Weekend In St. Louis

When we found out a couple of months ago that we were moving back to Texas, my mother-in-law invited me to go away on a girls weekend trip to St. Louis with my two sister-in-laws for a wedding. Of course I said yes! Scott's cousin married her boyfriend of 18 years. EIGHTEEN YEARS PEOPLE!

The wedding and reception was held at the Four Seasons in downtown St. Louis, and it's located right next to the famous St. Louis Arch. We spent 85% of our trip inside the hotel. The hotel and our room was gorgeous! Stacy and I shared a room and we were ooohing and aghhhing at everything! I told Stacy my "redneck" was coming out and I was taking pictures of everything. Our favorite thing was the TV built into the bathroom mirror, the rain shower head in the shower and the huge bath tub. We both could have lived in that bathroom forever.

Friday night we went on a shuttle bus with the rest of the family to a local brewery. I forget the name, but we had a couple glasses of wine and several mini cupcakes. They were so good! We had room service breakfast the next morning and it was so good too.

The wedding was held very early on Saturday (11am) on the 8th floor terrace of the hotel. The views were stunning! The bride wore a Monique Lhuillier wedding dress that was dyed a custom navy blue. It was gorgeous! I feel like the pictures I took (with the iPhone) don't do justice to how stunning she looked. Her dress was so dramatic and jaw dropping, it looked much better in person! The ceremony ended and there was a cocktail hour with hors dourves and an open bar. We stuck to mimosas since it was 11:30 in the morning! ;)

I also met my nephew, Connor, for the first time. He lives in Austin and it took going all the way to St. Louis to finally see him. I was obsessed with him! He is the sweetest, happiest baby ever!

The reception was held in the "Mississippi Room" of the hotel. I was so in love with the charger plates, it's exactly what I want! The centerpieces were so unique and different. We all loved the asparagus tied around the vases.

The food was Asian and I even tried tofu for the first time. It wasn't that bad! The bride and groom passed out these fun little stick things (not sure what you'd call them) and we all had some fun playing with those. I even got photobombed by the man-of honor. Yes, man-of-honor! He was really nice and quite the character!

Somewhere around 6pm things get a little fuzzy! All I'll say is my sister-in-law and I both woke up in our dresses back in our room in the middle of the night. I blame the two glasses of wine I chugged towards the end of the reception! ;)

We woke up Sunday morning and went to brunch, then packed our bags to head home. We left our luggage with the concierge and walked to the Arch. It was a gorgeous day. It was a bit chilly, but so perfect! The area around the Arch was really beautiful, much nicer than I was expecting.

After the Arch we walked back to the hotel to retrieve our bags and take a cab to the airport. The concierge asked if we wanted to take the next door casino's complimentary limo to the airport. Complimentary as in "free"? Yes, please! We made it in one piece to the airport and boarded our flight back home.

Thank you to my amazing and generous mother-in-law for a wonderful girls weekend! Love you!

iPhone Pictures

I was looking through pictures I've taken with my iPhone and realized there are some things I haven't shared! So I figured I'd do a little iPhone photo dump of some pictures....



My little sister turned 20 years old last month! Geez I feel old! We went to Olive Garden and I stuffed my face. I felt so sick afterward! I didn't hold back and nothing I ate was considered healthy. It was definitely the biggest cheat I've had since starting yeast-free in January.

Also my dogs love their Aunt! Our daschund Duncan goes bananas times fifty when she comes over to visit.

My mom has a little chihuahua named Sam and him and my boys have a bit of a love/hate relationship. They co-exist great, but any time Sam tries to play with Duncan, Rocco gets very jealous and tries to break up their party. Sam loooooves Scott too! He's very happy when Scott gets home from work.

They also love being in my parent's RV camper. We are ready for some weekend getaways in it this summer with all the dogs!

Sam also gets his own breakfast taco every weekend (no joke!), and Goomy made him share his taco with my boys. They sat at Goomy's feet watching her every move waiting for their piece of sausage and egg!

My uncle got box seats to the Lakers vs Spurs playoff game a couple of weeks ago and invited Scott and I to go. Free food and booze? Yes, please! We had a great time and thankfully the Spurs won! And how cute does my baby look with his short hair??!!

I snapped this picture driving back to my parent's house after we had the inspection at our *hopefully* new house. It was raining all over and the sun was trying to come out and play.

One night Scott was trying to throw me the keys to the house while he got some stuff out of the car. He overshot by a lot and ended up throwing the keys up on the roof! He had to use his shoe to reach them.

A few weeks ago, Mom and I ventured out to the weiner dog races in Buda! Holy crap that was the biggest ordeal! Needless to say, my dogs are not well behaved (no idea how that happened since I trained them) and we didn't stay long! They really weren't bad, they were just very overwhelmed and it was sensory overload. They were hot too, and so were we. When we got to the car we gave them some water and Rocco had to lay down to drink it! Duncan laid down in the front and was asleep before we even left the parking lot! They were wore out! I would definitely go again, but I would go without them next time.

Well, that's all for now! I'm headed to St Louis this weekend with my mother-in-law and two sister-in-laws, so I'll have some pictures from that next week. Take care!