Happy Halloween!!!

FI and I aren't doing much today for the holiday except watching some ghost hunters and handing out candy the trick or treaters around the neighborhood. I hope we get alot this year, last year we didnt and that kinda sucked, but oh well. Last night we carved pumpkins, I'll post pics of that later tonight after we light it up!!! =) I was just going to post some pics i have about Halloween, ENJOY!! I thought this halloween wedding cake was quite interesting!!! =)

Who says dogs can't go trick or treating, huh???

Weddings and Airshows

This past weekend was SUPER busy!!!! My cousin Wendy got married and had a BEAUTIFUL wedding!!! Everything started Thursday night. My Nana came into town and my family (including Fi of course) and my uncle and aunt and two cousins and my Nana went to eat at Pappasitos. It was soooo good!!!! Fi had the juiciest thickest steak smothered in onions and peppers and cheese. It was sooooo darn good!!!

We had a great time getting to visit with everyone before the wedding!! It was great!!! This was also the first I had seen my Nana since July =( She lives 4 hours away, and we don't get to make it up to see her very often. Everytime I get to see her is a real treat!! =)

The next day, my mom, Nana, and me went with my aunt my cousin and her bridesmaids to get a manicure. We had a lot of fun just sitting and talking with one another. My cousin Wendy who got married, just moved out to Vegas back in May. She graduated from A&M with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine....yes she is the prodigal child of the family =) Which is fine, i'm just as happy with my associates degree as I could be!! hehee

Anyways, that afternoon FI and I went to go get him shoes for the wedding and then he went and got a haircut. I had to get ready for the Rehearsal Dinner and get all schnazzied up =) We went to the rehearsal dinner at a local mexican restaraunt and it was sooo good!!! They had fajitas for everyone and they were super yummy!! =) Both sets of parents gave the couple lovely gifts. Her MIL gave them a quilt that she and her quilting friends had made and it was beautiful. They also recieved a crocheted blanket in A&M colors. The bride and groom also gave out presents to everyone. All of the ladies recieved a hanky with the bride and grooms name on it and their wedding date. They were sooo cute!! I'm soo glad that I got one!! =) Her aunt has an embroidery machine and so she is also going to embroidery some for me too!!! Here's a pic of FI and me at the RD!!

That night after the RD, FI went back to his house and I headed to my house to get to working on my cousins programs for the wedding and also the favors. With the help of a few bridesmaids and the dads and my nana, we finished assembling all 120 programs around 12:30!!! NOT GOING TO BE DOING THAT FOR OUR WEDDING!!!!! NO WAY!!! After that, I was wide awake, so I went to FI's played some Madden 09 with him and then went home and went to bed.

Saturday was wedding day. My mom and I both had hair appointments that morning. Her's at 10:30 and mine at 11. My mom hated how her hair turned, but I absolutely loved mine. I showed her a picture of Katherine Heigl from 27 dresses and she did exactly that!! i was sooo excited with how it turned out!!! And of course, I didn't take any 360 degree pics of it, oh well. It looked good.


After I got my hair did, I had to go run a few errands, then I went home to get ready. I had to be up at the church at 3. My job for the ceremony was to light the candles that were in the windows and to pass out programs and to meet and greet people. I also got to check out the beautiful flowers arrangements at the altar. The flowers in them were just stunning!!! THey were soo huge and deep in color. Here's a far away view of them:

The picture is crappy and I apologize for that. The flowers were 3 different types of rose. The big deep red ones had been grown to where it looked like the petals were folded back and they were HUGE!!! THe florist had also put some hydrangea in there, and I was extactic to see the colors of the hydrange, light blues with purple on the ends of the petals!!! SOo beautiful!!! I just adore flowers and seeing them like this just amazed me.

Well the wedding went off without a hitch. I cried, FI made notes about what he liked and didn't like, and FI and my brother wore almost the exact same thing. The photographers called them the DOuble mint twins, it was the joke of the evening =)

Here's some pics of me and FI and my fam from the evening:

I know you can't see them well, but I'm wearing the cutest red satin shoes ever!!!

I got them at Target, and they even have a little bow on top by the peep toe!!!

I decided to kinda keep my theme (just for myself) kinda 40s. They hair was pretty much from that time,

and so I wore the pearls and of course the red lipstick which also helped with my shoes, since my

red purse situation did not work out so well for me =(

(I bought a purse on ebay, thinking it was red, it ended up being burgandy)

After the ceremony was over, of course we all took family photos with the photogs, who were hilarious. I wish we could've had them for my wedding, but they were waaaaay over our budget. After the photos FI and I took the flowers from the ceremony out to the reception. One bad thing about having a reception thats far away from the ceremony, it just takes a long time, and when we got out there, alot of the guests had already arrived and we were carrying in the flowers (they probably didnt care, but oh well, it just kinda bothered me, I would've rather the flowers had been there already before the guest arrived, but it happens alot i'm sure and I know it will happen at mine! )

Anyways, the reception was decorated beautifully. All the tables either had a hight floral centerpiece or alot of candles on a mirror. THe lighting was low, and it made it very romantic. My cousin and her husband had choreographed a song, i'm not sure what kind of dance it was, something slow, a waltz kinda like, but not a waltz, it was very pretty and I of course cried!!!

The dinner was absolutely DELISH!!! THey had garden salad, glazed carrots, green beans that had been cooked with bacon(they were soooooooo good) and then smoked chicken with bacon wrapped around it and stuffed with broccoli cheese rice casserole. OMG it was soooo GOOD!!!!

Here's a few pics from the reception:

Me and my DADDY!!!! I heart him!!! He's my friggin hero!!! =)

This is me and my cousin Cathy. She is Wendys sister and she was also maid of honor too.

Me and the FI. I had just dragged him out to dance (he's not a big dancer, hehe)

Me and my Mommy and my sweet sweet Nana!!!

(go ahead and say, "you look like your mom!", hehe)

This is my favorite one of us that night

Well after the reception and we blew bubbles at the newly weds (which the FI has now decided he likes), we helped pick up stuff that needed to be taken to my aunt and uncles house. We also got all of the centerpieces (floral) and the head table flowers (which were the altar decorations at the ceremony) and loaded them up in the car, my aunt wanted to take them back to the church in the morning so that they could be used. We got to keep one of the centerpieces and it was just georgous, heres some pics:

Sunday was a big day for the FI and I. It was the annual Wings Over Houston Airshow!!! This is like the biggest thing that happens once a year that FI looks forward to everyyear. He's soo cute too, he's like a little kid at the candy store. It was a perfect day too for the airshow. The sky was blue, not a cloud in the sky, and the temp was around 70, just perfect!!!

We got to see all the old warbirds that we just absolutley LOVE!!! They did their heritage flights and we even got to see FI's fav warbird, the P-38 Lightning named "Glacier Girl" fly. I've never seen a P-38 fly and it was absolutley AMAZING!!!! It's a twin tail, two engine plane and it sooo bad ass!!!! I was in awe as I watched it do it's thing in the sky. I LOVED IT!!!

The main act for the day was teh Thunderbirds. They were awesome!!! I was soo jealous that the lead solo pilot was a girl. I want to fly a plane soo bad!!! And seeing that a woman could fly like taht just encouraged me even more!!! Hopefully, before we have kids, FI and I can get our pilots license!!! All in all the day was PERFECT!!!! I will never ever forget it!!

Don't laugh at my visor, hehe The sun was in my eyes Channel 2 was giving them out free =)

All in all, the weekend was the best I had had in a long time but I was glad when the weekend was over. I've been exhausted all week trying to recooperate from it!!

The past two weeks

have sucked major ass hole!!!!!! Fi's mom went into the hospital on the 13. She was throwing up blood and they found a tear in her esophagus and a blood clot in her stomach. A few days later they found a huge varicose vein in her stomach, no bueno. I feel soo sorry for her. She's supposed to get released today to go home. She had a procedure yesterday where they put a shunt in to bypass the flow of blood to the varicose vein so that it will go down in size. I hope to god it works.

I've just super stressesd about that, and worrying about FI and how he's handling all of it. He doesn't talk about it and when I ask him he doesn't want to talk about it. So I just leave him be. I just think it's better to discuss it if something is bothering you, but apparently not him on this subject. ANy other thing, he'll tlak about but not this. One thing that worries me about him is that he doesn't tell his mom he loves her. She'll say it to the both us and I'll say it back, but he doesn't. I know he does, but I guess he's just not one to say it to his family. He says it to me all the time which I love,but I dont' know why it's soo hard for him to say it to them?? And I don't know if this is something that should bother or if it's something I should confront him about. He doesn't even give them hugs or anything he never has. His grandma told me he's been like that since he was little. I don't know why.

The wedding stuff is getting to me. I'm not doing boudoir pictures anymore which I'm really sad about. I just don't have that kind of money to spend when we need it for other stuff. Like rehearsal dinner, caterer, decorations, gifts for people, favors, invites, things like that. PLUS finding a place for us to live!!! UGGH a nightmare!!! I think we are just going to get an apartment in baytown and be done with it. Rent is sky high, but what can you do?? I woudl rather have a rent house, but they are sky high as well too. It friggin sux. THis economy sux, no one can buy houses so they have to rent which in turn allows the rentee's to put whatever type of pricetag they want to on the rental property!!! It's stupid and dumb.

FI and I did drive out to Liberty this past weekend, and we totally want to move there. It's the cutest little town that actually has a main street that surrounds the court house and then it also has the most adorbale homes ever!!!!! That's exactly what we want too!! it'll make my commute longer, but I don't care, i already drive 40 miles there and back, whats an extra 20?? Maybe by the time we move out there, I'll be working somewhere else anyways, who knows.

I'm sad I haven't barely been able to read any of my book I started a while back. I'm probably gonig to have to start over from the beginning so I can remember everything that I've already read.

I want to start on my DIY projects now. I want to get them finished and just be done with them. I think the reason I keep putting them off is because I keep thinking "oh i have time" blah blah whatever, stop procrastinating DAVIS AND JUST DO IT!!!! =) I'm a horrible procastinator, but God help me, I get my stuff done, even if it is last minute. but I don't want to be like that for the wedding. I want to have everything done so that I can enjoy it and not be stressed out about having to hurry and get stuff done!!!

I've got to get my happy butt back into a workout routine. I totally blame IKE for messing it up. I was doing sooo good!! Jogging like 3-4 times a week!!! I had even gotten up to 4.2 miles!!!! And FI was noticing and thats a HUGE plus to me!!! I have got to get back on it!! and it sux!! i'm stressing about how my dress may not fit, I am considering getting a corset put in the back so it'll be like that instead of zipped up. Maybe that iwll also help with the back fat issue too!! =)

Ok, i'm done =)

To Do's

Oh lord, as I sit here trying to make an honest to goodness to do list, I want to just go on vacation. I have soooooooooooooooooooooooo much to DO!!!! EEEEK!!!! OK, here's thus far my to do list in no particular order I don't think!!

To Do list

BM Dresses- have them pickout and order
Finish Guest List- need rest from FI’s side
Finalize cake look- take pic of wedding dress to Mary so she knows what I want
Finalize catering menu- make appointment with Debbie to go taste
Finalize decorations- can be done on tasting appointment with Debbie
Finalize floral order with florist
Take Bridal pics
Take Engagement pics
Order Tuxes –can be done a bit closer, but I have a $25 off coupon that must be used by 12/26
Bridal Party Gifts:
Guys- no clue, I love the pocket watches or maybe just get different for each guys taste (also like embroidered coolers with their name)
Girls-have their jewelry, need to decide if I’m going to get them embroidered bags with their name or just a makeup bag or robe with their name, and also what else is going to go in it, Bath and Body Stuff?
Need to order comb for my hair
Need to decide on my earrings
Order my shoes (DB)
Get mom’s veil and attach it to mine for my blusher –something Old
Finish purchasing invitations (Michaels)
Work on wording for invites
stuff and send out invites
Need to do our counseling sessions with Brad
Book mini-moon: wedding night at Hotel Icon and then hangar hotel in Fredericksburg for a few nights
Buy favors for wedding (cookie cutters at Michaels, hearts)
Work on and Complete Aisle Runner
Work on and Complete Table Runners
Work on and Complete Flower Girl baskets
Work on and Complete Wish cards
Work on and Complete Wedding Programs –already working on wording
Decide on Music for Ceremony
Decide on Music for Reception (see list)
Decide on readings for ceremony
Purchase or borrow Kerri’s cake cutting set
Something Old- mom’s veil
Something Borrowed and blue-my mom’s sapphire ring
Something new-my dress, shoes, earrings, everything else
Order garters from gartermaker.net
Order Dress label from gartermaker.net
Order Bouquet wrap from gartermaker.net
Work on and Complete Unity Candle
Finish buying candy buffet containers
Decide what candy we want (already have twizzlers)
Gifts for parents- NO CLUE!!! Maybe hankies for the moms!!
Finalize plans for Rehearsal Dinner-can’t book community center until mid November, talk to Antonio’s about catering (should be inexpensive)
Invites for RD
Finish registering for gifts (kohls? Sears? Macys? Not sure? =) )
Buy wedding bands!!!!!
Embroider my hanky for me
lingerie for honeymoon
Find a place for us to live
Move into place for us to live-yayay no more having to pay for storage building!! WOOHOO!! =)
Alterations for dress!!! Possibly getting a corset put in?
Go dress shopping with my mom for her a dress!
Need dress for RD and shower
Put shower gifts for hostesses together (lotion and soap from B&B)
Make favor tags to put on our favors!
Get candy buffet bags
Get stickers to put on our candy buffet bags
Need to get more scoops for candy buffet (Michaels)
Finalize with Dave about video for wedding

Books, Books, Books....

So I just finished my first book in a long time. It was highly recommended by a fellow knottie and Blogger. When she had said what it was about I knew I'd be hooked, and I was. The book is called "Dream When your Feeling Blue" by Elizabeth Berg. It's about these three sisters, The Heaney sisters and how they dealt with life and times during WWII. It was a wonderful book and I totally recommend it. I get so fascinated and caught up with peoples lives back then. I mean, the best paying jobs were working at the factories, which was hard grueling work, making 60 cents an hour, which apparently was verrry good money for then.

When it talked about the girls going to the USO dances and getting all dressed up, I just could imagine those were sooo much fun!! I would have loved to live back then!!! The lifestyles, the cars, the clothes, the jewelry, the way of life itself, is soo different than today and soo more real. People actually sat down and had family dinners EVERY NIGHT. Communities came together, to do what they could to rally the troops and support them in every way possible. They made victory gardens, donated bumpers from their cars for metal to make anything needed. Groceries were rationed, gas was rationed, everything was pretty much rationed. If you wanted a cake, you sometimes had to wait a week or so, cause eggs and flour just didn't come that easy.

I don't know if our country that we live in today could handle going through what the people of the 1940s went through, or even '30s for that matter. We take too many things for granted in todays society. Life was harder back then, I know thats true, but people learned to cope with it and move on and pull together. I sometimes imagine myself living back then. I know my FI would give anything to have gone and fought in that war. And I'm sure I would be one of the many woman, going to work in, dare I say, "slacks", working at a factory, or volunteerring at the hospital to take care of the wounded or joining the Women's Airforce Service Pilots(a.k.a. WASPs)....that's really what I would've loved to have done.

I would've loved to have flown for the WASPs back then. That would've been soo amazing. There were only a little over a 1,000 women who actually were WASPs and earned there lovely diamond wings. They had the cutest mascot too. Her name was Fifinella or "Fifi" for short. She was a character created by Disney (who in that time created many mascots and what not for the war, they can be seen on all types of patches for the men in the armed services), and she was sooo cute.

Anyways, I've realized now that I've gotten waaaay off subject. I always do that. Oh well, it's my blog! =)

I hope that I can find more books like this one. I love reading about life back in the 40's, during the war, and just hearing the stories from them, it just amazes me. If anyone knows of anymore, please let me know!! I would truly appreciate it!!!

The book I just started last night is about a jewish-german immigrant girl, who basically is on a quest to find out the truth about her families life before they came to America. I just started it and I haven't gotten very far, but I anticipate it to be wonderful!! =) I'll let ya'll know!!

Hair Trial Pics!!!

So Thursday evening (10/2) I went and had my hair trial with Marissa over at Uruku in Baytown. She did such an amazing job and I'm sooo happy with how it turned out!!! I bought the extensions for my hair and she put those in first. Then she curled all of my hair all over and then styled. It took about an hour and a half. I'm soo happy with the final product and I LOVE how my curls look with my veil on!!!! YAY!!! ONe good thing that's gone right thus far!!! WOOHOO!!

Here are my pics( my mom took the pics, God help her, and so they are not that great, and I don't have a good one of the back of it at all but I tried):

I like how my hair looks with the veil on, teehee :)

Back of hair with veil on

Updates!

Ok, now fully recovered after Ike, here's the latest!!

Tonight I am going to get my hair trial done with Marissa!! I am soo excited!! My mom and I had met with her this past Saturday, I was not having a good morning and I felt like my mom was constantly making funny of me and making me feel ugly and I friggin cried there in the chair (i blame PMS and mr. STress on that too). My mom is wanting me to get a body wave done so that my hair will have more body for the big day and also hold the curl better. I have virgin hair , and have not put any harsh chemicals on it in like 3-4 years. Well anyways, Marissa thinks we may be able to get away with not having to get a body wave, but if not I will get one and suffer through the agony of frizzy unwanted curly hair for the next few months until I can grow it out!!!

Mom and I also went last Saturday to look at extensions. We went to Sallys, and were sticker shocked!!! I didn't realize how expensive they were!!!! Well we didn't get any that day but I bought some pretty little bobby pins for the trial just for her to play with since I haven't found "the right ones" yet!!!

Sunday, FI and his dad and I took a couch that FI's grandma gave us (a sleeper sofa) up to my storage. We had to completely rearrange all my stuff in there (you'd be amazed at what all you can cram into a 10x10 space!!! Luckily it all fit!! YAY!!!

Last night I finally decided that duh, I need to go get my extensions. SO I first went to another beauty supply place that just had massive rows upon rows of extensions. The only affordable kind they had though were ones with out clips. I called Marissa and she was like you need to get the ones with clips. SO then I left there and went BACK to Sallys to see if they had soem that matched my color in the 18" length, and OMG they did!!!! It matches soo much better than the dark ones!!! Sooo I got them (they were $79.99) and I had a $5 off coupon that I had gotten Saturday when I bought the bobby pins so I used that plus my sallys card. I also got some fake eyelashes and a barrel brush blow dryer (which I'm not to pleased with by the way).

I did try the fake eyelashes on last night and they ROCK!!! I got the natural looking ones for the day of and they blend in sooo good!!! They just give my eyelashes I have now more body and volume i think!! I LOVE THEM!! and they were cheap too!! like $3.49 or something.

Last week (Thursday) Carrie and I met up for the best lunch ever!! We dined at Cafe Express and then went to Cacique to look at lingerie. We both tried on several adorable outfits and then decided we both liked the same one, so we have matching lingerie!!! hehe We both look great in it and it will be perfect for our b-pics for our guys!!! =)

This was great after finding out some horrible news. The Lone Star Flight Museum, which is the museum in Galveston which houses many WWII airplanes and also has a Hall OF Fame, full of priceless artifacts and memorabilia, was pretty much destroyed. I was heartbroken. This was the place for our first date,one of our most fav places to go and also where we were going to have our e-pics at. We were both sooo saddened by it. Now we have no clue where we are going to take our pics at. We wanted the museum because it represents us sooo well, and we were going to wear our 1940s outfits and everything. I just wanted us to be different and not take them in a garden like everyone else or around Rice or something, no offense, those places are georgous, but they just aren't really us. OH well, we'll see. So now FI and I are going to volunteer in the restoration project. We are going over there on Saturday and I cannot wait!!!!!

I just wanted to do a quick update, I'll post pics later of my hair trial!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! =)