Cooling my jets..

For anyone who has seen or spoken to me in the last few weeks I think it has been pretty obvious I have become completely overwhelmed with life. So much so I have become the girl who doesn't even have time to blog a quick little post here and there! Between working a new job, school full time, and the wedding, I am going to start pulling my hair out any moment now.

The biggest stress (and only one I really have any control over) is the wedding. Who knew throwing a big party for all our closest friends and family would be so incredibly stressful? Despite the fact that I do have a lot of help (including an amazing husband-to-be who is very supportive of all my crazy ideas), it is time I take a break from my self-induced madness. That means absolutely no wedding stuff for a week. No planning, no calls, no vendors, no emails, no wedding blog reading, I'm not even going to read Weddingbee at all! Can I do it? Probably not that hard core, but I sure am going to try.

Instead I'm going to spend my extra time catching up on school work, cleaning our disaster of an apartment (which the majority of that mess is also wedding related), getting back to the gym, and of course hanging out with Bella and Bri. Yeah, no wedding really does free up THAT MUCH time.

Next week I will finish up and get all the room block info posted on the site, but for now its just going to have to wait. Who knows with all this spare time you might even get more then one blog post out of me this week!

it's our engage-aversary!

No, I did not bake this unfortunately, in fact I have not baked anything for Brian to celebrate one year of our engagement, or valentines day! Work, school, and wedding planning has swallowed me whole recently. But I promise, updates soon!!

In the meantime, happy love day everyone!!

I pledge..

I think this is wonderful. Apparently it is causing a bit of controversy, for various reasons, but if it gets people to stand up and make a change, I am all for it.

I pledge to be more conscious about my environmental footprint. I have reusable grocery bags, it's time I start using them! No more water bottles either, refill and reuse instead. Recently, our apartment complex installed a "recycle area" next to the trash compactor, we have started to use it, but I am going to try to be better.
If we could all just take small steps, what a huge difference it would be! Here's to CHANGE!! :)

sunday random pic

In honor of my Mum being here this weeking to help me make HUGE progress on the wedding planning I present one of my most favorite pictures ever... :)

Mum & Dad at their wedding 30 years ago.. aren't they cute?!?!

this one is for dad...

“ The odds of divorce among women who married their only cohabiting partner were 28% lower than among women who never cohabited before marriage, according to sociologist Daniel Lichter of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.”
Read the full article here.


And he calls our apartment the "house of sin"! ;)

sunday random pic... is BACK!!

Would you be able to blog if this kind of cuteness happened to you everytime you opened your laptop?? I didn't think so..

Happy New Year!!

So here we are, a whopping 8 whole days into 2009 (and a mere 10 months until the wedding, for anyone who is counting), and I haven’t even wished everyone a happy new year! We’ve got big plans for such a big year, and I am very proud to say we are already on top of some of our big goals. So while I can’t speak for Bri, because he’s not one for resolutions, the list I have for myself is quite a big one. No worries though, he is getting dragged along in a few of mine as well. I certainly can’t have all the fun can I? So without further ado….

Get into shape (Well we are on our way, we joined a gym! Shocking, I know, but who wants to see a flabby bride walking down the isle?)
Get healthy (Ok, this is just mine and I have joined Weight Watchers! Sounds nuts because I don’t exactly have tons and tons of weight to loose, but for me it’s more about eating right and feeling better about myself. Don’t expect a weekly update on here with my progress or anything, but weight Watchers Wednesdays are becoming quite the big deal around here!)
Keep in touch (I like to think this means I will be remembering to send birthday and anniversary cards, but let’s be serious, I’m just trying to respond to emails and phone calls on the regular first. Oh, this will also include an increase in blogging. Man, I’m already slacking big time.)
Get organized (Not that our house is a complete disaster, but hiding behind some of our cute little bins and closed closet doors, there are some major disasters.)
Get motivated (I have big plans for my little project called ‘Baby Bubba Ink.’ If you got a Christmas card this year, you saw our first large production. A very lucky dad and brother I know also got some fantastic productions for x-mas as well. More on that later..)
And last but certainly not least..
Plan this crazy wedding and GET MARRIED!!

So what’s next? We are definitely starting to pick up the pace on the planning. You just wouldn’t believe how fast vendors book up around here! This includes a wedding show on Sunday (yay!), and meeting with a potential DJ on Monday. Then, next weekend my Mum will be in town for more meetings with potential vendors, and if all goes as planned, invitations will be ordered as well. And if that doesn’t make January jam-packed enough, the following weekend, Brian’s parents will be in town for a post-Christmas-Christmas! So our tree is still up and since I love all of our holiday decorations so much, I don’t mind one bit! Whew, it’s going to be a big month!

Since every post needs a picture, you will have to excuse me for the randomness of this one, but I just have to share. Before the holidays, on a randomly warm day Bri, Bella, and I all met up with our fabulous wedding photographer, Heather of Dolphin Dance Photography to finish up our engagement session. We originially were going to do pictures with Bella at the first shoot, but it was about a week after she was attacked, so she was still in the Doggy ICU, and in no shape to have her pictures taken. Trust me, she will let you know if she is in the modeling mood. So here is one of my favs, isn’t our gal precious?!

Please check out DolphinDancePhotography.com to see more of Heather’s amazing work!