Candy Kisses Oh My!

Can you guess which part of wedding planning I was knee deep in this weekend??

F A V O R S !!!

I was surrounded (along with bridesmaid Shannon and Kenny, who was WAY TOO EAGER to eat the candy instead of box it) with kisses (thanks Tasha for the idea!)! And white boxes and pretty red ribbon too! It was fun. Unfortunetly, we're only about 1/3 of the way done. I need MORE kisses and ribbon. I way underestimated the amount I would need. So that finished task will be procrastinated until further notice.

On to more important things.....putting a veil on puppy! How cute is she? I had to wait until she was napping in her crate to get a good picture. Otherwise, she was too hyper and too into trying to bat the veil off. It did get ripped in the process, but who cares, she's so cute!

Tomorrow is my first day back to work after a week off. I'm NOT looking forward to it. As always, I'll be fine once I get there and see coworkers and all that. But the first day back is always hard. I am sure the kids will be all happy and excited to get back to their normal routine.

I made an arrangement for one of my best friend's wedding. She's getting married March 8th in Tennessee, so I'll be going on a road trip shortly! Anyway, her bridesmaid dresses are a pale green, and the bride is carrying red roses, so this is what I came up with. The bonus is that I will use these same arrangements for my own wedding! I am really stretching those dollars:)

I also got to have lunch with Tasha and her lovely girls on Saturday. She is proudly sporting the pregnant tummy bump and is adorable! And completely glowing too! This has been a great week off. I'm sad it's ending:(

Crazy Eights Meme

CRAZY EIGHTS!
I was tagged by Vader's Mom to play along, so here I go!

8 Things I'm Passionate About:
1. The BOSS (GOD)
2. Kenny, my soon-to-be-hubs
3. Making our home "our" home
4. My 60 pound puppy
5. Family & Friends
6. Teaching
7. Making things (anything)
8. Exercising

8 Things I Want to do Before I die:
1. Have kids
2. Watch Kenny become a great papa
3. Work with Kenny full time
4. Vacation in many different areas
5. Buy a house that requires little-to-none remodeling
6. Own a vacation house up north in the woods so Kenny can hunt and I can relax
7. Teach in a different school
8. Retire and love it!

8 Things I Say Often:
1. NO! (to the puppy)
2. NO! (to my students...hahaha)
3. NO! (to Kenny....see the pattern here?)
4. I'll get to it later.
5. Ask me after school.
6. I forgot. (especially recently)
7. I love you.
8. Where are you?

8 Books I've Read Recently:
1. Any and ALL Bridal mags
2. T is for Tresspass by Sue Grafton
3. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
4. Froggy's First Kiss
5. A Charlie Brown Valentine
6. Kenny's work magazines
7. MANY Jackie Robinson books (he's my favorite person to highlight during Black History Month)
8. The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes (another famous person highlighted during Black History Month)

8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over:
1. When You Saying Nothing At All by Alison Kraus
2. Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith
3. Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie
4. Walking On Broken Glass by Annie Lennox
5. Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith
6. Building A Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
7. Good Old Boys by Waylon Jennings
8. Hey Jude by The Beatles

8 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friends:
1. Honesty
2. Can just hang out at home with nothing to do and still have fun doing it!
3. Make time for me
4. History
5. Gone through struggles and came out smiling
6. Like to eat out:)
7. I can fall asleep in their car and they think it's funny
8. LAUGHTER

8 People I Think Should Do Crazy 8's:
1. Tasha
2. Lori
3. Tee
4. Steff
5. Lindsay
6. La Bella
7. Erica
8. LaskiGal

Thirteen THINGS I Bought This Week

(trust me, the list is G R O W I N G)

1. Floral tape

2. Floral pins

3. Red beads

4. Shoes to wear on wedding day

(I know they aren't typical wedding attire, but do you know how hard it is to find CUTE flat shoes to match a wedding dress? It was a chore, and I got sick of looking. I'm not usually as dorky as these shoes, they kind of remind me something I wore in elementary school, except maybe mine were the jelly kind instead of fabric. Anyway, the good thing is, they are SUPER comfy. I promised Kenny I'd wear flat shoes because he's not that much taller than me....I HAD to keep my word.)

5. Hershey Kisses

6. Coffee

(Starbucks, Tim Hortons, a no-name coffee shop)

7. Gas

(don't even want to think about it)

8. Card for Kenny

(I was being sweet)

9. Dinner & breakfast with college roomie

10. Paper for printer

11. Doorknobs at Home Depot

12. New collar for puppy

(now 60 pounds)

13. Wedding gift for a friend

I have been B U S Y

As promised, a real post!

I am on mid-winter break this week, all week. And believe me, I feel BLESSED to have it. Not only did I need the break mentally, but I am getting tons of wedding stuff accomplished!

First, the invitations are mailed!! Yay! Big load off. Thank you NIKI for helping me sooooo much with it! There have already been additions to the list and more that I'm sure I'll be mailing, the but the bulk of them are done.

Second, here are all of our new fiestaware place settings...we received all of them from our registry and aren't they gorgeous?!?!? I LOVE fiestaware, especially the colors we picked out. They even look nice in the dishwasher!

Third, I made my wedding necklace. I made it with whote pearls and crystals, 3 18inch strands, twisted together. What do you think? I picked the pearls and crystals because that's what's on the dress. I looked and looked and looked for necklaces and couldn't find anything I liked, so I just decided to make it.

Fourth, I made corsages for my grandmothers and my stepmom....white roses with red ribbon. And then the corsages for my mom and Kenny's mom.....red roses and I don't know what ribbon to use with their's yet. Should it be red or white?

I have been busy!! And now I'm off to visit my roommate from college for the night and help her move. I also am in desperate need (not really) of a new sweatshirt from the college I graduated from. So I'm packing lightly to force myself to buy a new one....I love the way I think:)

I promise I'm still here....I didn't elope:) Way too busy, but I'm hoping to catch up today!!

Saturday??? Where did it go?

Ever have one of those days where you have a lot to do, and none of it gets done, but somehow, you were moving and going all day? That was my day today. I just don't get it. Well, I really do get why I accomplished nothing. I wasn't here to do it. I was everywhere else. And then when I thought I could be here to do stuff, nope, didn't happen. Huh. Another weekend half over and still not close to getting things accomplished. Whoever decided that weekends needed to only be two days long was smokin' the big one. Because two days is NEVER enough time to do ANYTHING. Nuff bitchin' about that now.

Vader's Mom linked to this neat little picture making thing.....go over and try it...

Here's my personality summed up in a painting.....PEERRRTTYYY!!!

More fun pre-marital stuff coming tomorrow morning!! I'm so excited I probably won't be able to sleep tonight:)

Unwinding

Today I finished up a science unit about solids, liquids, and gases. Lori gave me an awesome idea to use rootbeer floats to end the unit with. Ice cream as the solid, rootbeer as the liquid, and the fizz and reaction as the gases. The kids LOVED it!!

They didn't do so well answering their questions about the little experiment, but it was the last thing we did on a Friday, so I'll have to go over it with them on Monday. But they had so much fun:)

It snowed again the other day and we played outside with the puppy...she's so entertaining! I know I yak a lot about her, but she's our "baby" so she gets lots of attention from us. Taking out the garbage (and getting rid of the old dishwasher-yay!!) turned into playtime in the snow for the dog, so it was for us too. Here she is intently watching her "father" ball up some snow to throw at her. Don't feel bad for her at getting snow thrown...she's no angel!! She is in that play-biting stage, where she latched onto shirt sleeves and sometimes gets the skin....OUCH! She's not being mean, just a pain in the butt. But we still love her:)

I love the way the trees look in the winter when there's snow and ice in them. Kind of a crazy-scary picture I took here. It was completely dark outside, as dark as it can be with snow which seems to light everything up. And I didn't have the flash on, but it still came out somwhat light. I heart winter!!

It's Raining It's Snowing

No wonder people are sick all the time around here!! The weather changes so fast! I got up this morning and the backyard was flooded. No snow left, just complete wetness. And it was raining. Now look at it!!

These pics aren't great, I took them from the comfort of being INSIDE the house, not out in the madness. Gotta love this wacky weather. That's Michigan for ya.

Kenny captured me lovin' on the puppy the other day. Again, not great shots, not really flattering to me, but you can see the puppy in all her glory. She is the cutest lab baby ever! And she's not really a baby anymore, she's OVER 50 whopping pounds now. Can you handle the pink pants and blue socks? Can you tell it was Sunday?? Check out flickr for more of these lovely pictures:) Excuse the messy hair. That's what it looks like on Sundays. After church, of course.

I wasn't so stressed out at work today. I had the "who cares" attitude. I still got interrupted a million times, but I let it slide all day long. I came home and STAYED home. Those of you who know my habits know that I am anything but still when I come home from work. I usually don't come home, I'm busy running errands or finding Kenny or something. Not today. I think it was the weather. I just wanted to be warm and inside. So I watched what was on the DVR (Kate & Allie, Nip Tuck, Wedding Stories) and messed around on the computer. What a nice way to end the day!!

Teaching Mambo

Oh my stress level from work is SO HIGH today. I just want to teach!! That's it!! No committees, no meetings, no after school activities that we are forced to man, no more!! Just let me teach and leave me alone! Ah! The one complaint I have with being a teacher is that you are constantly being pulled in 300 directions ALL DAY LONG. No breaks, no moments of peace, it's ALL DAY. I asked for 10 minutes with any questions, tattles, or bathroom needs. 10 minutes!! Never got it:(

There, I got it out. I should start feeling better with that said. That, and some wine. Yummmm. I was sooooo good yesterday and today. I went to the gym both days, working hard on adding tenths of a mile every time, and two miles won't be all that tough soon! Did you know that fat people really can run?? I'm living proof! I'm not ripping on myself, I promise, but most people wouldn't believe that I can do it. I can! And I keep stretching that endurance every time too. Now I just need to get back to no carbs for a little while. That's the trick for me:) Anyway, I was going to the gym 3 times a week, and my new goal is 4. We'll see:)

I bought some more wedding magazines today in hopes of inspiring something in the jewelry department. I just don't know what to wear. So I keep looking. I might "MIGHT" try to make something myself. We'll see just how ambitious I'm feeling!

In class today, I was looking over some haiku poems the kids have been working on. One of the girls wrote her title, the first line with 5 syllables, the second line with 7 syllables, and the third line with 5 syllables. Then she invented a fourth line, which was "w w w . j e s s i c a . c o m." That is her name. She added that BELOW her poem. What do you make of that?? Is that what she thinks should there because she sees websites all over the place? Oh my gosh. She wasn't here today for me to ask her about it, but you know I'll be asking tomorrow!!

This is totally random, but a few weeks back Kenny & I had to take a pre-marital counseling class (8 hours long) and there was some psychological testing at the end of it. I've been dying to know the results, which we won't get back for a while yet, but when we saw the reverand who gave us the test (it was actually a paper test, multiple choice, machine scored) and who is also marrying us, I asked him about it, and his response was, "You will be surprised." That's it. No expression one way or the other, no hints, no reassurance, no nothing. Ugh. I know it doesn't matter really, and that they will marry us regardless (I made sure that if we failed they would still marry us!!), but come on!! That's cruel!! So we wait....

Shower

The wedding shower given by my mom was yesterday!! It was so much fun too!! It was actually hosted by my mom, two cousins, two aunts, Kenny's mom, and my grandma. I didn't know that I wasn't going to get much time to talk to the guests...I guess that's all in preparation for the wedding day, right? I know I won't have much time on that day, but I didn't know the shower was going to be the same way too!! I barely even got to take any pictures of guests either!! But that's okay, because I'm sure there will be plenty of chances in the next couple of months for that. Kenny and I registered for a full line of Fiestaware dishes, in 4 different colors, red, green, blue, and yellow. And we received most of them yesterday. They are GORGEOUS!! If you are not familiar with Fiestaware, google it and start drooling. It's so pretty! I usually am the person who makes people gifts, like quilts, aftgans, scrapbooks, whatever, but I actually RECEIVED a homemade gift at the shower! It's an aftgan made by my great aunt, who chose green because I like frog stuff. Isn't it cute? I already used it last night!!

I (we) also received heirloom pillowcases from my grandma, the kind with the lacey ends on them. I'm not sure of the proper description of them, but they are so pretty!

The night before the shower I made badges for the bridesmaids to wear.....they turned out so cute! Take a look!

I used the fun foam, cut out the shape, and use the sticky-back pins on the back of it.

Then I took tulle and tiny beaded garland and wrapped around the waist and glued it down. Easy as pie!

I really have the best bridemaids ever. They rock!! There are really 10 of them, plus a junior bridesmaid, and two flower girls, but here's one group of them and me!

And there are a couple girls who got away without group pics....Nik and Jules....you know who you are!!!

We came home and passed out almost immediatly. Hard work opening presents! The house is in complete diarray today because I couldn't just put things away you know. First, things had to be washed, and then the cupboards had to be reorganized and all that stuff, and I have spent the whole day in the kitchen and it's still not unpacked. It takes so long to box up old dishes and other things and then put the new stuff in!! I spend way too much time dawdling too. I know I do. Oh well. I had a great weekend. Maybe another snow day tomorrow? I need one again!

Guess WHAT???

I got my wish.......

SNOW DAY TODAY!! There was big talk about the amount of snow we're supposed to get this morning, and even though we don't have a ton of it right now, it's on its way!! So even though I'm already showered, I'm going back to bed!! Talk about a great wish coming true!!

Where am I??

The last few days have been a blur. Kenny left for a conference yesterday and as much as I love my time, I miss him:( And so does puppy. She is moping around here waiting for him to come home. She is normally with him all day, or else with his parents if he can't take her with him, so she does get constant attention. And even in his absence, Kenny's dad came over and got her this morning so she wouldn't have to be in her crate all day while I was at work. Talk about spolied. But she is being quite naughty today, and last night too, and normally she's really good. So I think she misses her daddy. I do too:(

Anyway, Monday and Tuesday at work were fine, can't remember much of those days, so they must have been okay. Tuesday night I was helping Kenny get ready for his trip and I was up very late doing so. After midnight, he asked me to shorten some pants for him. AFTER MIDNIGHT. I told him I would do it in the morning. That was so ridiculus of me. I ended up being late for work (not okay when you have kids waiting for you at your door and you have to call and get someone to cover for you-nightmare city). So the rest of the day was shot because the kids' routine was a mess. I had a headache from the start and thought it was allergy related because the weather had just drastically changed here in Michigan again. So I took claritan instead of excedrin for the headache. BIG MISTAKE. Should have just taken the excedrin. My headache went from bad to worse, and then, after work we HAD to stay for a meeting that could not be missed, so just so I could sign my name on the sign-in sheet, I stayed, but the whole time I had my head in my hands applying as much pressure as I could to my face. I had to wait till the claritan wore off to take the excedrin because they both make me very jittery and I didn't think I could handle driving home like that (I drove alone because I was late). So once I got home, that was it, lights out. I was down for the count. Kenny called me around 10pm and I woke up to talk to him just for a minute, but that's it.

Today was a good day. No headache, thank goodness. My brother is coming over in a little while to mess with the new dishwasher (still not in yet) and I'm doing some wedding stuff, which I have been looking forward to for a couple of days.

This weekend is going to be busy and I'm just hoping for some down time because I need it!! I need a day with no committments, no alarms, and no responsibilities. Just one day!! I know, it's wishful thinking, but a girl can wish, right?

Still Laughing

Here is the conversation that took place between my fiance and I today. It's priceless. Here goes:

Note: I have wanted a small, flat-screen TV in the bedroom on the wall since last summer, but haven't gotten one yet, and I forgot to ask Kenny for one for Christmas.

ME (in my angelic I WANT SOMETHING voice): Honey?

HIM (knowing I was going to ask for something): WHAT Lindsey???

ME: I've really been thinking that we need that flat screen on the wall in the bedroom. You know, it's your fault I need to sleep with the TV on at night, you trained me to be like that. TVs are on sale right now cause the Superbowl is coming up. Please?

HIM: You know, every time your trap opens, it costs me money.

I am still laughing to myself when I think about what he said. It's true. I cost us a lot of money. But isn't that my job? He is just as bad. He just makes more money than I do:) I'll get that TV, one way or another, and it won't come from my paycheck:)

Saturday in Church

Yesterday we hid from the world. It didn't happen on purpose, it just happened. The day started out with us getting up VERY early (I was not happy about it AT ALL) and getting to church (on a Saturday) by 830am for an 8 hour marriage couseling class. You really did read that correctly, it was an 8 hour class. All 8 hours of it. Next to A.D.H.D. Kenny.

The class was okay, nothing new, they are basically telling us that marriage is not all bells and whistles (which I understand, neither is a relationship!!) and that there are good ways to deal with problems. Got it. I read through the numberous books they gave us, skimmed the handouts we had, and then glanced at the clock. I had just looked over all the information and was ready to go home, and it was 915am. I still have 6 hours and 45 minutes to go. Drat. We listened to the man who is going to marry us and his lovely wife tell stories of their marriage, how they got through rough times (which I greatly appreciate, I honestly do) and show us video clips (not so much appreciated). They even served us lunch! Church women can cook!! The afternoon was the longest part. And then the last hour was spent taking a psychological evaluation, Kenny took his, I took mine, and in a week or so we meet with the pastor and he will analyze it with us. SCARY. Now everyone will know just how nutty we are. I asked him in the event we both fail the test, will he still marry us? He said yes, so I can sleep at night. Whew.

I forgot to tell you about the parts of the class where Kenny was tickling me (during a video clip) and I couldn't make any noise and I'm very ticklish. That was tourturesome. Then he also make comments under his breath about certain things (he was naughty) making it hard for me to pay attention (I was really trying to) AND during the psycological test, he raised his hand and told the pastor's wife I was cheating off his test. I am sooooooo glad I didn't know him in high school.

We are going back to church today, not for the regular service, but for membership class so in 5 weeks we'll be members of the church. Kenny actually already thought he was, since he'd been going to this church since he was young. But he had never taken the classes when he was a kid, so we're doing it together now. Church service is at 1030 this morning, and the class is at 1130. Ordinarily, we would go to the church service first and then to the membership meeting, but if I don't get a morning to sleep in just a little bit, I don't get to recharge. I know it's an excuse but I'm sticking to it!

When we came home last night after eating dinner out, it was only 7pm, and we both put our PJs on, and spent the entire night on the couch together, watching TV. No phones, no anything except us and the TV. It was so nice!

Cutest Puppy Ever!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

She really is the cutest puppy, all 50 pounds of puppiness!!

Creative-nesssssssssssss

Because today was the observance of MLK Jr. Day, I didn't have to work!! Yay! Three day weekends are the best! It's been a very relaxing, fun weekend. Saturday I putzed around doing wedding stuff and then went to Tasha's in the afternoon for a jewelry party. That was fun!!! And tempting! Then after everyone left she and I got to chat for a while longer, which was awesome! On Sunday Kenny and I went shopping and ran errands and played with the puppy. And today my mom and I went shopping to find her mother-of-the-bride outfit for the wedding! Since my mom lives an hour and a half away, I don't get to go shopping with her much, so I always get so happy when the chance presents itself. Which it did today!! I love her outfit.....it's RED! My mom is a rather conservative woman, no bright colors, she's more of an earthy tone woman. We started looking at dresses and suits and the first one she tried on was red, and it was a hit right away!! We didn't even go to another store. Can you believe that? She did try on a couple more dresses just to see what else she could like, but always came back to the first one. And then she found red shoes to match. I'm still in shock....my mom in red!! She looks awesome! Here she is (you know I had my camera in the dressing room with me!!):

I have been one busy crafting person in the last week. I've made lots of things for the wedding!! First, the card box. Before I decided to make it myself, I checked out prices online and in stores. I spent maybe only $10 less making it myself, but it's WAAAAAY cuter (I'm biased) than the ones I've seen. I just can't do the bird cage thing! So I bought shimery red fabric and some white ribbon and paper mache boxes, and away I went. Here it is!!

The flower girls will carry those kissing balls, and I did find then in stores and online for around $12 each, but I wanted them to have pink flowers and I didn't want the kissing balls to be teeny, so I bought pink hydrangeas (on sale at Joanns because they are spring floral), styrophome balls, (4 inch ones, but I ended up cutting them back to 3 inch), beaded garland (had it left over in my classroom) and floral pins and this is how I made them:

First stab the ball with a floral pin. Then fill the holes with hot glue and push the pin in, making sure you fasten the beaded garland between the pin and the ball so it will stay (the garland is what the kissing ball is held with). Then do that with the other floral pin, let them dry for about 2 minutes.

Take the hydrangea stalks.....

.....and cut all the stalks down so there's only about 2 inches of stem left. The longer then stem, the bigger the ball, the more flowers you will have to use. And believe me, I never thought it would take THIS MANY flowers to cover a 4 inch ball, which is why I cut back to 3 inches.

Then start pushing the stems in the styrophome. The trick to that is (ask me AFTER the ceremony how well it lasts...hehehe) to push the stem in quickly and don't move it around when it's in the styrophome. Leave it!! Here's the first one:

And then about halfway done:

And then all done!!! Look how pretty it is!!

I spent $30 total on 2 kissing balls. And I love them! I hope the little ladies will too! I'm not sure if they appreciate anything besides Hannah Montana these days.

And here is a picture of what the bridesmaids will carry....I haven't added red ribbon yet. Not sure if I will. I change my mind A LOT these days. Anyway, here are their white rose bouquets:

There are a few other things I'm working on, but I'll save that for another post!!

I have to say THANK YOU to Lindsay from Splat Designs for giving me the new award the sidebar....you rock Linds!

S L E E P Y

Ahhhhhhh! I have falled behind in EVERYTHING this week. Laundry, cleaning, de-cluttering (has to be done daily or it takes over!), even blogging. I'm just so B U S Y. I'm still trying to get back into a routine after Christmas vacation and it's not working. I fight the urge to call in sick every morning and just sleep! Most of the problem this week is that I woke up to an alarm clock on both Saturday and Sunday last weekend. So sleeping in for me is like not recharging a battery. I NEED TO SLEEP IN!! Today is my last day with kids this week, we have an inservice tomorrow and I can zone out in the meetings. Then Saturday is a big day for me. I'M SLEEPING IN. No one and nothing is getting me up before my body naturally wakes up. I will force myself to stay in bed LONGER. That is what is getting me through today and tomorrow. Knowing I can sleep in. I have lots more wedding details to share, but I have to take pictures first. I'll get them on this weekend. I have made a few things this week and it was soooo relaxing. Crafting unwinds me!

Quick funny story---we were watching the news last night and I was all snuggled under a blanket on the couch, about to fall asleep, and Kenny was at the other end of the couch not about to fall asleep. He was messing with something, a contraption of some sort. He was also eating pretzels. He is a loud pretzel eater, so I looked down at him to say something about the noisy crunching and just lost it....he was sitting there with a bag of pretzels in his hands and his new "state-of-the-art-best-they-make" headlamp strapped on his head, pointing the light all over the living room. While crunching really loudly. I laughed at him for a long time. What a picture. Why did he have his leadlamp on in the fully lit livingroom? I'll never know. He is crazy. But I love him. Happy Thursday!

A visiting I will go

Ohhh ohhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

What a busy weekend. And just today, I went visiting loved ones that I meant to visit on Christmas vacation and just didn't have the time. I had breakfast with a friend and went shopping at IKEA, then on to another friend's house (maid of honor) to drop off her dress and play with her baby for a few hours. Then to Grandma's house for more wedding talk/planning and finally to my aunt and uncle's house to visit and drop of the junior bridesmaid dress. I had to be home by 7pm to meet my brother and I was only a few minutes late. Whew what a day! I did a ton of wedding things this weekend too. Making, planning, making, making, starting over, planning, making.......it's E N D L E S S. But I still love it:) I want to stay home from work and just work on wedding stuff. I know I've said that before, but it's still true!! And thanks for the comments telling me you like to hear about wedding details....I'll keep them coming!! I got to talk to Tasha twice this week and she has EXCELLENT advice and ideas about planning weddings! Thanks girl!!

This will be a four day week for me. No kids on Friday, we have a professional development day. AKA-hide my Suduko and crossword puzzles in my notebook while I sit in boring meetings to keep from falling sleep. I'd rather be teaching!!!!! The kids are so much more fun than that! However, it will still be a three day weekend because we MLK day off. Yay!! One more fun thing to look forward to....the auto show is in town. We might go this year. If you go every year, it gets a little boring, but we haven't been for a couple of years. I'm ready to drool over the new concept cars that even if they are produced, I'll never own one!! Still fun to dream.

Now I'm off to bed. Probably to dream about all things white and poofy. Just kidding about the poofy by the way. Nothing poofy in my wedding!!

Red Red Red

Thanks for the comments about the candles. It really does help to hear other people's opinions on things like this!! You ladies are the best!! I'll probably go with all red, something like this:

I love the romantic-ness of it. Now I just have to go buy it! I wish I could have had this picture up yesterday when I was trying to describe things, but I found it today, so now you can get a better idea. I'll probably add some white organza ribbon around the vases, and that'll be it!

I have been CONSTANTLY shopping wedding stuff online for that last couple of days when I have not been at work. I've been home now for about 2 hours and that's all I've done!! I have a list of things that we need, it's just trying to figure out where to get it for the best price, and there isn't ONE store with the best deals. The deals are scattered, but they're there!! I received the rest of my flowers today.....I love the doorbell ring and then a thump...it means more wedding stuff delivered!! My bouquet.....is going to be BEAUTIFUL, but I'm not sure that I can make it. I'm talented, not tooting the old horn, but I do have some crafty skills. But making my own bouquet? When I hold the flowers together they are so pretty and then I think about moving this one a little, and that one a little, and before you know it I have no idea what looks good and OOOOHHHHH wedding overload. Maybe there are just some things that I wouldn't mind paying to have done. Such as my bouquet.

It finally hit me COMPLETELY this morning on the way to work that I'm getting married. I'm going to be Kenny's wife! Ahh!! I've been waiting forever it feels like. We met in July of 2000 and started dating in 2002. I know it really wasn't that long ago, but I knew I was going to marry him even then, so it feels like a long time! Anyway, I got all emotional in the carride to work this morning. It was the first time in a while when I drove solo to work, and I had a good CD playing and good coffee and had wedding on the brain and it just hit me!!! I'm so excited. I almost don't want the wedding to get here because I love this feeling, knowing that one of the happiest days ever is coming up.

I know I talk about wedding stuff EVERY DAY that I blog. I'm sorry. It's just all I think about these days! I get up and get in the shower and think about wedding stuff. When I'm getting dressed I think about wedding stuff. When I am at work and not being mauled by 3-4 feet monsters I think about wedding stuff, and of course when I'm home I am DOING wedding stuff. On the treadmill I also think about it, more so my flabby arms and poofy stomach and how I wish they would disappear, but WEDDING is always on the brain. It's normal to think like this when you are engaged, right??

Maybe tomorrow I'll post about something other than nuptials. Maybe:)

Choices

OKAY!!!

I need some help here! Centerpieces. Oh yeah, if you are sick of wedding talk, don't read this post. It's all about centerpieces at the reception.

Here are the details. The hall is providing us with white linen tableclothes, and red linen napkins, the color of the bridesmaid dresses and some of the flowers. They are also providing us a large square mirror as the centerpiece base, and 3 glass cylinders per table, ranging in sizes from 10 inches to 14 inches tall, and all of them are about 3 inches in diameter. Still with me?? So here's what I've narrowed it down to..............keep in mind there will be 3 of these, all slightly different sizes, on each table, along with small votives. Can you tell I want tons of candles?? The candlelight is my favorite.

Red rose petals & red candle:

Red rose petals and white candle:

Red ribbon & red candle:

Red ribbon & white candle:

I have also seen photos of fruit in the bottom which add lots of color, however, much more expensive. We are having 25 tables at the reception and are going to do about 15 of them with the cylinders. The other tables will have rose & hydranga arrangements in the center with votives around that. I'm open to ANY suggestions at this point. I realize it's hard to imagine this looking elegant, I did the best with the pictures that I could. Looking at them now, I didn't put in enough water. Use your imagination!

This is a picture of what the 3 of them will look like, just imagine my flowers/ribbon and colors: