twenty-seven dresses

Okay, not quite... i'll have three by the 10th of october because there will be my best friends wedding in october and i can't wait for it, but another best friend, Kristin, got married on the 13th of June and it was lovely. she asked me to be a bridesmaid and i was delighted!! i flew out to nashville to meet up with Lindsey (the one getting married in october) number one to spend some much needed time with her, number 2 to drive up to van wert, ohio with her from nashville - a 7 hour trek - and number 3, it was a bit cheaper. i got to stay out there a whole week and it was so fun. on tuesday the 9th was the flight out and we went and saw lindsey's mom, karen, when we got here. she is the sweetest lady ever, a mom away from home! jorel decided he liked her glasses:

On tuesday jorel found the rock band drums and didn't stop playing them when we were in lindsey's apartment! we also went swimming for just a little bit and then went shopping - i spent entirely too much money on my trip...

thursday morning was a pretty adventurous one. as soon as lindsey and i decided we wanted to get the car ready to go for our long journey, the rain started coming in a torrential down poor! thunder, lightning, the works. lindsey had decided to pull the car closer, before the lightning had come, but as she was getting out of her car, a lightning bolt struck RIGHT outside her apartment, i mean this was craziness and my best friend almost got struck by lightning... we joked that it was her way of stealing kristin's thunder on her day haha... we stopped by mama's house and the rain ceased for a moment. jorel stayed with karen for thursday and friday night and they brought him up for the wedding. linds and i needed to stop at wal-mart to grab a few things for the bachelorette party that night and as soon as we were going to walk out the door, here came the rain again... we bought an umbrella to get back to the car in the flooded parking lot! the rain pretty much didn't stop through our entire drive, sometimes you could barely even see the car in front of you, but we did see a rainbow...

we met the party at Cebella's Mexican restaurant in Fort Wayne,

grubbed then went back to the bride-to-be-then's house that her and her new hubby will be living in and played all sorts of fun silly and bachelorette appropriate games...

everyone got drunk - except for me of course - and kristin's mom was totally the life of the party! enough said about that, but it was SO good to hang out with the girls.

friday we attempted to get up early and decorate the reception place, we were there from about 9-1, got our nails done, and then had to get ready for the rehearsal dinner.

saturday was the big day and we had a few more things we had to get ready for the wedding, like our hair. it was a beautiful wedding and the bride was glowing all day.

lindsey, her fiance, jorel and i made it to fort wayne that night to sleep the rest of the night away and then to travel the 1 less hour back to nashville. it was nice to know that i still had monday and most of tuesday to spend with linds. although i don't think the weather was ever on our side because as we were about to leave for the airport there was a {tornado warning} yep. scary. but it didn't last too long and we made it to the plane on time. i didn't get home until midnight and got to get up for my new job the next day... that will be another post, don't worry, this one is already long enough!!!