Congratulations, Emly & Marc!

Today was Emily and Marc's wedding day!! Hooray! The ceremony was beautiful. As they exited the church, we blew bubbles.



BUBBLES!









There is the woman that did the marrying part!



Ben and Nancy!



Next we headed to Eclipse Company Store for the reception. Polka dots!!



Emotions!



APPETIZERS! Look at the size of THAT feta pesto dome!! Hilarie is the original source of the recipe, and I must say hers tastes especially magical. And it's extra delicious on that Salaam bread that I worship. Mmm. Look at that big giant bowlful!



YUM! Hilarie's famous lamb chops! And feta pesto dome!!



The weather was sunny and gorgeous.



Ry made lots of beautiful music.



The cooking club ladies (minus the bride, of course!) each just HAPPENED to wear a dress of a color that perfectly matched one of my polka dots!! *I* felt like a bride with bridesmaids of my own!!



So super fun.



Speaking of matching, J's beer (Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold) perfectly matched my purse!



Ben got a spanking from Yumi!






Wheee!!! There she is, the beautiful bride!



Shoe inspection.



Time to move inside!



Cheers!



They started things off with the most delicious gazpacho I have ever had. I think smoked olive oil was the secret ingredient?



Some of the guys did a game where they had to act out different animals.



It was hilarious!



The main course! Salad nicoise! Featuring amazing swordfish poached in olive oil.



YUM!!! It was soooooooooo good.



First dance!






More dancing!



Time for toasts! CHAMPAGNE!






Cheers to the happy couple!



Anyone who wasn't going to finish their glass of champagne donated it to Summer. (Lucky!!!)



Cake time! Yay!



Mmm, it was fantastic. My only regret of the night is not tasting all three kinds!!! But I might have exploded if I had. I forgot to take pictures of the incredible cheese course that followed the dinner, but it was amazing and I ate LOADS of it!!



CHEERS TO EMILY AND MARC!

Cheryl's Birthday Luau

Cheryl threw an amazing luau tonight to celebrate her birthday! Tons of other members of her family have birthdays in August, so it was a huge celebration for EVERYONE!



She and her friends worked so hard and really transformed the place into a Hawaiian paradise.






We each got to pick out a lei!!



YELLOW!



The keg was nestled inside a TIKI GOD. AWESOME. We've never had so much fun pouring ourselves beers!



CHEERS!



There were even stuffed luau pig prizes for later in the night for cornhole tournament winners. Sadly, we didn't stay long enough to compete, but it's probably better for everyone else that way because I probably would have totally won!



SO relaxing!! The weather was beautiful! In fact, it was excellent practice for when Ben and I go to Hawaii next fall on our honeymoon!



Jello shots! YUM!



PINEAPPLE PALM TREES!!!!! This party was the best, seriously. PINEAPPLE PALM TREES.



This bad boy had been roasting a pig since the wee hours of the morning.



It's done!



YUM! There was tons and tons of amazing food.



And SO MANY DESSERTS!!



Aloha!



Happy birthday, Cheryl!

FOUR CORNHOLES!

Tonight, we had a reason to CELEBRATE!!



What's in there??!



OH LOOK! IT'S FOUR CORNHOLES THAT I MADE!!!



YAY!!!!!!!!!! All summer long, we've had a bottle of champagne in the fridge, with the plan that we were going to pop it whenever one of us got all four of our bags in the hole for the first time.



Tonight was the night! CHEERS! I got all four in!!!



In case you were wondering, they weren't all four DIRECT cornholes, but three of them were. One of my bags had landed right next to the hole and my fourth bag slammed it into the cornhole along with itself. So all four went IN and that COUNTS! (We had agreed at the beginning of summer that that situation would count! As it SHOULD!)



One of my life goals: ACCOMPLISHED.



Woo hoo!!!!!!!