The Bride Takes NOLA

Well well well.  When your sister tells you she's going to get married you first think about the wedding and then immediately think about the bachelorette party!  So we decided to go to New Orleans!  It just begs you to have a good time, right?

 

After a week of super cold weather- and snow!- Carrie and I headed south to meet the girls.  We surprised Carrie by staying at the Roosevelt and loved that amazing hotel!  It was beautiful!  Friday we had a yummy dinner and then hit Bourbon Street to see what we could find.  And we found Pat O's!  Now, what happens in NOLA stays in NOLA so all you need to know is that we found the piano bar and had a blast!

 

The next day we all had to sleep in to help get ourselves right and had lunch at Mother's.  After that we walked around the Quarter and just enjoyed people watching with a little day drinking of course!  We all headed back to the hotel to freshen up and then give Carrie a fun lingerie shower!  More food and more drinking and dancing rounded out our evening.  And then we topped it off with some Cafe du Monde of course!

 

It was a fun weekend celebrating Carrie and we can't wait to continue the fun in Birmingham!

Our first night out... early in the night

Hurricanes were had by all!

Of course at Jackson Square

The Evans family was in town and stopped by to say hello!  What a great treat!

Me and my Bachelorette

Lots of fun stuff

Ready to hit the town

A little dancing...

...a little silliness...

...and a whole lot of fun!

Beignets for everyone!

Elsa Came to Town

This winter has been crazy.  We have had many threats of snow and ice but it never came to pass.  So when they said that we were going to get up to 6" of snow one afternoon, and they canceled school ahead of time, I still didn't believe it.  And then it came!  Big, fat, sticky flakes started falling from the sky.  Within minutes it was a snow storm and Morgan couldn't wait to get out in it!  Macie was napping so Morgan wanted to get dressed up as her favorite snow queen in honor of the occasion.

 

I couldn't keep Morgan out of the snow!  She loved everything about it: eating it, throwing it, making snow angels and most of all sledding.  When Jeff came home early from work we got in another round of dry clothes and found a hill.  Luckily some friends were there with a real sled!  We had to pull her away kicking and screaming!

 

And Macie?  Well she hated it.  Hated every second to be outside.  And screamed when we put her down!  Poor thing didn't know what she was missing.  Thankfully Sissy was here so she stayed home with her GaGa while Jeff and I got to play with Morgan. 

 

It was the perfect snow.  It came down hard and fast and we ended up with almost 8" in one afternoon!  This does not happen in Mississippi!  And there was no ice.  So by the next day things were starting to melt and the roads were clear.  (Which was great because I had a Bachelorette trip to get to!)  We had an afternoon full of fun and memories.  Ones you usually have to travel a long time to make! 

 

The next week we got a round of ice and sleet.  Not nearly as fun as our snow!  With all these snow days off of school and this bad weather, we are ready for spring!

 Queen Elsa

 Absolute amazement

 Fun with GaGa

 Morgan: Pure joy

 Macie: Not so much

 Morgan's snow angels

 Family pic

 "Give me a big push Daddy!"

 Morgan and Kendall went down together too

 Day two of snow and Morgan still can't convince Macie that this stuff is fun

Bless her!