One Year

Happy Anniversary to Mr. Pennington

I love you Daniel!

Here's to many more years of bliss!

Wedding Showers

The return of the wedding series I started 8 months ago... our wedding showers!

One of the things I was so thankful for during the time leading up to our wedding, was how generous and loving our friends and family were to us.  It is incredible the amount of love that people pour out on you during such a special time.  We had two miscellaneous showers about a month before the wedding.  My family hosted the first one at the church I grew up in my whole life, the place where we were married.

It was such a fun day, not only because of all of the amazing gifts we got, but because we got to see so many wonderful people and spend time with them.  The color theme for the shower was light pink, gray, black, and white.  Originally, those were the colors for our wedding, but we had to change... look forward to the dramatic story later on :)!  My family was so helpful and we pulled it together really quickly.  I cannot say enough about how wonderful the food was as well!  There is nothing better than shower food!

Pottery Barn dinnerware... Thank you Stacy we LOVE it!

Our second shower was hosted by Daniel's family and it was just as wonderful as our first shower!  The color theme was tiffany blue... Mrs. Jan knows how much I love Tiffany's!

very, very, very funny story 

My sister-in-law and I 

YAY COOKWARE! 

I have heard so many horror stories from brides about dealing with the stores that they choose to register with.  Daniel and I looked around at our options and we decided to go with Target, Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Pottery Barn.  We had great success with registering with these three stores and there was a no hassel return policy for all three.  I really I cannot recommend these three enough!

ABC easy as 123

I have really been wanting to blog more, but also you noticed the number of post since January are well... limited.  I must say life is not too exciting these days, because I am knee deep in my internship, but I am so happy that its going really well and it will all be over soon.  Getting paid to teach will be so much better I think!

I saw this cool idea over on Ruthie Hart's blog today and I thought I would give it a try!  Its called ABC.  Feel free to respond with you ABC's, especially if we share any of the them!

Age and/or Anniversary: 24, August 6, 2011

Bed size: full... it is the world's tiniest bed for two :(

Chocolate: yes please, what lady doesn't like it... milk chocolate

Dessert: Frozen yogurt, anything strawberry, and hershey bar cake

Ethnic background: White... My ancestors are from Sweden, Switzerland & England

Fear: Heights... it gets worse the older I get 

Graduation: Highschool: 2005, College: 2009, Grad School: 2012!

Home cooked meal: My mom makes the best chicken pastry, green beans, and baked cornbread

Instruments: Completely  incompetent at music

Job title: No job currently, I work at my internship site full time (student teacher)

Kids: Not right now, eventually though :)

Laughs: Daniel's family guy impersonations get me every time!

Middle name: Lauren

Natural hair color: Dark blonde

Overnight hospital stays: None thankfully

Pastime: In a previous life... tennis, scrapbooking, the beach, shopping, movies

Quote: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt

Right or left handed: Right 

Siblings: Handsome little (18 years! yikes where does time go?) brother

T.V. Show: House Hunters, The Office, Downton Abbey

Unique gift: My engagement ring... its very vintage and absolutely gorgeous

Vacation spot I love: Disney World!! Is there any place more magical?

Weather right now: 41 and cloudy :( the weather is such a tease here

X-Rays: Only of my left hand

Yummy meal I make: I make a mean Chicken & Biscuits

Zoo Animal: Love, love, love the sea otters.  I love to see them frolic and play!

In other news, today is our 7 month wedding anniversary!  Time is flying by and it makes me so sad... I feel like the years will be gone before we know it.  On the other hand though, I am the happiest and luckiest girl in the world.  Next week will mark 7 years that we have been together and I am so glad I asked his name all those years ago!  I'll leave you with a few of my favorite shots from the wedding.

Happy Tuesday!