It’s A Sad Day

My heart hurts for my hometown.  I’m so blessed that all of my family living in Tuscaloosa is safe when so many other people’s families are not.  This tornado picked up not only homes, but people.  A senior at UA, also a Phi Mu, lived in Forest Lake and her body was found by Checkers at the corner of 15th and Hargrove Road, a good 2 miles away from Forest Lake.  There are numerous stories like this involved in this tornado.  Please pray for the victims of this storm.  It will take my city years to recover from this and it will be something that the residents will never forget.  It’s a sad sad day in Alabama today.  Over 180 deaths have been confirmed in Alabama alone, that number is sure to rise.  Prayers are needed!  I couldn’t keep myself from crying all morning just thinking about Anderson and Lydia.  I don’t know how I could make it had anything happened to those babies.  I thank God that they’re ok. 

#81 - CHECK!

Number 81 on my list of 101 things to do in 1,001 days was to help host a baby shower for someone.  I got to mark that item off the list this weekend when myself along with my sister Lindsey and aunt DeLane hosted a couple’s baby shower for my other sister, Jennifer, and her husband.  The shower was at DeLane’s house in Tuscaloosa and we had a great turnout with great food!  Jen got lots of great gifts for Baby Cooper and got to spend a lot of quality time with family and friends that she barely ever sees since she lives all the way in Tampa.  Here’s a few pictures from the shower:

I am loving these baby converse shoes!!!

       

This is an Auburn little man hat that my aunt gave Jennifer.  This was  huge thing for DeLane because she is an AVID Alabama fan, as is the rest of our family. 

I am loving all of these little onesies that Lindsey got for Cooper.  I particularly like the crab.  Lindsey likes the alien one the best.

Heart my hubby :)

Melanie’s Bridal Tea

Today several ladies from my church hosted a bridal tea for my good friend Melanie.  Some of my long time readers may remember that Justin and I hooked Melanie up with Justin’s best friend Wade last year.  Well, they got engaged soon after and now all the fun parties are happening!!  Their wedding is July 9th at Melanie’s parents farm in Blount County.  Here’s some pictures from the tea:

This is Mel with her sister Alicia (left) and her soon to be sister Melissa (Wade’s sister)

 

 This is Maddie, Mel’s Maid of Honor 

This is Ellen, Wade’s mom.  Ellen threw me and Justin’s Tool & Gadget shower at her house when we were getting married.  She’s such an awesome person and Mel is looking forward to being her daughter!

These are all the hosts of Mel’s shower, including my mother-in-law, Debbie (she’s the one wearing blue).

I heart me some Mel :)

  And this is Mel with Ellen and her own mom Cathy and grandmother Rosalind, who she was named after.  I had a great time and the future Trimm’s got a lot of great stuff!!

On an unrelated note, I got a lot of feedback on my last post about the formatting in blogger.  It seems like everyone gave me the same response and that response was to get Windows Live Writer.  So due to all the people that said they were using it, I downloaded it and am using it right now.  Gotta say….I LOVE IT!!  It is so much easier than having to force things to format in blogger when it doesn’t let you do what you want it to do.  You don’t have to worry about html codes with Live Writer either, which is awesome.  I highly suggest everyone that blogs download it! 

Well, tomorrow is THE day.  April 18th.  The tax deadline.  This past Saturday was my first Saturday not to work since the end of January (with exception to the one Saturday that everyone in the firm has off after the March 15th deadline).  It felt incredible.  This week is also my first Friday off, actually, the entire firm is closed on Friday, so everyone is off work.  YAY!!!  My sister, Jennifer, comes in town next weekend because it’s her baby shower weekend so I’m really looking forward to seeing her!  I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!