Month of Creativity

Thanks to Kea, I'm on my interior decorating kick again so I decided to revamp my fireplace and my dining room. Lindsey brought me some dried hydrangeas and I bought two containers from Michael's that were only $5.00 a piece!!!!Regularly $40.00! What a deal! So,last night I decided to arrange to flower arrangements, one for my mantle and one for my dining room table. Let me know what you think. Tomorrow I should have a picture up of my artwork that I made for my dining room.

So I told everyone I was going to do it....and I did!!!!!!!

Me wanting to get married to Allen all over again....I loved that dress!!!!

This is Allen's grooms cake and an assorment of our wedding memorabela that I put out on our dining room table.

So our one year anniversary was yesterday and it was wonderful! Allen surprised me and took me to Fleming's, our favorite resturant to eat at when we are celebrating a special occassion. When we got there Allen had a special table for us set up with a present and a card waiting for me. We ate dinner, which was FAB and then our dessert was brought out......it was our wedding cake topper!!! He is so sweet and thoughtful! The cake was surprisingly deliciuos! So, after that we went home and as I told everyone I was going to do, I put on my wedding dress and we watched our wedding video. It was so great and brought back so many wonderful memories! Here are some pics of last night...

Happy Anniversary to Me!

Allen had these beautiful flowers delivered to me at work today from Dorothy McDaniel for our anniversary. What a sweetie!

Lindsey's Kindergarden Classroom

So, Lindsey has been working on her classroom for the past couple of weeks getting ready for the first day back to school, which is tomorrow for the teachers and Thursday for the students. I've been able to help her somewhat but Lindsey has done such an awesome job getting her "Farm" themed classroom together. I thought I would post a few pictures of Lindsey's accomplishments.....It's so cute......And by far, the cutest classroom at Valley (hehe...but I'm a little partial!)

Girls Night Out

Lindsey, Olivia and I had a "Girl's Day and Night" this past Saturday. We went to the lake Friday night and hung out with Mom and Dad and then headed back to B'ham the next morning. Poor Mom....she had to go to the doctor in Dadeville, Alabama because she was so sick. She ended up finding out that she has bronchitis again. Hope you start feeling better, Mom! Nana's Daycare is back in session starting tomorrow so you better start feeling better!!!! Anyway, we went and ate at Jim and Nic's Saturday night and oh my god how good it was!!! Before we ate we made a run to Michael's to pick up a few crafting items, Lindsey helped me finish a piece if artwork that I have been working on forever and could never get right. I'll post a picture of it after I finish up the final touches. But anyway, this pic is from Saturday night...Olivia was so silly! We fed her french fries, green beans, cheese biscuits and chicken fingers ( Mom - we only fed her small amounts...Don't worry). This picture was taken after she ate all that food and was WIRED! She stayed up with us until 9:00 that night! We had so much fun and I can't wait for our next sleep over!!!

One Year Anniversary

So, I thought I would post some pictures of our wedding to reminisce of the most wonderful day of our life. It only seems like yesterday that Becky and I were crazily putting together my rehearsal bouquet and I was about to be Mrs. Lauren Oakes. I can not tell you how grateful I am to have a loving husband and a wonderful family (Oakes and David's) that support Allen and me through out all of life's adventures. HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! I LOVE YOU ALLEN!

Princess Olivia...

We are already preparing her to be a ballerina. She has dancing in her blood so she must start practicing at a early age. Looks like she is going to do just fine....Lindsey and I have already started telling her that sports will not even be in her vocabulary....it's dance all the way! The other picture is from the beach when we were waiting for dinner. I can't share enough pictures of me and my "Princess", who I love so much!