Holly and Garr's Wedding

Wow! What an amazing weekend we had for Holly and Garr's wedding. They got married at The Grand Del Mar, which is one of the nicest hotels in San Diego nestled in "The CV." We had a few friends staying at the hotel so we were able to take full advantage of all of the VIP amenities! The pool is amazing and as you can tell from the pictures I worked on my tan while taste testing margaritas. Emma got to meet Jen, Jeff and Kristi and chowed down on some fabulous toast and crab benedict!

Holly was the most relaxed and beautiful bride I have ever seen. The wedding food was amazing, the music was fun, the speeches were great and everyone danced all night long. Oh, I did have to tell an uncle off...but that's a small detail we can leave out!

Kristi and Jen finally meet Emma!!!

Two of my friends were in San Diego and they were finally able to meet Emma. They were instantly BFF's! Kristi now wants a fourth baby and tried to sneak out of San Diego with Emma. Oh my Talledega Nights girl!

Emma is back in the saddle!

Emma is feeling better! Thank you all for keeping in touch and checking in with Emma. Her fever is gone and she's feeling 100 percent better. This picture is from this morning and you can tell she's back to herself.

Emma is standing!

As you can see Emma is a healthy girl. She's almost 9 months and has two teeth now. She's in the 75th percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height! Ryan claims that height will be the only thing ever that she measures up to as "average."

I heart New York!

Wow! What a great city! New York is so much fun! One of the running jokes was "Hmmm, I need a breath of fresh air. Step outside of your hotel and that will cost you $20.00." Eight girls from all over the place took a trip to New York to celebrate the marriage of Holly Heid. We had the best time and whenever you get eight girls together you know there's bound to be a lot of laughing, crying (although I don't think anyone cried) and pure silliness from our group. We went on a shopping tour of the fashion district and got to meet Kara Janx (Project Runway), we went to about 18 different pizza places, ran in central park, did a lot of shopping, dancing, eating, and even took a tour of the American Girl doll store.

I put together a lists of quotes and sayings from the weekend that if you weren't there, you may not understand them but if you were I bet you're laughing right now!

All I had to eat today was a bagel and two french fries. (Must have said it 10 times)

Brazilians....oooooh. Oh yeah!

He was a marsh mellow.

I can't kiss anyone, yell at anyone, or cry this trip.

Get away from me, I'm not kidding. Don't touch me. (Cane in hand, talking to the "entertainer")

Rays pizza, I want Rays pizza. Rays pizza is the best.

That's HOT (Insert robotic voice here)

What? That was a gay bar we went to last night, are you sure? How did you know? Really? (Apparently the drag queen singing karaoke didn't tip you off?)

There's just too many of you, there's too many girls.

How much for all of you??? Response "Too much for you buddy. Too much."

I can only take 3 of you. That's it. There's too many girls.

The last time I bought a married chick a drink it cost me $186.00.

I just kissed another midget.

I only eat lunch or dinner (Or 5 slices of pizza at 4 am)

You mean to tell me that you can't give me the tracking number for a package that I sent to myself from myself? (Which then prompted...I want to talk to the CEO)

The only time I get stressed is when foreigners come to visit. (Meaning girls from CA, FL, and TX)

I'm allergic to cheap jewelry.

I want a DELI sandwich. (We heard this 20 times a day)

I'll let everyone in except for HER (Meaning Holly)

Apocotherapy, Apotheke, Apolothey ???

She wants me, she just won't give it up. I swear she's a lesbian. She just touched my shoulder again!

I can baptize you right here and make you a Muslim right now.

.....and that's why I can't take fat people on this tour.

Oh, how long have you and Garr been married? What? She's not married yet that's why we are on the bachelorette party.

Oh, we're at Apotheke. You can't find it? Just Google it.

I had game in that place. The first place I finally had game and we had to leave.

Emma goes to Atlanta ya'll!

Emma had such a fun time in Atlanta! She was an angel on the plane and reached out and touched just about everyone in sight. The last vacation we took to Florida Emma slept in the laundry room- well this vacation she was upgraded to a closet! We stayed with our cousins Gail and Wayne who sent a "limousine" to pick us up so we started off our vacation in style! We had fabulous BBQ, southern food, mojitos (not Emma) and sweet tea! We were able to visit my grandparents and spend a lot of time with a lot of our Auburn relatives. It was the perfect relaxing vacation we were looking for.

The first week of July

Wow! July 4th weekend was busy and full of fun times. Emma went on her first train ride to Orange County where we met my parents and celebrated my mom's birthday. Some how Emma ended up with more toys and presents than my mom did and I managed to get out with a 20.00 block of fabulous cheese. Leave it to my Dad!

We also went to the San Diego County fair with Mark and Kelly and didn't leave a looser.....well we did loose about 100.00 between the four of us but did come home with a bright green and and black snake courtesy of Val's plate breaking shenanigans.

On the Fourth of July we headed over to Jen and Sammy's in "The CV" for a great pool party and missed the fireworks (darn) while hanging out at The Grande Del Mar with Holly and Garr. If you are ever in San Diego- The Grande is a must!