Meet me in St. Louieeee!

This past weekend, I went to St. Louis for my friends Mitchell and Heather's wedding.  It was SUCH a beautiful ceremony!  I'll be honest.  I was a little nervous about the experience because my boyfriend and my ex-boyfriend were both groomsmen. lol Awkward, right?  It ended up not being so bad.  There were no fights or anything.  haha ;-)

I haven't been to a lot of weddings, but it seems that it's pretty much become that time in life where everyone starts to settle down.  Mitchell and Heather are married, Jeremy and Sam are getting married in October, Mindy's planning on getting married sometime...  It makes me really excited!  I love how life works, and I love how people grow from being your childhood playmates who make you laugh and are fun to be with to full-grown, lifelong friends who you can't imagine your life without.  It makes me proud that I have friends that are mature enough to make lifelong commitments to another person and can commit to spending a life in a loving, Christ-centered marriage.

Mitchell and Heather's ceremony took place at the chapel at Heather's college campus.  The reception was later in the evening at the Jewel Box in Forest Park.  During the time in between the wedding and the reception, some friends and I decided to go to the zoo!  It's in Forest Park, and it's FREE!  Yeah, buddy!  It was a really fun time, but by then end of it, we were hot, sweaty messes (it was suuuuch a hot day!) and I could barely walk because of my heels. 

The reception was beautiful as well!  The Jewel Box is made to look like a green house, but thank goodness it was air conditioned!  We were all a little afraid that it really WAS a green house and that it would be miserably hot.  But it wasn't.  The food was delicious, and the company was great.

Mitchell and Heather are honeymooning at Disney World right now.  Best of luck, you two!

On Sunday afternoon, Jason and I decided to hit up the St. Louis Science Center.  I hadn't been there since probably the 4th grade.  It was so much fun!  I'm basically an astronaut now.  I love doing fun things like that.  And, the best part was that it was free, too!  Way to go, St. Louis!  It cost to park, and it cost to go to the Planetarium, but it wasn't too bad. 

Overall it was a really great weekend!  Then on Monday, Jason and I celebrated our first anniversary as boyfriend and girlfriend.  I fixed us a great dinner (Fiesta lime chicken, Mexican rice, and pico de gallo) and he brought me flowers! :-)

All is well in my world.


I'm going home briefly on Friday/Saturday to maybe buy some furniture from an estate sale.  I'll probably fix that same dinner for my family, because it was delicious!

That's all for now!