birthdays + a taco truck

saturday night, we went out to the beller's house and celebrated julie's 30th birthday! complete with big truck tacos parked in the driveway! yummy tacos and great time being around friends!

we already had a visitor!

aric's brother jesse missed us so much he flew in for memorial day weekend after us being gone from denver for a week! it was a complete blast!

friday night we had a yummy cookout at our new house with our lovely friends, the porters {visiting from birmingham} and our dear friend, ashley!

saturday afternoon, it was time to jesse around OU's campus. first stop: the stadium!

we went into the tunnel the players go down! how cool is that??

bob stoops or aric holmes?

view from up top! 

practice field

see that white speck at the top? that's aric and jesse is next to him haha!

sweet brothers!

we're ready for jesse to come back for game day! BOOMER!

did i mention...

i got an awesome job at OU in the Development office doing design/marketing/pr!! i started last thursday and it's been a blast the past 3 days! it's a great perk to work on campus corner, because i'm about 20 seconds away from mom's office!

here we are at lunch at chimy's! many more lunches to come!

aric graduated!

so so so proud of my fiance for graduating college!

look how cute he is in a cap and gown!

the gorgeous tivoli!

way to go holmes!

our going away party

our last friday in denver, we had a small going away party at lime! yummy mexican food, good beer and great friends and family! we didn't take too many pics of people, but here are some...

amanda {my co-worker at twist} and her husband joey

chris, chris & aric

after lime, we headed across the street to don's bar! it was so much fun and we pretty much played skee ball all night!

brothers!

me and anthony

mom's visit to denver

mom came in for my shower and of course we had a fantastic time shopping, eating and celebrating!

the first night we headed over to strings for an early mother's day celebration!

cute necklace!!

sunday brunch at devil's food

we love cooking together haha!

we also love dancing while we cook!

how precious is fin's face!

my first wedding shower!

my second to last saturday in denver, my lovely friend and also bridesmaid, brittany lee, hosted my very first wedding shower! it was beyond my expectations! brittany prepared an amazing spread of brunch food and carried the yellow & gray theme throughout! so pretty & so springy! i loved it!

before the shower photoshoot with momma t & b!

 my beautiful mother

starting to open presents! 

{i won't bore you with every single present i opened}

yay! wine glasses!

double yay! my awesome pitcher!

my mom got me my first china place setting! my grandmother did the same thing for my mom at her first wedding shower - i love this tradition and love the hot pink kate spade box!

how cute is this apron brittany got me? and, she's going to have it embroidered with my new initials! yay for CMH!

meg and i! 

{meg was a trooper - she had her precious baby girl madison that next week!}

my precious god daughter!

renee and i!

kaylin and i

love that colin matched the decor!

me and kristina

aric's sweet mother and grandmother! 

and the beautiful hostess!

DECORATIONS!

look how cute our wreath is that brittany made! love it!

this was such a gorgeous shower and so happy my colorado friends & family were there! i'm so blessed to have you all in my life and can't wait for more wedding festivities to take place!