FINALLY! Courtney started her blog and it gave me motivation to post pictures on my blog. Here are a lot of pictures from both of my trips to St. Louis. My first trip was really short and was for the Bachelorette party and the second one was for an entire week leading up to the wedding. Sorry its so long, but figured people can just skim if they don't want to look at them all.
These are the menus that Maria, our chef, made for dinner. The colors matched perfectly!
Here is our table that Mrs. Hildebrand helped me set.
Here is one of the vases. The flowers took forever to get worked out. Quite the fiasco, but I actually am quite proud of how they turned out, so here is a sample!
Table behind the food table. Super cute pictures!
Before the shower began, we had Kate come and put on her crown and her shirt for all of the girls to sign. She was in a super cute outfit, so I felt bad making her change, but she was a good sport about it.
We had a game where we had to kiss the man on the back of the door, and whoever got closest won. We all had really hot purple/pink lipstick on. It was a really fun game!
Here is the whole gang with our super cute chef, Maria. She was so wonderful!
This is the start of my second trip to St. Louis. This portion is from my trip down memory lane.
Being here reminded me of how much I miss and love all of the people here! What an amazing ward and stake, made up of wonderful people. You can't find anything like this anywhere else on earth!
My middle school
West High School! Right below this is where we practiced color guard for hours on end!
The back of our house. View from the pool!
Oh how I miss this pool!
Our Elementary School.
Queeny Park. So many Sunday walks and ice skating, and horse shows. Such an amazing park to live near.
Kate had a work conference, so I was so lucky and able to go to the temple while I was there. It was so wonderful!
This is Kate's house...well her family room. I love the windows!
After we picked Chelsey up from the airport, Kate and Ben were nice enough to take us to Ted Drewes. That was so fun because I can't even remember the last time I had it...probably girls camp.
I am not a huge fan of this picture, but it was so great of Kate's mom to do my hair for the wedding, I wanted to give her credit. She was so cute and offered to do my hair so it wouldn't be boring. I just love her!
Kate and Dana's parents. They looked so snazzy!
Kate and her Maids of Honor waiting for the ceremony to begin
Me, Lucy and Chelsey before the ceremony
Kate and Ben love Carl's Drive in. They thought it would be fun to take the wedding party there for lunch before we took pictures. The food was yummy! Kate was so cute and made us personalized aprons so we didn't ruin our dresses! They put so much time and thought into all of the details of their wedding!
Me and the newlyweds before they left the reception. This was such a wonderful day that went off without a hitch. I was so grateful to be able to be such a part of it! Wouldn't have missed it for the world!
