Honeymoon, you are SO close!

Last night Mat and I went through a whole bunch of stuff on the internet about our cruise and we were so excited! I think we were most excited about the food, but that is one of our favorite activities by far so I'm not too surprised. We are so prepared to sail away it isn't even funny. The first half of our trip in San Diego is going to be great fun. I'm really looking forward to the zoo and Sea World and Universal Studios! I think more than anything, I'm looking forward to seeing Mat enjoy these places. We might try to go to a winery or two, but we're just going to play it by ear and see what happens.

Tonight we'll finish up some work in the yard (at least I hope finish!). I should probably start packing now because I know it is going to take me forever to figure out what I'm taking. Mat said he was just going to take all the clothes he owns. Boys have it so easy! I'm for sure going to come up with a checklist for packing. I think I make at least one list everyday. Sometimes it is work stuff, sometimes housework, sometimes a grocery list, but I sure do love them.

Some very exciting news - we got a railing for our front steps! I know, I know, it is almost too much excitement to take. I think it looks pretty good and we had to have it in order to continue our insurance policy. Here's a beautiful picture (though not taken with our new fabulous camera that we'll be taking on our honeymoon and we'll soon have the best pictures ever):

You can see our new roof too! I think I promised to put that picture up and I know you all just couldn't wait for me to post a picture. It was starting to get dark while I took it, but you get the idea.

Mat's getting his hair cut tonight and I got mine cut last night. We are going to be the cutest little honeymooners there ever were!

Painting, Check!

So we finished the painting of our guest bedroom last night. It was more work than the primer, but I think it looks pretty nice. Looking at it this morning in the day, I think we'll have a few touch ups to do, but overall I think we did a great job! The color is fun and I think will really brighten that room up. It is weird seeing it a color though, I'm just so used to plain old boring room.

Tonight we'll work on pulling out the carpet. I think this is going to be a pain. Not really the carpet, but the mat is stapled down and we'll have to remove all the staples. I just hope the floors aren't horrible or something. I guess we can always buy a rug! Then we just need to nail up the baseboards and we'll be finished. I think maybe we might be done by the weekend, but it may be next week. Either way, I'm super excited to be really making some progress on the room.

I think Mat and I are both feeling the pressure of a million things we need to do in the next few weeks. It is hard to look at it and know we will get everything done, but I just know we will. And if something doesn't get done, no one will really know but us! I just wish I didn't have two conferences in the next two weeks! That would make things a lot easier for me. Then I could take a day or two off work and get some things accomplished. I guess I just better get my butt in gear and get some stuff done and maybe I can at least leave early on Friday.

Memorial Day Weekend

Whoosh. That was one good, long, busy weekend. Friday started off the weekend when I got to leave work early, which is always a fun treat! So we went to the gym and were home at a normal time for dinner. I did some wedding stuff and we watched the Grey's Anatomy season finale.

Saturday morning I was up bright and early to go shopping and run wedding errands with my mom. We had such a great day, but man, were we tired when we finally got home at 7 that night. My feet were tired and I probably could have fallen asleep at 9! I did make it through Top Chef before my little eyes told me it was time to go to bed.

Sunday I got up and did our grocery shopping and cleaning for the week, while Mat and his dad finished the roof. Well, technically they finished today, but it is now completely finished!! I know they are so happy and I'll be happy to have my cleaning and shopping partner back. After I got home from the store, I put together some food to take over to my parents for dinner. We had some delicious food for dinner with them and did some fun wedding things. We also got our wedding gift from my parents early and it was our pots and pans!! We were so excited and were totally surprised. We can't wait to use them and I know we'll just love them to pieces. We even had time for a game of hand and foot and my mom and stomped the boys this time around. It was nice to play a game and actually relax for a few minutes with them.

Today started off nice and early again. Mat and I tackled the organizing of our garage. It was so great to get that done. We had a few boxes that hadn't been totally unpacked from the move and it was hard to walk in there. Now, we can go out and wrap presents at our little present wrapping station and we have the china cabinet set up with books and things that won't fit in our house. It looked really nice until we moved everything out of our guest bedroom into the garage! But that is only temporary while we paint!

We might be officially crazy, but we decided that we do want to paint the guest bedroom and pull up the carpet. We might hate ourselves for doing it so close to the wedding, but it isn't that big of a room. We actually got it all taped off and even primed tonight. So (fingers crossed) it will be all painted tomorrow night! It didn't take too long at all to get it all ready. I think it is going to look so great once we get it all finished.

Sometimes Mat and I don't use our thinking caps. We bought some molding to put up after we pull out the carpet to match the rest of the house. For some reason, the guest bedroom has no molding. It is seriously the lamest of all rooms. Anyway, we bought the molding in four pieces for the four walls. One of the walls is about 12 feet long and so we had this super long molding and finally figured out how to get it in the car. We start home and SNAP! The long molding just snapped in half and went flying off! I'm not sure why we didn't think about that happening, but it did. So now we have to go back and get a new one and have to pay for it. Stupid us.

So nonstop fun for us this weekend! This week we'll be painting and pulling up carpet. This weekend I leave to go to a conference for a few days. We need to still do lots of wedding related items this week, so I know we'll be super busy. I think I'm headed off to sleep. Sleep is good.

Gulp.

Now it is less than one month until our big day! Yikes. I am really looking forward to seeing all of our friends and family that are coming into town. I wish we could have a week to spend time with everyone. It will be such a great weekend!

This weekend, however, does not look like much fun. Mat and his dad are going to finish the garage roof, while I am going to be working on organizing our garage. Our garage has become a bit of a home to every single box we didn't all the way unpack. So there are boxes everywhere, opened and not unpacked. Then we have a million pounds of wrapping supplies. Tissue paper, ribbons, boxes, etc. and there is no rhyme or reason to any of it. So I'll try to work on that and hope that it isn't freezing. This morning it was in the 40s and I really thought we were past that! It is supposed to be cool and rainy (Spring returns) all through the weekend. Luckily it's Memorial Day weekend so I have a three day weekend!

Saturday will be fun lots of fun because I get to spend it shopping with my mom! We're going to hit all kinds of fun stores to get things ready for the wedding. So at least it won't be all garage organizing this weekend. I guess I still have one more work day to make it through until I get to the weekend!

So Close...

Mat and his Dad worked all weekend to get the roof finished, but they still have a tiny bit more to go. They are going to be working on a little in the evenings and hopefully it will be finished by the time I get back from my board meeting in Cascade this week. It looks so good! I really wasn't that excited about getting a new roof, but it really does give new life to the house and it is just one of many home improvement projects we'll be working on at this house.

I spent too many hours on Saturday messing with our washing machine. It is so slow to fill when we use our cold water. So I took off the house and tried to clear the screens. Well, I think that made it even worse! So I headed up to Lowe's and got two new hoses for the washing machine just hoping that would help. After messing with it forever, it now works great! So laundry is fun again. I don't know why, but I still haven't stopped enjoying doing laundry. It's not so much that I love it, I just love that we have our own washer and dryer right there in our very own home. I can wash whatever I want, whenever I want. I don't have to worry about the hours of the laundromat or that people might steal my clothes or that maybe I should wear those jeans a couple more times to get the most out of the load I run that costs like $2.50 or something.

We also got to put one very big checkmark on our wedding checklist. Our invitations went out in the mail today! What a wonderful feeling to have those out and en route to everyone. Mat and I are so happy at how they turned out. They look great and were definitely worth spending a ton of our weekend on them. We also met with our florist and got some more details pinned down with our flowers. So we're moving right along on schedule.

I'll try to update while I am in Cascade for my board meeting, but I'm not sure how great internet access will be. I hope it works though because it will be nice to keep up with email instead of having 800 to check when I get back!

Friday Bloggingness

I don't see any reason why I can't make up new words that have to do with the word blog. Everyone says blog now and I bet it is even in the dictionary. At my college job waiting tables, I used to make up words and try to see if other people would start using them. I could usually convince a few people, but that was just because they thought it was funny. Do you think you make any money if you make up a new word? Probably not.

So this weekend Mat and his dad are going to install our new roof! It is so exciting to see our shingles just sitting on top of the house waiting to be installed. I will probably be having panic attacks all weekend that Mat is going to fall off. I thought about going out of town and acting like it wasn't happening. I wouldn't say I am scared of all heights. I'm okay if I'm in a building looking out a window, or there is a really good steady railing on a balcony. But standing freely where I might fall to a tragic death if pushed or a strong wind blows me over, is not my idea of fun. I tried to get on the ladder when Mat was putting up Christmas lights and got to the third step and Mat had to carry me down and get me a paper bag to breathe in. So maybe I am exaggerating a little, but I'm not looking forward to Mat dangling from our roof all weekend. I'm going to take picture tonight of our before roof. I'll get those up sometime this weekend.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! We're going to dinner with my parents tonight and then we'll head over to their house sometime this weekend to put the wedding invitations together! I can't believe it will be two months away on Monday. I guess time really does fly!