BRIDAL SHOWER: COOKIES & MILK

I mentioned in my post earlier today that Anica and I threw a lingerie shower for Jenny! We were able to host it in an absolutely stunning place in downtown Rome, GA. The eclectic mix of industrial, rustic textures and colors were so beautiful and perfect for the shower.

We had a "cookies and milk" themed shower. Jenny LOVES sweets, especially cookies and milk...so Anica and I spent the weekend baking chocolate chip, chewy brown sugar ginger, and lemon crinkle cookies. We also bought Oreo's, Girl Scout cookies, and some frosted animal cookies!

I went to a couple different thrift stores and purchased a mix of glasses, mason jars, and jam jars to use as cups and put cute little paper straws in. I had a small collection of glass bottles with lids so we put different types of milk in each, labeled them and put them in ice inside a way cute silver tin I recently scored from Target.

Take a look at how beautiful this place is!

I wish I lived there! -- It was so fun planning this shower. Jenny had an amazing time, see her post about it here, and Anica and I were so thrilled to be able to do something special for her. :) I can't believe my best friend is getting married in June!!

Recipes for homemade cookies found here:
* Chocolate Chip Cookies
* Chewy Brown Sugar Ginger Cookies
* Lemon Crinkle Cookies

One Year Ago Today

At this time, one-year ago today, Jonathon and I were dancing with our friends and family celebrating our marriage. It was a beautiful and special wedding. Jonathon and I took our time to plan the day to reflect us and uniquely celebrate our commitment and unity to each other.

This has been the best year of my life, filled with many challenges, things to work through, triumphs, happiness, dreams of the years to come, discoveries about our own passions, and excitement! I can hardly even believe this year has flown by as fast as it has...

I know I've shared a couple photos from our wedding here and there, but I wanted to share a couple more. :)

Thank you for celebrating this special day with us and all of your sweet comments on my previous "Listography" post. :) 

I hope you've enjoyed your weekend!!

ListoGraphy: Things I Love About Him

I may or may not have mentioned that tomorrow, I'm celebrating my one-year wedding anniversary with Jonathon. I've been so blessed to be married to such a wonderful, attentive man with amazing character. You could say I'm in love. Like really in love. :)

Diana Film - 2009

I'm planning to dedicate this weekend's posts to our marriage, so I'm going to start it off with a little  listography. This is a list (not all-inclusive, 'cause really I could go on and on) of things I love about Jon.

A List of Things I Love About Him:
* How much he loves the color green
* His servant heart
* His attention to detail -- never misses when I get something new or change something about myself
* His extreme loyalty to me, his family, and his friends
* He is an amazing computer developer...I'm pretty sure he thinks in code
* His ability to teach himself...currently he's learning how to 3-D model for game development
* His support for my passions
* He lets me decorate our place however I like ;)
* His big safe hugs
* He's always willing to go out and buy me a smoothie if I'm not feeling well
* His gorgeous almond shaped eyes
* His current style signature: Bandanas
* How much we compliment each others' strengths and weaknesses
* His leadership
* His cuddles
* His love for eclectic music
* His ability to be an amazing father one day
* How he talks in his sleep
* His desire and love to have fun and enjoy life
* His prayers
* When he plays along with my made-up words and goofiness
* His values and beliefs
* His protectiveness of my well being
* His joy

I'm an honored wife and I really couldn't be happier. :) Tomorrow, I'll share some memories of our wedding day. Hope your weekend is wonderful!

MaieDae Graphics: Jessica & Andrew

I've been working on some really fun graphic design jobs for MaieDae this month and I wanted to share some of my recent work for a sweet friend of mine, Jessica who is getting married in June! There are a couple different versions of each, but they ended up choosing the second version of the invitations and the first version of the save the date:

Interested in having custom designed wedding stationary for your special day?? Feel free to contact me for more information at MaieDae@gmail.com! 

PS - Thank you all for your sweet comments on my tattoo post! It was so surprising and fun to see what you all had to say and I really appreciated it! I wish you all a wonderful and peaceful weekend. My plans are to sleep in with my husband in the morning and cuddle...I can't wait. :)

Let's Make This Always A Forever

Today, I am celebrating six wonderful months with my husband and high school sweetheart. We fell in love six years ago, got married one week after our college graduation, and I have loved every minute of life with Jonathon ("Beau" as I like to call him). I am so excited and honored to be able to be a family with him, make our own traditions, grow together, one day bring youngin's into this world, and live life together hand in hand.

In the spirit of our half-year anniversary, I thought I would reminisce on some dear memories.


How We Got Engaged:
Every Christmas, Jonathon and I made it a tradition to go along with his family to visit Fort Mill. We then would gather with Mrs. Wallace's side of the family and celebrate the holidays together. This was something that I really really looked forward to every year and it held a special place in my heart to celebrate Christmas with Jon's family. 

The Friday we arrived at Mrs. Wallace's parents house, Jonathon and I decided to spend some down-time watching a movie. After the movie was finished, around 10:00pm, Jonathon asked me if I would be willing to open up one of my Christmas presents. Me, being the type of person that loves to wait for a good surprise immediately replied, "Aw, Jon...can't I just open up all the presents at once tomorrow with your family?" Jon responded, "Come on Savannah, the gift I want you to open has a lot of explanation behind it and it wouldn't make sense to the whole family...come on." Jonathon took my hand and led me outside to the jeep where he pulled out a perfectly wrapped square box. At no point during this time did I even suspect Jonathon's proposal. 

Jonathon took me to a quiet bench in the back yard and began to explain to me that he wanted to start a new tradition: he wanted us to buy each other special ornaments each year for Christmas so that one day, when we had our own Christmas tree, it could be filled with special ornaments that represent special moments in our lives. 

I smiled and teared up at the thought of starting such a special tradition with Jonathon. I then opened the small present to find that it contained a beautiful metal star ornament. It was hinged, so I opened it and saw that it held a small, carefully scrolled piece of paper with a beautiful red bow tied around it. Jonathon then explained that he would like to leave a special note in the ornament each year...I was so touched by Jonathon's thoughtfulness. I rolled out the letter and I read the delicate words written in calligraphy by Jonathon that said:

"Will you marry me, love?"

A wave of dizziness and pure bliss immediately took over as I looked over at Jon and noticed that in his hands, he held a perfectly beautiful ring in an ivory handkerchief from his Great Grandma. All I could do was put my hands over my face and cry. Jonathon got down on one knee and began to cry himself as he asked me to marry him. Of course, I said yes...all we could do for the next twenty minutes after that, was sit on the bench holding each other and crying in joy for that long anticipated moment.  

I so love and respect this wonderful man of God and am so honored to be his wife. Here is to six months and sixty more years to come...

Just to end on a musical note, this is the song my brother and sister covered during our ceremony by Slow Club. They absolutely nailed it and it was gorgeous.