm. Our plan, to take a “Rings in Sand” picture for EVERY beach that we visit. What better way than to start with our Honeymoon Beach!?
*****I apologize, this post was intended to be shown on my other blog, South Texas Wifey! I would love for you to stop by there too! *****
Honestly, I didn’t mean to make bites…I wanted to make cookies, but our cookies sheets were dirty and I was too lazy to clean them.
I didn’t plan on making any dessert today, but when I was shopping at HEB, the candies were on sale so I decided to buy and come up with something.
As I walked through the store, the Pillsbury cookie dough was also on sale. You can see where this is going. So, I bought some chocolate chip cookie dough.
Well, I opened this one already, got a little too anxious.
The Pillsbury cookie dough comes already portioned.
I took each pre-portioned dough ball and rolled it around a Mini Rolo or a Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup. I did 12 mini-Rolo’s and 12 mini- Reese’s. I then placed them in a mini cupcake pan.
Baked it for the amount of time and temperature on the package of cookie dough and…TA DA!!!
Done!
These are AMAZING!! The Rolo’s ooze the caramel out and the Reese’s is a great combination between chocolate and peanut butter.
A SUPER EASY, but DELICIOUS recipe for LAZY days!
One of the first things things in planning a wedding is picking your wedding colors.
My color ideas…sea foam green and white. We were getting married in June and I love the freshness of those colors. My husband, who was really helpful in the overall process but not into details had one request in the planning…burnt orange. Yes, burnt orange for a JUNE wedding. How could I say ‘No’ when it was one of his only requests? So, what did we do? Had a burnt orange wedding!
Burnt Orange was appropriate for us, not only because we are die-hard Texas Longhorn fans, but because that’s where we met! I was a Freshman and he was a Junior at The University of Texas when we met. As Texas Exes, we definitely represented.
The Wedding Party was of course in burnt orange attire.
The Groom’s Cake was definitely a longhorn!
We gave out burnt orange koozies with the drinks.
And…of course…we sang The Eyes of Texas and did a good ole Texas Fight!
Somewhere in between him asking for Burnt Orange to be one of our wedding colors and the wedding day…it turned into a full blown theme of “Hooked on Each Other”.
It was our very own, Texas Longhorn Wedding!
We get our wedding pictures today!
I am so excited and can’t wait to be able to share pictures from the happiest day of our lives!! Be on the look out for pictures to come in posts later this week.
(No pictures in this post to help build the suspense.)
So, we all love using Pinterest to collect our ideas for the wedding? Why not use it to help win money for your wedding?!?!
Storymix has teamed up with GigMasters and TheManRegistry to give away a prize package of almost $1200.
The Prize Package:
Total Prize Package is worth approximately $1,200.
Sound good?
1. Create a Pinterest Board full of inspiration for your wedding. Title it “Pin & Win Wedding.”
2. Follow one of the boards below (follow all 3 for additional entries) and repin the contest logo:
GigMasters Pin & Win Board
Storymix Pin & Win Board
The Man Registry Pin & Win Board
3. Repin at least one pin that you love from each of the Sponsors’ Pinterest Boards:
GigMasters
Storymix Media
The Man Registry
4.These pins must include the hashtag #pinandwinwedding so that we can find it and enter you!
There, you’re entered!
The winner will be chosen at random, so the more entries you have the better your chances. Here are some ways to get extra entries:
The winner will be chosen at random on Friday, July 20th at noon Eastern time, the more entries you have the greater your chance of winning!
Have questions? Visit the Storymix blog and leave a comment!
Good Luck!!
It’s official!! We have been married for 1 month!!
Wow! Time has definitely flown!
For 2 of those weeks we were away from our normal routine so I’m sure that has added to this whirlwind of a month.
So, I had told myself that I would do the Thank You notes within the first month. SO didn’t happen. Well, hopefully I will get them done in The Knot’s recommended 2 months. Yikes! I sure do hope so. I mean, I have only made a SMALL dent in them.
Am I the only one that is dragging their feet on Thank You notes? I feel guilty, but I feel like a note the size of a 3 x 5″ just isn’t enough space to really say how thankful I am to them for being a part of our special day. I feel like they are a little corny…but definitely necessary.
*Fingers crossed* that I get them done SOON!
We had a wedding slideshow made to show our guests during Cocktail Hour.
The slideshow was made by Storymix and consisted of 50 pictures of our relationship over the past 5 1/2 years.
The plan was to show this during cocktail hour so that our guests could be entertained. This would be along with the appetizers, the photo booth, DJ, and finding their seats. Plenty to keep them all entertained for an hour before we got there.
I was so happy at the way that the slideshow all turned out. We didn’t request any specific song and the song that Storymix put to it was perfect! I had never even heard the song before and now I love it! All I had to do was download the video and give the venue my laptop and it would be on! Well….I forgot to download (my parents don’t have wireless) and I forgot to pass on my laptop. So, the video wasn’t shown at Cocktail Hour.
This was just one of the many things that happened on the day of the wedding that I had to just roll with. I realized it when we were back in the hotel freshening up and I saw the bag with the laptop in our room (which I had been lugging around with me all day) and the cocktail hour was scheduled to begin in 5 minutes. I called our wedding planner at Circle the Date and told her to have the media system that we rented from the venue with the projector screen and all to be pulled up so that no one would even know the difference.
Of course, being the great wedding planners they were, they were able to pull that off flawlessly and no one knew (except for I had told one of my aunts the night before about it and she passed it on to everyone at her table.) As much as I had planned out every detail of the wedding, I was very proud of myself for letting things just slide by on the day of. My thought was it’s too late now. I’m not going to let anything bother me because in the end, this day is all about marrying my best friend!
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