Corsets, bustles, nutcrackers and more!

Ohh my this weekend was pretty darn fun!!! We didn't do a whole lot WR but what we did that was WR, I feel like are big things to me!! =)

Friday night, FI and I just relaxed and chilled out. The week at work had been a hard one for me and I was just exhausted. (My co-worker was out all week so I was doing both of our jobs and I was TOTALLY stressed out. I had gotten my performance review and it was a VERY good one. My boss told me that most people don't score as high as I did after just a year!! YAY ME!!! )

Friday night we just relaxed, watch a movie and ate some wonderful beef stew that FI's dad had made. I was good though and didn't eat any cornbread!! =) OH, I also spoke with my photog about when to do Bridals and e-pics. They said we still haev PLENTY of time for both, which was a totally relief to me. The place that FI and I originally wanted to do e-pics had been damaged severely during the hurricane, but they are making progress as to getting it back on it's feet. They are hoping to re-open in a few weeks. My photog really wants to do our pics down there, so I just need to call and see when they are going to be back up and running and we'll go from there!! =) We'll just do my bridals whenever hopefully the weather is still good, hopefully before the end of december, january weather down here is nasty.

Saturday my mom and I were going to the alterations lady in Houston. I have unfortunately gained some weight and decided that I needed to put a corset in my dress so that I would be able to fit ok into my dress on the day of. My mom was pissed at first at this decision, well mainly because I had gained weight but whatever. So mom and I went. I put my dress on and I tried it on with a petticoat I had ordered that had 3 hoops in it (i had gotten it because I wanted my skirt to be really full) well it ended up being WAY to full and so we took it off. I'm just going to stick with my original one I had gotten when we got the dress.

One thing that rocked was that the lady was actually able to zip me up in my dress!! I was sooo excited!!!! My mom hadn't been able to earlier in the week ( i think she was being to careful) but the lady (dana) didn't ahve any problems!!! THis made me happy. Well I was glad that she was able to do that BUT the bodice didn't lay flat, it was kinda bunched up in the back and the front was kinda wrinkly. So she gave me two options, either she can let it out OR she can put the corset which she'll also have to take the bodice in too. We decided to go with her putting the corset in and taking the bodice in. I figured this would be the safest thing to. The corset cost $95 and taking the bodice in cost $85.

We also are getting her to do my bustle. My train is FOREVER long and it's going to take 10-12 pickups for her to bustle my train, but it looks OH SOO PRETTY!!! =) I LOVE IT!! And she does the color coding ribbons which will be soo easy to do!!!

This isn't my dress, but (I THINK) this is what my bustle is going to look like!!!

She will also be taking a piece from my mothers veil and adding it to my veil so that it will be my blusher. I'm really excited about this and it means soo much to me. I talked to FI and he wants to lift my veil, so that is settled to!! I think it's cool that the same veil that my dad lifted over my mom will be the same way FI will lift over me!! =)

After the alterations lady, we headed to Sams. We wanted to check out prices of candy for our candy buffet. They had some really good prices for the bulk stuff and I know we will be getting some of the candy from there for sure!! We also looked at cheesecakes which we will be having at our RD. We decided to get 3 plain and then have different kinds of toppings that you can put on it (blueberry, strawberry, cherry, chocolate) mmm it will be good!!!

After Sams, FI met us and picked me up and we headed to the nutcracker market at Reliant. OMG, I was in Christmas decoration HEAVEN!!!! Soooo many many things, that I had a hard time containing myself. Christmas is my most fav time of year, I LOVE decorating, I LOVE the smells, I LOVE christmas trees and just the whole ambiance of it, just makes me sooo happy!!! Well this place ahd everything. Booths were EVERYWHERE!!! We didn't get to see nearly everything we wanted but we did get a few things. I've become very big on personalized stuff for us so we got a Christmas plate that you can write on with a dry erase marker and you can whatever you want to on it. We got a cheese plate thats christmasy that has an S on it. We got a white cup towel with and embroidered S on it. We also got some other things like a sign to hang that says "Keep Christ in Christmas" and a big metal christmas tree that you put a pillar candle at the bottom of. They had this company there called Paul Michael and they had some fantastic prices on stuff. I sooo could've bought more but the wallet didn't allow that. But thats ok, I believe we are set for christmas when we finally get to have it at our OWN place!!! =)

After the nutcracker market we went and had mexican food, then went home and watched National Treasure 2!

Sunday, FI and I went to church. They had the little toddler kids sing a song and they were precious!! i wish I had taken my camera because they were just too cute!!! This couple that sat next to us had their new born baby in church with them, and they were just holding her and loving on her. It's moments like that when I get teary eyed and makes me want to have kids NOW!! =)

After church we went to Kohls and registered. I was pretty impressed with the selection of stuff there. It only took us an hour, I think becuase we weren't debating everything this time like we had before and we just kinda went nutz with the scanner!! OH well, it was fuN!!! =) But now I've gotta go and take some stuff off our other registry because we liked some stuff better at Kohls that at BBB.

After Kohls, we went to Conns too look at some furniture and a tv. The furniture that we had seen in the ad and online did NOT look anything like what was pictured. It was cheap looking which bummed us out. OH well. We did find a table and chairs that we REALLY REALLY like and it's only $300, so that's a possibility. We also found a tv that we like and may get, it will be our christmas and wedding gift to ourselves if we do get it, cause it's pretty expensive. It's a 50" plasma HDTV. It's soooo nice and somethign I never would've thought of us getting, but of course we do need a tv and why not??!!! but we shall see if we get it or not. Of course FI is like yeah lets get it and i'm like a nervous wreck like OMG thats alot of money. We are hoping that the day after thanksgiving they will have a HUGE sale and maybe we could get it then =)

Well that was our weekend in a nutshell. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!! =)

Can't sleep

I couldn't sleep last night for the life of me!! I kept thinking of all this stuff for the wedding I've got to do, then I started thinking about little stuff about the wedding that was worrying me. Like I was thinking about when we are leaving the church and getting into our little get away car, is there any lighting out there for people to see us?? Our Ceremony is at 4 and that will be like 20-25 minutes and then take pictures, reception is up stairs at church, that will be like an hour-an hour and a half, and then we'll be leaving like 630ish or so?? not sure, but It will probably be dark by then, cause the time will still be like it is now, and it's getting darker at 530ish or so.

So many little petty things I keep thinking of. I need to do some DIY stuff so I can just be done with it!!! =) I started working on wording for the invites. I'm not wanting to do the typical stuff, I wanted like a cute little phrase before it and then go from there. but we'll see. I can't fit much on our invites, well according to our template I can't. OH well. I'll figure something out.

OH! The first weekend of November, I went BM dress shopping with 3 of the girls!!! SOoo excited cause they all tried on and picked out their dresses!! Two are being bought off the rack (put on lay away) and just one needs to be ordered!!! YAY!!! Here's the dresses they picked out:

This is FI's sisters dress

This is my SIL Ashley (bros wife) and FI's niece Ryan's dress.

Fi's niece Drew, this is her dress

These are my shoes!! Ordered them from Davids Bridal in Champagne, the style is Chloe which is awesome since that's FI's familys dog name!!! =)

Another thing that has happened, that I do not think I have written about is that my Aunt and Uncle have generously offered to pay for our Rehearsal Dinner!!! When they told us, I was THRILLED beyond belief!!! I couldn't believe it!!! So now we are planning that. We are just doing something simple. It will be catered and will be at the Community Center down the street from FI's house. It's a whole lot cheaper for us to do it this way than having it at a restaraunt in town. We found some really cute tableware and stuff to use, and we've already thought about what to do for the invites too!!! My mom even ordered some little party favor cars (they look like old time cars) and we are going to put candy in them!!

We will have italian food catered from an italian restaraunt in town, and they have the BEST food!! =) I just hope that everyone likes it!! I'll be nervous cause I'm pretty sure we are supposed to say something at the dinner. I may even be crying too, who knows!! =)

My aunt's sister does embroidery, so my mom is going to order some hankies offline and get her to do them for free!! Just have to buy the thread and that's all!!

I guess another thing I've been thinking about alot is Christmas. It is FAST approaching!!! I can't believe it!!! I'm trying to convince FI that for he and I, instead of buying individual gifts, for us to put our money together and get a flat screen tv. We are going to have to get something cause when they switch over to whatever it is in February, we wont' be able to use either TV we have, but hopefully we can get the box for those too.

This weekend I am hoping that FI and I can go finish registering (i'm thinking Sears and maybe Kohls or Macys). I may have to bribe him with Mexican food but that's fine. Just as long as we can get that done!!! =) I wish there was more than one Crate in Barrel in town(just in Houston), I love that store and I would register there, but since there isn't one that is located close to people, we will refrain =( I wish (and this sounds absolutely horrible and bratty of me) that we were having my shower or getting married before christmas, so that we could register for christmas decorating stuff!!! haha i'm kinda kidding about that =) I wouldn't though, and I doubt the FI would let me!!!

But I absolutley love christmas time and decorating for it!! i cannot wait!!! FI and I bought a whole BUNCH of stuff after new years last year, all christmas decorating stuff and I can't wait to put it out!! I just wish we had our own place to put it out at =( oh well, thats ok, it'll still be fun!!!

Sorry this post is bouncing around from subject to subject, that's just how my mind has been lately, blah!!!!! But I will leave you with some vintage inspired christmas decorations!!

Halloween Fun!!

Well I know this is a little late, but I just had to show off the jack-o-lanterns the FI and I made for Halloween this year!!! They turned out soo good!! We had a blast doing them and both agreed that we would do this every year! (YAY for traditions!!) In conclusion, here are our first ever jack-o-lanterns that we did together!!!

All of our pumpkins together: FSIL Ashleys, FI's and minePumpkins on the porch!

This is Fi's pumpkin!! The dog on the right he did to look like Chloe =)
This is my pumpkin, ol snaggle tooth, and yeah i did use the stencils, there is no way in this world that I could do this on my own!! =)
This is Fi and Chloe! We dressed her up for Halloween!! She didn't care to much for the witch hat, but we thought it looked soo cute on!!
This is how Chloe begs when she wants some food =)