New House

Yesterday at 3:00pm we became home-owners! Yay! I can't wait to decorate our cute little house!! :)

Merry Christmas!

Showered

This past weekend we had a small Christmas couples shower hosted by my bible study teachers and my maid-of-honors moms! We enjoyed every moment of the night and to be honest I still can't believe it was for us! Just seems weird that it was not for someone else! Anyway we were showered with some really great Christmas decorations for our house, and lets just say I want next Christmas to be here NOW! We are blessed to have such amazing friends and family!

The Bible study group!

The Bridesmaids and I minus 1!

My friends Erica and Jessica!

Opening some of our presents!


I pretty much have the same face in all the present pictures! I just loved everything we got and maybe got a little to excited!!

p.s. Andrew got to open all the presents and he loved it!! :)

a must have...

ATTENTION: Everyone MUST have a pair of these! They are by far the most comfortable shoe I have ever had! They feel like you are walking in house shoes all day long! I LOVE them!!

Great investment!

Get them here!

Can you say the Griswold's?

On Friday my mom, Andrew, and I ran down to the beach to do a little bit of wedding planning. We had one very important thing to accomplish and that was the food for the wedding! I would have to say that the food is ranked right next to the dress on importance. You can't have bad food. After we tasted lots of wonderful food and were overwhelmed about what to pick out we headed over to where we would be getting married and snapped this shot in front of our "chapel"

Later that night on the way to eat at the Red Bar with my cousin and her boyfriend we stopped to take some pictures in front of the GIANT Christmas tree! I am not sure why but I never got a shot of just the tree. It is so big and absolutely beautiful. You can see part of it in the picture below. Every tree in Rosemary was lighted and the view was breathtaking. I just love Christmas lights.

On Saturday, we returned home and that night we finally went and got our Christmas Tree. My dad had this brilliant idea that we would stick the tree in the sun roof instead of tying it down to the car. We looked like the Griswold's coming home. It was so funny. Here he is standing proudly by his tree hanging out of the car. You gotta love men and their ideas!!

Thankful

Thank you Lord for all you have blessed me with!

I give you all the praise!

Happy Thanksgiving!

{from my brother and I}

Gobble Gobble

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is really here! I am looking forward to eating lots of turkey and spending time with my family this week! I am very blessed to have a wonderful family!

I hope you and your family have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!

Here is a fun Rice Krispies Treats Recipe!

1. Start with packaged (or homemade) Rice Krispies Treats, and push each one onto a wooden skewer; set aside.
2. Melt 1 cup white-chocolate chips and 1 Tbs shortening; stir in green or neon-green food coloring.
3. Spoon melted chocolate over all sides of the treats; place on wax-paper–lined cookie sheet.
4. Use M&M's to create eyes and ears, a piece of gummy worm for the mouth, and Jujubes for the neck bolts. Refrigerate until the chocolate has hardened, then remove from skewers. Draw on hair and dot eyes with black decorating icing.

Cant wait to see some of my favorite trick-or-treaters tomorrow night!

fall is here

Fall is here!! Finally! I realize for most of the country it has been cool for a while now and the snow will start soon but here in Alabama it's perfect!! The trees have really started turning into their beautiful colors this week and I must say that I am loving every minute of it!! I wish I could make this weather last all year long! I love the clear night skies with the big moon! Does life get any better?

I hope everyone is making pumpkin bread! My momma makes the best pumpkin bread! I will get the recipe and share with you!

Many of you{mostly family} have sent me emails asking about the wedding! Its coming along! thank the lord for my mom! she is taking care of everything!! I am in the middle of creating a website just for the wedding that will have places to stay and airports to fly in to and everything else you might could possibly think of! So as soon as that is done I will post it!! thanks for asking! :)

Hope you have a great weekend!!

Sarge

Welcome to the family little buddy!!

He is the newest addition to our family! He is a miniature Yorkie and is the sweetest thing!! He was inherited from some of our family members!!

Big Sisters Lavender(not pictured) and Daisy love little sarge!!

p.s daisy was sporting her War Eagle Shirt for Auburn!!!

Life

Most of the time people are extremely busy during the spring! Between kids baseball games, spring break, kids getting out of school and weddings it always seems that no one ever has time. Well I have recently found out that my spring is here. Whoa!! I never knew you could be this busy and still be alive! ha! I am glad that life is busy but will be so glad when it slows down some and I can come at night and drink hot chocolate and relax!! I am hoping that happens sometime in the near future!!

Lots have been asking how the wedding planning is coming along and to be honest well....its not!! No time, but I am spending lots of time on the wedding this weekend! I am taking the day off on Friday and my momma and I are headed down to Rosemary for lots and lots of planning!! too bad we wont have time to lay out on the beach!!

Be back soon!!

beautiful

On this beautiful Friday afternoon in September I will leave you with a picture of this:

On June 12th,2010 in this building I will marry the Man of my dreams!!! :)

Rosemary Beach Town Hall!!

Well...

I'M ENGAGED!!!!

Can you believe it because I cannot!

So many people want to know how it happened so I thought this might be the best way to tell it!

Saturday evening we had planned a nice little date night to PF Chang's but little did I know he had other dinner plans. As we were turning into the Summit he told me that he didn't really feel like PF Chang's and he wanted to go to Flemings. At first I told him that was a mean joke but he preceded to tell me that it is not a joke! I also told him that we did not need to go eat here but I didn't have a choice at this point because the valet guy already had my door open! It took me the entire dinner to get over the fact that we were there for dinner! After that wonderful dinner we got back into the car and he told me he had one more surprise for me. We drove up to the brand new parking deck{that still had cones out and signs that said no trespassing} that has a beautiful view of the Mountians and the city and we danced to a wonderful song. After the song ended he told me how much he loved me and then said "I have one more surprise for you". He pulled this little black box out of his pocket and got down on one knee said "Danielle Ashley Pilgreen will you marry me"? Of course I said YES!!!

I am so excited I still cannot believe that we are going to get MARRIED!!! YAY!

This not a picture from that night{we had goober grin in all of those} but it is pretty recent!

Here is a really dark picture of the ring! It is the only one we can get that looks semi okay!!

Soon I will start sharing wedding details when there are some!! :)

YAY for FRIDAY!

Made it through the week with the cold! I feel so much better but it has left my voice sounding like a man! Gotta Love that!

Enjoy wearing those white pants and shoes this weekend! Even though I love fall I hate the in between time of what to wear! You can't wear your really summery outfits anymore but it is still too hot to wear Long sleeves. Working in Children's and Women's Clothing Stores I get this question all the time this time of the year. So I am going to share a few ideas that will get through until that sweater and boots weather is here to stay!

Ok this is a great example of a dress that carries you from summer into fall! When it still feels like summer pair with a cute pair of gold or silver flats. When the weather finally cools off throw a cute colored turtleneck underneath and add your boots!

Here is a great option for a collared shirt that you could wear with jeans and heels!

Don't be afraid of color in the fall! Orange is a great color for fall.

Ok so I am quite sure every woman has a shirt that looks something similar to this one in their closet! Pair it with a great skinny belt below and some fun earrings with jeans!

Belts are HUGE for fall! Wear them with everything!

And for the girl on a budget like me shop the sales. Look for early fall or even summer things that might be on sale now. Like this shirt below is on sale for $39.95 at Anthropologie.
Vests are also big for fall and this is a great on to wear now with a little Cami underneath and when it gets cold outside throw a turtleneck underneath and once again add your boots. This is a great one because you are getting both the trends right now a vest and a belt! And added bonus this is also on sale! Yes that is right it is on sale!

Hope this helps a little bit! Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!!

Weekend Events

As I said on Friday we had three showers for my friend Beth this past weekend! Friday night we celebrated at a Couple's Shower where the Bride and Groom were Showered with so much love! Here are several of the bridesmaids with the bride!

Her Pottery she chose was Skyros which is absolutely beautiful! She was excited that she received many pieces of it that night!

On Saturday morning we loaded up and headed down to the lake for a fun-filled day in the sun! We stayed at this lovely lake house!

Are you wondering what in the world that bright yellow, and blue thing is floating in the water? Well it is a water trampoline with a blob{not to be confused with blog} floating on the end of it! Probably one of the best things ever created!

Here I am Blobbing my friend Caroline into to the water! I don't think I have laughed that hard for that long in such a long time! If you ever have the chance to jump and blob don't pass it up!! It is a blast!!

Later that evening we celebrated Beth's Lingerie Party! The theme was Black and Pink and Zebra Print! So we even carried that theme out with our clothing! :)

Her cake even matched the theme with her initials on it!

One of the Bridesmaids made these adorable "lingerie" Cookies!

Are they not the cutest things you have ever seen!

We head down on Sunday to her other tea! It was a great relaxing weekend with friends!

In other news this morning I woke up with a nice little cold! Nice! Hopefully it goes away soon!!

Please forgive me for my lack of posts in August! I am not exactly sure where this month has gone! Do you? There are exciting things happening in the future so I promise I will post more often!

On a side note I am wearing heels to work today! Not sure what I was thinking! Well actually I do but I will spare the details.

This weekend will be a fun but busy one! My friend that got engaged a few weeks ago is having three showers this weekend! Whew! I can't wait to see all the new stuff she gets! Here is a sneak peek at one of her gifts! I had one custom made a lot larger than this one but you get the idea!

{I hope she doesn't read this before she gets it} Its from the brick kiln on etsy

Be back after the weekend with lots of pictures!

t.g.i.f

Happy Birthday Love!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful boyfriend!!

Love you!

Weekend Recap!

This Past weekend we went to Memphis to celebrate Andrews Memoms 91st Birthday!

This is the only picture I got of her all weekend!

If you have never visited downtown Memphis you are really missing out! It is an amazing city with so much to do! We walked down Beale Street and I quickly became obsessed with all the old signs.

This is the oldest store in Memphis it has everything from Cowboy hats to Coffee Mugs.

Old Time Candy a bag for a $1

Thought these Voo Doo Dolls were funny!!

(Sorry I know this is Sideways) We walked over to The Peabody and watched the Ducks do their daily routine at 5:00! It was the so cute!

The Duck Master!

You must do this when you visit!!

While we are watching the ducks do their thing this lady comes from I have no clue and sits down in my chair! I mean really!

After the ducks we walked over to the world famous "Rendezvous" Restaurant! They are famous for their Dry Rub Ribs, and I must say that I know why they are famous! Man they were so good!!


We had a wonderful time!! It was such a nice break!!

almost

Can you believe that August will be here in 4 days? Where has the summer gone? I feel like it was just Christmas like a month ago and before you can blink it will be here again. With that being said I am actually glad summer is almost over..its way too hot and Fall is my most favorite season for a few reasons:

- Extra Hot Hot chocolate from Starbucks

- Boots

- Pumpkins on everybody's front porches!

- The cool and crisp breeze

- My Mommas Pumpkin Bread

- and probably my most favorite the Leaves! Oh they are always so beautiful!!

Man I can't wait!! Just a few more months! YAY!

She Said YES!!

This past weekend one of my best friends got Engaged to the man of her dreams!!

The Happy Couple Beth and Breland!

Beth and I a little excited!! :)

(look at her new bling...it is so BIG and Pretty!)

Congratulations My Sweet Friend! I am so excited for you!!

Love you!!