Planned and tanned

Wedding summit = huge success! Not only did we get to eat guacamole 18 times (how could we ever say no,when it was there at every meal, tempting us in its avocado yumminess?) but we successfully and thoroughly organized lots of wedding planning details.

In case you were wondering what the Spears ladies actually do, during our yearly mom/daughter vacations, it is always pretty much like this, with little variation:

7:00 wake up

7:00-8:00 - walk on the beach (this is 'strenuous exercise' so we are justified/encouraged to eat mexican food steadily for the remainder of the day)

8:00-9:00 - 1st round of mexican food, including guac, of course (duh--guacamole and chips are breakfast food)

9:00 - 5:00ish - remain fixed on beach chair unless to apply sunscreen, read fashion magazines and/or entertaining books or cool off in the pool when demanded due to the ridiculous amount of HOT sun that shines on mexico (also, eat more guacamole as needed)

6:30 - 10:00 - dinner (no description is needed, i assume you have caught on) and relaxing, perhaps walking around. maybe we have some champagne.

10:00 - lights out/heat exhaustion

This is our kind of vacation. It's not for everyone, but absolutely for us. Being the good worriers/planners that we are, of course my mom and I were considerably more productive during our vacation this year, and were prepared with notebooks and pens at all times, for jotting down ideas for table assignment cards, floral arrangements and invitation styles. Don't worry though that we spent our entire vacation 'working'--we had so much fun doing it.

Today, we had some time in Houston before my mom's flight, and conducted an impromptu cake tasting at Barnaby's. Dark chocolate, carrot, toffee and french vanilla. Barnaby's has great cakes--the sight of four BIG pices wrapped up in to-go boxes made my heart beat a little bit faster. Hands down winner was dark chocolate with brownie layer, so I am going to talk to 'the cake lady' sometime early next week to see if she can perhaps allow us to sample some of her chocolate cakes. (Our caterer has a cake lady, who will apparently bake us any type of cake we want and decorate it however we choose--this seems almost too good to be true, and I am anxious to hear what she thinks about some of my ideas). Dark chocolate cake, ivory buttercream frosting, layers of chocolate ganache...i am in love already.