And just to reitterate....

I'm soooo super excited that today is our 6 month mark!!!!! I can't believe it's actually here!! It seems like just yesterday was our 1 year mark!!!! My goodness time does fly!!!! I have soooooo much stuff to do, lemme try to break it down, and maybe I can use this to keep track:

• Go pickout and order BM dresse
• Buy invitations(can do now)
• Mail out invitations(won't be until January 1 probably)
• Get MOB dress
• Order Flower girl dresses
• Order tuxes for ring bearer and bell ringer
• Make baskets for Flower girls
• Get bells for Bell Ringers
• DIY Aisle Runner
• DIY unity candle (have stuff, just need to make!)
• DIY Table runner(s) (have stuff just need to make!)
• Programs
• Candy buffet (needs jars and candy!)
• Candy Buffet Banner (Need to get supplies and make, have image of what I'm gonna do)
• Take E-pics
• Take Bridal Pics
• Take Boudoir Pics
• Buy lingerie for mini-moon and for B-pics
• buy my shoes, jewelry, etc.
• order garter, bouquet wrap, and dress label
• Meet with cake lady to discuss the cake (she's already booked
• Meet with florist to finalize what we want
• Meet with caterer/decorator to pick out centerpieces and other details
• Buy BP stuff
• Write vows
• Meet with pastor for counseling
• Hair/Makeup Trial with Marissa (trial will be done for bridal portraits so we dont' have to pay for an extra time)
• Candy bags for buffet
• candy scoops for buffet

I'm stopping, this list is making me depressed but also excited at the same time!!! I see it as a challenge and I'm gonna take it!!! hahaa =)

WRITERS BLOCK SUX!!!

Soooo I'm usually writing FI poems for special occasions that happen in our lives. Today is our 6 month to our wedding anniversary and I wanted to write him a poem. I wrote him one for our year to our wedding anniversary and he loved it and wants to frame it and hang it up in our house.

Well, I just wrote one, it's not as good as I usually do cause I didnt' want to be repititve. It's not as long either, but oh well. I have soo much on my mind with other things I think that's what is causing my problem. OH well. Well here is my poem I wrote:

6 Months from Today

Today I look ahead
To one of the most cherished days of our lives,
When you become my husband, and I become your wife.

This feeling is so surreal,
As if it is a dream,
But I cannot wait until we become the Mr. and Mrs. S**** team!

I love you with all my heart
And that will always be true,
Even when you are sick, snotty, and even have the flu.

Our wedding day will be most memorable,
From the first look, first touch, first kiss,
A day that we can always reflect on and give us eternal bliss.

I got some pretty paper from Hobby Lobby and I'll print it on that and got some rose petal cardstock to go on the front too. He'll like it, I hope!

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Sooo I'm just feeling kind of blah right now and for the stupidest pettiest reasons. For one, FI is working a shutdown starting Friday, and he will also be working nights, which means that our schedules will pretty much be opposite. I don't know why this is freaking me out soo much, well not freaking but more like OMG i'm gonna miss him soo much. We've been together for nearly a year and 3 months, and have never spent a day apart. I know that's probably ridiculous to most, but that's just us. But thank god this shutdown is only 9 silly days long. I can cope with it, but I don't have to Like it. He will be making .50 cents more an hour though!! Anyways, I should be thankful for it being only 9 days instead of like several months, you know?

Sometimes in life we get so discouraged by things, that it's hard for us to look at the bright side. Like I mean atleast I'll still get to see him even though it won't be for as long as we are used to and atleast we live close to each other that we are able to see each other everyday. I know what it's like to not get to do that, and from going from that to this, I would never go back. I used to be in several long distance relationships, one lived in chicago, one lived in georgia, and the other only lived a little over an hour away but still. Sooo from going from that to this, is just like WOOHOO!! AMAZING!! Anyways, I think I lost my point, shit. Oh well. I guess basically what I was trying to say was that even though I'm not looking forward to him going on this shutdown, atleast it's not forever and only a few days, and I need to focus on that and be thankful for that instead of the negative. Right? Right!!

Ok, my cousin Eric is currently in the hospital with a gallstone that is between his gallbladder and liver. He hasn't eaten since last thursday, he cannot hold anythign down and is the color yellow. They at first thought he had hepatitis, but then discovered the stone. They are today taking the stone out. Then I think Friday taking his gallbladder out. Thanks to my wonderful friend DrRenea on the knot, she stated they are probably doing it this because with the stone it has probably caused inflammation and they do not want to remove a inflamed gallbladder, so that is why they have to wait. ALthough the docs told my mom its because it's Palestine texas and that's how they do things.

Well my cousin's family is also moving into their new house this weekend and they have to be out of their rent house by this weekend too because there are going to be new tenants moving in on monday. Soo with my cousin on the surgery table, and my mom up there trying to help out, I felt compelled to go. No no now at first I was like do i go, do I not go. i consulted my girls on my board and they said no and then I was talking to my dad and he was like well no is askign you too, but they could use the help and i'll pay for your gas and you can take the truck, sooo UGGGHh ok, I'm going. I also asked Fi about it and he said that well this is probably the best time to go since I'll be working crazy hours anyways and they probably could use you up there. I had soo many things I want to do this weekend too. uggghhh oh well, I'm trying not to be a martyr but I think I am, boooo to that!

Well anyways, thats my bitchin session for now, tune in next time!! Hoepfully it wont' be bitchy!!! =)

Monogram oh monogram

OK, soooo Monograms have become like a favorite past time for me, hehe. I absolutely LOVE to create them!!! They are soo much fun and simple for me to do!!! So I just thought I'd show off a few of my creations and let ya'll see. We've also got to decide on which monogram we want for the wedding!!! I mean you can have more than one (i'm assuming, I wouldn't think there would be any kind of rule implicating otherwise) sooo it's our wedding, we can do what we want!!!! hehe

Without further ado, here are the monograms for FI and me.

This one I think is a possibility for our aisle runner, but I think it needs a little something extra on there.

I like this one cause it combines the first letters of our first names (overlapping the text boxes)

These are just a sampling of a few I have done, I will add more as I do them!!! =)

Weekend Re-Cap

This weekend was pretty good. FI and I just wanted to relax a bit. He's about to be working 2 and half weeks for 12 hours each day sooo we just wanted some quality US time!!!

Friday night we went to one of our fav mexican food places (mexican food is like our favorite food, it's just soo good and of course the margarita's are AWESOME!!) We had a few drinks, ordered this humungous dinner (it was one of those dinner's for two) and it came with a table full of food!! We barely touched it all so we took it home for dinner the next night! That night we watched Drill Bit taylor, it was pretty funny. Not as funny as You, Me and Dupree, but Owen Wilson cracks me up!

Saturday, I got up early and went jogging. Now normally during the week I jog at like 630 in the morning, but on Saturday it was like 930 and the temp and humidity is complete different. I could barely breathe cause it was sooo humid and hot soo I didn't get to jog as far as I have been, which totally pissed me off!! When I do things like that I feel like a loser, but then I get over it, but I tried pushing myself, but I just couldn't breathe. Oh well. Then after that, I got to work on our Save the Dates!!!! Our Save the Dates are made to look like Western Union telegrams and the envelope does too!! Soo I printed out the telegrams and envelopes and got to stuffing them. We also have magnets that I got through Vista Print (THE BEST PLACE EVER!!) and we attached them to the back of the telegram. I ran short on magnets and I'm having to order some more, oopie!! =)

The rest of the day Saturday was spent doing random things. FI and I went to an antique store and he got two WWII era newspapers and I got an old glass jar that will be a container for our candy buffet. After that we went to Old Navy, and they had their denim for $12!! We got FI 3 pairs of jeans and 3 shirts!!! He needed them soo bad. I told him I get to go shopping next!! haha Then after that we went to Fi's and played Mario Cart a bit and then just chilled the rest of the night.

Sunday, we went to church. I was worried that FI wasn't going to make it, but he did and I'm sooo glad. Since he's starting going with me, when he's not there with me, it's just not the same. And I know the next couple of weeks he won't be able to go soo I'm soo thankful that he did yesterday!!! I LOVE HIM!! After church we went to a wonderful BBQ place and then we went to FI's and took a nap and watched 2 movies then we made some Crunchy Taco Hamburger Helper for dinner for his family. I didn't eat cause I wasn't hungry for some reason, but oh well.

Then we worked on FI's resume to give to his safety guy at work. He may get hired on as a safety out at where he works and OMG it would be a HUGE bump up in salary (like $11!!) soo we got his resume together and the printer wasn't working soo I'm printing it today at work.

Anyways, thats our weekend in a nutshell!! I hope everyone else had a wonderful one as well!!! =)

Another Hobby Lobby Lunch

So I went to Hobby Lobby and they were having their wedding stuff half off. Almost got the aisle runner but it had a print on it, and I was scared that I would not end up liking it, so I didn't get it. BUT I bought some material to make my DIY table runners that I'm going to paint our monogram on it!! The material was only $1.87 a yard, I got it in a cream color and got 4 yards. I also bought some medium sized dark red satin ribbon to put along the side of it!!

Now I went to go pick out the paint. Why in the world was this the hardest thing I've ever had to do! None of the color reds were right!!! I opened up like every single one and they were all super super bright!! ugghhhh finally I decided that i'll try mixing some and seeing if I can get the color I want, blaaahhh that's silly getting stressed out over paint! =)

I forgot to get some stitch witchery or something to be able to attach the ribbon to the material, but that's ok, that can wait. I just want to get to painting!!!! =)

Uggggghhhhh f'n credit cards....

I hate them, I hate them, I hate them. (this is about to be long cause I have to get it out). Sooo several years ago, I was like 21 or 22 and got the notion that I needed to collect every single Boyd's Bear that was ever invented. If you don't know what they are I'll tell ya.

Boyds Bears are these really cute bears and they are collectibles. They are all named with different names, have the cutest outfits and come in all types of furs and sizes. WELL I got hooked. I felt like I had to get every single boyd bear known to man. The thing is the only way I could get them was CREDIT CARDS. I worked a minimum wage job part time and went to school full time, I couldn't cover the costs of them on my own wage. Well I got, at that time 8 or 9 credit cards?? WTF was I thinking..oh that's right I was super depressed and buying things (boyds bears) helped me deal with my grief. I was buying these things, packages were being shipped to my house, my parents weren't saying anything to me (even though they saw all the packages), and I was hiding all these damn boxes under my bed. I finally got three HUGE rubbermaid containers for them. I had even collected an entire resin village, that to this day hasn't even come out of the boxes!!!! Needless to say I am currently suffering from my need to have to buy things to fill the hole in my heart from many years ago. I had gotten a loan from my bank and had settled with most of my credit cards except for one which was current which is why they woudln't settle with me. Well now that one darn credit card (and my lack of paying on time) is causing me greif. And here's why.

FI and I went this past weekend to look at that house I posted about below. We adored the house soo much. It had a few things that we liked and a few things we would have to change but overall it was precious. Then Sunday we were looking and found another super cute house. It's cheaper and honestly wouldn't need any work at all!!! The backyard is awesome and sooo cute!!! My most favorite part (and this is dumb) the number of the address is 1010 which is mine and FI's lucky number (well just the single number 10) and when we saw it, it just seemed soo perfect!!!

Well soo now we are trying to work with this loan lady about getting pre-approved and booo to that damn credit card. Sooo I'm short a few points of being able to even start the loan process because of this credit card. Soooo I'm having to make like 3 payments this month to get it caught up (which yes I know will be for the best in the end) but now we have to wait like 30 days for the loan lady to pull my credit again to see the improvements in my score!!! i'm super bummed!!!!! what if this house gets off the market?? I guess that means it wasn't meant to be, or something, I don't know.....fffffff I HATE CREDIT CARDS!!!!!

I guess in the mean time we can save up some more money for our down payment and that always helps but I'm sooo scared of the house getting snagged up!! It's just in the perfect area, the grocery store is right across the street, a gas station is too, right down the street from getting up on the highway, I mean it couldn't be more perfect!!! And I also would feel comfortable jogging in the neighborhood it's in, which is important to me and FI. So we shall just see.

My parents are also having reservations about us looking at houses. My dad thinks we are getting the cart before the horse. Ok I might could understand that if we weren't getting married, but we are getting married in 6 months!!!! WTF!!! He said well couldn't ya'll live in an apartment for a few months after the wedding and then get a house?? WHAT??? And just throw that rent money away for nothing?? That's not wise in my opinion!!! Why would he even say that?? I think he is just nervous about us getting something and then not being able to afford it. I think thats the real issue. FI is going to be taking a test in like 3 weeks in order to get a better paying job ($9 more an hour!!!!) and that will help TREMENDOUSLY!!! PLUS we aren't looking at houses over 90k, we are looking at the ones in the lower 80s and the mortgage on them is cheaper than an apartment!!!!

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that everything will work out and we can get our house and that will be that!!!!

House Hunters???

Sooo the FI and I were looking for rent homes in our area and we couldn't find anything, so we came across this adorable (IMHO) house!!! Here's the link to it . I think it's perfect for us. I do wish it had a garage, but ehh we can live without it. I called the realtor today and left a message, I don't think she was in the office today. If we could get a house like this, I would much rather do this than rent, but we'll see. It's scary and exciting at the same time. FI and I just keep talking and talking about what we would do to it to change it up!!! Hopefully something good will happen and if we are meant to have it, we will get it!!! =)

This past weekend we also went and registered for our stuff!!! We went to Bed, Bath and beyond and had quite an experience. First off the store was SUPPPER crowded, we couldn't even really look at stuff, so we skipped alot and are gonna have to go back. Then our scanner thing had a low battery after we started. So they gave us a new one and we went and registered for the rest of the stuff. When we were done we went to go talk to the girl and she printed out our list and we were looking over it and we were like where is our stuff!! So turns out when they switched our scanners, they put in the wrong registry number and soo all of the stuff we had registered for got put onto another registry!!!! So then we had to go through another couples stuff and pick out all the stuff that we had registered for so the girl could add it back to our registry. Then this past monday, I got to another BBB to look at our china and actually hold it and see what it's like. The guy tells me that the china is discontinued and there is only soo many pieces available!!! I was like OMG!!! ANd the girl had even shown us these from the book, like this was the only pattern we looked at and we loved it from the get go!!! I couldn't believe it. So now we have to go back and pick out new china. Oh well...overall it was a good experience and I still LOVE BBB, and am excited to be using them for this!!

OH!! Here are my hair and makeup inspirations for the wedding:

It's been a few days....

Soo this week has been interesting... we almost had a hurricane down here, just stayed a tropical storm but we got tons of rain!! I had to go in to work and face the elements while the rest of my family got to stay in and sleep ....oh well.
Work has been ho-hum lately, I just don't feel motivated anymore at my job which I hate saying that. We did a get a bonus which was really nice so I was happy about that. I just want to finish school and move on. Speaking of school we have our final Monday and then we are done!!! WOOHOO!!!I'm excited about that. Then I'll have like 2 weeks off then I'm back.
Wedding planning is going along. I went tonight and talked to chick about doing my hair and make up for the big day! I'll post pics of it later. It's gonna be really pretty I think. We are going to do my hair trial when I get my bridal portraits done, probably in November (it's just tooo hot to do them any sooner and my dress weighs a ton, I don't want to be sweaty looking in my pictures!!)
This weekend, FI and I are going to go register and Bed, Bath and Beyond!! I CAN"T WAIT!!! We were going to decorate the kitchen 50s style, but we've decided against that and are going to go for a more European German look. We found these adorable Pfaltzgraff plates that will go perfect and they just look like they belong in the kitchen of a little german home in the countryside!! =) I just hope FI gets excited about doing it, I'm sure he will though once he gets that little gun in his hand!! hehe
My mom also bought us a patio set!! It's adorable!! It has two bar stools and then the table is bar stool height!! It was on sale at Kohls plus her coupon (like always) soo she got an awesome deal on them!! =) She also was informed that the people who are going to throw our shower are going to do it in January, which I think is great. It'll give people enough time to be done with all of the christmas hooplah and everything!! I can't wait!!!
As far as the dieting is going, it's going. I've jogged the past two days, 2.8 miles each soo I've been feeeling good about that. I couldn't go Monday or Tuesday because of the weather. I've been eating good too I think. Pretty much a slim fast in the morning, then my apple, for lunch a lean cuisine or lean pocket and then for supper I'll have whatever has been cooked which mostly has been healthy. My mom started going to a "fat" doctor and soo she's cooking all healthy healthy recipes. Pretty much either chicken or fish, no carbs. She can't have fruits or dairies or beef, which sux for her. I have to have my fruit, I just love it!! Especially on hot days, it's sooo good to have some cold watermelon or cantoloupe!!
Ok, thats all for now...tah tah! =)

OH! Quicky Diet Check IN and other schtuff

So I got up today with a horrible God-awful crick in my neck, but still went jogging!!! I jogged my 2.8 miles!! YAY This is my third time this week, and even though I feel tired now (its 3 something in the afternoon, your suppose to feel tired this time of day at work on a Friday) I just feel good about my body as a whole.
I can definitely feel my work in my hamstrings, they are tight a bit, that's fine though. I do not mind at all being sore from a work out of any kind, cause thats a good hurt! =) I'm hoping I'll wake my butt up manana and go jogging again, hopefully I can.

In wedding related news: I'm working on trying to finish up the STDs this weekend, hopefully I can get that done! YAY!! I called my dress store today and asked about me returning my petticoat, because I do not feel as if it giving off the fullness that I am wanting, well since I got it at a consignment store and the petticoat was a consignment piece, the only thing I could do is sell it again on consignment, which I don't want to do, bah!!! Sooooo I don't know, Maybe I can sell it on the knot or something or Ebay, get that money and apply it to the petticoat I need.
I also called Davids Bridal yesterday to ask about my BM dresses. I am wanting to pay $25 towards each gals dress and how could I go about doing this. Well they told me that what they would do is keep my credit card number on file and then whenever each gal ordered her dress, they would also charge me $25 and then the gal would only owe the balance or something. I don't know if this is is such a fool proof plan. I may need to investigate more into it. =(


Motivational Pic o' the day:

Windshields..

You know they make these things, obviously to protect us from flying debris on the highway, roads, other drivers, but why can't they make something to protect it?? I would say within in the past, oh 5 months, I've gotten 3 HUGE rock cracks on my windshield!!!! WTH!!! Why my windshield?? Why not the dude next to me? Is my car a target for rocks?? Do they spread the word that my windshield is fun to hit and that it pisses me off?? I don't get it. My windshield looks like trash now and with the heat we have down here, I'm sure those cracks are bound to spread...ugghhh whatever