happy belated mother's day (and other wedding stuff)

I'm usually not a pessimist about holidays (I mean really, who doesn't like a reason to party?), but Mother's Day just seems like the perfect example of a Hallmark Holiday.
Needless to say, it's one of my favorite holidays of the entire year. No, I'm not a mother (except to my amazing puppy, Beaux), but I am in love with this day. Mainly because I'm in love with my mom.

This woman is my best friend. There's really nothing else I can say about our relationship. She knows me better than I know myself, and we understand each other so well. Anything random I say, she usually can pick up my train of thought (unlike my dad, Sorry Barn!). That's just one of the things I love about her. Others would be how she keeps our family moving forward together and how well she balances work and home. Or how she can tell I'm freaking out about wedding plans by the look on my face and can calm me down with a pat on a shoulder (there's been a lot of that lately).
I could go on, but you get the picture. January 19th, 2013 will be a long day when we both realize we'll never live together anymore (mom, don't tear up at that), but we'll survive (I've already asked Justin to buy me a house in Madison, the answer was no).
Anyway, I love you Mom, and feel so blessed to have you as my mother and my friend.

Now onto wedding things...
It's been a busy week or so on the wedding front. Mom and I were able to pick out some paper for Save the Dates, Wedding Invites, and programs. Hopefully we'll be able to get free samples through the church instead of ordering an entire reel of paper that we might not use. We also finally have a backdrop for the ceremony! I won't go into too much detail (mainly because there aren't many just yet), but we went to this amazing architectural salvage store and purchased three reclaimed cedar doors and glass knobs. It'll be an exciting experience to see what we're able to do with them, and I can't wait! I was also able to order some accessories for the wedding as well like my veil and bouquet, both from Etsy. After everything we've been doing lately with the wedding planning, we can definitely add another word to my theme: handmade. And I love that!

Other than that, nothing else has really been going on. I'm still trying to help Justin get settled in his Clinton apartment and trying to start this whole graduate school thing. Classes start in about two weeks and I haven't been able to register until I get my official acceptance from MC. It's supposed to come thing week while I'm in Tupelo on an audit. I really couldn't believe my first week back at Horne, I was immediately whisked away to an audit, but it beats sitting around the office (and who doesn't like travel time and overtime!).

I hope everyone had a fabulous Mother's Day and really appreciate everything she did and still does for you!