Weekend and wedding recap

This is the 2012 7A State Softball Champions! 

It was also the most exciting game the Lady Hornets have played all year. Most of the games would only make it 4 or 5 innings before they run ruled the other team. Bryant won 8-4 which is the most runs they have allowed all year.

On Sunday, we had lunch at my grandma’s house for my brother and dad’s birthday. I got dad a beach tent that we can use at the wedding next year!

Abby and Carter helping dad blow out the candles

Today has been a very big day for Clark and I! This morning we made an offer on a lot! We are so so excited about building the house that we will start our marriage in. My dad is going to contract it for us so we can build it for way below market value. The owner of the lot countered so we have to do some research and then we are either going to counter or accept tomorrow.

We also booked the house and photographer for the wedding today! The house is in Destin, FL and it actually turned out to be a much better deal than the house we had originally picked out in Navarre Beach. Not only is the house cheaper but it’s in Destin which has much more stuff to do than Navarre Beach. Also, the owner of the house owns a tent that he rents for weddings for quite a bit less than a tent company would. For those of you who want to look for places to stay around our house, the address is 115 Sarasota St Miramar Beach, FL 32550. The date is still May 4, 2013.

I am most excited about the photographer! It is Pure 7 Studios; you can look at some of their recent work on their blog, http://www.pure7studios.com/blog/. Clark and I both fell in love with them! We met with 2 photographers while in Destin. We loved them both and their price was barely different so it was not an easy decision. It was actually Clark who decided for us, he liked Pure 7 just a little bit more and I was happy to not have to make the decision. For any Grandma's that want to have portraits taken, let me know and I will get you a price list, their family sessions are just as amazing as their weddings!

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my chest today! It feels so good to finally have things finalized. Hopefully, we will get to accept the offer on the lot tomorrow and then we close in 2 weeks! I will put any wedding news on our website/app. If you want to download the app, it's called "appycouple" and our wedding code is 02594 or the website is clarkandjessica.appycouple.com. 

It's Friday, Friday, Friday

This weekend is going to be great! As soon as C and I leave work we are heading up to Fayetteville to watch C's sister, Carly, play softball in the state championship. This is the third year in a row that Bryant has made it to the 'ship and hopefully this will be the third time they win the 'ship! The Lady Hornets have been ridiculously good this year and it has been so much fun to watch Carly and the whole team.

Carly ALWAYS smiles in softball, there are so many pictures of her catching and hitting a ball with a huge grin on her face. Carly and I are a lot alike, Clark says it's because we both have black hearts and no souls, but she is so unlike me when it comes to softball. First of all, she is good. But mostly it's her attitude. I had the WORST attitude when I played high school ball. I didn't even play for a real team, I went to a tiny private school and there weren't many other private schools for us to play. I would get so mad if I messed up, my lowest points were smacking a girl on the other team with my glove and hyperventilating in the dugout. Carly always has a good attitude, I'm sure she gets down on herself sometimes but she doesn't let it show. 

The only really awful thing about going to Fayetteville is that we have to miss Clark's brother, Grant, graduating from college. For those of you who know Grant, you know that this degree is a long time in the making and we are so upset that we have to miss watching him get it! I made C decide on his own which one we were going to go to and he has been so torn up about it. It's going to be streamed online so we plan on watching it from the game. Grant promises that he is going to go back to school so we will not miss his next graduation no matter what! 

I'll let you know how the game goes! Happy weekend everyone!

a reveal and engagement party

This past weekend was so much fun! On Saturday afternoon, we gathered at Heather’s parents’ house for her baby gender reveal. I won’t steal her blogging thunder by giving away all the details but I am SO excited for her and Adam and can’t wait to meet baby girl Fite!

Heather, Adam and Gussy dog

Brittany, Me, Heather and Stephanie 

Saturday night was our engagement party. C and I are so blessed with the best family and friends that love and support us! Brittany, Heather, Stephanie, Rebecca, Debbie, and Elaine (who already had plans to go out of town and was missed!) hosted the party and it was a blast! It was at the Back Porch Grill in Hot Springs which I definitely recommend.

Brittany, Me, Stephanie and Heather

C and Me with our yummy cake!

After everyone ate, some people told stories about us. My favorite story was about C wrecking his mom’s car since he has always told me that he has never had a wreck. Heather’s mom told a story about me and Heather sneaking out of Heather’s room one night and leaving our muddy shoes on the windowsill which I thought was hilarious since I had just been thinking about that night at Heather’s reveal and wondering how many times she will catch her daughter sneaking out.

We also announced our date and location plans for the wedding which have subsequently fallen completely apart. My parents, C and I went down to Florida a couple weeks ago and I fell in love with a house in Navarre Beach. It was perfect and actually in our price range. I found the house on VRBO which is usually a fantastic place to find great deals but the owner of this house is a total liar. We originally just wanted to rent the house for 5 nights but he wanted us to do 7. We agreed to rent it for 7 nights but it had to be Sunday to Sunday. Well he demanded that we rent it Saturday to Saturday or rent it for 2 full weeks! Long story short, I told him that was not happening and either we got it for the dates we wanted or we would look somewhere else to which he won’t respond. 

So we are back at the beginning when it comes to houses. I promise I have seen every house on the Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast. I’m so frustrated and exhausted; I really thought we would have a house booked by now. I’m pretty much stuck until we book the house and we are having a much harder time than I thought finding what we want.

We are still planning on May 4, 2013. I am hoping that we can have the house, photographer and planner booked by the end of this month and at that point it’s just working out the details. I realize that this is still a year away so it seems like I should have plenty of time but doing a destination wedding means everything has to be done a few months earlier than usual.

I’ll keep you updated on the progress but for now here is my favorite contestant and performance from this years’ The Voice. I loooourve her!