Can we just forget this month?

I've been trying to get back into the swing of things but if it isn't one thing it's another. I went to a wonderful bachelorette party last weekend for one of BFF's. Everything was great and I really tried my hardest to shake my little rain cloud that is following me. Well, the heavens thought I still wasn't ready to be completely myself and what do you know, I caught a nasty chest cold. I spent Sunday and Monday dead asleep and have been coughing up a storm ever since. Any thought of exercise throughs me into coughing attack. I'm slowly getting better. The goal is to be all healthy by next weekend. I don't want to be that BM that coughs on the bride! ;)

THERE’S ALWAYS A WAY OUT

The last two weeks have been really hard. With losing someone so close to the hubby and me, and everything at my job, I've been feeling so not myself. No usual smile, no usual pep in my steps. It just feels like something really needs to change. Need to shake life up a bit!

My good friend just sent me this from Dean's blog:

THERE’S ALWAYS A WAY OUT

Do you sometimes feel trapped, unable to break free from the chamber that holds you prisoner? Do you long to escape, to be blown free in a blast of warm air, liberated forever from the bowels of containment?

Sometimes the situation seems forever hopeless, I know. But that’s when you need to dig deepest, that’s when you need to continue foraging boldly onward despite the acrid mire and the total darkness. Go to the light. Don’t give up. When all seems lost, never forget…Click here

When I read this, I thought Dean was writing how I felt. Then I clicked and chuckled to myself, and knew hope is not lost!

I think with the events going to conspire this weekend I will break out of my little world more and get back to myself. If i don't do it for me, I'll do it for you dear blog friends!

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I hate to keep delaying our regular blogging schedule since it was just delayed because of our last vacation. I'll be taking a little hiatus for the next week or so due to a death in our family. Thank you all for always being supportive and I'll "see" y'all next week.

Love,

Linda

where have i been?

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I've been stuck behind a computer dealing with a lot of not fun work stuff.

What do I intend to do about this?

I plan on boarding a plane in two days and flying down to Puerto Rico.

When will start posting like a good little planner should?

Two weeks.

Have a wonderful 4th of July everyone! Stay safe and sane!

Love is in Bloom!

~~~~LOTS OF PHOTOS...BEWARE!~~~~

Back in February, a few us starting planning our dear friend's bridal shower. We decided we wanted to keep everything under wraps so we kept a secret blog detailing all the neat ideas we came up with. Little by little our theme came alive and this is the end result!

On the way into the clubhouse, we scattered lots of daisies. It smelled sooo good!


To go with the theme, the favors we choose were little pots filled with seeds. We wrapped them up and wrote directions on the back of the sign:


Our centerpieces were all bright colored roses with grass, giving the illusion of them growing! I think they turned out darling! We used pedals and scattered them from on side of the table to the other, like it was a table runner!



Me and BM Patty


We made two other centerpieces for other tables when the guests walk in.




One of the neat things we did was ask all our guests to give some advice to the bride written on a pedal. When they arrived, we placed them in a scrapbook we made for her:



Her cake was lemon cake with white chocolate frosting. It was yummy!


BM K did an amazing job with the bride's rehearsal bouquet!


For the bride, one of the presents we gave her was a towel cake and a just married ornament:


Last but not least, a photo of most of her beautiful BMs and the guest of honor in the center!



Everything turned out great and to see our bride so happy was worth all the hard work! Photos provided by myself and BM Kimmy!

Just rosy!!!

I had such a great weekend but I'm soo exhausted that I can't even type at the moment. From graduation, driving hours upon hours getting here and there, bridal shower, and two birthday parties, I'm a little shocked I was even able to stay awake to watch the Laker game! I have lots of photos to share with you from my best friend's shower but all of that will have to wait until I get a good night's sleep. (Little Miss Planner needs at least 8 hours of sleep every day to function and am lucky to get that for the last nights TOTAL!)

For now, Here is just a glimpse of a "few" flowers we picked up at the flower district for the shower!

OMG...

Tomorrow is one of my best friend's bridal shower! I'm soo excited!!! This morning my mom and I headed down to get a "few flowers" and I picked up a lei for my niece's 8th grade graduation! :) I can't wait to post TONS of photos of the entire event.

on a side note, I'm sorry I haven't been the best little blogger, work has been taking up a ton of time and I'm trying to figure out how to change that! ;)

Love affair with yellow...

I feel like I'm cheating on my favorite color blue, but whenever I see something yellow I just start drooling!

London Times Empire Bubble-Hem Dress
Reg. $109.00
Was $81.75
Sale $73.57
A gorgeous shade of yellow and a fun bubble hem make this one of the prettiest party dresses around!

How cute is this dress? My BMs would so have been in dresses like this if my wedding was in the summer!