A Great Mother's Day Weekend

I apologize for the lack of posts this week! Been a little busy around here!
I wanted to share with you two celebrations over the Mother's Day weekend - one was a party for our friends Will and Liz , and the other was a Mother's Day/Graduation lunch. I love sharing the details, and hope you like seeing them too! :)

The party was hosted at our Aunt Vicky and Uncle Grady's next door to my parents. Several couples helped give the party, including my parents and David's parents. The flowers for the party were yellow and red gerberas, and the decor was in shades of blue and coral.  All of the gerbera daisies looked beautiful in the blue and white vases and the yellow tulipiere. 

I totally stole this pic from FB, but this is Liz and Will - they're the couple who the Low Country Boil was thrown for. They'll be getting married on SSI this summer, and we're excited for their wedding! 

The hors d'oeuvres were so pretty on the outside table. 

And all of the place settings were lovely! I loved the burlap table cloths with the coral and blue color scheme. 

Then, on Sunday David and I had the honor of speaking to the highschool graduates and their families at our church during the senior breakfast that morning. We were happy to be asked, and do hope we shared a bit of wisdom with them!

Here's my awesome Mama! Love honoring my Mom - she makes everything special. She's the best!!!! 

 Afterward, our Mother's Day lunch/Ivy's graduation celebration was at my parent's. My Aunt Jill and her four kids, our friend Patti, and my in-laws all joined together. 

All day on Saturday, my mom and me, along with Laura Lyn decorated for Sunday lunch. Ivy graduated from Darlington in Rome - their school colors are purple and white. He'll be attending Center College in Kentucky this fall, and will be running track for the school! So proud of him!

We didn't get a family pic on Sunday, but here's the whole Hardin crew this past Christmas. That's Ivy in the middle in the back between his brother Hugh and my brother Brince. 

Mom found the cutest Pinterest project - pirouettes with twizzlers wrapped around them like little diplomas! So cute! 

The purple alstromeria flowers and purple pom poms reflected Ivy's school colors.

Mom pulled together some pics of the four Duggans and 4 Coodys growing up together to have on display for the lunch too! 

This is one of my favorites! Asa and Ivy are only a few weeks apart, so they were like little twins! 

And now, look how grown up and cute they are! 

Mom and Dad had an awesome lunch - standing rib roast, broccoli casserole, wild rice casserole, sweet potatoes, and more. It was delicious! 

In addition to ice cream crunch, we had "Congratulations Ivy" cupcakes! 

And these cute "pops" too! 

Happy Wedding Weekend to The Muller-Stones!

It's hard to believe that Lauren and Ryals' wedding weekend is finally here! We are heading to 

Barnsley Gardens today to get this celebration under way! 

Look for a wedding post next week! 

One last bday dinner

On Monday night, we had one last celebration for David's 30th birthday here in Gainesville with our awesome friends Natasha and Trey McPhaul, and Laura and  Brett Fowler. 

I used a lot of the decorations from David's party over the weekend so they could see it all. We enjoyed another night of tacos, but this time a la' Gena Knox.

Simple salad, Shrimp and BLT tacos, black bean cakes, and more cupcakes for dessert!

Our friends brought David such sweet thoughtful gifts! and we were so happy to have them over for the night!

JLo Love

Along with the talent this year on American Idol, I enjoy listening to the judges just as much. Randy has great feedback, Jennifer always boosts their confidence, and I laugh at everything that comes out of Steven's mouth. However, along with the entertaining singers and funny judges, I LOVE seeing what JLo is sporting that night. Really, does she ever miss a beat? She always looks fierce to me, and I know that she probably has a team of 20 that helps her look like this. Either way, in my book, she can do no wrong! 

Here are a few of my favorite JLo looks from this season of AI. 

I'm not sure what's more fierce....that leather strapped dress, or JLo's abs! 

I loved this look...I thought her minimal makeup was pretty with the dress.

This was fun too!

Love the color of this dress, and her hair is gorge.

She really looks great with red lipstick. Cute shorts and top!

And I love the color of this Michael Kors dress. JLo can really pull off the slicked-back ponytail.

Love the pale nude tone of the this sheath dress

And this was so cute too! She loves her sparkle!

But this is my favorite look so far! I loved the red dress she wore last night for the top 5 performances, and her makeup was beautiful too.

I wonder who is going home tonight? 

Party People

Here are some of my favorite photos from David's birthday party! On the party invitation, I asked that everyone wear something blue since it's David's favorite color! I think it made for some really fun pictures!
After a dinner of tacos, everyone enjoyed corn hole, beer pong, and musical flip-cup late into the night!

The birthday boy was genuinely surprised! 

I couldn't believe it that we all pulled it off! Brince was cool as a cucumber all day making sure David didn't catch on!

Here are all of the awesome Griffin cousins
Robert, Amanda, Fain, James, Sally, Kathryn, David and me

My Gongaman was happy to be in on the surprise for the bday boy!

And so was my Dad! I love this pic of him laughing!

David was so excited to see Jamie

And goodness knows my Mom and I were so relieved to be at this point of the evening!

I was beyond happy to have my buddies there - Jill, Meghan, and Renee

Here are my amazing girlfriends!
Renee, Hollie, Meghan, Jill, Christen, me, Colby, Laura Lyn, and Amy 

Our friends Ashley G, Wesley R, and Haydon joined the partay too!

Here's Abs making sure Hollie could "enter"! 

David with his main women!

Happy Birthday babe!

Awesome sisters-in-law, Mallory and Amy

The boys celebrated with a birthday Harmon

I love this picture of Eric - I wish I knew what David was saying! 

David's Aunt Caron, our friend Colby, David's Aunt Vicky, Hollie, and my mom in the kitchen!

We were so happy to have Christen there from D.C., and her sweet boyfriend Tim. 

The Wesleys.

Meghan and Clayton

It's dark, but that's Victoria and Abbye playin' a little corn hole.

My favorite Griffin men!
Robert, Grady, David, Benjy, Fain, and Steve

So glad Bill and Susan were there to celebrate too! 

And our friend James Farmer too!!! 

Here's the birthday boy and friends playing cornhole

The Coody clan!

Laura Lyn and Brince! So cute!!!! 

One last birthday toast for the night!

I love this....we have awesome friends!

To David turning 30!

Amy and Brooke - pretty girls!

John and Clayton!

And the finale to the evening was the world's longest game of musical flipcup...and look who the last two standing are! Abbye and David duked it out in the finals, and guess what? The birthday boy won! We all couldn't have been more proud!!!