But what I DO reccomend is marrying a boy that can cook!!

Huge lack of comments lately :(

Spent all day today cleaning up the bedroom (putting away all of the boxes)

I did so much and it looks great! It's ready for the bed now! My husband told me he wouldn't set up our bed until I took care of all of that. We've been sleeping on the mattress on the floor for the past 2 1/2 weeks.

Now that that's done, I can keep working on the livingroom...... I don't reccomend moving!

starting fresh

Married life is an adjustment.... but I reccomend it to all!

We went shopping yesterday to take back double gifts and use our gift cards. We had some-what of a plan before we walked in the store of what we needed to get. At the first store, we had $230 to spend. It sounds like so much and we were sure we'd have some left over for another day. We got a few things that weren't received from our registry and a couple of other things we needed. The total came to $224! He grabbed the massager I've been dying to have and made our total $234. That means we got a ton of things and only spent $4. Great day! Then, we went to the second store and he was stressing out because we needed a ton of groceries (new apt!) plus all of the things off of our registry that we still needed (needed, not wanted!). Well, we stocked our bathroom and then did groceries. We didn't total it up as we went (except for the bathroom stuff), we just got what we needed. We also didn't know how much our gift cards were worth, but we were thinking somewhere around $150.
The total at the register was $230 and I could see a stroke brewing in him. He handed her the cards and she started scanning. The total got down to $10!!!! We got so many things yesterday (more than I can even remember) all for $14!!!! We're so blessed! Plus I've gotten a package from my parents 2 days in a row containing 3 things off our registry that we didn't get. (Including the Kiss the Cook apron! woohoo!)
What a great day... God is good!

I've been working on my honeymoon album. We have over 350 pictures (we took around 450). I've been doing it for 3 days and feel like I'm getting no where. I'm probably only 1/3 done. It will be good when I'm done though. The only problem is that I'm going to run out of pages soon. Darn it!

Had my first 4 hours of lab experience time in the childrens center on campus. Worked with the age that I'm not crazy about, but I think I impressed them today.

I'm baaack! and I'm married!!!!

IIII'm home!

The wedding was incredible. Having all of our friends and family from both sides here at the same time was amazing. I wish we could get them all here more often. The day was perfect. I didn't eat or sleep for like 3 or 4 days, so I wigged out after the ceremony, and got really cranky. Other than that though, it was just incredible. The ceremony was everything I've always pictured and imagined. Seeing him at the other end of the aisle and walking towards him was just as I pictured it. I had the biggest smile of my whole life, the whole ceremony. We went to Wendy's pre-reception and ate the best meal of my whole life. Having food in me was so good. Those should make for some pretty good pictures! The reception was the most fun night of my entire life. It was everything I could've hoped for. He and I had so much fun that it isn't even funny. Even when no one else would dance, we were out there unaware of anything but each other. So fun! Oh, and I coated his entire face in cake ;)
At the end of the day, my dress was muddy, a little torn, full of cake, and my bustle was destroyed. I figured the messier the dress, the more fun I had!!

My bridesmaids were just out of this world. They tended to my every need for 3 days. Emotional, physical, technical. I highly reccomend them :)
They ran around like crazy trying to get things done for me- they packed for me, tended to me when I was cranky, sacrificed their butts off for me. Brit and Dave even cleaned my car for me! Inside and outside, it looks amazing! They decorated it up for us after the reception. The windows were all painted, my overnight bag was in the back, and rose petals everywhere. Plus balloons on top and huge cans in the back. People honked at us and waved to us the whole way to the hotel. I just can't describe how incredible they all were and how immensly blessed I was to have them. And just having them around me was the best. My best friends there with me on my day was wonderful. I looked at them and smiled my giddy smile during the ceremony and their eyes told me they knew exactly what I was feeling. I love them and I love God for providing them!

Honeymoon was relaxing and wonderful. 6 days on the beach... perfect. The people of honolulu are the rudest people I've ever met, so that was a little frustrating, but overall it was wonderful.

Goin to the chapel....

Well, this is it! I'm getting married tomorrow!!!!!!!!
It's still so weird.
I'm really confident in him and am assured of God's blessing on our plans. I'm not so confidant in my abilities as a wife. I think that I may make a terrible wife! I'll learn as I go, though.

Got to spend the day yesterday with Brittanie. What an amazing and therapuetic thing to do! We got mani's and pedi's. It ended up just being us there. It was a really small salon, so it was just the girl doing it and the 2 of us. The girl is an old friend of mine. It was so relaxing to hang out there for 4 hours with her and just talk and relax and be comfy girls. I forget how much I miss her until I have her again. God is so faithful in making us friends. We're on the same level and really need each other and it's just so crazy how we've gotten to this point together. Also, selfishly, it's really great to have a friend a year ahead of me that can explain things to me and pass on all of that wisdom!

Bachelorette party was last night. So much drama surrounding it. It ended up great in the end though. I had a very small group of my super supportive great friends (versus the fringe friends). We decided to hit a couple of bars in my "bride to be" beauty queen like outfit. I told them I wouldn't stay long, but it would be fun to go. We get to one and my maid of honors brother in law orders a round of shots. I really didn't want one, but was told I had to choice. And then we walked to 3 or 4 more bars wtih the same story. At one, they handed me a tumbler size cup of something green. It was good stuff though. A lot of the bars tenders or waitors said "this one is free for the bride.. drink up!" so I got a lot of them free.
We ended at a cool club in town that I had never been to before. It was more like a really big, casual, fun bar than a club. Open mike night-- we sang "Goin to the chapel". I'm sure it sounded worse than howling wolves, but it was fun and that's all that matters! In the end, I drank way too much but had SO much fun! (And at least it's legal now for me to drink my heart out ;) )

So...now I'm off... to be married!!!!!! After my last story, I'm going to try to say this and have it not sound hypacritical. I really hope and pray that people come away from our wedding feeling Christ. Walk away from the church unable to shake that all-encompassing feeling of Christ and our relationship. I want them to see him and understand the parallel of Him and marriage, and to say that our marriage does nothing but reflect Him. If that happens for just one person, we'll have been successful.

And I'll leave you with this: EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Holding hands with small fingers

Life is pretty grand right now. I finally decided about a week or 2 ago that I was done being stressed and unhappy and that I need to enjoy the moment. I was right, and it's so refreshing! I've been on cloud 9 ever since. I finish my job on friday. It's bittersweet- like always. I will miss my kids SO MUCH! I've only known them 2 months, but I guess that's all it takes. I've been raising them for 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, so really it makes sense. One of my favorite kids- the sweetest, cutest, most fun little boy I've ever met (approprietly named Tony), today was the last day we get to hang out. He doesn't come on thursdays or fridays. So sad!

My dress still isn't finished. I went yesterday for the "final fitting" and it was still too big. I told the girl it was too big of a size in the first place!! I'm even more in love with it now that it fits (mostly). It looks AMAZING on and I'm so excited to wear it!!! I couldn't stop looking in the mirror... it's incredible.

We had some drama this week regarding the groom and his brother and almost kickng him out of the wedding. I was all for it, but it isn't going to happen. (I'm still all for it)

My shower was on sunday, and it was SO fun! I got the most incredible rehearsal bouquet out of it. It looks more like a pillow... pretty incredible.

My parents keep talking about "next week", and I find myself questioning what's happening next week. Am I really getting married "next week"??? This is really happening? It honestly doesn't seem real. It doesn't seem like it will happen next week. It seems like it will be 3 or 4 more months from now. It's so surreal and unreal!