Happy New Year friends! I hope you all had a wonderful time ringing in 2014! We certainly did! Our New Years Eve started with a 9 pm dinner with 18 of our friends at Emeril’s Eatery in Uptown Charlotte. Our menu was preset and the food was fabulous. We had so much fun with the …
Parties
Earlier this week my friend McKinsey hosted a gift exchange party for 14 girls in her home. Out of all of the gift exchanges I’ve ever been to this was the dirtiest and most aggressive one yet, which meant it was a blast! The gift limit was $35 and some girls definitely went above it …
Last weekend my friend Mel hosted a Second Annual Christmas Cookie Exchange! It was so much fun and everyone walked away with full bellies, sugar highs, new recipes and buckets {literally} of cookies! The beverage station was quite impressive this year. Mel really outdid herself with chocolate milk, her famous Ho Ho Punch, a coffee …
Thanksgiving was such a perfect day to celebrate our baby gender! Having both families in our home was so wonderful and we couldn’t have been more thankful. For weeks I carried around the envelope that contained the gender of our baby and although all of my girlfriends said I’d peek inside, I held strong and …
Thursday evening one of my best friends, Mel, got engaged. Since I’ve known Mel she’s always dreamed of getting engaged at Disney {yes, she knows this proposal isn’t for everyone}. On the last day of her annual week long Disney vacation with her sister and a few friends she walked into Cinderella’s Castle to find …
I’ve received a lot of emails about the Cherry Beergaritas we served at our Summer Soiree. I have to say, this is probably one of the very best cocktails I’ve ever had and it’s super easy to make. I wish I could take the credit for creating this recipe, but I originally pinned …