Another Beautiful Wedding!

As you know, aside from being a classroom teacher and pastor/seminary student's wife, I also do floral design for our family owned business - Judith B. and Company. This weekend, I had the pleasure of being part of a very special wedding. My cousin, Cole, and his then fiance, Nichole, asked us to cater and do all the floral designs for their wedding! We have been preparing for this wedding for several months, and wanted everything to be just perfect for this very special couple.

I took TONS of pictures - no less than a couple hundred beautiful pictures of every tiny detail because I knew all of you would be anxious to see what all we did. But, guess what??? Due to my crazy camera having a mind of its own, I can't share any pictures that I took. *sniff*sniff* It thinks it's going to just let me believe they have been deleted, but oh no - I'm not giving up! I am taking it to get checked out tomorrow, so hopefully I will have my pictures!!!

In the meantime - Lori has came to the rescue and provided some pictures for me to share! Thank you a million trillion kazillion, Lori!!!!!

The beautiful couple dancing their first dance as husband and wife -

The bridesmaids bouquets were roses, hydrangeas, lilies, and berries in fall colors. Pretty, pretty!

Lori, Cole, and Nichole -

James Paul deep in conversation...and, also a glimpse of the table arrangements :)

The food tables and a side view of one of the large floral arrnagements.

Another view of the tables and flowers -

The rest are pictures of my family - the Baileys. I am BLESSED BEYOND WORDS for a family like no other. Each and every one of them are precious to me, and I thank God for them!! You can read more about my family here.

Aunt Shirley, Aunt Rita, and my mother -

The Bailey Family -

The girls - Valerie, me, Lori, Clair, and Bettina

Cousins -

Cole, Tyler, Cody, and Baby Payton -

And, I leave you with this. This picture just makes me laugh every time I look at it. Sam chowed down on some watermelon -

It was a gorgeous day, and nothing less than a fairy tale wedding! Congrats Nichole and Cole! We love you!!

It's a Birthday Fiesta!!

Tonight we celebrated the birthday of the youngest of our "4 favorites" - Miss Kenedi Bradyn - with a Dora themed party! I can't believe she is already 3 (well, she will be on Saturday!)...times is flying by so very very very fast!!!! It always makes me a little sad when one of the "4 Favorite's" birthdays roll around - another year without a little cousin to play with. But, just keep praying and trusting, right??!!

Do-do-do-do, Dora! Do-do-do-do, Dora!

Come on and Vamonos!
Everybody let's go!


Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorer!
Grab your backpack! Let's GO!
Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, NO SWIPING!! Aw, man!

Yum, yum, yum....It was DELICIOSO!

Happy Birthday, Kenedi!! We love you so very much!

"I'm Thankful for" - 1st Edition

The past several months I have been reminded over and over of how very blessed I am, and I want to share my thankfulness! I have decided in observance of Thanksgiving, I am going to have an "I'm Thankful for..." post each week.


This week, I am so incredibly thankful for....




my dear husband, Bradley.

We have been married for 6 1/2 years, and there's not a day that goes by that I don't thank God for him!! We have been through sooooo much during our marriage, and there have been many times that I've wondered why in the world Brad is so willing to be apart of this crazy life of mine - but, how thankful I am that he is!!

Brad is not just my husband, he is...
...my best friend
...the spiritual leader of our home
...the hardest and most dedicated worker I have ever known. EVER!!
...my #1 fan and biggest supporter
...my rock during every storm that we have weathered together
...the love of my life.


I am thankful that...

...he loves Jesus more than he loves me
...he prays for me and with me
...we can laugh at each other (ALOT!), and don't take life too seriously
...he's not afraid to tell me the truth, even if it might hurt my feelings because he knows it's for my own good
...we only stay mad at each other for a few minutes
...he always tells me he loves me every single time we talk on the phone, even if it's for the 30th time that day
...the last thing he does every night before falling asleep is kiss me goodnight and tell me he loves me
...he mops the floors because I hate to!
...he takes care of me when I am sick
...he appreciates me

He's the best, and I thank God for him every single day!! Bradley, I love ya more'n my luggage! (Name that movie!)

Well, I would love to hear from you -

what are you thankful for this week?

Harvest Happies!

I LOVE fall decorations...pumpkins, gourds, leaves, scarecrows - I love it all!! And, I always leave all fall decor up until the day after Thanksgiving. I just kind of feel like Thanksgiving gets passed over, and it's such a very special day that we need to be reminded of how very blessed we are. (I'm going to be doing some posts about Thanksgiving each week, so stay tuned!) I LOVE Christmas, and all the decorations...but, they don't go up until Saturday after Thanksgiving at the Powell house!

I love to decorate outside. If you remember from the post "Little Happies", it just makes me smile to pull into the driveway, and is a "little happy" in my crazy world! This is my front door wreath -

I keep my flowers and ferns from the summer alive and healthy as long as possible. These are the ferns I wrote about back in the summer:

I just take out what flowers have died out from the summer plantings, and add pumpkins, gourds, and mums in it's place.

Because of the terrential downpours we've had this season, I wasn't able to do a fall scene with hay out in the yard. So, I just had my scarecrows on my porch:

Besides my outside decorations, I like to decorate inside as well. This is in our den:

I add leaves, pumpkins, and sunflowers to any nook and cranny I can find to fill!!

And, in the kitchen:

I even decorate our hallway!

Well, hope you enjoyed the tour!!

It's Fall Y'all...and I love it!!

Cooler weather, beautiful colors, football, pumpkins, hayrides, candy corn, apple cider...what's not to love about Fall?? It is without a doubt my most favorite time of year. It's a season of excitement, and somehow a little nostalgia for me.

This week has been completely about the season too. The week started out with my class going to Tate Farms. If you have never experienced a trip to Tate Farms, you're missing out!! It is a HUGE farm that has fields as far as you can see full of pumpkins, but also cotton fields, sunflower fields, and livestock.

My class and Gina and Kim's children and their parents at the "Pumpkin House". Kim found a pumpkin!

Gina, Me, and Kim with some of our children.
Tyler LOVED the pigs...

...and, the llama LOVED Gina!!!

Then, Wednesday we dressed in our Halloween costumes.

We dressed up as babies!

LaShanne as Dorothy, and Cindi as a Clown.
Me with my precious little girls - Gracie, Marissa, Natalie, and Miranda...are they not ADORABLE??!!


The Tech School put together a Halloween Carnival and party for our children. They did a GREAT job - they even paired a high school student with each child and took them through the games!

And, the week ended on Saturday - Halloween is such a fun day at our house!! We live in a very large neighborhood, and have LOTS of Trick or Treaters. Both of our families come and we have the best time eating (of course), giving out candy, and our 4 favorites doing a little trick-or-treating themselves!!

Carolyne was Snow White
Kailey as Ariel

Kenedi as JoJo

And, of course, Sam was Buzz Lightyear!! Oh, and my mama...as herself. :)

Valerie getting ready to chow down on some soup!

It was a FUN week!!! Hope everyone else had a great Halloween weekend! Stop back by tomorrow - I'll be sharing my fall decorations...and, you better believe there's lots of them!