Category Archives: Jenny’s Posts

I’m going to beat Hubby to this one

Posted on by

So, officially, we had our first event last night – which was staying late at the apartment clubhouse to let people come by and pick up packages after they got off work. We had a few people come through, and we met a few in the fitness center, so it was pretty slow most of the time.

Andy and I decided to play pool while we were waiting – hoping that people would think that they could stay and have fun. We found out that we are the WORST pool players in the history of the sport. Actually, I’m the worst pool player – Andy could do ok, but neither one of us is going to be on ESPN any time soon. However, we should get lots of practice since we’re going to be in there every Tuesday night! If you’re in the area, come visit us!

Guest Blogging!

Posted on by

Hi there – it’s Jenny, Andy’s very own guest blogger and wife! Hi guys! Andy wanted me to write a little about something I did right before we left on vacation. Andy found this website called www.bridesagainstbreastcancer.org – it’s a very neat organization that takes used wedding dresses and sells them to other brides to raise funds for breast cancer research. They were having an event in Irving on October 20th, so I took my boxed up wedding dress, and handed it over to a very nice lady who just got married this April, and found out in June she had cancer. This organization is very near and dear to her heart!

The event was at the Las Colinas country club, which is a beautiful place not too far from home. I was all cool and nonchalant about the whole thing until I walked up to the doors, then I had a moment of freaking. “I’m just about to hand over the most expensive, most beautiful piece of clothing I will ever own to a group of complete strangers and walk out. What am I thinking?!?”

God is so good, though. As I’m having my minor freak out, a young bride and her mom walk out carrying a dress to buy from the thousands in the ballroom. Guess what it was? It was MY dress in the cream color! She was oohing and ahhing over this wonderful dress that she could now afford because of this group. I leaned over and said “that’s my dress!” and she sort of jumped in surprise. I think she thought we were about to have to arm wrestle or something over that particular dress, until I explained that I was donating that very dress in white to the group. She asked me how I liked mine, and I told her it was the best dress I had ever owned. We had a moment.

So, I highly recommend doing this if you haven’t thought about it before. Some of you sentimental peeps out there are probably having a panic attack and thinking “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE TO YOUR FUTURE DAUGHTERS? HOW COULD YOU?”, but I have saved my veil and headpiece, and those are the sentimental pieces for me. I want the experience of taking a daughter someday to try on dresses at the shop – that’s the memory I want someday. Check out the website for more details – they also take old/stained dresses and bridesmaid dresses and turn those into quilts! How cool is that?

Stay tuned for more info and pics of Disney – we haven’t even gotten to that part yet!