Things have progressed quite a bit since I was asking "Will You Be My Bridesmaid" to my best friends. I think I might have sent them a text. Really fancy.

Now there are plenty of ideas to make it more special for your leading ladies! I was browsing around on the internet the other day looking at calligraphy and saw these adorable free bridesmaid printables on Something Pretty. By the way, how beautiful is this website?

Of course, I'm most partial to the mint card, but the peach and grey are equally good looking as well. :)

Just the other day I was pinning around on Pinterest and I saw the image below:

I stopped in my tracks because I realized that was one of OUR images! This picture from Katie and Jed's Panama City Beach wedding this summer has been getting lots of action on Pinterest, probably because it is such a cool idea!

This particular wedding band was customized with the brand of the groom's cattle ranch and some custom scrolling to look like tooled leather. The ring was made custom from Reads Jewelers in Fort Worth, Texas.

Every year at the end of summer we take a trip to Indiana to spend time with Luke's family. Usually we drive and take Wilma and Hudson with us, but this year we decided to skip the 6 days of driving (round trip) and hop on the big bird and fly.

Last week we took our yearly voyage and we had a great time!

It was a week full of fun and family time. It seems like every night we all ended up sitting in Luke's parents' living room with all the 'grown ups' laid out snoring and the kiddos playing legos or fighting over who got to play on 'Mimi and Paw's' iPad. I love those memories! :)

We traveled sans-cameras last week and we don't have cell service up there, so even our Instagram's were a little sparse! But here are a few of our favorites!

I love this photo of me and our nieces, Hunter and Sophie! Hunter started 4th Grade this week and Sophie started 1st Grade.

Luke and Hunter look happy here, but about three minutes after this photo was taken they were in a full-blown jujitsu match! The girls are studying jujitsu and are a real force to be reckoned with!

One night the family entrusted Luke and I with the girls' care. After serving as judges for an impromptu Indiana version of the summer Olympics that included such events as Who Can Scream The Loudest Underwater, Who Can Do The Longest Dead Mans' Float, and Who Can Do The Most Graceful Walk Off The Diving Board, Luke and I ended up clients at the girls' Beauty Shop.

We also took the girls bowling one day!

We didn't venture too far away from the tiny town Luke grew up in, but when we did go to the city one day, we were so happy to get to see our friends, Indianapolis wedding photographers Cory and Jackie, who cooked us a delicious meal at their new house and let us spend way too much time visiting!

Now it's back to the Texas heat and back to work! :)