It's BRIAN!

Stop the presses!
I'm finally posting another blog post. It's only been 10 months since my last post and since katie has been "busy" I am here to pick up the slack. (love ya babe!)

We've had a big few weeks! Last weekend I finally bought a Craftsman buffer and spent all day buffing my car. Although a new paint job would be ideal, this buff job will have to do for now.


I also helped katie construct some of her custom thank-you cards. She says I'm co-owner of babybubba ink.... but all I do is mess everything up. Everytime I tried to use the can of spray-glue it would blow all of the cards off the newspaper!




On Saturday April 18th, we joined katie's maid of honor Dawn in the MS Walk! It was alot of fun. Dawn brought her dog "Diva" and we brought Bella. On top of that, Dawn's father brought his little weiner dog named "Tater". Dawn even made them matching t-shirts! We walked for three miles and I think the dogs handled it better than we did! (well, at least me)






Crossing the finish line!!!


Shortly after crossing the finish line, hahahaha


aaaaaand shortly after that, loving the A/C!



There was also a dog show that katie decided to enter Bella and I into. I had to show off one of her best tricks. I tried to get her to do the "sit, lay, head down" trick... She did it, but it wasn't very clean. But we plan to practice for next year!


Well it has been fun, maybe I'll post again in 10 months.... :)

Things that suck my free time..

1. Google Reader
Yeah, I admit I am obsessed with blogs. Current blog count on my reader: 93. Current unread posts: 167. Ridiculous, I know. I read everything from friend's blogs, photography blogs, TONS of wedding blogs, a few crafters, and of course some food/recipe/design blogs. Brian laughs at me. I don't care.

2. WeddingBee.com
The one blog I refuse to follow on my reader because I love the whole experience of being on the site. Blog, boards, all of it. I am doing a TON of DIY for the wedding, and you can guarantee a lot of the ideas come from the bees. Again, Brian laughs at me, and prays that I don't overwhelm myself from ideas.

3. Facebook
Sucking my time since 2004. Facebook updates on my blackberry too, it's allll over.

4. General Hospital
I tivo every day, and watch every night. Mobsters, affairs, and psycho grandmothers, what's not to love!?

5. Twitter
The newest obsession, I may not know how to use it yet, but dammit I will figure it out! Find me @katehiggy.

6. This blog, on occasion of course.
But since I just spend 10 minutes typing this list, it counts for today!


Not that I needed to list reasons why I am a big dork, but just in case you needed hard evidence. :)

Take me to paradise!

It’s official, our honeymoon is BOOKED! We are going to Excellence Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and could not be more excited! This place is heaven on earth if you ask me!

So pretty, can we just go now?!
We decided pretty early on in our planning process that we were going to have a hard time registering for wedding gifts, and while we have managed to set up traditional registires, we have also registered for our honeymoon through TheBigDay.com! Their whole concept is to allow guests to buy a couple memories not items, I love it! You can see our full registry here. Only problem is we are still over 200 days away from leaving!! I don’t want to wait that long!!

Our long lost friend.

Many of you may not know that Bella was not the first dog in our lives here in Richmond. Before we found our little fluff, Brian lived with a bunch of boys in a big dirty house (if any of them every try and tell you it was clean, DON’T believe it!), so of course they needed a big manly dog. Then came Miller. When they got him at the SPCA they were told he was a lab/boxer mix, and would probably end up being about a hundred pounds, well not so much. We jokingly used to say Miller was half lab, half Clifford (you know, the big red dog). He was huge, like 130+ pounds huge! And when Bella came along, it was instant love. In all his huge glory he loved her and was very aware that she was a tiny 3 pounds when she first came home. They would run and run and run, and to keep it fun, she would hide underneath him so he couldn’t find her!

Tiny baby and her BFF!
Sadly though the boys started to move on, Brian and I moved in together, and the others eventually parted ways as well. They all decided it would be best to find Miller another home. It was a really hard decision, so much so that we considered taking the big guy with us to our tiny apartment, but decided ultimately it wouldn’t be fair to him to be so cooped up. Luckily Brian was able to find Miller a home with a woman named Annette and her 8 year old son Timmy. It was sad to say goodbye but we have always hoped Miller was living a happy new life with his new family!

Then a few days ago out of nowhere Annette emailed Brian, they were going to be in Richmond, and she wanted to know if we wanted to visit with Miller! Needless to say we were super excited and planned on bringing Bella too! But it has been over a year and a half since we have seen him, Bella isn’t a puppy anymore, and we were worried he wouldn’t remember her, and more so that since her attack, she would be scared of him and his size. I will let the pictures speak for themselves, they didn’t exactly remember each other right away, but I think they may just have fallen in love again!




As you can see, Miller is doing wonderful! He has settled into family life very well, and it turns out he was having surgery for a torn ACL at almost the exact same time Bella was having her surgeries last summer! He is so well behaved, healthy, and happy. It was such a good visit and I think we know now that it was the absolute best decision we could have made to let him go. Hopefully we will have more visits soon, I know Bella certainly enjoyed herself, so much so that she had to spend the whole afternoon sleeping it off!

They didn't even want to say goodbye!

Change is coming!

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I just saw this and it made me a happy happy girl! Being that we are now only SEVEN whopping months away from our wedding it is such good news to see that so many other people are also now able to start planning a wedding of their own, and for that marriage to be legally recognized! Following in the steps of Iowa, Vermont is also changing its rules and allowing gay couples to marry! That brings the total to four states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, and Vermont!

Oh, and for the record my week off from planning went very well! Now I am back up and running feeling very refreshed and excited about everything all over again!! Updates on the wedding site soon with room block info and fingers crossed that the honeymoon will be booked this week as well!!