Menu Plan Monday 2-17-14 and a Weekend With Family!
Hi everyone!!! We are back from an absolutely AMAZING weekend in Birmingham with our families! We spent our days with my family at my little brother’s wedding rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, wedding and reception and our nights with my husband’s side of the family. Our rehearsal dinner was catered by CM Food Service and the food was SO GOOD! I am definitely on a mission to recreate the Red Velvet Cheesecake Bars. OUT OF THIS WORLD DELICIOUS! My mom and sister did SUCH a good job with the dinner! Everything was just beautiful!
So I have to take a second to mention, that night after the rehearsal, my sister in law CANCELLED her Valentines Night dinner plans and came to pick up my 3 year old so he could go back and play with her and my nieces and my mother in law(Nana) so he wouldn’t have to sit through the rehearsal dinner after a 4 hour car ride. How amazing was that?
He was so psyched to be there!
So that night after we got back from our dinner to stay at Nana’s house, she gave me the SWEETEST birthday present! (My birthday was a couple of weeks ago but we just now got a chance to come visit)
It says ‘Aunt Bee’. How precious is that?
She also gave me about 15 new cookbooks that I am SO excited to try out! The next day was the wedding. Have you ever seen a more gorgeous bride?
Our new sister, as pretty on the inside as the outside.
The wedding party. Front left, my daughter (age 9) and niece were flower girls and front right, my son (age 3) and my nephew were ring bearers. Ashlea’s sister’s baby boy is in the very front and he is just adorable and stole my heart! My dad was my brother’s best man and I have never seen him so proud 
The beautiful bride, bridesmaids, and the little STUD MUFFIN!
on the way to Uncle Cody and Aunt Ashlea’s wedding! She was so excited to be flower girl!
The newlyweds in front of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Calera, Alabama! This church was SO CUTE! It was the church Ashlea’s mom grew up in and her grandmother has attended for years!
Just Married! <3
The Wedding Reception was held at Timberline Golf Club in Calera, Alabama. It was absolutely stunning!
My son and my PRECIOUS niece arriving at the Reception.
My daughter and I
I have to take a minute to tell you all how happy I am that my ‘little’ brother has found such an amazing woman to spend the rest of his life with. She is breathtakingly beautiful and as sweet as she is pretty and loves the Lord with all her heart. Her whole family was so warm and welcoming to us!
One of my favorite moments of the whole weekend.
Before the wedding Ashlea invited the women from our family to join the women in her family for a prayer to ask God’s blessing on their marriage. Her sister Brooke delivered one of the sweetest prayers I have ever heard and I can promise you, there was not a dry eye in the room. My sister is not in the photo, only because she is the incredibly talented photographer behind the lens. If any of you are in the Birmingham, Alabama area and are interested in booking a session with one of the best photographers around, check out her facebook page for more information.
I am going to have lots more photos from the weekend to share, but this is getting too long so I guess I will go ahead and post our menu plan for the week. As I mentioned earlier, Nana gave me about 15 new cookbooks this weekend so I am SO excited to be trying out some new recipes!
1) Peppery Beef & Pineapple Stir Fry
2) Vegetable Beef Soup (Nana sent us home with some of her homemade soup!) and Grilled Cheese
3) Porcupine Meatballs and Rice
4) Tex-Mex Cowboy Casserole
5) Italian Sausage and 5 Cheese Pasta Al Forno (Based on Olive Garden’s 5 cheese Pasta Al Forno but I add Italian Sausage because we are carnivores)
6) Buffalo Chicken Pasta
For TONS more menu plans, check out www.orgjunkie.com. It is going to be SUCH a yummy week! I am so excited to be back cooking!
<3 Aunt Bee
