SO Close! :)

Well we only have 18 more days until we get married! WHOA...~ its so crazy to think its thats close! hahah!
and don't worry I haven't sent out invites yet, hopefully tomorrow! (we used the wrong size of envelopes, got them all done and then my mom saw them and said it looked tacky hahaha... she didn't realize she had bought the wrong size and she was gone when James and I put them together, and i simply trusted her judgement! hahah... oh well they are almost there! (lots of people have started asking why they didn't get one so i thought i would mention it!)

We also finally got approved to get into a house last week! So we have been side-tracked with that!

James, me, and my mom (who is a realtor) went and looked at houses on friday, then today my mom, my dad, and me all went on a marathon... seriously, on average when you have the whole day she shows people 10-15 houses, we went and looked at about 20!

We were literally running through some haha, or at least to and from the car (that may or may have not had anything to do with the fact that it looked nice outside but was freezing!) lol!

We found some good ones and tomorrow we are going to look at our top 5 with James, and hopefully we will just make an offer on one! that would be SO awesome!~

THis is just so fun!!! I'm so excited tonight I had to blog! hahah I have told everyone at work basically and they are probably sick of hearing me talk about it LOL, so here I am, boring you with my house hunting stories!

One was really gross, a bank owned one, and i swear i still smell like it (I'm at work or else i'd take a shower) I should have at least thought to use some good smelling lotion or body spray hahah! and hopefully i really don't smell like it and its all in my head! :)

Anyways, I am just so excited: bridals last week, house hunting (possibly putting an offer on one this week), invites, and a bridal shower this next weekend! YAY!

( I don't think I ever blogged about my first shower at the first of the month, it was all of his family his dads side, his moms side, and his step-dads side (and yes they all get along haha they are awesome i love his family) this next shower on saturday is both sides of my family! I can't wait! plus im pretty sure my aunt bought some eclairs for the shower, and they are my absolute favorite! lol! :0 )

Well, thats about it, and I'm pretty sure my thought are scattered as usual, and also a long post... hahah but i feel pretty scatter-brained too so i guess it fits!

I hope everyone had a fun long valentines weekend and hope you all have a good couple of weeks coming up! I probably won't post again until after the wedding and such! :)

Making Progress!

Well, there is still a lot of wedding plans to finish, but I finally feel like I'm making progress! haha!
Me and my mom went today to meet with our florist, ( LOVE the florist too! His name is Martin @ Jimmy's Floral in Layton/Ogden, you have to request him, otherwise he doesn't normally do weddings, which I don't know why, he is AMAZING!)
- first of all he kept complimenting me, he loved my eyes, haha, and he was certain James and I would have cute kids! hahah... (hey, compliments are always nice to hear! lol)
- second, he knows everything, we ended up asking him for advice on the cake, the photographer, and many un-floral related wedding things hahah! It was great, and he was just fun! So use him for sure when you need flowers, plus I felt like once we picked the flowers, he could just put it together and make it amazing, so I'm just not even worried!

*I totally thought we would be asked what flowers we wanted and then for the florist to be like "okay so how do you want them?!"... umm...not sure thats why you are the florist! hellooo... I just want them to look pretty! LOL and I had no idea what I wanted... and I have spent HOURS trying to decide incase thats what happened! Luckily it worked out great!

We also had my first fitting for my dress last week, so the second fitting is coming up! YAY!

We still need to officially book a photographer lol... but we are getting there!

James and I also narrowed down honeymoon ideas, and set up our "group" for the tuxes and picked out the tuxes, and all that fun stuff!

And.. I finished designing my invites with Lindsay @ nonsensicalinvites.com! YAY I love them! We just have to make sure on the times and then we can print them! :)

We even have cute frames too for the reception to put some engagements and bridals in! so the extra decorations are all done too!

I'm getting so excited! I can hardly wait! I think its about 50 days now!
(we even have dates for the bridal showers! yay!) I'm excited for that too, I'm gonna be like a little kid at christmas, getting all that fun stuff for our own place! haha!

p.s. I'm sorry my posts are just about wedding planning right now, but it pretty much consumes my life at the moment, other wise I just work! hahah. But at least in a month or two I will have a ton of pictures to post to make up for my long posts without any pics!

67 days and counting!!!

I can't believe how soon it seems like our wedding day is... it has taken forver to feel this way! And now... well I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed! hahah! 2 months and 8 days is going to go by so fast!

I still have to:

• book a photographer
• make a complete guest list
• get addresses
• finish designing my invites with Lindsay Wall (YAY!) ... they are going to be so cute! :)
• send out invites after typing in addresses and printing labels
• try on my dress & do alterations ... (p.s. it came in 3 weeks early! yay!)
• bridals
• figure out where we are going to live... yeah, we aren't sure yet.. hoping we can get into a house! We will see!
• and then all the other little things, changing my last name for bills, etc. and getting our own car insurance, getting stuff ready so I can be on his medical/dental insurance, bridal showers, etc.!

I'm way excited for all of this but wow.. its still alot to do! hahah. I'm really feeling relieved that I decided to take this semester off. I did that because I'm not totally sure if I want to continue the degree I started working on, or if I want to find something else. I just wasn't loving it. I mean... its school, and I have never been a fan lol... but I just don't find it as interesting as I thought I would, and I'm just not sure if the jobs it could get me are what I want, or if it gives me that many career choices. So I decided some time off would be beneficial to my sanity! :) haha. I hope I can decide soon what I want to do, but for now I have a lot of other things to worry about, especially if we can/ decide to try and get into a house by the end of april for the tax credit deadline.

Anyways, 2010 is off to a pretty good start and I have a feeling it will be a great year! :) I can't wait!

christmas!

My posts are always really long, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet! :) But I had a pretty good Christmas, although i had to work 6 hrs on xmas eve and xmas day! boo!

We went to as many family parties as we could, luckily some are after xmas and some are the weekend before, so we don't go completely crazy trying to make it to all of them! haha! Next year we will have to figure out a game plan for the parties and just rotate who we go and see, otherwise its a little exhausting!

James and I didn't get anything for eachother because our plan has been to wait for the Presidents' Day sales (which are always really good) and buy us a couch set for our apartment! Plus, by then we may even have James moved into one, so that we can take the couches straight there! :) So, I'm excited for it to be february so we can go buy a couch! lol! and to make a final decision on an apartment!!!

I'm sad that the holiday season is almost over, it has been a nice break, and then its back to school, work, and still quite a bit of wedding planning to do... I have a feeling I'm gonna be really busy these next few months! But it will be fun and well worth it! :)

Only 73 more days!!!! We are so excited and I hope it goes by fast! :)

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a Happy New Year!

oh.. and P.S. I went and bought some way cute ornaments for our Christmas tree! YAY! they are cute white reindeer that are all glittery, with red glitter noses, and green-beads as legs haha- its hard to explain, but we will have such a cute tree next year- i can't wait! oh, and I got us some cute stockings too!

87 days!!!

well... I have been counting down to our big day on facebook and we are finally down to the double-digits! YAY! hahah... this used to seem forever away, starting out with 190 days is way too long! But its finally feeling like our wedding day is gonna get here! and we are so excited! :)

Also, we went and registered at Target two weekends ago! It was really fun, but took forever! I even made a list before we went so we had focus and so nothing would be forgotten! We still managed to take a good 2 1/2 hours though! We were so exhausted by the time we got done! haha!

And.. I'm so excited about something else... something I didn't think I would EVER say I was excited about... a VACCUUM! hahah, my grandma had one that she got for like 20$ after buying something at RC Willey's and its just been in her basement for awhile, so she told me to come over and look at it and take it if I wanted to! So I did, and went right home and put it together and tried it out! LOL it was so fun! .... :)

*(not that I don't clean or anything, but I guess of all the things that come with getting married and your own place, that was something that never crossed my mind until we started thinking of stuff to register for, and even then I was more excited about pots and pans, silverware, etc... So I just thought it was funny how exited i got today when i put together my very own vaccuum! LOL )

Anyways, last night James and I went to his mom's family's Christmas party. It was so fun and reall good food! His Grandma and Grandpa just take all the adults 18 and over to dinner every year instead of buying each one a gift (because it is quite a few people now, and just easier and fun!) So we went and ate at Brickenbrackers (?) in ogden by the ogden airport, and oh yum! You need to try that place! Its more expensive i think (We did a banquet dinner so I didn't see the menu) but their yams, mashed potatoes, and chicken were SO good! (the yams were so rich though I counted them as my dessert hahah!)

Oh and another quick story! We went and looked at an apartment last night before the dinner and this apartment was so cute, cozy... but way cute! hahah, and it was just so fun finally being close enough to getting married to look at places to live! I have been thinking about where could put my decorations in that apartment and everything LOL! We are still going to keep looking, and that one is slightly more than what we would like to pay, but its definitely still on our list! yay! I can't wait to go see more and finally get an apartment! We just need to wait until about february to get real serious on actually moving James into somewhere and then moving in my stuff. He is waiting to start a new job up on base and won't start until January 4th, so after that we can get really serious about finding a place to live but its fun to start looking!

*Does anyone know of some cute apartments for around $700 a month? if so let me know! :)

HoLiDaYs!!!

I love this time of year!!! I hate the snow, and the cold, and driving on icy roads... but, the holidays and all the fun family parties make up for the crappy weather! haha.

I am especially excited for the family parties this year because even though James and I have been to each others' family parties for the last three years, this year is different...

.... this year we are ENGAGED! .........This year we are about 3 months away from being MARRIED! So I have decided this year will be even more fun! :) And I can't wait to see everyone! I love our families, they are all so fun and they are all so different from eachother, but all the parties are way fun!

* on a side note: I made James go to Target with me yesterday, because they had a "6 foot christmas tree" on sale for 20 dollars! Score! right?!... Wrong! haha I am only 5'4" and this tree was smaller than me... the box wasn't that tall either so im not sure where they got 6' from haha... anyways so there we were... sad, that the tree was a "charlie brown tree" lol..and started looking around at the decorations.

James wandered off for a minute in the christmas section and came back with an ornament it was a key, but the top of it was a heart and engraved on it was "our first christmas together- 2009" and he was like " hey! look!... next year I am going to buy you an ornament just like this one!" I thought that was so cute! I wanted to buy it but he said we should wait and have it actually say 2010 and have it be our first ornament to buy together as a married couple... how cute is that?! I love him! :)

P.S. I bought christmas ornaments last year after the holidays on clearance and ever since i have been so excited to buy my own tree since i already have a few ornaments, hahah... but I decided Ill wait until everything goes on clearance after christmas and then Ill buy my tree, but it has been hard to resist!

P.S.S. On my facebook page I have a countdown to our wedding day... i believe its at 109 days now! holy cow! I am so excited! we are almost out of the triple digits!!! hahaha

I didn't start the count down until a couple weeks after we were engaged and i think we started out then at like 192 days or something and that sounded forever away! but 109 days sounds SOOO much better! :)

Anyways... I hope everyone has an awesome thanksgiving this year!!! and the rest of the holidays too! :) I'm so thankful for so many things in my life, but mostly my family, my awesome (soon-to-be) in-laws, and of course my amazing and adorable fiance! :)

3 Years & So in Love!!

Today was our 3 year anniversary!

3 years ago today we were going on a blind date, after being set up by his mom and his cousin ashley! We went to Fazoli's and went bowling afterwards! (and i totally kicked his butt! haha)

I even got a strike, and i suck at bowling so this was a monumental moment for me :). As I walked back towards my chair, James was getting up to take his turn and gave me a hug! (i think he may have done that without really thinking about it, because half way through the hug it got a little awkward.. as in "oh whoa..ok.. i guess we are hugging... haha") That was so sweet though, and i was on cloud nine!

Then we sat in the back seat of Ashley's boyfriends truck and we all cruised the boulevard in ogden... (because thats just what you do when you have a cool truck you have fixed up and made loud and stuff! hahah)

He reached over and held my hand! Aww!..

it was the sweetest thing ever, I could tell he was nervous to do it (and of course Ashley and Kory made fun of us, when they noticed lol.)

Then, they dropped me off at my house.

Then I decided to tease him a little more about kicking his butt at bowling after telling him I was terrible at it... so i sent him a text and said something to him about it. Well, he didn't have text... ( I can't remember why) So then he had to call me to say something back. (I'm so sneaky & strategic..lol)

We ended up talking on the phone until almost 4 o'clock in the morning!!! We talked about anything and everything. Best. Night. Ever!!!

We have been inseparable since that night, and here we are 3 years later!! Can I tell you how much fun I have had since meeting him?! We have had a blast together and things are just getting better!

Some of the fun we have had:

Him giving me a promise ring on our 1 year anniversary, surprise dates and flowers, movie dates, family dinners & parties, camping, double dates, cute letters and cards, walks at the syracuse park, all of our birthdays and holidays, shopping for stuff we might want to register for for our wedding, hanging out with our families, bowling, batting cages, flaming gorge trip, and of course...ring shopping, and getting engaged on July 29th, engagement pictures, and looking forward to our wedding day (it's in 127 days! YAY!)

Today we celebrated with a quick lunch before I had to go to work. We went to this new place in clinton called "Hibachi House" it is a Japanese grill. It is really good! And the best part? it is much less expensive than Tepanyaki, (like 5-10 dollars per plate!) but almost the same, and its a ton of food! Then we went back to his house and cuddled for a few minutes and watched t.v. It was so fun and I just love being with him! He is so cute and sweet!!!

Now...If only March would get here faster! :)