Simple Joys of the Week, Belated May 18th Edition

Whew! I'm back in town! And after a whirlwind wedding weekend for my dear friend Leigh's nuptials, I have LOTS of Simple Joys to go around. So, today I'm changing the format a bit and sharing a bunch of my Simple Joys of the Week for last week AND last weekend (because I could never skip a week of this blog series--it's too much fun!). Take a look below for some images and short lists of my SJOTW for the past week or so...what were yours? 


Hear: "Escape" by Enrique Iglesias (old college favorite that was played at wedding!), "Shoop" by Salt n' Pepa (rapped the ENTIRE thing with the Best Man on the dance floor...it was epic), "Springsteen" by Eric Church (one of the theme songs of the weekend), hearing the wedding vows & ceremony (sorry, no pics yet, but it was one of the sweetest ceremonies ever!)

See: Good friends, wedding decorations, the blushing bride all dressed up and ready to go, the "yoga dance" that my friend Laura (also a yoga teacher!) and I made up on the dance floor, our bowling shirt gifts that we wore for their Big Lebowski Rehearsal Dinner at a Bowling Alley...

There she is, getting ready!

Bridesmaid bouquets...

Taste: Wedding cake, champagne, vino, all of the amazing wedding food that was served for dinner, and late-night pizza ;)

Image via dexknows.com

Smell: Wedding flowers and bouquets, fresh southern air, LOVE in the air ;)

Setting up for the wedding...

Bride's bouquet

Touch: Rollerskates (yes, we did go rollerskating after bowling on Friday night...it was hard!), playing frisbee in the park with Ben (last week), getting my hair done, mani-pedis and an extra-amazing massage chair, doing the "Bernie" on the dance floor (my new fav dance!)

Real rollerskates! MUCH harder than I had remembered...

Taken at the park when lying on my back on a blanket :)

The back of my hair--I loved it!

As you can probably tell, the wedding was an amazing one. The weather was *almost* perfect all weekend (we had one tiny shower, but it was over before the ceremony), the bride was the most relaxed bride I've EVER seen, everything was beautiful and went off without a hitch, and we danced our faces off at the wedding. Not to mention that my flights there and back went smoothly and we had plenty of time to just sit around together and catch up. It was also wonderful to see how in love and how ready the couple was to get married--I've never seen a groom who was so excited, either :)

Now back to real life, right? I hope your past week or so was full of many sensory joys. Here's to another week full of the wonderful, small, simple things in life!

Namaste,
Mary Catherine