Mother's Day!!

Happy belated Mother's Day!! Yesterday, we hosted both of our families ( really only part of Jimmy's family-we missed you McKinneys, Minnesota Griffins, and Lisa) for a Mother's Day lunch at our house after church!! It was 9 people in all and definitely a day to remember! We finally got to use ALL of our wedding china and serving pieces!! Whoop!

The idea for the luncheon came to me when I found these party circles for free from The TomKat Studio's blog. I merged them with their cupcake circles from the Royal Wedding and changed the colors to match our color scheme for the day (pink & silver/grey). Once I saw those cupcake circles, the ideas just kept coming!! Also, notice how the new image I chose matches the damask pattern on the tablecloth! (I take joy in little detials!) I found inspiration for some of the decor online, and some I came up with myself!! I wish I had spent more time preparing and less time planning. Anyone have suggestions on how to be more of a Mary and less of a Martha when entertaining? I definitely need some!! You can see the beautiful china cabinet that was my great-grandma's in the pics below!! :) I got the letters for the banners from Ruffled Blog here, and the idea for the topiaries from Two Twenty One blog here. I found the pots for the topiaries from Goodwill for $2 each and spray painted them to go with our theme. Can't beat that!! Also--I made those Martha Stewart tissue paper pom-poms I've been seeing everywhere!! I have been looking for an excuse to make those for ages!

A HUGGGEE shoutout to my husband-the best mister in the world!! I couldn't have put together this day without him (or my sister Mere for that matter). Thanks for going to the store twice for me to pick up last minute ingredients--once at 11:30 pm! We served Southwestern Salad, fruit salad, chicken and pork tamales, chili, queso, guacamole, chips-etc, and homemade cutout sugar cookies! It was a lot of work, but definitely worth it!

And after all of the hard work to make our mothers feel special, I didn't even get a pic of us with them!! (kicking self!)

Mom and Mrs.G, I hope you both felt blessed and honored at your Mother's Day lunch!! Our lives are blessed tremendously by you both! Thank you for being such great examples for me. Love you both! :)

P.S. A very HAPPY birthday wish to John Griffin-winner of "best-brother-in-law-in-Minnesota!" :) We hope you had a fantastic day!