Showing posts with label thank you. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thank you. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Thank You Luke And Leena!

Over the years we've met some great people through work and school and now Zac and I are pretty blessed to have a group of amazing friends. Now that we're a little older we have some fantastic couples to hang out with, too. One of these couples is Luke and Leena. Here they are with their first, goreous, little baby, Layla.


In case you didn't get enough cuteness with the picture above, here's another shot of Layla. I just can't get enough of her!


Zac and I have had the pleasure of having dinner dates with Leena and Luke on a few occasions. Leena is quite the hostess, who makes delicious meals. Zac and I always have a good time with those two.

Early last month, Leena was excited to tell me that the wedding gift she and Luke had ordered for Zac and I had arrived early. She was too anxious to wait another four months to give it to us, so the couple invited us over for dinner and dessert.

After a lovely dinner, Leena brought this adorable brownie dessert with a sweet icing message:


Not only was the dessert thoughtful, it was yummy, too.

Zac and I were blown away with the gift that we unwrapped that night. The first surprise was a set of luggage tags. Having just booked our honeymoon (which I'll tell you all about later) we couldn't have been more excited to see those little tags. I can't waitto use them!

Then came the big surprise, which literally left me speechless for a little bit. We tore away the wrapping paper (with a little help from baby Layla) to reveal a six bottle wine refrigerator!


I am in love! It's an amazing addition to our household appliances. We put it right next to Zac's kegerator on our bar counter. It was such an amazing gift, and Zac and I can't thank Luke and Leena enough!

We love you guys!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

100th Post....Thank You Readers!

The end of this month marks the 6 month anniversary since the beginning of this blog! Time has gone by pretty quickly, but I've had a lot of fun blogging all about my wedding planning with Zac and our other life happenings. This is the 100th blog post I've published. That's a whole lot of talking and sharing and I owe a big 'Thank You' to all of you readers out there for checking it out!

This blog started out as a way to reach out to family and friends (both close by and out of town) and keep them up to date on wedding related topics. Though it's still mostly wedding oriented, I've also talked about other things that I thought our family and friends would enjoy reading about like home projects, our pup Jim, and special occasions.

I am completely amazed and utterly excited that in just 6 months my little blog here has reached over 6,500 views! I knew that family and friends would be checking out my page but I had no idea that others would enjoy reading my posts as well. According to Blogger people are logging in and viewing Sparkles and Cheaterpants from over 20 different countries! Are you serious?! I was so surprised to see that people all over the world are reading my posts! (Puts a little pressure on me to make my posts interesting.) Second to the US, the highest views are from Malaysia, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. There are also readers in India, France, Germany, and the Philippines to name a few! (I'll admit that I had to google map the location of the newest readers in Azerbaijan. :P)

I was happy to see that a few of my friends (Annamarie who lives in Australia, and Tiana over at 'Clean up Isle 12....Brain Spillage' *you should go check her out!*) had become followers of my little blog, and extremely flattered when others began to follow the page as well. I now have 12 follows, which might not seem like much to some people, but for someone who wasn't anticipating having any blog followers, I find it pretty exciting. Thank you to all of you readers who decided to follow the blog!

One great thing about this blog (besides having a place to share wedding ideas and life happenings) is that I've been introduced to a wonderful community of other bloggers including a group of other brides to be (like Tiffany of The Bride-onicles of a Soon to be Bride, Stephanie of The Vintage Modern Bride, and Heidi at The Varner Wedding 9-24-11 *she's getting married today! Congratulations Heidi and Jeff!*,) and newlyweds (like Jasmine of Jasmine and Sean, Mrs. Janney of Adventures of Mrs. Janney, and Liz at explore.dream.discover.). It's so great to be a part of a comnmunity of such awesome ladies and read all about their adventures as brides and newlyweds.

I really appreciate all the people who check out Sparkles and Cheaterpants and find some interest in my rants and sharing! I hope you've been entertained and I promise to keep the blog posts coming. If you enjoy reading the blog feel free to become a follower and be sure to share the blog with others!