january babies are the best!

Happy 3rd Birthday Sally Kate!!

sister sent me this picture the other night when they celebrated with marcus's family. so precious.

my sweet little niece is growing so fast and more beautiful each day!

(photo compliments of lane gunter photography)

Sweet Sk is celebrating with her parents at Disney all weekend! David and I wish we could be there with them so badly. But we loved spending as much time with them as possible last week. Sk and David adore eachother and I especially loved seeing them interact last week. She is his silly goose and she will correct you if you try to call her that because she will tell you "Only David calls me silly goose!"

In other birthday news, mine was fabulous! David took me to Chez Fon Fon and it was c'est si bon! I had the day off on my birthday so it was a wonderful day spent with my husband exploring more of Birmingham. Thank you for all the sweet birthday wishes and cards! Looking forward to the rest of the January birthdays...

they'll be much mistletoeing...and hearts will be glowing...

...It's the most wonderful time of the year!

This is how I felt all last week. On Christmas Eve, David and I traveled to Tallahassee to join the Micas. With Tallahassee as our home base for the week we had no agenda and two side trips to Ocala mid-week and St. George Island for new year's eve. It was truly a much needed and wonderful week - my heart was glowing.

I didn't take a ton of pictures but they add up when you're on vacation for eight days!

Happy New Year! enjoy~

a new stocking greeted us on the mica mantle

mc, allison, and julianne

we made it just in time for a beautiful christmas eve midnight service at st. peter's

we welcomed in christmas with eggnog and treats after church

julianne got fancy with all her wrapping

christmas dinner place setting

throughout the week we had several visitors...the campbell family came over for cocktails one night!

glad to see those wedding koozies in use

I loved alli's new leopard bow

on wednesday we traveled to ocala for radcliffe family christmas and to celebrate my birthday! mom and sister planned for a birthday dinner at latinos with cake at the house afterwards.

sally kate enjoyed hosting a tea party with lulu and ella and letting everyone know that her birthday was "coming up!"

thanks mom and sister for planning a fabulous party!

sally kate helped mom bake my chocolate devil's food with seafoam icing - it was delicious!
the vintage florida tablecloth was a surprise birthday gift that I adore.

my sweet, sweet husband

we used grandmother mary elizabeth's sterling, which was a special treat.

friday morning back in tallahassee I arrived to see sk watering the flowers with her new watering can from me and david

me, sister, lane, and kids had a delicious meal at a new midtown hotspot...paisley cafe.

we shared nutella bread pudding for dessert!

sk and camp

after lunch we all headed up to lucy & leo's for birthday sweet treat

love my sweet little birthday girl

on our birthday date :)

I have to say they've come a long way

on saturday we headed down to the island to ring in the new year. the girls had lunch in apalachicola at the grille and feasted on yummy tea...

...and fried oysters!

on sunday back in tallahassee, we had a traditional new year's day meal and then celebrated my birthday again! karen and allison made this delicious fresh apple cake from the new happy everything cookbook. we were graciously sent home with the leftovers.

thank you to all my dear family and friends for helping celebrate my birthday all week (month) long!

merry mary

Merry Christmas from the Micas

I only sent a very small amount of Christmas cards out this year to stay within some sort of budget. I love them so much and wanted to share! My brother called to tell me that I showed up on the most Christmas cards this year...but I had on the same dress!

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~xoxo

a magic city christmas

We have had an eventful week getting into the Christmas spirit! On Sunday night we attended a Candlelight Service full of beautiful music and praise to the reason for the season, Jesus.

We have been very busy at Chickadee the last couple of weeks and are in the full swings of frantic holiday shoppers and a lot of gift wrapping. On Tuesday, we had our first Chickadee Christmas party and it was so much fun. I work with such enjoyable ladies and we had a wonderful evening playing Dirty Santa, exchanging/fighting over gifts from the store, and delicious shrimp creole, cocktails and dessert!

On Wednesday night, I surprised David with a trip to the historic Alabama Theatre to see the movie Elf - which is hands down our favorite holiday movie. The theatre plays several popular Christmas movies throughout the month of December. They start the production with a large pipe organ and sing-along Christmas song medley for the audience. We had such a fun time. It's been so nice to experience some of the Christmas traditions of Birmingham, but we are itching to drive home to Tallahassee. One and a half more days... :)

cheers for the chickadee christmas party!

those white boxes look very familiar

my sweet co-worker judy gave us each personalized notepads...I just love my new name!

did I mention the theme was tacky christmas sweater?!

boss and new friend kate! it's been so fun getting to work for her and her beautiful store.

downtown wednesday night

inside the beautiful lobby

a quick pic of me and my date. please excuse the truck with alabama license plate - we can't get away from them!

rehearsal dinner: jacket required, bow tie optional

David's parents threw a fabulous, elegant and fun Rehearsal Dinner downtown at the Governor's Club. We enjoyed a night of Italian food, festive cocktails, family and friends. It was just one step closer to become Mrs. David Mica, Jr.!

the venue

david is known for wearing bow ties so most of the men wore one in his honor. I love that our photographer took close ups of so many - so I put together this little diddy.

karen included so many wonderful details. she did all the floral arrangements and they were beautiful!

mr. mica and his sister cookie

the gunters and the meadows

dad, mom, aunt pat, and uncle john

clark, alisha kerry, mc, and david

cheers!

the mica siblings

with all the mica aunts and uncles

the radcliffes

I love my new family!

the mica girls

our italian cuisine was perfect!

prosecco in our champagne flutes from karen

thank you for the best rehearsal dinner ever! we love you!

david handed out his groomsmen gifts...monogrammed mint juleps and handkerchiefs for their tuxes

david and martin

we gave our sweet, sweet parents gifts too - thanks mom and dad for the most beautiful wedding ever!

time for toasts!

but first, a slide show

I thought sister was getting up to give a sentimental toast...

...but then she and michael broke into song!

bravo!

we love them and their many talents!

we had lots of friends and family say such sweet things to us - it was such a memorable night

group shot of all the handsome bow tie wearing men!