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I read a lot of blogs.

It's not a secret.

I have been married 112 days yet I still subscribe to just about 100 wedding blogs.

( Don't judge me)

One of my favorites is a site called Green Wedding Shoes.

It is FULL of awesome and totally unique wedding ideas.

To my surprise, one of mine and Brandon's engagement pictures was featured back in February!

I was so excited to see it! (Thanks to a little hint from my friend Sher...)

Anyway... if you want to see, here is the link.

See if you can spot us.

Weekend Update

Last weekend was so fun!

Saturday I had class in the morning ( Ok.. not so fun)

Then I drove over to Mama & Papa's house and met up with Courtney and my Mama ( so fun)

We went and saw Julie and Julia... which I HIGHLY recommend.

We all loved it, but we were starving after

watching 2 hours of people make and eat delicious food.

We ate at the district and then shopped around for a while.

The day was completed at HomeGoods, which is a Shannon Woman favorite.

I found an incredible gift for Grandma

( if you are reading this Grandma.. get excited.)

Mom found a traveling salad holder.

Courtney fell in love with a jacket, then hid it from herself to save some money :)

Sunday Brandon and I went church, then headed over to the Shannon house for some delicious homemade chicken pot pie and we cheered the Angels on to victory!!

We finished the day with the Hunt family welcoming Lauren home from back surgery and

watching 101 Dalmatians.

Brandon played (and dominated) at wii golf against Grandpa & Dad

A delicious and fun dinner party ensued at the Boyd household after golf,

the boys won catch phrase this time, but not by much.

(Josh, your clue for bagel...for real?)

All in all.. great weekend.

oh weather, you rule right now.

Mon

66° | 55°

Tue

71° | 58°

Wed

70° | 57°

Thu

80° | 59°

My sister the Bruin!

Ok, so I have posted about my sister a lot this month, but who could blame me?
She is such a stud, and I am so proud!

Here is the first of the new Bruin Gymnastics posters

Top left corner of the UCLA Bruin picture is the sista-sista!

Oh Community, you have stolen my heart.

love it all.

love the hair.

love the dress.

love the kristen bell.

{image via people}

creeper.

Some of you may know my Dad is a camera-man for Fox Sports.
Yeah... it is a seriously cool job.

His camera has been hit by a foul ball and shattered,
his face has been stepped on by a basketball player resulting in stitches, etc etc.
He is a pretty tough guy!

But what we didn't know, is apparently he is a total creeper at these games.
Take the above photo, Dennis is in here somewhere... can you see him?


Oh, here he is.

Just kidding Dad, you're not a creeper, just a fun picture of you.

Love you!

{picture via LA Times.}

Baby Beyonce

Someone had this linked on their facebook tonight and Brandon and I laughed so hard at it.. enjoy.

I can only dream one day my baby will have moves like that.

Moving on up...

Yesterday was a big day in the Shannon family, Courtney moved into her dorm!

The whole family drove up there to send her off...

We spent the day lugging boxes and picture frames and lamps up to the 6th floor,

and we loved it ( although it could have been a little colder)

I made Courtney a blanket so that she could stay warm on those cold Los Angeles nights,

She loved it!

Brandon took a quick break to check e mail, this makes him look like he was not helping, but really, he was instrumental in getting everything up to the dorm, and hung up straight, he was our savior!

Tyler hung out in the bathroom...

after he sweat his life away carrying up boxes of scarves and purses.

The final ( for now) product, I think she loved it!

We were all exhausted by the end of the day, but in traditional Shannon family style, we always eat pizza on move in day.

So... we upgraded from our normal "large" to this monster... 27 inches of delicious glory.

Courtney won with 4 pieces down, Brandon in second with 3, Tyler and I tied with 2, Mom ate one and a salad, such a lady.

It was a really fun day, and we were all exhausted at the end, but so excited to see what this year will bring for baby sister!

Bruins 09.

The "Bye Bye Bonfire"

Courtney is moving into UCLA this week and we are all so excited for her!

We Shannon kids grew up in the most incredible neighborhood, the kind where everyone waves at each other, every Mom is "your second Mom", neighbors offer their backyards and we have bonfires- for every occasion.
As a kid, our bonfires were legendary, they would sometimes include bounce houses, clowns, magic tricks and pool parties, as we started growing up, they condensed to beach chairs in a circle around a fire, which was so nice.

"The block" decided to have a bonfire to send Courtney off into UCLA-land, and it was perfect!
We ate pasta, salad, and of course roasted marshmallows and made s'mores.
I provided some UCLA cupcakes... just for fun!



Just a little sista-sista power.

delicious mallows

UCLA- cupcakes!

I really treasure these memories, and hopefully one day
I will have a block just like this one to raise my family on!