daily grace.: Bridesmaid weekend!- mission shoes.

a couple of weekends ago, i had a weekend that i looked forward to for a long time. i posted about it before it happened here. it was the weekend that my roommate in Lebanon- Leah, came to visit and also the weekend that Leah, my sis and i got to visit my college roommates, making it the first time i have had more than 2 bridesmaids together at one time. All of my bridesmaids live in various places all around the US and world so this was really special to me, if you can't already tell. I really wanted us to have something 'wedding' to do and since we had the bridesmaid's dresses all picked out and bought, we decided to find shoes! So we all set out to the mall including Karis (Heather's little girl), literally as if we were on a mission... I know the mall employee's could speak to our mission mentality as we would go in a store, each girl would take a corner so that the entire store was covered, and within seconds we knew if this was going to be a place where we would spend our time. It was hilarious and so fun! After going to about 10-15 stores (seriously), i think we were all burned out and i had come to terms with the fact that we may not find anything today. BUT, then we stopped at Belk (always the day-saver in my mind). We did our spread out routine, and Leah came to me asking if the shoe she was holding could work.... dun. dun. dun. Immediately, I LOVED IT, and everyone agreed it was just what we had been looking for! It was also helpful that the shoes were %50 off and totally in the price range we were looking for. So we asked the sales lady if she might have SEVEN various sizes of this clearance shoe.... haha! She had 2 of the sizes and then proceeded to call about 10 different belk stores from Wilmington to Missouri. About 30 minutes after she continuously called store after store, she successfully tracked down ALL the sizes we needed! This experience was becoming like a roller-coaster ride. So then she (knowing each of our names by now) proceeded to give us the phone numbers to each of the Belk's for us to call and make our personal order. This took another 30-45 min and got pretty complicated at times.... but alas, we have the shoes, and an unforgettable experience with some of my best friends in the world:)

Here are some of the girls getting ready for our mission:)