Scenes from our Weekend : Father's Day

I did such a horrible job taking pictures this weekend that I almost bagged this post all together, but it was Father's Day weekend and Matt's first Father's Day at that, so I thought I better document it the best I could!!

We really had a nice weekend with friends and family and although we never made it out on the boat like we had hoped, we still had a great time.  

Friday night we had friends over for dinner and an intense and extremely competitive game of Spades...Anyone ever played Spades before???

I snapped a photo in my new Bauble Bar necklace and "Daisy Dukes" as my husband called them.  Thanks Mo for the Levi's find!

Per usual, I had lots of fun play time with little BFF and by dinner time on Friday night, I put that sweet little face to bed so we could have some adult time! 

We had a great meal planned for our friends on Friday night.  I feel like I have been cooking so much more lately, but mainly it's because our grill has been out of commission.  Usually we just throw some meat and veggies on the grill and call it a night, so there's not much for "recipes" going on.  But now that our grill has gone kaput, I'm having to get a bit more creative in the kitchen. 

Thanks to wonderful bloggers and pinterest, it hasn't been too difficult to find new delicious recipes.  I whipped up some bacon wrapped asparagus (not pictured), fresh corn and mushroom gnocchi and some pan fried Snapper.  It really came out incredible if I do say so myself.  I'm planning to share all the recipes with ya'll tomorrow :)

Pan Fried Snapper

Saturday was mostly spent recovering from the extremely competitive Spades game that happen the night before with a few too many bottles of wine, but we also managed to break out a few of Brody's first birthday gifts that we were planning on giving to him early because they required some assembly and he doesn't know the difference any way. :)

We went over to my Mom's house Saturday night for dinner to celebrate the men for Father's Day and my brother, Bryan's first Father's Day as well as Matt's!! They broke in their new Kamada Joe Grill with some delicious filets for all of us.  It was a beautiful evening and fun to be with family.  

Another terrible photo, but I wore my Dad's gold belt buckle on my necklace in honor of Father's Day this weekend.   My Dad's girlfriend so kindly took his belt buckle after he passed to a jeweler and had  it made into a pin, so that I can wear it close to my heart!! It has his initials engraved in it which is hard to see.  

Sunday morning was spent snuggling in bed while I made breakfast for all of us in honor of Father's Day.  We had a nice relaxing morning at home and when Brody woke up from his morning nap, we grabbed my Father-in-Law and headed to Perdido Key for lunch at The Oyster Bar.   It was fun going somewhere different for lunch and it's on the water and was a perfect day.  Sadly, I have ZERO good pictures from the afternoon.  I'm so sad.  Oh well, instead you get a car mirror selfie of my fun neon jewelry I sported for the day! 

Blue and Yellow for the win! 

Bauble Bar Earrings // Love Andrea's Closet Bracelet // J Crew Arrow Dress // Ray Ban Sunnies

Matt had kept telling me he didn't have any great photos of his family at his office and he wanted some, so when Father's Day rolled around, I knew exactly what to get him.  I picked up some Mudpie frames from Pizzaz and stocked them with some 8x10 photos from our photo shoot when Brody was 8 months old. 

We spent the evening with my family over at our house eating appetizers and watching the end of the U.S. Open!  It was a perfect casual ending to a nice weekend.  It was ironically my first Father's Day without my Dad, but Matt's first Father's Day as a Dad so I had a whirlwind of emotions.  We missed my Dad all weekend long, but were so fortunate to be celebrating new Father's this weekend and the sweet babies that make us parents...

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend relaxing and pampering your daddies yesterday!! 

Linking up with Biana today!