An Amazing Weekend...

We had such an incredible weekend! 

We had family come in town on Friday, and the party was Saturday night.  Saturday was a fun day filled with decorating, cooking and laughing.  We took a break to get our nails done and it was so much fun to have some time with my aunt, sister and sister-in-law.  We had a blast decorating, and my aunt and mom went over the top with the Paris theme.  Here is the dining room table before the food went out...

Aunt Renee spent so long getting the Eiffel tower to look just right with the lights.  Isn't is gorgeous?

Table again...

My aunt on the left and mom on the right getting the decorations out.

Here are my glasses with name tags that the lovely Julia helped me come up with. 

They turned out so cute, and everyone loved the touch of having a glass with their name on it.  

On Sunday we went to a bridal shop to try on some dresses.  It was a bittersweet experience for me.  I tried on the Jessica dress and she is BEAUTIFUL!  However, it's pretty frustrating to not be a size that I'm comfortable with right now.  I was so sad trying on dresses that were all half the size I actually wear.  

Due to the sadness that was trying on dresses, I have a new obsession with losing weight, and I'm going to be super diligent about it again.  I've lost 12 pounds on Weight Watchers, but I've kind of slacked lately.  Back on the FIT TRAIN!

Home from Paris...

WOW!  What an incredible whirlwind this week has been!  

We arrived home from Paris late last night.  It was the most surreal 3 days of my life, and I truly think I'm still in shock.  

Here are some pictures from our amazing days...

At the Luvre in the FREEZING COLD!

It was beautiful so we didn't mind being cold at all...

After we walked around Paris for a while, we went back to the hotel to get ready for our fun night Vince had planned for us at Moulin Rouge.  It was AWESOME!

We had no idea the girls would all be topless, but it was so classy-and not trashy at all.  The girls were in fantastic shape and the costumes were unbelievable!

I took these pictures off the internet because there were no cameras allowed inside.  

The CANCAN!!!  So cool!

On our way home, we tried to do a photo shoot in the plaza..here are a few of the results!

I made Vince do the pose with me.  He was so cute!

The lobby of our glamourous hotel

One of the most amazing things about the trip were my very special letters.  Vince had each of my family members and a few of my friends write me letters expressing how happy they are for us and how much they love me:)

He let me read one at different spots we visited in the city...this is from my Mom and I read it at the Eiffel Tower...

Right before we left, we went back to our ferris wheel to get a picture of us together!

Now we are home and back to reality.  

I made special cards today to give to my future bridesmaids...I will post them after I give them all out!

Words cannot express..

So here goes...

This is us on the plane about 30 minutes after I found out we were going to Paris...

The first glass of champagne in Paris...

Tonight, Vince said we were going to explore the city.  We had been walking for about 10 minutes when I saw this.  I knew what it meant the second I saw it.  Three years ago we went to see Christmas lights at a place called Lake Lanier.  At the end of the light show they have a big fair with a ferris wheel.  I told him that night that I thought it would be absolutely amazing to get engaged at the top of a ferris wheel in the middle of all those lights.  As soon as I saw this I knew what all of the planning and secrecy has been about.  He never forgot that I wanted to get engaged on a ferris wheel.  He just kicked it up a notch and found a ferris wheel in Paris.

The ferris wheel overlooked the Eiffel Tower, Parliament, and the Arc de Triumph.  Unbeknownst to me, he begged the attendant to let us have a booth to ourselves (they were enclosed and seated about 6 people) thankfully the guy was a romantic and let us on alone!

At the very top of the ride, Vince said the most amazing things to me.  While we were looking at the Eiffel Tower, he got down on his knee.

I said yes.

Afterwards, we went to a romantic dinner with steak and FRENCH fries!!!

They are so fancy in France.  They have sparkly chandeliers in the STREETS!!  I want to live here!

So thats the end of my incredibly anticipated, and unbelievably romantic engagement to the most incredible man of my dreams.

Au Revoir!!

holy crap

hahaha!  I'm sure I confused a few of you with my holy crap title and no blog post!  I was actually on the plane trying to blog from my iPhone, but we took off and I didn't get to finish.  I didn't realize it would post... 

Anyway, here is the reason for the excitement...

I am in PARIS!!!!!

I can hardly believe it, and I couldn't wait to fill you all in so here goes...  

Yesterday morning, Vince and I were packing to go to his dad's house in Tennessee to see his wife and him for Christmas.  I had had a few suspicions leading up to it, but my parents and Vince did such a great job convincing me, that I really thought we were going to his dad's!  I was totally grumpy when we got in the car and I realized we were not taking the highway to the airport, but we were in fact taking the route to his dads.  About 30 minutes into our trip Vince told me to look around in the back seat for something he meant to bring to his Dad.  I was totally oblivious (and figured out later) that he was trying to keep me from looking at the road signs to see that we were almost to the airport!  When I finally realized we were pulling in to the airport, I was freaking out, and asking him what the heck was going on.  He told me the airline had lost his bag on his last flight and we had to pick it up.  At this point, obviously I didn't believe him, but he wouldn't tell me where we were going.  We checked our bags and throughout the entire process, he told everyone in the airport who had to check our boarding passes that I didn't know where we were going, so please don't say anything about our destination.  I was going CRAZY because I wanted to know so badly!  

Finally we got to our gate and he told me I could guess where I thought we were going.  I had already seen our passports when he showed them at check-in, so I guessed the first two romantic places I could think of: Paris and Italy.  He just smiled and said, "we're going to Paris!"

So here we are.  As soon as we checked in to our GORGEOUS hotel, we went to get a bite to eat (cheese, bread and champagne of course!!).  When we got back to the hotel, Vince had set us up to get a couples massage by the indoor pool.  It was AMAZING and so relaxing after a long flight.  He is napping right now, but I'm too excited to sleep.  I'm going to get cute and warm and walk around the city.  We are 10 minutes from the Eiffel Tower, and surrounded by great shopping and parks.  Here is our hotel

From the outside...

Our room EXACTLY...

Just a hop, skip and a jump to here...

Our bathroom.  I love hotel bathrooms.

Where I got a rub down from a very cute Frenchman...

So I have no idea what's next.  Vince arranged this with my bosses, and my sister is working for me while we are here.  I cannot believe how much he has planned.  He says over the next two days, I will understand why he chose this place and what the significance it is for us.

I will write again as soon as I can, lovelies!