ruffles in birmingham

Please excuse my two week absence! Hopefully this fun filled post will make up for it!

I spent MLK weekend in Birmingham with some of my favorite girls. You might remember we went on this trip on the same weekend last year. We added two new Ruffles this year, Rian & Pamela, and missed Jill!

Sweet Chris Meadows turned our Ruffles play list into an awesome cd complete with a custom cover! Artists featured on this cd may or may not have included Justin Bieber, Willow Smith, & Snoop Dogg...

We arrived at our hotel about 30 minutes before our reservations at this awesome restaurant. We had just enough time to greet Heather, freshen up, and head back out the door!

On our way out of the hotel parking lot, I discovered snow! I was pretty excited! :)

Rian, Me, & Holly at dinner...

we had the best time...laughing, eating, drinking, and laughing some more. At one point we were worried that we might even get kicked out of this fine establishment, but the head chef himself came to our table to find out just what we were laughing about for so long!!! He said he loved that we were enjoying ourselves so much!

my fabulous blood orange martini...

birthday dessert for mary & heather...pomegranate, meyer lemon, & chocolate donuts.

when we got back to our hotel, mary hooked us up with these precious flowers...

and yes, we wore them all weekend! Everyone wanted to know where they, too, could get a ruffly flower!

heather in her dream store...

snow!

lunch at dodiyos in homewood...we all split this appetizer and it was wonderful! I'm going to try to recreate the feta, garlic, & olive oil spread that they had...omg...it was delish!

after lunch we shopped more of the stores in homewood...

our last shopping stop was at the summit...it's so beautiful at night!

dinner at la paz

woops...it's on manual focus, but i love this picture anyway! who knows what we were laughing about!

"this year i'm going to get that second strawberry margarita"

on our way home from la paz...ready for mary's ruffle shower!

we sent this invite out a couple weeks before our trip and surprised mary! thanks to bethel for coming up with the adorable poem...she always pulls through!

mary opening her ruffly pillow from me!

holly's gift to mary...

holly assured mary that she didn't have to write her a thank you note for this gift!

After the ruffly shower we ate Lucy & Leo's cupcakes and played The Game of Things...when wayyyyy too many laughs were had!!! What a fun game!

On our way out of town we stopped off at home goods. I had never been, but had heard how wonderful it was. I loved it and got lots of fun things! Too bad there isn't one in Tallahassee...or maybe that's a good thing?

It was, once again, the perfect weekend and I cannot wait for next year!! Only 51 more weeks!! :)