Did you watch the Royal Wedding and the sweet, romantic kiss they shared!!

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They kissed twice!

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I loved her stunning gown by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen!

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This is a love that will last a lifetime!

Congrats to the Prince and Princess!

For more photos and information of the Royal Wedding check out my wedding blog and AllWomenstalk!

Royal Wedding....

At first I thought, sure I'll watch the wedding and post a few things about Kate Middleton and Prince William, but I don't really care about all those TV shows about them. However, now I've realized how historic the Royal Wedding really is! So many people remember the day Princess Diana walked down the aisle, but that was a different time when no one really liked her marrying into the Royal family and no one in America really cared yet about her. But we soon learned how wonderful, generous, sweet, and kind of a person Princess Diana truly was. Sadly, I also remember the day she passed away. I love how her legacy lives on and the way Prince William carries on her life and memory. I think Kate Middleton will live up to that and be a sweet and wonderful Princess as well.

Are you excited about the Royal Wedding?

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What do you think Kate's mother will wear to the Royal Wedding?

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Check out AllWomenStalk blog to see the dresses I picked for Carole Middleton!

Anniversary & Easter...

Celebrating your Anniversary on a holiday can be pretty busy and a little crazy, this is especially true when you have three step children. We wanted to make sure we had a moment to ourselves to celebrate our anniversary, so the night before Easter we went out to dinner and had the perfect night together! Everything just came together so nicely. We dressed up, took some pictures, went to eat at Toscana 52 where we had the perfect meal, drinks, and the sweetest waitress, then we went for a walk through New Hope, and after came home to watch Eat, Pray, Love. The movie was really wonderful and done with respect to the book and Elizabeth Gilbert's life, Julia Roberts did a beautiful job, love her!

So on Easter, our actual anniversary, we had Easter baskets for the kids, went for a bike ride, had a little egg hunt (filled with money!), ate a very tasty ham dinner, and cut into our wedding cake for good luck! I was very thankful for our time together the night before and wasn't worried about running around and doing so many things on our anniversary because this is our life, our family, and this is why I'm so loved and blessed.

Will you or have you celebrated an anniversary on a holiday?

(A Perfect Anniversary)

(One Year Later!)

(Our Wedding Cake Top!)

(This is after a busy, Easter day!)

(Happy Easter!)

PS...should have said how the cake tasted! It actually wasn't too bad a year later! It wasn't the same as our wedding day, but it was better than expected! There was still half of it left so we just tossed it, it was weird departing with it!

Giveaway....

Hosting a giveaway on the Wedding blog today...check it out and leave a comment if you would like to be entered!

Thank you readers for all the wonderful anniversary comments! :)

Pictures soon to come!

Our 1st Wedding Anniversary is Today!

Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary my husband. I don't know who I would be without you in my life. I would be lost without your love, your encouragement, your trust and faith in who I am and who I want to be. I love our little family and I am the luckiest girl in the world to be your wife and stepmother to your children...our children! I love you with all my heart, forever n always, more than anything! Here's to 100 more anniversaries!

How to Celebrate....

...your Anniversary! We're keeping our first wedding anniversary sweet and simple, just being together and going out to a nice dinner and then watching "Eat, Pray, Love"...we read the book together but haven't seen the movie yet! How will you be celebrating your one year anniversary?

Please check out my post at Wedding.Allwomenstalk for more ideas on how to celebrate and for more of our wedding photos!

Our Guestbook

YUM...Wedding Cake...we'll be eating the top layer this Sunday!

AWW...LOVE! <3

More from Our Wedding...

Thank you everyone for the sweet comments! I wonder how our wedding day would have been if it were this year? There has been so much rain this season in our area, I'm sure I would have been a bride wearing cute rain boots holding an umbrella! But I wouldn't have let the rain stop our beautiful day! What about your wedding day, were there any crazy storms or events that happened? It actually started to get cloudy right after our reception and the next wedding had to bring their ceremony inside. Here are a few photos from our first look and ceremony...

(All Photos by....Pictures in a Snap)

It's Our Anniversary this Weekend!

Can you believe this weekend, April 24th, it will be our one year anniversary!! I should have started this on Sunday, but better late than never! I'm going to post one picture each day from our wedding day! I wonder what our frozen wedding cake will taste like!

I love you my husband...with all my heart, forever n always, more than anything.

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Getting Ready!!

I love this picture...here I am in jeans and a tank with my wedding veil on doing my own makeup at Glen Foerd Mansion!

Talking to the Moon...

How was your weekend? We had a really nice one, my mom and my sisters came up for a visit to take my mom out to lunch to celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday Mom...April 18th! We went to AppleBee's and had them sing to her...it was really cute! Here are a few photos of the album I made for her...using paper lunch bags, thanks to my best friend for helping me!

My sister gave us this house warming gift..since this was her first time visiting our new place!

Now our Butterfly Meadow set is complete...PS my sister didn't even know we had this set, it was total fate and coincidence that she bought the same design! LOVE!

Random Pictures of the Moon!

Scrapbooking!

More scrapbooking! Did I tell you about the scrapbook fair we went to, it was really interesting and fun too! I've never been to one and didn't know what it was going to be like. It was so adorable to see all the avid scrapper ladies waiting in line waiting for them to let us look around, they had shopping bags bigger than a tote bag and on wheels too! I really wanted to take some photos since this was my first scrapbooking fair, but I didnt feel like carrying around my camera all day. My best friend took some great photos of all of the amazing cards and scrapbooking ideas but we forgot to take a photo of us at the fair! So when we got home I got my camera out and we took some photos of us holding up the cards we made. At the fair there are about 30 or so scrapbooking, and stamping companies and some of them have what they call, "Make and Takes". A Make and Take is when you sit down to learn the card making idea from the scrapbooking company and you make your own and take it with you! Some of them cost money, since they are using their own supplies and some of them are free! We did two, one of them was make 2 cards for $1 and another one was free! You can't beat paying a dollar, especially when you get to take this idea home with you.

The night before the fair my friend stayed the night since she lives out of town and we stayed up again till the wee hours, well this time until 1am, not 3am! I'll have to take some photos of the amazing mini album she showed me how to make, it's made from three paper lunch bags! Wait till you see it!

So here are some photos of us after we got home, with our cards!

My best friend who was also my maid of honor...with our scrapbooking cards we made!

Heres my little frog my mom bought me at the Philadelphia Flower Show and his little Gnome buddy I bought to keep him company!

Not sure what these are but they're growing outside our home!

Love this little blue bell!

Grow little tulip, grow!

Blogger Templates

This morning I came over to my blog and there were images from photobucket saying they were updating...well I didn't want my blog looking crazy all day so I went in search of a new blogger template. My other one was 3 columns, but I couldn't resist the adorable bunting! Do you like the 2 columns? What do you think? This one is from YummyLolly.com

Marry Me...

Love this..."Marry Me" by Train. This is a fan version with stories of love and marriage. Get your tissues ready!

Here is the link to our wedding video <3

Our Wedding Video...

Happy Weekend!

Succulents...

Thank you to all the wonderful ladies for your sweet comments about my lovely step-daughter, she's doing much better, and now she feels a little famous for being on my blog!

There are still some amazing photos I haven't posted yet from the Philadelphia Flower Show...remember the Spring time in Paris theme! I also have some photos to post of the beautiful succulent plant my mom bought for me while we were there. I know so many of you love the look of succulents in weddings, but do any of you have succulent plants? The only thing I really see about taking care of them is lots of sun and plenty of water, but not too much water. So every day I put it on my window sill to put it in the sun and I water it about every two days, if that!

(My Succulent plant!)

(I love the green and pink tones)

(Our wedding photo!)

(From the Flower Show: A Gorgeous Wedding Aisle)

(Stunning Wedding Table)

(Adorable Rain Boots...such a great idea!)

So much...

There is so much going on, so many stories today...and already at 10am...that have brought tears to my heart, and tears running down my face.

As I think about the complaining I do and then I think about all of these heart warming, touching stories, I think what an idiot I am for complaining about the small stuff. Yes, my two teen stepdaughters get attitudes sometimes, but I know they love me and appreciate everything I do and I love them and appreciate them for letting me into their lives.

Sometimes I don't feel like cleaning, cooking, driving around to drama practice, softball games, to the mall, but they are my kids and they depend on me and I am grateful to be able to be the stepmom they love and share things with.

I never felt so strong about our bond than I did two days ago at my youngest daughter's softball practice. It was a great day for practicing outside and they needed a field practice before their first game. The ball was hit and I saw my stepdaughter's arm in the air with her glove open ready to catch it. Next thing I know, I'm screaming her name and running towards her because the ball hit her face. She was kneeling down covering her eye and we weren't sure how bad it was yet. It was pretty scary when we saw the blood running down her face and she was crying and screaming pretty hard. But we got her cleaned up, took her to the doctors and found out that she didn't need any stitches and her eye was going to be fine.

She has a minor cut on the top of her lid and swelling under her eye, which has now turned to a dark red/ purple color. But her spirits are high and she's hoping to cover it up with makeup on Friday since they will be taking her graduating pictures...heres hoping theres retakes!

Here is her poor little eye....

Ouch....

Glad you're okay sweety...we love you, your sister, and brother!

Scrapbooking...

I wanted to show everyone what my best friend and I were doing a few weekends ago while scrapbooking until 3am!! First we did a few pages in our scrapbooks and then she showed me how to make a mini album from putting scrap paper together. Hope everyone had a great weekend, it was finally warm out for the entire weekend so we all went bike riding on Saturday and Sunday!

(Girl Owls!)

(Just picture it with pictures!)

(Buttons!)

I put the three girl owls at the top because all of the pictures in this mini album will be of me and my two step daughters and all of our little adventures together...baking cookies, going to walks, and just hanging out!

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