Our First Anniversary Present!

So if anyone is actually still checking this blog for updates, I figured it is high time to brag about an amazing anniversary - that's right - we made it ONE year!

To really share all that went into the weekend celebration will take more than one blog entry - woohoo - the promise of another update soon... but for now, this post is dedicated to an amazing gift that was given to BJ and I!!

The Friday morning before our anniversary weekend BJ asked me to work from home and go to lunch with him - luckily it was a slow week so that wouldn't be a problem - and then he told me to make sure I dressed like I was going to work. Um - what did that mean? Knowing that our anniversary weekend was going to be quite an affair in and of itself, I immediately got upset with him for spending any extra monies on lunch that day... haha... I am so ridiculous. He told me to get over it and get dressed...

So we get in the car heading to lunch and slowly I begin to realize that we never go this direction leaving our place when going out - then, turns become a little more obvious and by the time we arrived I was beside myself.... we were at Brook Hollow!

Still keeping a good secret, he let me walk in wandering how he pulled off planning a lunch without me know it only to find this when I walked in....






What a TREAT - our wedding vendors all came together to celebrate our anniversary!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU to DFW Events (Mindy Rives, in particular!), Charles Redin of Brook Hollow, Junior of Garden Gate and Duni Borga from La Duni for celebrating BJ and I - we cannot express how loved we feel!! (Literally, I started crying when I walked in... bahahaha!)

Enjoy these next few pictures of our beautiful, FILLING, lunch!! (Mindy left her camera for our personal hostess to snap shots of our lunch - with a specific instruction for me to blog...!) :



Here is to you and me, BJ!



Our lunch was planned to be in the bay window off of the main ballroom (where our cake sat one year before, a missing chandelier from the wedding was supposed to be overhead as a surprise from Nelson, our designer!); unfortunately, there was a last minute memorial service booked at the club and BJ's work schedule couldn't be tweaked, so they moved our lunch to the Hollow Bar at a gorgeous, private table!



1st Course - Goat Cheese on Roasted Figs Salad... YUM!



2nd Course - BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP (O.M.G. My Favorite!!!)




3rd Course - By this time I was already full, but just had to eat some of this amazing salad - Tenderloin and Grilled Brie - so so so good... BJ ate some fish dish.. not my thing. It is funny to say that beef is... that is new!



4th Course - Cheese Flan, Roasted Pear and Light Green Salad - I mean literally by this point I was DONE... too bad, the flan was a-ma-zing!!



Needless to say, we did not cut into our cake - our stomachs just could not take the beating! We did however, take this - along with a bottle of champagne given to us from BHGC - for our anniversary weekend!! More details on what was to come will follow...



Our hostess was so wonderful and wanted to take pictures of us outside - this is my favorite!!

THANK YOU DFW EVENTS, CHARLES REDIN, JUNIOR and DUNI for the best anniversary present! WE LOVE YOU!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BJ!

To the love of my life....




HAPPY 31st BIRTHDAY!!

I love you more today than I did yesterday, and can confidently say that with the Lord the head of our marriage - that will be true for every one of our days!

I CELEBRATE Y-O-U today!




You, have made me so happy... So very, very happy!

A Not So Formal Entrance...

If you know me, or were a guest at my wedding, you definitely know that what you are about to see is so counter-intuitive to my ever-so-wedding-traditional taste....

HOWEVER - If you know me, or my obsession with dance, you could figure that I find great joy in this clip... if only it could have been a LITTLE more choreographed... oh wait, no.. no, it couldn't.

... maybe for when BJ and I renew our vows in about 10 years :)!

To all those wearied by Karen's bloglessness...

Dear Faithful (and now, probably faithless) Readers of Black Tie, White Dress:

As you all know, and probably feel the effects of almost daily, Karen Michael Gross Rector rarely, if ever, updates her wonderful blog.
I believe she doesn’t update on a regular basis for a few reasons:

1. She likes the attention some of us give her ever-stagnant blog.
2. She lacks confidence in her blog because Caroline Lamberth has taken to posting excerpts from her junior high diary on her blog. That is stiff competition.
3. She simply doesn’t care about her followers.
4. She is busy playing wifey to Beej.
5. She is busy memorizing every single dance danced on So You Think You Can Dance each week. This added on to her very busy job and social calendar just doesn’t leave much time to post on her blog.

Being the author of a blog myself, I know how she feels. My social calendar is packed until April 2010, I have to watch 13 different reality television shows each week, I like to sleep, I work, sometimes I work at work…the list goes on and on…

But, Karen, I’m here to encourage you to come back. Come back to the internets and share your thoughts and dreams with us, your loyal supporters. We want to know what you cooked Beej for dinner, how long you spent mopping the floor last Sunday night, how many times you’ve practiced saying your greeting for the Miss America pageant and especially, we want to know just what’s going on in that head of yours. You’re very insightful and somewhat amusing at times, which makes a good read (on occasion).

Please, I beg of you, don’t continue to leave us (your ever-so-faithful followers) in the barren dessert that is http://www.bjandkaren.blogspot.com/ any longer, for, you have the water to quench our parched-blog-throats!

Karebear, I have written this on behalf of over half the internets. The ball is in your court. Your move.
Choose wisely.

Signed,
lc, not from The Hills or the cow