The Phamily Blog

This past Saturday marked the day my best friend got married. It was such a beautiful day and I am not convinced it could have gone any smoother.

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On Friday night, all of us girls (bridesmaids) spent Tiff's last single night with her in her apartment. Tiff even surprised us with a special slideshow she had proffessionally created for us. It was such a sweet gift.

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In the morning, we headed over to the Mother of the Bride's house to get ready for the very special day.

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A self-portrait of Ashley and I getting ready:

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and another one of Lauren and I

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Ashley helped Tiffany with her wedding day make-up and did a fabulous job!

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(I'm totally kidding...they were sweet)

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We finally made our way to the reception and had an absolutely wonderful evening.

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One of my favorite moments from the evening was the bouquet toss.

This past weekend, myself along with my very best girlfriends got together to spend the weekend in Tahoe in honor of Tiff's last weekend of being single.

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We had an absolute blast and I have no doubt that I will have memories from this trip for MANY years to come. It was unforgettable to say the least!

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While walking around in Tahoe through all of the cute little shops, we stumbled upon a tiny little movie theater that played one showing a day. Wouldn't you know that "The Hangover" was playing and we had JUST been talking about seeing it the night before. More than half of the girls had already seen it but it was so good that they didn't mind seeing it a second time.

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Here is Tiff just outside of the theater in all of her Bachelorette gear. How cute is she?!

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The movie was absolutely hilarious and definitely gets two thumbs up from me! It was a fantastic start to our night for sure!

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After the movie we decided to check out a local bar. When we walked in, there were all of about seven older men sitting alone at the bar and we felt a wee bit awkward. That was definitely short-lived though, as about five minutes later, we loaded up the jukebox and the first round of drinks were purchased.

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Soon enough, the girls (not me, of course!) were doing things like this:

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And those men were VERY much entertained by their antics.

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I was the mother hen of the night. I babysat and kept them somewhat in line.
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Even Lauren attempted to loosen up a bit.
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Back at the condo pretending to be real life gangsters...
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We played games and laughed a LOT.
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Two Buck Chuck anyone?
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My best friend Tiffany recently got engaged and since the majority of us were in town for the holidays, we decided to take a trip to the Bridal salon to scope out some dresses.

We decided to embarrass Tiff along the way :)

Tiff's bridal consultant had a brief meeting with her about what she was looking for in a dress; what she loved, what she hated, etc...

HATED.

She felt like a mummy.

But she still had fun with it.


Definitely not.


Eh...not so much. I believe this was the dress that she felt made her look as if she were
"with child."


On to some winners...

You can't tell from this pic, but this gown is covered in lace and had beadwork throughout the entire dress. I think Tiff decided this was the style of dress she was going for, and we agreed it looked great on her.


The front of the dress with a sash we had the consultant grab so we could envision.

so I thought I would share, even though they're a couple of weeks old now.

This seems to be our (the BFF's and me) new hangout.

It's a really old dessert diner. SO fun...and it is open way late so we get to hang out and chat until the wee hours of the morning ; ) Fun stuff!

This was the night that Jenny was supposed to surprise the girls. She has been living in Tennessee attending med school (have I mentioned how proud I am of her?)

But anyway, she was supposed to keep it a surprise and then show up for dinner one night, but she couldn't contain her excitement and ended up surprising Tiff earlier than planned.

so while Lauren (who still didn't know about Jenny) was on her way, Tiff and I found a seat in the diner, while Jenny and her sister got a booth directly behind us with their backs facing us. Lauren finally arrived and sat down. Eventually, jenny and her sister started messing with Lauren's hair and Lauren turned around to give them a piece of her mind when she recognized that familiar face! It was a fun moment!! :)


We spent the rest of the evening catching up while eating way too many delicious things.



yummy.


Tiff, Lauren, and Amanda

Eventually, Jenny's jetlag caught up to her and she had to get home due to lack of sleep.
We had a great time and can't wait to go back to the diner for more!!