My Aunt's Fall Visit

My awesome photographer and friend, Cassie, and I thought it would be fun to do “Trash the Dress” pictures and after I intended to give my wedding dress to charity. Well, when I told my Mom and Aunt this news, they were less than thrilled about this decision. Apparently, trashing my wedding dress and giving it away would be something I would have regretted. Lol! :) My Mom and Aunt know best and…they make sure I know that fact. :) So, we all compromised on doing lots of fun after dress pictures. Since my Mom flew up from Florida to be with me for my Bridal Portraits my Aunt decided she would come up for these pictures.

We couldn’t have asked for better weather! It was gorgeous! We took so many fun pictures. We all had a blast together. It was so awesome to spend the day doing ultra girlie things with a group of fun women! :)

The next day, my Aunt and I went grocery shopping and began making a HUGE meal. In fact, while we were making dinner my Mother-in-law called and she asked what we were making, I began to rattle off everything and at the end of my list she aksed, “And, who is going to eat ALL of this food???” Lol! It was pretty funny. My Aunt and I love to cook when we get together and it’s always nice to have lots of leftovers to eat during the week.

For an appetizer we made muscles with a white wine sauce with French bread (perfect for the sopping up the white wine sauce – yum!) and, butternut squash fries – both were super tasty! :)

Then it was onto our main course, it was: Panko Breaded Chicken served with a pumpkin cranberry white wine risotto alongside sautéed squash and zucchini.

For dessert we had pumpkin bread pudding, made with challah bread. It was soooo yummy

While she was in town, we also visited the Durham Western Heritage Museum. It is housed in the Omaha’s historic Union Station. It’s such an awesome old building. I love museums! I’m such a dork like that though – lol! :)

Here’s one of the pictures I took, I was playing in the leaves – so much fun!