Weddings & stuff

This past weekend was a nice refresher from the 'blahh' of summer boredom.  It was Brandon and Sam's wedding weekend!  It was so nice to get out of Kansas City and see some friends from college.  It's only been two and a half months since graduation, but I missed my friends like crazy!   It was an NSAC reunion at the wedding!

On Friday, Taylor and I saw Despicable Me 2.  It was the first movie at The Warren Theater since the Moore tornado hit it.  There was a big American flag hanging down the front.  It was great to be back in the Warren with Taylor!  After the movie went out in Norman for some drinks with Mom and Gary!

 Saturday was the big day!  The ceremony was beautiful, sweet and right to the point; it was perfect.  And Sam looked AMAZING walking down the isle.  The reception was at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum in OKC, and the building was gorgeous!  A perfect place for a wedding reception :)  NSAC got our own table and had a great time enjoying each other company the whole night.  An open bar, free food, music, dancing and a surprise appearance from Pistol Pete.  Needless to say, the wedding was fabulous! Go Pokes!

Taylor and I went out with a few people from the wedding party after the reception.  We went to Speakeasy and Edna's in OKC.  We have a friend who knows a bar tender there, so we got more free drinks all night!

We had a prime location for the first dance and cake-cutting!

Most of the NSAC team pre-recpetion!

Cheers to the bride and groom!

 Go Pokes!

 

 Taylor and I with our favorite couple, The Kobs!

Enjoying Lunchboxes at Edna's with Dustin

 The weekend was filled with friends, fun and memories in the making!  I'm so very happy for Sam and Brandon and I'm excited for them to start the next chapter in their lives.  Congrats to you both, love you!

I have two more weddings to attend this summer, one of which I'm a bridesmaid in!  I love wedding season!

May.

Well world, I guess it's a bit obvious that I haven't been the best at updating my blog this past semester..  My reasoning is valid though!  On top of working at the daycare, taking a law class (so hard!!), two science classes AND the dreaded econ class, I was also on the NSAC team this year.  So you could say my life was in shambles.  I don't think I've ever had a busier schedule than Spring semester of my senior year.  Thankfully though it's all over.  NSAC placed third at districts, I made some life-long friends along the way, oh, and I grabbed a 3.5 GPA in the midst of all of this too :)  Last semester was the worst and the best semester I've had in a while, but I wouldn't change any of it :)

And yep, you guessed it.. I graduated college!  Heather Morine Nelson, a Bachelor of Science in Strategic Communications with an emphasis in Advertising.  Sounds nice, yes? Go Pokes!

NSAC friends!

Alumnae!

My favey and I!

Go Pokes!

Celebrating gradution with our first Strongbows on tap in America!

Celebrating at Murphy's!

Graduation may have been the end of my undergrad and my schooling for a year or two, but the excitement had only just begun.  The month of May was literally jam packed with trips, more graduations, a reunion with a few friends and the most live Beatles music you can imagine! I was more excited for the events following graduation rather than graduation itself!  But all of those are for another blog post for another time.

Just to keep you in the know, here's what my May sched looked like..
May 4: Graduation
May 10-12: Promise Walk for Preeclampsia in OKC
May 12-18: Road trip to Orlando with Taylor!
May 18-21: Washington DC for Stephen's graduation
May 23-27: Abbey Road on the River in Louisville
May 29-30: Paul McCartney in concert in Tulsa
May 30-31: Wedding dress shopping with the bridal party in Dallas

My dad likes to call all my travels "Heather's Victory Tour".  It's like a victory lap in college, only I'm out of colllege and this is a full blown tour.

I've been wanting to update for a while now, but I've been too darn busy!  I love to write in this because I love looking back and reading old posts.  I do it often with all of my blog posts from Europe, and, well, why not keep it up?! It's great if I want to recall a funny story I wrote about or just to remember what it was like living in London.  It's almost like a public, electronic diary.  So this blog is for me, and if people like to read it, then I guess it's a win/win for everyone!

Next post: The first leg of the Victory Tour- OKC and Orlando!

xx