Today is a whirlwind of emotions – blame it on being 37.5 weeks pregnant or all of the life changes going on. I could post about my doctor’s appointment yesterday, how work is getting the best of me the last few weeks I’m here, or what I watched on TV last night - but I decided today was the perfect day to just simply post some picture from the best day of my life – August 1, 2009.

The day started out with blue skies and was absolutely gorgeous!!! I surprisingly was as cool as a cucumber even when my husband-to-be called to say he left his shirt in Tuscaloosa, 3 hours away. I was surprisingly calm (thanks to Kelsey on that one!), and at that moment happened to be passing by a J.C. Penney’s. We wheeled in, full makeup, tiara and all to buy three white shirts, since I didn’t know how J.C. Penney brand would compare to his Jos. A. Bank shirt. Good thing too because bless his heart, he was trying to rush and cut himself shaving on his neck and bled all over one of them!

Needless to say, we made it through the day and got married just as scheduled at 2:00 PM. We went to the reception where we had desserts galore – and as Sam has coined, a “chountain” (that would be a chocolate fountain, but he was so excited about it, it came out “chountain”).

This was Elliott’s surprise groom’s cake. Since he works for his family’s RV business we thought what better groom’s cake could there be? It was too cute.

Throughout the entire planning process we had used to intertwining “R”s for Reed and Robbins. Sara, the cake decorator, was able to recreate the symbol on our cake and our wedding surprise from our event coordinator (coworker and friend) Susan was a painting of the insignia.

As the reception ended, Elliott and hopped in our “chariot” (ahem! golf cart) and drove off to our cottage, which from this picture looks just like the one in front of us, but ours was the second one down the street.