My Sweet Niece is ONE!!!

Happy Birthday Sweet Ellie! I can't believe you are ONE today!!! I remember how your momma and daddy told us we were going to Aunt's! Your mom got all creative on us and made this cute home made card and I can remember thinking I am so excited and how i have prayed for this day and maybe even got the prison ministry people to pray for you too! :) But skip ahead 9 LONG months to the day you were born.

Oh how I remember sitting in the waiting room with all your grandparents and your aunt! Boy LaLa and I were so excited we could hardly stand it! Your mom gave us STRICT instructions to NOT wait outside the door so your LoLo made sure we didn't.....but LoLo couldn't stop us from "accidentally" walking by your momma's door and listening in. :) (Your mom may not even know that :)) But boy how happy we were when we got the news from your daddy with a picture text of your cute little self! Oh we were all filled with tears of joy!! We were so happy you were here safe and sound and your mommy did so good! Sooo many prayers were said that day by me, LaLa, LoLo, Mudge, MawMaw, Pawpaw and sooo many more! And still to this day you are always in my prayers and I am sure everyone else's too!

Ellie Jones you have brought more happiness to our family and to everyone you come in contact with! Your happiness radiates and I can't wait to continue to watch you grow up.

You have the most awesome mommy ever. Seriously. You will not find a better person than her. I know you won't figure this out for a long time but seriously she is the most wonderful mother/sister/wife I know. :) And your daddy well he is quite the mess :) He was my first brother and has been absolutely wonderful! He loves you to death little miss and let me tell you....I dread the first time you bring a boy to meet them! Oh my it's going to be a day you need to call your Leigh Leigh and she will come help! :) But your mommy and daddy have given your Uncle Nate and I a great example to follow as Christians and as husband and wife and maybe one day mother and father! ! :)

These are just a few pictures from the past year that I absolutely love and of people who absolutely love you! :) Happy Birthday sweet girl! You are loved more than you know!

(Excuse the pictures they are terribly out of order! :)

Michelle or Shell as you will probably call her thought you were the PERFECT little sister for Morgan! :)

Morgan thought so too! :)

Lolo and Ellie swimming! She loves the pool!

Your Leigh Leigh and LaLa love you so much!!!


You are the sweetest most precious thing!

I love this picture! :)

Your Uncle Nate loves you and Morgan so much! :) You gave him baby fever! :)

Ellie you were so precious at my wedding! I was so happy to have you in it!!

You weren't really stoked about sitting upfront with your daddy though :) So MawMaw to the rescue! :)

Oh your LaLa loves you so much! She swears her heart has grown 3 sizes bigger since you came along! :)

Your first beach trip! You loved the pool and didn't hate the ocean but I think you will love it more next year! :)

All the girls of the Walker side of the family! :)

You are mommy rotten to the core!! But sweet as sugar!

And oooh girl I just love that sweet little chubby face!

Again your La thinks you're the greatest thing since sliced bread!

You are so silly sometimes! I love it when you play back with us! :)

This look I just love so so much!!! I mean seriously you couldn't be any cuter!

You were quite the little model for us that weekend!

I love that innocent smile! :)

This was a photo shoot your mommy and I did for your daddy's first fathers day! :) Titus loves you....a lot! :)

Still this might be my all time favorite picture of you!!! Pure happiness!

Dr. Price took this picture of us at the Relay for Life in May! Just a few short months ago you didn't have that much hair! Now it's in your eyes!! :)

That's it I'm texting grandma! :)

MawMaw and PawPaw love you so much too! :) They have been down quite a bit since you were born! :)

Oh your Gin Gin can't get enough of you! I got your some cabbage patch kids :) QVC special :)

Your Nana and Papa love you too!

Oh and your Mudge just thinks you are the greatest!

Sweet girl :)

Your Mudge and LoLo

Your LoLo loves you so much!

You were so little!

We were so excited.....your momma on the other hand....she was worn out!

This was right before your momma was admitted! Oh we were so excited!

Full Wedding Swing.....

Sorry these 2 pictures were a late addition! :) So excuse the order of the blog!

Here is Morgan and I at my birthday dinner! :)

Here are the 4 soon to be newly weds at Laurie's birthday dinner! :)

Well here we are....

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  12 days til I put my wedding dress on.....


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  12 days til my daddy walks me down the aisle.......


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  12 days til my momma cried like she is at a funeral (well she did at Louise's:))


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  12 days til I get to walk down the aisle to my best friend and love of my life


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  12 days til I get to live in my house and stay there all night long....not just there to do laundry and keep the kitchen clean!


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  11 days til my bridal tea and all my closest friends are all in the same place and with me!


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  11 days til our rehearsal dinner


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  10 days til decorating all of the church and fellowship hall


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  9 days til I am done with work for 2 WHOLE WEEKS!


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  4 days til I am at the beach with the nearest and dearest to me relaxing before wedding week starts! :)


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  4 days til my last shower....my work shower. I am so extremely blessed!


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  2 days til classes start and I am done with my last class as a single lady! :)

Down below are some of the pictures of things that have been going on over the past couple weeks!

This is from my University Shower! The ladies group gift was a Keurig!!! I was so excited and my most wonderful friend Kristen got me this handy thing to go under my Keurig and stores my K-Cups!! :) I was SO EXCITED!!!

Here are the wonderful hostess!!! They were absolutely wonderful and I am so thankful to be surrounded by such wonderful women! I am so blessed to be part of such an amazing church family who has blessed mine and my family's lives so much!
Me in front of some of the gifts! :)

This is from my Shower in Trion, GA with all of Mrs. Jacki's (my mother in law's) family!!! They absolutely spoiled us so rotten! It may have been one of my smallest showers but I got the absolute best stuff at that shower! Laurie was my gift carrier to the table person :) As you can tell I was excited about this trashcan!

Here is the family minus daddy.....

Me and the sisters! Have I mentioned that I really do have 2 of the BEST sisters around??? Because I really do!

Here is Jess! She definitely wins bridesmaid of the year! She has been absolutely amazing and I am so grateful to have such a best friend who will literally drop everything for me and make sure my wedding and everything leading up is absolutely perfect! She even lets me vent and cry and doesn't call me bridzilla! I love her.

Here are a few of my favorite shower present from the Trion, GA shower!

One of Mrs. Jacki's best friends got Nate and I 6 place settings of fiesta ware!!! I was SO SO EXCITED!!!! I absolutely love them!!! I have some white dishes already so when football season comes around these orange and white dishes will be set out on the dining room table! :)

This is Nate and I at our couple shower!

This is me at our Holiday Shower and this is the trial run cake Rayla did to see if we like the colors on the cake for the wedding.....we decided we were just going to traditional white on white with flower adding the color. And this cake was so divine!!!!

Here are a couple sneak peeks from my bridal shots.....Jay did absolutely amazing!

We had so much fun and having Jessica and Melissa there made it that much more memorable! :) Daddy loves these that were taken in Steak-N-Shake :)

This is one of Jessica & Laurie's favorite shots.

Well I guess that about sums it up.....in 2 weeks I will be married and living it up with my hubby on a cruise ship! It is going to be so very nice!

This is what I was welcomed with when I got on our cruise website! :) Oh 30 days has never felt so close but oh so far away!!! :)

This is our ship :) Our suite will be on one of the upper decks :) That's where you will find us for 7 days STRAIGHT! :)

These next few pictures are of all the places we will stop, Half Moon Cay, Bahamas; St. Thomas, USVI; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Grand Turk :)

I can't wait to get out on these beaches!! Oh I can't wait!

Doesn't this look so amazing? :)

And I just am so excited about seeing this!!! :)

Can you tell I am really REALLY ready for the honeymoon?!?!

I absolutely can't wait!!!! :) 29 days! :)

1 month from today.....

Yep you guessed it....I get to marry by best friend....I get to wake up and go to bed every night with my love....I absolutely cannot wait for this next month! I am so excited!





As I was getting my bussell put in my dress yesterday standing there with my dress on and all the fixings made me realize just how wonderful and exciting this all really is! I get to marry the man of dreams then take a 7 day long cruise to the "exotic eastern Caribbean" (yes I stole that off the website :)) and we are staying in a ocean view suite....if you don't think I am excited you are so wrong! I have been restless at night....which could be due to the amount of stuff left I need to already have done or the fact that I need to get the rest of the thank you notes out before my next shower this weekend! But regardless we will say it's restlessness caused by excitement. :)





I was talking to some of my co-workers yesterday as I was visiting with my sweet little niece and they were asking how little miss Ellie was going to be getting down the aisle....well I will be honest, I really want her to crawl down it....she has the fastest little crawl and I think she would be absolutely precious crawling down the aisle....thoughts? (She would be the first one down the aisle....so her dress wouldn't get dirty.....there would be an aisle runner down....those are things others had asked about :)) I just am so stinking excited.





I started getting all my bridesmaids presents together and I feel like I have been buying alot throughout the past 10 months but it really doesn't look that way. So with some help of some good friends I was able to find a "filler" per say that will make it look bigger and more full :)





Hotel reservations are being made, bridal tea invitations are going out and lingerie shower invites are going out! My best friend will be flying in August 11th, in time for my bachelorette weekend and some showers. All is right in my world. I get to marry the man of dreams and spend the rest of my life with him....excited just doesn't do it justice. :) Thanks for all the kindness and prayers that have been offered. :) We are truly blessed with the best friends and family 2 people can ask for!

Showers, Houses, and Wedding Bells

Well let's go back to June 18th-Father's Day weekend.....we had my shower in Valdosta and i was truly showered! They were all so wonderful and got Nate and I such wonderful gifts! We had so much fun and it was so nice to get to see all my family and Nate's family got to come down for it and meet my extended family so that was very nice! Gin-Gin, Kaka, Nana, Audrey, and Bev did such a great job with the shower and it was just wonderful to see all our friends from Valdosta!
Father's day was great it was so nice to be able to spend it with all the "fathers" in my life!

The next week started a TON of traveling for me.....left on the 23rd to go to Church of Christ day at Six Flags....was in Atlanta til midday of the 24th then booked it to Birmingham for my co-workers wedding....we had his rehearsal dinner that night so Jessica and I were booking it back so I could meet Nate to go to that. (Nate lived with Chad, my co-worker so we were invited to the rehearsal) Well on our way to Birmingham Nate called and said he was swamped and that he would not be able to make it to the rehearsal and that the wedding would be iffy....so I call chad and make sure he still wants me to come even though Nate wouldn't be with me and he said yes and just to bring Jessica as my date instead! :) So we went to the rehearsal and it was so fun and we had so much fun with Barry and Tiffany! We stayed and visited with everyone for a good while then headed back to Jessica's aunt and uncle's house to stay for the night! We got up Saturday morning back the car back and headed to get our nails and toes done for my bridal pictures in Albany on Sunday.....(yes it's a roller coaster so just hold on!) After the toes and nails we change into our wedding clothes and head to the wedding! It was beautiful and I am so happy for Chad and Pam.....sitting in that wedding with Nate right beside....well to say the least that I am so excited about our wedding day is a total understatement! :)

After the wedding Jessica and I left and headed BACK to Atlanta to pick up my hair and make up girl and her daughter to go with us down to stay in Perry Saturday night and then go to my bridals with me on Sunday afternoon! I need to stop here and insert a side note....I ordered real flowers from a florist down in Perry so that Jessica's mom could pick them up on Saturday and I could have real flowers for my bridals! When we got to perry I was so excited because they were EXACTLY what I wanted for my pictures and for my actual wedding day! I was beyond happy! So back to the story....we get to Perry and Jessica's mom had went out and bought a steamer so we could steam my dress that night so it wouldn't be all wrinkled from the ride....I am beyond blessed with the most amazing friends!! We stayed up and sat in the hot tub that night for a little bit and talked and visited and it was just so nice....then we went and steamed my dress....I was totally prepared for it to take a good minute to get all the wrinkles out but that steamer was the best! It took us about 45 minutes and we were in bed and asleep! Church and lunch were great and then we were back at Jessica's house loading the car to head for Albany! I was so nervous....(I have been so nervous about everything....showers, hair, makeup, pictures, I MEAN EVERYTHING!) but we got going and I was excited.....we made it over half way there when it hit me, as it started raining, that I forgot my flowers!!! I was so upset....so I was driving so I took a few minutes and vented and then decided that plenty of people don't have flowers in their bridals and that if this was the worst thing that happened it would be just fine! So I get to my photographers house and she suggest we go to publix and just get some....at this point I am stressed over the possibility of rain so I am just ready to get dressed and started. So Jessica being the amazing friend she is runs to publix and comes back with seriously like 6 different bouquets of flowers with my colors in it! Have I mentioned that she is like bridesmaid of the year??? Because she is!!! She has just been amazing! So my bridals went absolutely great and I wish I could show you all some but there needs to be some mystery :) But I can tell you I am oh so happy about 2 things....1 that I have my braces....man I am so much happier with a straight smile.....2 that my pictures turned out so good!

So we get back to Montgomery finally about 11 pm! Jessica drops me off and she heads to Auburn....I head to bed.....get up early Monday morning and pack again for a week of working and helping a friend move in VA.....get to work and my friend I had asked to go with me to help said that she really could go so about noon we head to VA.....and after a LONG 13 hour drive there we make it and visit for a couple minutes then get in bed! It was such a fun week of visiting and I got to see Washington, DC! I also got to visit with a couple recruits and visit some of my churches up there! It was a great week!

I get home Saturday night and go to Louise's and crash! While I was gone mom and dad and some friends from Church had come to help Laurie get her moved out of the apartment and get some of my stuff out....so Sunday we went and got everything out of the apartment and moved everything of mine into Nate and my house! I was so EXCITED!!! Laurie and I will be staying in Laurie's fiance's (Yep you read it right....LAURIE IS ENGAGED!!! YAY!!! Couldn't be any happier and couldn't have prayed for a better man than Matt! He is exactly what she has always wanted and I couldn't have hand picked a better man for her. And he fits in perfectly in the family! :)) back to the story....we will be staying in his old house since he just bought a new house. So we got everything out of the apartment and cleaned it spotless on Monday.

Then Jessica, Nate and I got everything in the house put away...all the boxes and bags out of the house and everything washed! I was SO EXCITED!!! My house was put together and I just couldn't be any happier that it was put together in time for my people to come over for our 4th of July party! It was so fun and so so nice! We had a good time and that is when Laurie and Matt got engaged! Matt took her on the riverboat to watch the fireworks! :) He is very thoughtful!

So that has been the past 3 weeks for me!! And have I mentioned that I can't wait for August 27th?!?! It excites me to think about walking down the aisle to marry the man of my dreams and my best friend who really loves me.....flaws and all! He is a good man! And have I mentioned I absolutely love my house?!?! I will try to post pictures of it finished and I will try to post some pictures from Washington, DC later!!