Listening to: \"Holiness\" By: Sonic Flood
Feeling: blessed
HEYYYY. I am so ecstatic! The past 3 days have been absolutely wonderful!!! So the last I wrote was before the wedding. Welp, I straightened my hair and then headed to Tracia's salon. I got there at 3:20 and she was just finishing up w/her last customer. So I sat down in the chair and she put my hair up in like 15 minutes and did an amazingly awesome job, but what can I say, she is awesome! We had time to chat for a few minutes and then I had to scurry off to Smithwood Baptist. I got there at like 4:35 and applied more makeup and put my dress on. What can I say? I looked good! LOL. Me, Heather, Amy, Kristen, and everyone goofed off until time for pictures. The pictures took a freakin hour and a half! I was only in like 6 thank goodness! Amy looked BEYOND beautiful. She was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen, looked like she stepped out of a magazine!!! BARBIE for sure. After pics we all waited downstairs patiently for the wedding to start. It started at 7. It went very smoothely. After the ceremony we all left teh church and went over to Holston Hill Country Club for the wedding reception. It was gorgeous! So like something you would see on TV. Dim lights, white lights draping over sheer white mesh on top of lattice, rose petals on the tables, candles lit all over the tables and the neat patio outside with tables set up too looking over the rolling golf course. I had fun running aroudn talking to everyone (including old elementary school teachers from Belle Morris such as Ms.McKenzie, Mrs. Underwood, Paul (the janitor everyone was in love with), Mrs. Golec the secretary, and a couple more that I cant remember the names. I also spilled punch all over Cindy Bradley's leg hahaha, I am so clumsy! Cindy forgave me though b/c she loves me! ;) Then Heather was like "lets go change out of these dresses" so went to to some scary dark room up the stairs and changed in there hahaha. It was HILARIOUS! I was just waiting on one of the server people to walk in there to see some exposed boobs (although it was dark). Which is WHY I put my shirt on inside out haha, but luckily I noticed on the way out and fixed it! Then we rejoined the party. Tom & Linda had come to teh wedding & reception which I thought was awfully sweet of them to come & sweet of Brandon to want to invite them. I got some food & cake *after the shoved cake in each others mouths* and then they had the couples "first dance" b/c they had hired a live DJ and had a dancing area and colored disco lights flashing lol. Well, they danced to "Unchained Melody" by teh Righteous Brothers which was enough to make me kinda teary eyed...it was so sweet! Then they started playing some fast songs and the younger ones hit the dance floor along wiht Amy and then Heather for a like a second haha. Then the slow songs came and it was SOO cute b/c even tho Julie was onher crutches she put one down to dance with Tim! AWW, they were so adorable! Then mom & Bob, and Kathy & Robby, and Heather & Terry and then papaw Bill danced with Brittanie & Kristen. It was cute as can be. I then danced with Britt and a slow song with Tim.:) Then the party was over after we told them goodbye by blowing bubbles on them. They got in their convertible with stuff written all over it and headed to teh airport to stay in the hotel so they could leave for Hawaii this morning...lucky ducks! =0) But anyways, it was hte most awesome wedding I have ever seen. I am honored that I was apart of it! So then I went home, watched "Heart & Souls" with mom & went to bed about 3 am. Yesterday (Sat.) mornign I woke up at 7:45 and Bob & Sara picked me up for our "weighing" appointment again. I lost 6 lbs this month!! So I have lost 14 lbs total! woohoooo. Then when I got back in the car I had 2 missed calls and they were both from Tracia which totally surprised me. She had left me 2 message also so I called her back immediately and she asked me to spend the day with her! I was so freakin happy! So I went home, got ready and then got to her house at 10:30 and then we left. We went to Old Navy by West Town first and I bought a swimsuit and she bought a couple of things and then we went to PF Changs for lunch. We sat on the patio and ate in the shade. It was NICe weather. She bought me lunch even though I had to argue with her, but she insisted. So then we went out to Turkey Creek and shopped at Ross's, Target, and Burlington Coat Factory. We were shopping FOREVER!!! Finally at 4:30 we got back to their house and Randy was home. Well we all 3 went & sat on their awesome screened in back porch and chatted. They decorate so beautifully and it's so cozy and relaxing there. Tracia asked me to spend the night which really made my day so of course I said YES and then we all 3 got ready and went to eat supper at El Chicos at around 6:30ish. We rode in Randys new jeep with the top & sides all down. It was AWESOME!!! They bought me supper once again ( I felt so bad) and then we went back to their house & Tracia took a bath and then I took me a hot bath and then me & her watched TV for an hour while Randy was in the garage working and then Tracia went to bed. Then I went to "my room"(teh guest room they call my room haah) listening to country music on TV and chillin online. But I got tired and actually was asleep by midnight. Tracia woke me up today at 9 and we sat on the back deck again to "wake up" and decide what we were gonna do. So we went shopping again haha. We went to Kohls and she got some more jewelry and then we went to West Town and looked all over the mall. We ate lunch in the foodcourt and then got some "auntie anne's" lemonade and then headed to the Pet Store across the street. We are both DOG LOVERS. That store is HUMONGO, I have never been in there. I loved lookin at all the pet stuff. As I was being rang up who should walk in the door but Mrs. Bennett (my spanish professor from Pellissippi) haha I swear I see her EVERYWHERE. That is craziness! So she hugged me and we talked for a swecond and then she took her lil boy to find a pet. Then me & Tracia headed back to her house. We sat out in the front yard with her dog Tara for about 45 minutes and just talked (it felt awesome outside). THen we went inside and chilled on the back deck again until Randy came home. About an hour later I ended up leaving. Now I am home, boohoo. Anyways, I am so excited that got to spend 3 days at my favorite people in teh worlds house!!! I left them little notes all over their house with post-its and left $2 in Tracia's Explorer with stuff I wrote on them for her haha. Things are going so good for me right now and I am very happy. Thank you Lord for the blessings you have given me lately that I very much do not deserve. Welp, with that, I am signing off. Talk to you later!
::amanda::