i just love the smell of pine!

it is bachelorette week here on love, the porters!!  my friends & i had so so much fun in breckenridge celebrating our dear bachelorette, cari, & her adorable fiance, aric.  they are a fabulous couple.  she's one of my best friends in the world & he treats her like a queen.  i am so excited for their wonderful winter wedding in a few shorts months.  so this was a fabulous way to start out the party...

our home for the weekend was a gorgeous "big ass mansion" on the mountain in breck.  a fabulous kitchen {pictures coming!}, hot tub in the back yard, & a view that will take your breath away.

 {home sweet vacation home}

{the view!}

so i must tell you the story about the "big ass mansion":  in our gigantic three-story home, we each had our room.  & it was the first time any of us had slept with no husbands &/or no dogs in quite some time.    & with the gorgeous mountain air, we all slept with our windows open.  so the house made noises.  

night one: success.  night two: not so much.

i wake up to a phone call in the middle of the night from cari.  "are you awake??  come downstairs right now. [click]"  have i ever mentioned i do not like being woken up from a good sleep?  so i go downstairs.  all of the girls are already in cari's bed.  & they are freaking out.  "oh my gosh... i heard a nosie!  i think someone is in the house!"  

for the first time ever, i was the calm one.  {seriously, first time EVER.} 

i explain that i doubt anyone is in the house since nothing has happened yet.  but if we are going to stay up worrying about it, we should call the police.  we call & explain the situation, so they send some people out.  a few minutes later, we get a phone call from the police trying to figure out which house it is, to which armstrong replies "the big ass mansion".  to which the officer responds "oh, right.  THE big ass mansion."  haha.  love him already.

so they come in & check everything out.  find nothing.  & the officer chick was super nice to explain it was probably a bear on our back patio, etc etc.  &, of course, armstrong takes pictures so we can always remember our midnight excursion.  yesssss.

in addition to hanging out with the attractive police guy & his buddy in the middle of the night, we had so much fun around breckenridge!  we enjoyed a beautiful morning on the patio of a coffee shop before heading to our spa date...

we did a little shopping in this quaint mountain town & enjoyed some delicious burgers...

we took advantage of our back patio with happy hour & a rainy afternoon in the hot tub...

{the adorably pregnant ladies are drinking alcohol free wine :) }

& celebrated our wonderful bachelorette all weekend.

love you, cari marie!!  check back for more fun to come on the blog this week!

love love,

kjp.