Party house!!!

That was us this weekend!!!

Friday night we had the MUSC wine tasting event at our house and Saturday night we had a BBQ Baby Shower for the Heards! It was a fabulous and exhausting weekend all at the same time!

Friday night festivities!

Backyard ready for fun!

Fire pit, too!

Delish spread...Beth did a great job organizing all of the corresponding foods with the wines that everyone was bringing!

Party peeps

Hey Calee! 

What can I say...she has a sixth sense when it comes to cameras being on her, ha! :)

Girlfriends!

We put quite a dent in the food!

Each wine bottle was covered, and everyone had to guess the type. We separated them into white and red categories, with a little "halftime" in between, followed by dessert wines.

{"wait, where did the port go???" ya had to be there for that one!}

Kerri and Beth...Kerri won the contest, thanks to her hubby, Nick! Evidently dermatologists know their vino selections! I don't think any of us internal medicine gals can give any of our husbands any credit there...well, maybe except for Katie..because she was drinking sparkling grape juice and we all know how competitive homegirl is when it comes to contests, ha! :) Unfortunately Richard didn't pull through for her.  Luckily for Kerri, she won this amazing Southern Living pitcher - jealous!

Our boys!

Us girls!

and a couple more girl shots...thanks to Calee!

Saturday was dedicated to celebrating Baby Girl Heard!

...Actually she has a name now...Kirksey Brooke Heard!

Wait a minute...this dining room looks familiar...HA!

I made these yummy pumpkin cupcakes...recipe found HERE

I have to admit that I'm usually a complete PERFECTIONIST when it comes to decorating cupcakes {just ask one of my college bffs, Danielle, about the story when she tried to help me decorate my cupcakes and I kept telling her she "could eat that one" because I couldn't bear to tell her that I was a cupcake decorating psycho and hurt her feelings!}

...however, being that I was icing these bad boys at 4:45pm and the shower started at 5 o'clock...I gave up my handy decorating utensil, and cupcake perfection pride, and slopped that delicious stuff on there as fast as I could manage!

BBQ spread...complete with bottles of "Baby-Q" sauce! Unfortunately I didn't have time to snap pictures of the details, ah!

...as the baby loot started arriving!

Hostesses (and host!) with the momma-to-be!

A few more gals!

Then it was game time!!! {in more ways than one...football games played on the tv the whole time, haha!} We played the tissue paper measure around the couple game, blind baby food taste test game, and  a Play-Doh baby-molding game.

Uh-oh...somebody found a new toy!

Richard and Katie got to select the best Play-Doh baby artist!

There was some serious competition, but the Merriams' baby (middle, bottom, pink & white, complete with bow in hair and bottle in hand) won...since the Schonfelds had already won everything, ha!

Then there was s'more roasting in the fire pit...and SNACK TIME for the wee ones!

Have you ever seen a cuter pair?!?

such cool kids!

Mills decided to follow suit and put on his PJs as well.

He begged me to put on his "Future Mr. Right" PJs...in honor of his current girlfriend and girlfriend-to-be.

Unfortunately smiles were hard to come by, because it was late and past mr. man's bedtime, but we managed a few...

We had a great weekend with friends and celebrating Baby Kirksey Heard! After an extremely busy weekend we're laying low around here, in recovery mode! 

Nicholas played golf yesterday afternoon with Richard and Matt, too! I was thiiiiiiiis close to saying, "sorry, honey..no can do" but we made a trade-off...he let me sleep in until 10:30 after I fed Mills, so that was a deal I couldn't resist! :)  Mills and I met Leah and Callahan later at the mall, and the kiddos had a little ice cream date at Wholly Cow. Matt dropped Nicholas off after golf and we had dinner at Sesame. Mills had his first hotdog (I cut it up into little tiny pieces) and he was a BIG fan! :)  To try something new I ordered their turkey burger and it was the BEST ever! YUM! Okay, I'm tired again just typing all of that, ha!  Nighty night!