Friday Night, June 16

Just wanted to share some more pics from our parties! Hope you enjoy!!! This is of the 5 of us at our Pickwick party.

Brooke (the official blog photographer) and MD at the Pickwick party at the Edwards'.

John and I acting our normal silly selves!

Two of my best friends from college, Amber (also my big sis in Chi O) and Melissa (also my roommate senior year)!

John and my sweet Daddy hanging out...Men in Blue!


















Mom and Cil look like they are having fun. Oh yes, and who can forget the fish. I thought it would be good for Kenz to spend some time with our wedding coordinator...bad idea, as she told Kenz she could have some of the fish from the party! John was so excited about that.

Father's Day Catch

We headed out after our party Saturday night in a terrible storm and about five miles down the road turned around and headed back to my parents' house. Justus and Bill (John's dad) got up early Sunday morning and went fishing. Just before lunch time Justus came running down the road screaming and hollering and holding the biggest live bass I have ever seen! Needless to say, I know you will all be jealous as we are having the pretty thing mounted! The fish weighed 7lbs 11oz and was 22 inches long (sounds like a baby announcement). Justus was completely beside himself and John and Bill ran around the rest of the morning getting everything together to transport the fish to Memphis!

Wedding Party Fun!

We had our first weekend of wedding parties this past weekend! Friday night was the bachelorette party which my 3 best friends from high school gave...I loved it!!! This is of mom and I by Whitney's front door.
These are the wonderful party givers, Brooke, Whitney and Mims.
My awesome sister-in-law, Cecilia, and I in Whit's lovely lime green dining area.
Saturday was spent hanging out by the pool at my parents', dress fitting, more pool time and opening presents. Here is Mim and her beautiful little girl, Annie, on Annie's first swim.
Present opening time at my parents while also watching Argentina play in the World Cup.
Not sure what I was doing here...but evidently lime green shirts were in order for unwrapping gifts! For those who noticed the blank wall behind me and were wondering if my mom is downsizing...the answer is no, the player piano is having surgery!
Annie enjoyed helping unwrap gifts, but playing with the paper was her favorite thing! She was keeping us on our toes!














Saturday night we had another party for my mom's friends and were greatly encouraged and entertained by the stories we heard that night. This was our first couples party. John is such a hottie! You'll have to ask me to tell you about the funniest story we heard that night...it is totally worth retelling!
My wonderful bridesmaids from left to right...Mimi, Brooke, Whitney and Cecilia.
Cecilia and I as the party was getting started! She was so great to come in town for the weekend of parties while Stephen had to work!
This picture is of John and I with Granny D Be Bumpin. Can you believe Granny D will be 92 this August! She is awesome and such a trooper for coming out to our parties!

Craziness...

Funniest/Scariest things said recently...

Mais: "Barbies have VERY realistic features."
Kenz: When told we did not have money to go out to eat, Kenzie's reply..."What about credit cards?!"
Hannah (the little girl down the street who also has 2 older brothers), when playing with Kenz informed us that she had named her teddy bear barf nugget.

Just thought I would share a few funny moments with you!

Baseballs, Home Sales and Tubing...OH MY!

Well, it has been a while since I posted anything on here, mostly because of how insanely busy we have been! The past 2 weeks have been full of baseball and more baseball. Both the boys made it to the semi-finals in their tournaments and my parents even made it for an exciting night of double headers for Justus and Maison getting to pitch! We are very proud of the boys and what a great season they both had! Kenz had fun playing T-ball as well, and surprised herself in the last 2 games as she made contact with the ball as it was pitched over the plate to her!

In other news, as we were sitting in the bleachers at Maison's game this past Friday night waiting to find out the details about an offer on my house, my realtor called to let us know that we had actually gotten another offer. We accepted the second offer and are supposed to close June 23rd!!! So, in the midst of wedding party chaos, we will also be moving!

This weekend John and the kids and I are traveling to the lake to spend time with my fam! Stephen, Cecilia, Matthew, Mom and Dad, Granny D, and my Aunt Ceese and Uncle Ricky will be there too!!! The picture above was taken last summer. Hopefully we will get some tubing in this weekend in the midst of relaxing and soaking up some sunshine! What about you...any fun plans for the long weekend???

Best Birthday Card Ever...

Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.
-Psalm 66:16

I wish I had a scanner so you could see the card the kids made me for my birthday, but since I don't, I just wanted to share their words, so you could see how awesome our God is and how much He has been at work over the past year. These words may not seem like much, but they were huge to me. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us, God is revealing Himself daily...

"Dear Mary DeVan, thank you for everything you have done for us this year! It has been a blast. I hope that you have fun the rest of our time together." - Justus

"I hope that it has been the best year of your life. Thank you for being nice to me. I have had a great time with you. Thank you for being kind, considerate and fun to be with." -Maison

"Happy birthday, Mary DeVan." -Kenzie

School's Out For Summer!

I had my A&P final last night and do not have to return to the class room until August!!! YIPPEE! Last night was a celebration...I was so excited. My teacher told me I was the only one who had turned in my test smiling. Evidently the test was the hardest one yet...but all I could think about was how I now have all summer off and can focus on spending more time with John, the kids and my friends I haven't seen in ages! And enjoy this wedding my mom's been so awesome to plan! That said, being the perfectionist I am, I did check my answers before I left, so I either made an 89.466 or an A...we'll see...either way, it is over! (Update...I made an A!)

Along with celebrating being finished with school for the semester, I got to have my postponed b-day celebration last night with 4 of my very favorite people in all the world! John, being the awesome cook that he is, cooked up a delicious meal that even had pretty presentation. The kids kinda looked at it funny, like "what is this and will it hurt me?" If it isn't covered in ketsup (that was for Matt) then it gets funny looks, at least from Mais and Kenz. Kenzie made me a yummy chocolate cake with sprinkles (evidently her piece didn't have enough sprinkles, so she had to take a few off the rest of the cake with her finger...along with lots of icing). And Justus, Mais and Kenzie made me a very sweet card! It was a bummer to have to study on my birthday, but very fun to drag out the celebration!