An Engagment Party for Five!

Remember when these lovely ladies got engaged? 

Well one more has been added to the numbers since then and to celebrate, my friend Jordan and I threw a quint-engagement brunch extravaganza for the whole lot of them!

There was baked french toast, a scrambled egg casserole, and a greek yogurt parfait bar; along with a match-the-fact-to-the-engaged-girl game, and lots of chatting and catching up! 

It was so nice to see everyone and I cannot wait for all the weddings!

 

A Murder Mystery:

 This past weekend, Mr JP and I got to play parts in a murder mystery date!

 The murder took place in Chicago so there was deep-dish pizza for dinner, 1920's music, and the best part- Chicago accents! (which I was really good at, I'll have you know... haha...)

 Each person was assigned a character and you had to dress up and act the part. 

It was hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in a while! 

Thanks Molly Jane for planning the whole thing :)

Dancing the Night Away

This past weekend I finally had a wedding to attend!

You remember how much Jean Paul and I love weddings?

Well my friend Sarah (who I went on study abroad with to London) got married on Saturday! She was an absolutely beautiful bride and the reception was fabulous. 

It also doubled as a pseudo-reunion, which I loved because it had definitely been far too long since I had seen some of my London family!

One downside to being married? I don't get to participate in the bouquet toss anymore... It really used to be my favorite part of weddings. But I guess getting married is worth giving it up ;) haha. 

 

 The "significant others club"

They were good sports while all the girls danced and got caught up on each others lives... for 2.5 hours...

The sparkler send-off was awesome - probably because they had the BIGGEST sparklers I have ever seen. These things were like torches.

What Have YOU Been Doing for the Last 12 Hours?

Mr. JP has been sick for the past few days and wanted to go to bed early last night. 

So I went to my friend Jordan's house and spent the rest of the night drinking diet coke and watching the entire first season of Downton Abbey. 

Don't be too impressed. 

     It's unbelievably good. Even better than I was expecting, and my expectations were pretty high. 

The Best Sunday of the Year!

 I looooove the Oscars. 

My little brother and I watch them together every year and the past few years it has turned into quite a party!

Everyone fills out ballots guessing who is going to win each category and whoever gets the most right is hailed as the Oscar King (okay not really... but they usually get a prize of some sort).

The dresses this year were fabulous; some of my favorites were Kristin Wiig, Berenice Bejo, and Livia Giuggioli's.

I also have a whole list of movies I need to see now, and can we talk about how great Meryl Streep's acceptance speech was?!

Is There Something in the Water?

4 

of my good friends from my London study abroad got engaged this last week...

Four! 

How crazy is that?

And three of them on the same night!

I really think there is something in the water...

And can you say quadruple engagement party?!

I have been a bit party-deprived lately! It seems there aren't as many occasions for parties at the beginning of the year, so I can't wait!

I am just beyond ecstatic for them.

Congrats Meegan Morgan Molly and Devri!!!

Me and Meegs:

(at the HP7 world premier)

 

Me and Morgs

(Halloween: Cat woman and Michael Jackson, obviously)

  

Me and Molls

(matching in Paris)

Me and Dev

(HUGE rugby fans)

 

On Presidents' Day, We Went Skiing:

Key:

Yellow Coat = Jordan

Gray Coat = Jocelyn

Burnt Orange Coat = Me

Snowboarder = Brian

Black Coated Skiing Man = Mr. JP

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

 This past weekend we decided to continue the one-year-old tradition of making heart shaped pizza's for Valentine's day. 

Last year's date was quite successful if you ask me: 9 couples came and 5 of them ended up getting married to each other!

This year was a bit more low key, but I absolutely loved it that way.  

Cooking with Mr. JP always makes me laugh, because he is very serious about his food; I was hardly allowed to touch our pizza!

We also have completely different tastes so our pizza was split right down the middle haha. 

 

We matched. Not even planned.

 Hope your Valentine's Day is lovely!

Superbowl XLVI

I love the superbowl for five reasons:

1) the food

2) the party

3) the commercials (although I was disappointed this year!)

4) the halftime show (love me some Nicki Minaj)

5) the potential scandals that occur during the halftime show (wasn't disappointed this year, thanks MIA!)

I really don't understand football all that well so I have very little interest in watching the actual game haha. 

Also, it's strange to think that when we watched the superbowl last year, JP and I weren't married! It's amazing how much things have changed!

Who do you think is the bigger fan? 

Mary...

 ...or me?

  :)