We Have a Winner!

Well, yesterday was the last day to enter my giveaway for the MyMemories Suite v3 digital scrapbooking software. And I am very excited to announce that we have a winner! Drum roll please....

Congrats to K from Down at Fraggle Rock!

I am so excited that she won because Tuesday was her Birthday so I am glad that I could also give her a gift. K I will be contacting you soon with how you can download your software.

Thanks to everyone who entered. and I hope that you guys are having a fabulous Thursday!

Bachelorette Party

This past Saturday was my Bachelorette Party. It was a lot of things, but it wasn't the traditional style.

Let me start by saying that I was sick all of last week and of course Saturday seemed to be the worst day of it. As the week went on, it seemed that more and more people weren't going to be able to make it. I was starting to worry that we were only going to have a couple of people show up.

Well, that is exactly what happened. This Bachelorette party had three participants. Me of course and then my MOH Lou and one of my bridesmaids, Rochelle. Every one who didn't show had very legit reasons as to why they couldn't come so by no means was I upset. Actually, the night worked out better than I thought it would.

The night started with us going to dinner at Chili's. Lou and I ordered margarita's to start and were quickly informed by our waitress that they were 2 for 1. Sweetness! She ordered a classic one and I got strawberry(I am one of those people that doesn't like tasting too much alcohol in my drinks so I try to mask it with fruit). Rochelle was awesome and offered to be my driver for the night so she didn't drink with us. After our four margarita's were brought to the table, Lou gave me the straw that I would be drinking with the rest of the night. Let's just say it was dirty and I would cover it up any time a kid would walk by our table, haha!

Me covering my straw

We ordered our food and we talked and started in on our margarita's as we waited for our delicious food to arrive. Once the food got to our table we ate and talked some more. We ordered a deliciously yummy red velvet molten lava cake for dessert. Heaven is all that I have to say about this thing! Once we were done talking, eating and drinking, we decided to head back to Rochelle's casa.

Me and Lou 

Did I forget to mention the awesome attire I was wearing for the night? Of course I had the traditional Bachelorett Sash, but I also had an awesome head piece too! A few weeks ago, Rochelle and her boyfriend went to Disney World and brought me back this...

So I wore these adorable bride mouse ears all night. You wouldn't believe how many people would stare at me any time that I got up to go the bathroom(which was a lot considering I had two glasses of water and two margaritas during dinner). I didn't care though.

Once we were back at Rochelle's, her and Lou decorated it for me with fun balloons and signs. Lou had even bought us a game to play. Of course it was a dirty one, but unfortunately we never got around to it. We did however crack open a bottle of the best wine ever and had a ring pop or two and sat around and talked for a few hours.

Our delicious ring pops

We love our wine

Me and Rochelle

Now I realize this is not even close to the norm for a Bachelorette party, but with me being sick and me not being a big party person, this night was perfect. I had two great friends with me, some awesome food, some awesome drinks and we had a ton of laughs. I wouldn't change it for anything.

Did you have a traditional Bachelorette party? Or did you do something that was different than the norm?

What's Your Favorite?

Happy Wednesday! Is anyone else hoping that the rest of this week flies by? I know  I am. I think a certain holiday on Sunday has something to do with that. Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday. I love decorating the tree and my apartment, and I love making Christmas cookies and all the baking that we do this time of year. There is just something about this time of year that just makes me feel all giddy inside and like a little kid.

One of my favorite things about this time of year is that it is finally okay for me to watch all of my favorite Christmas movies without the fiance or anyone else looking at me like I am crazy. I would watch these movies year round if I could, but I know that the fiance would kill me. So today I wanted to take a little break from all of the wedding posts and tell you about some of my favorite Christmas movies that are always a must watch for me this time of year.

The first movie is a movie that I have only been watching for a few years now. My Grandma told me about this movie my Junior year of college and told me that she thought that I would absolutely love it. She was completely right (as always) and it is now the first one I pop in this time of year. And now that she has passed away, I find myself wanting to watch it more often because it reminds me of her and it makes me happy thinking about how much she loved this movie too. So my #1 favorite Christmas movie is...

White Christmas

With Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye

Now, I don't know that I could actually put the rest of my favorite Christmas movies in a numbered order, simply because I love all of them so, so, so, so much. It would be impossible to say that I love one more than the other. All I know is that this Saturday, I plan on cuddling up on the couch and watching as many of these as humanly possible before we have to go up to the soon to be parents-in-law's house for Christmas mass. So here are the rest of my favorite Christmas movies...

No Christmas would be complete with out this classic...

And of course "You'll shoot your eye out kid!"

And how could you not watch Christmas Vacation and laugh your ass off the whole time

And then of course the ACTUAL Christmas Classics...

And I don't think it would be a complete holiday season without these two movies...

The original

And of course the real life one with Jim Carey

And who could resist watching this hilarious movie...

And last but certainly not least, one of my favorite Christmas movies that came out when I was younger...

Now I want to know what are some of your favorite Christmas movies? What movies do you absolutely have to watch every year? Do you share in some of my faves? Or do you have some that I don't have on my list? 

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Giveaway Ends Tomorrow!

Just wanted to remind everyone that the giveaway that I am holding ends tomorrow at midnight. So please don't forget to go and enter!

Don't remember what I am giving away or would like to know, go HERE and find out! Hope everyone is having a fantastic day so far!

3 Weeks?!!! Aghh!!

This past Saturday we hit the three week mark. Three weeks? Are you serious? I can't believe it! This past year has flown by and I don't know where it went.

With only three weeks left it is definitely crunch time. I am realizing what needs to be done and what we don't have time for and will just have to be cut. I don't like the idea of cutting anything, but everything that absolutely has to be done is done and these things were just extras that I was hoping that we would have time for.

As of today we are 18 days out for the wedding and I know that I still have quite a few things left to do. I have been trying to do a little each night and that seems to be working pretty well, but there are some things that we can't do yet because we are waiting on something else. Like our ceremony programs for instance. I have started working on them, but I am waiting on the final decisions on our ceremony music so that I can include that.

Via my Wedding Wire account

So with 18 days to go here is what my to-do list looks like;

• Ceremony Programs
• Wishing Tree Sign
• Final touches on Favor Boxes
• Affixing signs to candy jars
• Buy all the candy
• Table #'s (These are designed, we just need to pick pictures out for them and print them)
• Get a hold of the last 6 or 7 that haven't RSVP'd
• Seating chart
• Place cards
• Ceremony music
• Make my garter
• Finish Gift for Flower Girls(Almost done with this, but I need an iron. Who doesn't have an iron? Oh yeah, us,haha!)
• Buy gift for Ring Bearer
• Buy Groomsmen Gifts
• Get my Brother and Step Dad to get fitted(I may have to drag them there, but it will be done this week)
• Final Count to Caterers
• Final Count to Florist for Corsages, Bouquets, Boutonniere's, and Table Arrangements,
• Get our Marriage License(We are doing this at the end of this week)
• Get all of our final paperwork to the church by this weekend
• Take my rings in to get put together and cleaned
• Final meeting with DJ's(This was supposed to happen last week, but we have had to reschedule twice, oops!)
• Need to get ribbon to our cake person
• Cut down the sleeves on the flower girl dresses(they are way too long, good thing they are made of tulle)
• Pick up dress the week of the wedding
• And lastly, find some time to relax and breathe
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This seems like a huge list, but really they are just a lot of little things with a few big things. What is even more crazy is that I am still pretty calm. I have not been stressing out as much as I have been and I am very okay with this. One of my worries with stress is that I am a HUGE stress eater. When I stress I like to eat and I eat comfort food so chips & dip, fries, candy, burgers, if it has fat or grease in it, I eat it when I am stressed. So I have ordered instructed the fiance' to keep me eating healthy during these next three weeks. If he sees me reaching for that pint of Vanilla Blue Bell in the freezer, I gave him permission to yell at me and make me eat an apple or something healthy instead. This could be a really long 18 days now that I am thinking about it.

On a side note, it snowed here yesterday which is always cool in my book. However, I wish we would have gotten more so that I did not have to come to work today. I can dream right? I am hoping that some of it sticks around for Christmas or that we possibly get more on Christmas. It has been a while since it has snowed on Christmas and I am really starting to miss my white Christmas'. 

Was your list about this long with a little under three weeks to go? Or did you have more things done? 

It's Giveaway Time!!

That's right! It is time for a giveaway, and just in time for Christmas!

About two weeks ago I received an email from MyMemories to review their digital scrapbooking software, called MyMemories Suite v3. I was really excited about this because of two reasons. The first reason is that I have never ever been contacted to do a review, so I thought it was pretty cool that someone asked me to do one. The second reason is that I have been wanting something like this so that I can use it to do designs on my blog. I know that most people use some sort of digital scrapbooking software for this, so I have been wanting to get my hands on it.

I went ahead and downloaded the software from the MyMemories website, which was super easy by the way. It walks you right through it and barely took any time at all. Within minutes, the software was up and running. At first, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Did I want to play in the already pre-made scrap booking templates? Or did I want to try my hand at doing something custom? I went for the custom. Little did I know that this software was going to be a blessing in disguise!

A while back I found this really cute idea on Pinterest for table numbers. Each table number was a year and with that year would be a picture of the bride and groom taken in that year. I really liked it a lot better than our original table number idea so, I have been trying to figure out how I was going to design these table numbers because I don't have access to photoshop or anything fun like that. Well, I figured what the heck, let's try and design the table numbers and see how it goes. The software allows you to choose the size and orientation of your pages and this came in real handy for this project. I picked a 4x6 page with a horizontal orientation. I then proceeded to pick out a background paper, layout my photo boxes and add text and embellishments.

The nice thing about this software is that it walks you through a lot of things. There are pop up boxes that walk you through different features of the program and it is really nice since you really are just trying to figure everything out at first. With the help of these boxes and some playing around, I was able to create these table numbers.

Obviously these are not the right pictures for this year.

I love how they turned out, so much that we are actually going to use these. We are going to print them as 4X6 photo's and they will be placed on each table. There may be a few more tweaks to them, but for the most part this is what they will look like. Again, this software was a blessing in disguise, because without it, I don't know how we would have done this!

I also messed around with table menu's and was able to create this menu. We still aren't sure if we are going to do the menu's but they are designed and ready to go if we decide to do them thanks to this program.

I seriously love this software. There are so many things that you can do with it and the possibilities just seem endless. You can also go on the MyMemories website and look through their scrapbooking kits. You can buy them(or they even have some free ones)and download them straight into your software. I can't wait to keep playing with it and eventually figure out how to create a header and other things for this blog. It might even come in handy once we have our wedding pictures back to make an album for ourselves.

Now onto the best part! I have a copy of this software to giveaway to one of my amazing readers! Now, I know that this giveaway has been going around a lot lately, but I know you will not be disappointed and not only that but it is FREE! Come on now, who doesn't love FREE stuff?! Here is how to enter;

1.You need to be a follower of my blog-(1 Entry-Mandatory)

2. Go to the MyMemories website and look through their digital scrapbook kits and then come back here and tell me which one is your favorite-(1 Entry-Mandatory)

3. Follow Butterfly Dreams N' Things on Facebook-(1 Entry-Optional)

4. Follow me on Twitter(in your comment please leave your username)-(1 Entry-Optional)

5. Tweet about the giveaway and make sure to tag me in it and leave the link to it in the comments-(1 Entry-Optional)

6. Blog about the giveaway and leave me the link in your comment-(2 Entries-Optional)

Please leave a comment for each entry that you do. And please be sure to leave me your email address in one of the comments that you leave so that I know how to contact you if you win. 

This giveaway will end on Wednesday, December 21st and I will announce the winner on Thursday the 22nd. 

Good luck everyone!

The Most Adorable Things Ever

Last week I got an email saying that my flower girl dresses had shipped. Well that was on Tuesday the 6th and according to the tracking they should have been here on Monday. Well, they weren't and on top of that the tracking hadn't updated since Friday the 9th in which it said that the package was still in Lamar, MS. Uh, okay.

So when the package didn't arrive on Monday, I started getting a little worried. So yesterday I called USPS and explained to them what was going on and the lady told me that she didn't know where my package was and that it definitely should have already arrived. She made it seem like it was lost, so they put in to do an investigation on where my package was. All day yesterday I kept checking the tracking and each time I was even more disappointed because again, it still hadn't updated.

Well, last night I happened to look again and it had FINALLY updated and low and behold it said that it had been delivered that evening! Aghh! Finally! So I made Aran check the mail box on his way home from the gym. When he walked through the door with that box, I can't even explain my excitement, but I was very, very, very excited and relieved all at the same time.

I quickly opened the box and pulled out the dresses. In that box were the cutest, most adorable little tutu dresses I had ever seen. Oh my gosh, I just can't get over how adorable these little dresses are. Kristin at All About Tots did an amazing job on them and my nieces are going to LOVE them!

This is a really crappy pic but this is one
of them. It looks really red in the pic, but I
promise it is fuchsia and the ribbon is brown.

I can't wait to take these over to my nieces to have them try them on. They are going to be so excited. They may not like me very much though when I tell them that they have to wait three weeks to wear them. I may have to get them each a little slip to go under this dress though because it seemed like it might be a little itchy, but they probably won't even care.

Again, Kristin did an amazing job on these and she was so easy and fun to work with. I will definitely be going back to her in the future if I need anything like this for my nieces.

What do you think of the dresses? Do you like traditional dresses for flower girls? Or do you like something more fun?