DIY

Here are a couple DIY projects done by me and my mom. The cage is for people to put cards in and the baskets are obviously flower girl baskets. I think it all turned pretty cute =) (again sorry for the poor quality I took it with my phone)

Landscaping

Check out the progress we made this weekend on the landscaping! The first picture you can play Where's Waldo (or actually where's Roxie) see her? So now it's all gutted out and ready for much prettier plants and much less weeds!!

Blog 26

Sorry it's been a little bit since I've posted. The thing is I've only done a lot of little things lately, nothing really worth writing about. However, I finally uploaded a couple pics from my phone so here they are...
Sorry for the poor quality, again, it's from my phone.

The first picture is the dress I bought awhile ago to wear to my June 6th Shower! And yes I took this pic in the dressing room.

The Second picture is of a sign I made last night. It's just one of those "garage sale" signs. This one will stick in the ground outside the reception hall. And tonight I plan to make another one but with an arrow, for people driving from the church to the reception to help them know where to turn.

What else.... last night Jake came over and it was actually for the purpose of working on wedding stuff! I wasn't totally happy with one of the songs we picked for our wedding video so we picked a new one. So now we have all the songs picked out for our video and I need to burn them to a disk and mail them to our videographer.

This saturday Jake and I are finally starting in on the back-breaking task of relandscaping in our back yard. We will start by pulling up all the old stuff, trying to kill off the mint thats taken over and then plant all new pretty things=) This is the last home improvement I want to make before the wedding, bummer its a big one!

Lastly, we are at around 45 for our RSVPs so far!

Blog 25

It's official!! The invitations are in the mail!! It was hard to let them drop in the drop box. It was kind of like I was extra possessive of them and didn't want to let them go. Silly I know. Now I can't wait to get the RSVP's back!!!

Last night I was really productive. First off I checked and double checked all the invites. So hopefully there are no mistakes. Then I had to lick and seal them all myself. I couldn't help but be glad George Costanza didn't buy those invites! Then I completely finished Jake's Growing Up slideshow and published it to a DVD. And I scanned the remaining pictures of me and about finished all the editing on my slideshow. Also yesterday I started to make this master list of every little thing I need to do between now and June 20th. It felt good to get it all out of my head. Oh and yesterday my mom finished lining the FG baskets and the bottom of the card cage.

Tonight I plan to finish my slideshow and clean my house for my brother and Bethany's visit. Oh and I made an "appointment" with Jane (Kari's mom) to have her alter Ayishas dress on Thursday.

A lot of random info but there you go. Lastly... speaking of invitations. Here's a picture of what ours look like...

Blog 24

We had a great weekend in O'Fallon with my family!!

-I got fitted for my rehearsal dress alterations. I forgot how cute that dress was! We got it over a year ago.
-We addressed all the invites! Got the stamps for them and I sent out a test invite just to make sure it sends okay. So I will send the rest probably tomorrow!! I'm excited!!!!! A big thank you to Bethany and my mom for the help addressing the invites=)
-Also I got an early birthday present since I wont really be around all my family again until wedding time! And it was exactly what I wanted!!!! I'm going to wear the outfit the morning of the wedding and then I plan to take the jacket on the honeymoon and wear it on the plane and stuff I'm so happy I got it!!! Here it is!...

Blog 23

-We have our first dance song picked out. We had to edit it though because there was talking at the end. So thats taken care of.

-An appt has been made for the end of this month to meet with our flower/decoration lady to finalize everything.

-I should start working out more but I just feel I dont have the time with everything else there is to do. But starting the day after my birthday I am going to work out like no ones ever worked out before! That gives me a month and a half to tone everything up and define those muscles!

-Its official! We have an officiant!! We were going to use the pastor that more or less comes with the ceremony at Elfindale but now that we've gotten so plugged in at Stonebridge, our assoicate pastor is going to perform the ceremony. Thank goodness! Something a little more personal!

-I'm getting my regersal dresses altered this saturday I'm excited, its SO pretty!

Things I'd like to do tonight...
-burn a cd to be played in the "get ready room" at the church.
-make a file folder of songs for the honeymoon.
-make a list of makeup that i need to buy
-burn cds of the songs to be played at the church.

My Precious Ringbearers

Mason and Dayton

Blog 22

Heres whats new...

-I decided to go a different route with my birdcage card box. I was going to thread ribbon all around it. But I tried it a million different ways and I did not love it. However, I had these great pink flowers from Hobby Lobby, I tried putting a few of those on there and wa-la! I loved it. My mom also suggested adding one more thing to it and I think I will. So... bummer I cant call it done! But I'll probably take it to StL with me this weekend and then she can finish it from there.

-Kenna and Ayisha (flower girls) now officially have the dresses in their possession. I think Kennas will fit okay just a minor adjustment or two will be needed. But Ayishas, well its pretty big on her. Shes so tiny! But her mom, my MOH Deana, sent my some pictures of her in it and shes gonna look great! Like a little lady. I havent seen Kennas on her yet but theres no doubt she'll look beautiful!

-So I was reviewing our registries this morning (WalMart, Bed Bath and Beyond, Target) and seeing as how we originally set those up a year ago I think we need to do some updating. I mean we have a million times But I think I'd like to do one last run through of the items while in the store before showers strat and the wedding day gets closer.

-Speaking of gifts, my grandma asked for a suggestion on what I would like from her. I suggested this amazing china by Lenox and she loved it. So that is what we are getting! I can't believe it!

-This week I will do one final run through of the guest list. We'll see if we can squeeze any one else in and also update addresses. And then this weekend my mom and I and maybe Airika (bridesmaid) will address the invites and next week I will mail them off!!!! SO EXCITING!!!!!

-Deana got her shoes and went in for alterations. So thats exciting. One down two to go.

-Oh and I totally just remembered my videographer called and asked us for a time frame. I said I'd have to get back with her. So I'll email her tonight. I'm also going to burn a cd for her of all the songs we want in our video. The sooner I get em to her the sooner I get my video. She said some people wait awhile to give them to her. Thats crazy! She will definitely get ours before the wedding Because I will want to watch that video over and over again!

-I had a nightmare about the wedding/honeymoon last night. First of all the girl thats supossed to cover for me for the 2 weeks Im gone wasn't going to cover for me anymore and I didnt find out until the last minute and then I had like 5 minutes to pack for my honeymoon. Man that was stressful! In real life I will probably be completely packed one week before I actually leave! I'm even buying extra makeup so I can pack it before hand and not worry about transfering it to my suitcase during the 2 minutes we are home after the reception and before we drive to St Louis.

-Anything you guys are curious about? Ask me questions! I never get sick of talking about my wedding!

Blog 21!

79 days!!!! People say it will be here before you know it, but I disagree time is crrrrawling right now. But at least we're getting closer.
So, tuesday I had my first fitting! I had to go on my lunch hour so I went solo but she did all of the pinning and whatnot, now I go back in 2 weeks to try it on. I'm excited to put it on and just have it fit so snug and great.
I haven't decided yet what all I will do "wedding-wise" this weekend. However, I will actually be seeing both of my flowergirls so I'm going to give them their dresses. I hope they fit great and dont need altered. Or I at least hope they fit tons better than the bridesmaids dresses did. I'll say it again.... If you go through the effort of getting measured shouldn't your dress at least fit a little? No blame to the shop. More blame to the dress "company" for pairing those measurements with those sizes.
I don't have much else to say... we are making an appointment with Shannons Custom Florals whos doing our reception decoration and the flowers of course. We just want to finalize everything so I think we'll be meeting with her the very end of this month because my mom will be in town. Oh and one more thing to say, I love this premarital counseling! Anyone reading this and not married yet, do it! I told Jake last night I feel like we are learning and discovering things that usually take years to learn.