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The little birdies have begun to show up on our door step!  We are loving your creativity.  tweet!  tweet!  (order we received the birds: Brittney + Henry, Alyssa + Ryan, Cheney + Jon, George + Sandi... can you guess whose is whose?)

Once upon a time...

... a little 21 year old gal wandered into Old MacDonald's Market on Church Avenue in the deepest, darkest part of outer Brooklyn.  (Little Pakistan)  What a steal!  12 wine glasses for $12, the sign read.  The sturdy, foggy wine glasses served her well, dwindling off one at a time.  She drank vino, oj, seltzer and ate cereal and yogurt out of the glasses; one by one, they broke into pieces.  Eight years later, this gal now 29 enters into holy matrimony, and thanks to friends and family, begins a NEW collection of beautiful wine glasses, goblets and flutes fit for a Queen.  How lovely!

Welcome to the South!

Thank you Aunt Lisa and Uncle Steve for hosting our 'Welcome to the South' dinner!  We are looking forward to introducing our city slicker friends to our sweet family, some home cooking, mother nature, and perhaps a few critters!

Oh, Do say I DO!

Ahhhhh!  We put the invites in the mail.  I designed, Will stamped the golden stamp, Mom addressed... and off they went. The 2 month count down begins.  Don't forget the birdies!!!  We are getting married!

Our first 8th Street house guest!

Sophie Baxter Graham!  We wish to adopt.

Rested feet and happy eyes, NYU campus, lost in Central Park: fountain, trees, boats and naked lady, MET sculptures, mummies and chocolate cake, Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright, shopping on 5th Ave, Tiffany's, Prada, photo with half-naked man at AF, Rockafeller, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Radio City, Pizza with Inga and Will, live music in Washington Square Park, J Lo movie at Grays Papaya, Breakfast at Tiffany's, walked the Brooklyn Bridge, breakfast at Yaffa in the East Village, SOHO, China Town, ships at the Sea Port, paintings with Matt and Will, Italian Dinner with the fellas, Wizard of OZ, West Village pancakes at Gray Dog, top of the Empire State Building, Natural Museum of History, walked the West Side Highway, Magnolia cupcakes with Cooper and Cheney, Mama Mia, Time Square at night, more pizza at Famous Rays, hot subways: A, C, E, F, B, D, elevators, a wedding and chocolate cake and cocoa at the Plaza, FAO Schwartz piano and candy, LOVE sculpture, lunch in Bryant park, 42nd Street Library, tired feet and sleepy eyes... I cried and Soph flew away!

Tallahassee'll do you good!

Tuesday to Tuesday in Tallahassee was jam-packed with lunches, coffees, babies, dinners, Bunko, Cole Couture shopping, vino, seafood, beaches, swimming, girlfriends, family, much more vino, YA-YA's, presents, lace, lingerie, cucs and wedding prep work! What a fantastic week filled with non-stop fun. Thank you Linda and the Bunko babes for a fabulous first time. Wonderful to see everyone, swim, eat, drink and gamble!

Dinner at Linda's with the Waltons, Rosenbergs and Varns was delich. (I need to make that prune chicken - so good.) and so lovely to have a slumber with Kelly and Collin. We still know how to stay up till 2 gossipin' and swapping bathing suits. (PS - love the navy. Did laps with mom and it stayed ON!)

This weekend was the most time I've gotten to spend with Carrie, Lindsay and Nikki - and it was oh-so-lovely. Mexican, Seafood, Grapevines, Lasagna, Casserole, Champagne, Prosecco, Spinich Dip, Twin Bed Slumber, and long beach t-walks - I loved it. Very special indeed. Cheney flew in from NYC for the weekend. She, Alyssa, Leah and Kelly joined Saturday for some evening shenanighans and gossiping in rare form. Send me your PICS!!!!

Then came the Vamps with Ryan and Lindsay and a little Face book researching until midnight! Dillion - great to see you and share your bathroom. Monday brought a much needed Red Eye rendezvous then babies babies babies at Holly's. Gosh all the babies are getting HUGE! I was inducted into the YA-YA's!!! What great fun with toilet paper, seafood paella and spiked punch. The YA-YA's know how to throw a party! Cake tasting, rental payments, ceremony meeting with Bill. A delicious lunch with the Graham gals, Val, Mom and Granna... then it was back to NYC. I'm counting the days till we return... Tallahassee'll do you some good!

All You Need Is LOVE!

Getting ready for a performance... Freddy has been practicing playing some Beatles and even bid and won a baby blue accordian. He's ready to start off an evening of stories and music around the camp-fire. Anyone else???

Beach BOMBshells!

Thank you Lindsay for throwing a delightful beach/bach weekend with some of my very favorite gals.  Thank you Carrie and the McNeills for opening your beach house to this rowdy bunch of beauties.  And many thanks to the out-of-towners that are making the hike to St. Teresa for one fantastic weekend!  (Kinda sounds like a toast??)  The invite goes a little something like this:

"Please join us for some fun in the sun before Laura says "I do" to her honey bun!  Saturday, July 18th & Sunday, July 19th.  The McNeill Family Beach House at St. Teresa Beach, FL.  Please bring Laura something lacey, racy, feminine, or fun so her honeymoon shopping is already done!"

I CAN'T WAIT to hit the beach, take a swim, have a little vino, try on some lace and have a TON of laughs with you ladies! Ya'll da bomb(shells)!