Rhode Island

Memorial day weekend we went to Rhode Island for our niece's wedding. It was a beautifiul wedding and a great time...but I didn't stick to my diet at all! AND I didn't work out once. Yesterday I stuck to my calories and I'm hoping to at least do yoga today.

Now for a recap of our weekend. We left Friday morning (6 am!). This is my airplane attire.

After a connection in Charlotte we made it to Rhode Island about lunch time. We went to the only place we could walk to, a TGI Friday...nothing healthy was eaten here. I wanted a picture of us. My husband really did not understand a selfie.

 

That night I helped to throw a shower for the bride with my four sisters in law. Below is the bride and her bridesmaids.

 

 

The bride, her sisters and her mom (Tom's sister).

 

Bridesmaids in the robes the bride gave as presents. How cute!

 

Sarah is a notorious thumb sucker so this picture was a must.

 

 

The next day was the rehearsal lunch at The Rhino Bar in Newport.

 

NOW he's starting to get the hang of selfies.

 

Tom and his sisters

 

The food was delicious!

 

 

 

After lunch we went to tour the Breakers, a summer mansion the Vanderbilts had. Really? Who lived like that? Well, guess the Vanderbilts did.

 

Saturday night we met some extended family at a bar for dinner and then Tom and I went out for the grizzlies game. Somehow my outfit was the only picture I got?

 

 

Finally, Sunday was the wedding. Tom had a little trouble tieing his bow tie so our nephew stepped in.

 

 

I LOVE a seersucker suit and bowtie.

 

I was all excited to match Tom and all anyone noticed was Tom and Ben matching! Boo!

 

The wedding was at Warwick Country Club. It was gorgeous!!

 

Could you get any more beautiful?

 

I'll take this at my house. Please and Thank you.

 

Ok, so we worried about rain all day but it was so beautiful. Until 2 minutes before the ceremony. It started sprinkling...

Whcih led to a full on pouring...everyone got soaked.

But could it have led to a more perfect wedding picture?

 



 

If you have never seen an 85 year old woman dancing to Thrift shop, this is a must see. This is our Aunt Janice. I can only hope I'm half as fun as she is when I'm her age.

 

 

 

 

 



For all the internets to see...

So I can't believe I'm going to put it all out there. Right here right now.

In 2002 I came home from Jamaica weighing 165 pounds. I thought I was HUGE. I vowed then to never weigh that much again. Yea. Well. This morning, 200.4.

I wouldn't say it "snuck" up on me. But it did. When I met Tom (2007), I was around 172ish....over our courtship, we ate, we drank, we ate and we drank some more. On my wedding day (2009) I was 205. The heaviest I had ever been...

I was worked at losing and got down to around 188ish. Then I was so happy to get pregnant with my little boo boo (2010).

Well real life has happened again. I'm back to 200 and I want to start using this blog as my accountability! (let's see if I post again, ha.) So here's to a new start!

Also follow me on instagram at jodisjoyfuljourney!

Photographer

Ok, so I know some of my Memphis readers are preggo right now (congrats!!), so I thought I would do a post on how WONDERFUL our photographer is!

http://www.shannonpaynephotography.com/

This is her and her SWEET family:

Sorry Shannon, I stole the pictures from your blog...hope its ok!

She is so reasonably priced and SOO talented. She moved recently to Nashville but still comes back to Memphis pretty regularly. If you are near Nashville or Memphis, you should definitely check her out!!

BTW, not getting anything free or discounted for this post, just really feel she is great! :)

Shocking. (Insert Sarcasm)

Anybody else soo shocked to hear that they broke up? Yea, me neither. Please....you were a rebound, pure and simple.

I'm still having a hard time deciding what to be for Halloween (yes, I understand it is July). Now I'm thinking of the Wizard of Oz (me-Dorothy, Tom-scarecrow, Thomas-lion, Elle-Toto, Atticus-tinman)...but I also would rather have something more original. I thought of a frog, prince and princess..still done alot. Anyone have any ideas?

Precious baby boy went back to daycare today. I hope he is ok! He has just been so sick!

Would you please get that thing out of my face? It is TOO early for all that mom.

Oh and we had a new meal last night. Baked chicken marinated in a buffalo wing sauce. SOO good and not too bad on the calories either!



Is it guilt?

So I'm pretty sure there is no one in the blog world (at least in the south) that doesn't read Kelly's Korner. Well, we had a sick baby this weekend so Saturday night I was up surfing on the Ipad. I came accross her prayer post. Ya'll I read each and everyone of those stories and just cried and cried. It hurt so much I honestly had to make myself put it out of my brain. Do you ever feel that way? I know I should pray for them, which I did immediately and have since but I almost don't think it is healthy for me to read about them....but THEN I feel immediate guilt for not reading. They are going through it and I can't even make myself READ about it?

Like I said we had a sick sick baby so we didn't do much this weekend but I'll leave you with a precious picture from our "vacation" when he was feeling much better :). What a stud.

SUYL...Marriage Advice

We have only been married two years so I feel a little silly giving marriage advice!

However, the best thing I was ever told that I feel like has helped me the most is that when things seem like they are at their worst, remember the feeling you had when you first met your husband. Remember the shared dreams and goals you have. I like to remember the feeling I had when ALL I wanted was to marry this man....still makes me smile to think about it.

Thomas' Baptism

Thomas was baptized when he was about three months old. Tom is Catholic so we decided to baptize Thomas Catholic. He was baptized at Tom's childhood church, St. Michael's. His godparents are Laura and Mark, Tom's sister and brother in law. The whole family came out for the baptism, as well as some great friends.

Our family of three :) Don't you love Tom's seersucker suit? Swoon. Thomas' baptism gown was Tom's dad's (who was 52 when he had Tom) so that means it is at least 90 years old.

My best friend Julie with her daughter, Savannah

Not a fan of the water :)

Afterwards we had an all out party/brunch in our backyard.

Before anyone had arrived

Thomas' aunt Marta MADE the gorgeous cake.

Mimi and her boy

My brother and his son, Barron

It was a wonderful day with friends and family.