Our Wonderful Wedding

So I don't have pictures to share yet, but I want to share the details of our wedding day and everyone can look forward to pictures later!

Saturday morning I woke up and ate some delicious cinnamon rolls with my parents (my request for breakfast!). Family started arriving soon after that to help with the setup of the barn. We went down to the barn to start decorating and bringing in everything. We weren't there too long before Joy, Chad and Tal showed up to pitch in. Everyone worked on something - it was so great! My aunts worked together to make tulle bows for the posts and Paige helped me to wrap ribbon around the place. My uncles and my dad strategically placed all of our favors (which were tiny pots with potted flowers or seed packets for the out of town guests) on the railings. It was so great to have everyone there to help!

Jenny (Mat's sister) was going to be our onsite coordinator and she was a lifesaver! She showed up at noon to help get things going with the rental company and she took charge so we could go have some lunch and get cleaned up for the wedding. While I was at the barn, Mat was running around with Cory getting all of the beverages and ice for the reception. So I went to my parents house and had lunch with my bridesmaids - Turkey, Pesto and Anaheim Pepper sandwich. YUM. Mat was then on duty at the barn (we decided not to see each other at all until I was walking down the aisle) and he stayed for all the other people to drop things off - the cake, flowers, etc. They did such an awesome job and it was so nice to know everything was taken care of and I could get ready without worrying.

Renee showed up to do my hair and of course, it turned out perfect! We were glad we did a practice run, but I think we really felt like it turned out better this time around. Our photographer, Cristi Dame, showed up and started taking pictures as I put on my makeup. I hadn't felt nervous all day, but it was time to put on my makeup and I'm not the best at makeup, so I was nervous about that and that I was running out of time. I didn't want to be late. I kept calling Mat to make sure he was going to come take a shower and get ready on time! So I got my makeup on and it looked pretty good! So I put on my dress and shoes and I was ready to go! By then, I was getting totally nervous!

We drove down to the barn and I got safely inside before Mat showed up. I ended up standing in a storage room that was pretty hot (no a/c) and there was really no place to stand, so we all just kind of huddled in one spot of the room! It was funny to see us all in there. All of the guests were standing in the shade until the last possible minute since we didn't have any shade over the chairs. Jenny was helping to coordinate everyone and got everyone seated and then the moms were seated. I think it was then I realized that I forgot my "something borrowed, something blue, something old and something new". So my mom gave me her ring with a blue stone that was borrowed and my dress was new and I think we decided the ring was old too.

Then it was time for the bridesmaids and then me to walk down the aisle. My dad and I started down the ramp and I looked up and saw Mat and started crying! So my dad said he was going to tell me a joke. I'll never forget it! He said, "Why did the coyote cross the road?" and then I said, "Yes." He started laughing and said it wasn't really a joke. It was good enough to get me to stop crying. As I got closer, I saw Mat and he looked amazing. So we started the ceremony and I am so glad it was not very long because it was hot! Someone said it ended up being over 100 that day! It was perfect and I know it really meant a lot to both of us since we worked on everything that was said together.

After that, the reception started and Mat and I went to take some pictures. Little did we know that we were going to spend the majority of our evening taking pictures together! I wish we would have done some before, but at the same time, I am happy we didn't see each other before and I know neither of us will forget that moment when we saw each other! The reception was so perfect! We had the best food and cake there ever was! And we actually got to eat. We did the garter toss and the bouquet toss. We cut cake and didn't shove it in each other's mouths! Mat and I had our first dance to Marc Broussard's The Beauty of Who You Are. My Dad and I danced to Sarah McLachlan's Rainbow Connection. Both seemed really long! It was so fun though. Cory (Best Man) gave a sweet toast and my sister (Matron of Honor) gave a toast that I struggled to not cry through! I loved the entire night. I wouldn't change it for the world. And I wouldn't change my wonderful husband for anything. I'm really the luckiest woman in the entire world!

Where to Begin?

I've been putting off a recap of the wedding all week because I don't know if I can even put into words how amazing it was! I don't think I could have imagined how wonderful everything would be and how perfect it turned out.

It all started on Wednesday night around 11:45 pm when one of my bridesmaids and oldest friends, Joy, arrived in Boise! We whisked her home and Joy and stayed up talking for too long before we both decided it was time for bed!

Thursday morning Joy and I got up and got ready and headed out to lunch right downtown. We both had tasty sandwiches! We went to a couple jewelry stores looking for a necklace before we decided to hit the bead shop and I just made a necklace and earrings to wear on the big day. They turned out super cute and all for $10! It was then time for us to head out to Eagle for our manicures and pedicures with my mom and sister. Now this is the kind of pampering I could go for every day! We all went with a french manicure and I chose a french pedicure, my mom went pink on her toes and my sister and Joy went red on their toes. We really had the cutest hands and feet in the whole state.

Joy and I headed home and on the way stopped to pick up 5 large pizzas from the tastiest pizza place in Boise, Casanova. I'm hungry just thinking about it! We got home and waited for our guests to arrive. Mat and I decided that we wanted to have our friends over for a bachelor/bachelorette party and just to hang out. It was so much fun! We had pizza, lots of people came over, there was karaoke and picture taking and little ones. It was a great night and got even better when we picked up Joy's husband at the airport later that night. Everyone else had headed home, so the four of us were forced, I mean, GOT to play Loaded Questions. We also played some Scene It Squabble, but stopped on account of us all being old.

Friday was my bridal shower! My sister and mom threw me a shower and it was so much fun! They seriously thought of every single thing and everyone said it was the best shower they had ever been in. It had a kitchen them, so the centerpieces on the tables were fresh herbs (that Mat and I got to take home and plant later) and they were sitting in our new French Onion Soup Bowls! How cute is that? So cute. Then, all the guests had wine (4 kinds to taste) along with cheese, some delicious sandwich loaf things, and some crackers and bread. The cheese was so much fun to taste all the different kinds and they were so delicious. We played a couple different games - one was bingo, where most of the slots were filled in, but the guests had to fill in what they thought I might be getting as gifts at the shower. Paige (my second cousin?) won that one and was so excited to win a prize. The other game was way harder than I thought. It was called "Something Spicy" and everyone had to correctly identify spices by just smelling them! I thought it would be so easy and I missed quite a few. I loved it and everyone else did too! Sarah won that one - she is the spice queen. Then I opened my gifts and I got so many great things! One of the best gifts was a recipe book with recipes from friends and family that had all contributed their favorite recipes. I love it so much and so does Mat! We were looking through it together and was so excited to have some of his family's favorite recipes. The dessert was Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory - my favorite! I could eat a whole cheesecake. Not all at once. It is so hard to say how much the shower meant to me and how I noticed every single detail. I just hope my sister and my mom could see from how happy I was how much I loved every minute.

After the shower, we headed to the barn for a very quick rehearsal. It was hot! So we did a run through and then all headed to the rehearsal dinner, which was at the cutest park in Boise. The rehearsal dinner was thrown by Mat's mom and Nick, along with the help of her friends. They thought of everything! Not only was the food awesome, they had bought little toys and waterguns for the kids to play with. Those were a huge hit! I think we were all about ready to fall asleep by the end of the evening though, that was a long day!

I went home to get all my things and then Mat drove me out to my parents where I stayed the night before the wedding. We all talked for a few minutes at my parents house and then Mat left to head home. I did a little reading and then went to sleep. Now for the wedding day, you'll have to tune in when I have time to recap the whole day!

Mr. and Mrs.!!

It's official! Mat and I are an old, married couple! We had the best day ever and can't begin to thank everyone who were a part of our special day. I hope to do a really good recap soon after I catch up at home and work. We had a wonderful day and we can't wait for the honeymoon! 11 days until we leave...

2 Days!

It's so late on Wednesday, that I can actually say there are only two days until our wedding! I can't believe that it is already here. I thought it would never get here and we would just plan this thing forever, but now only two days!

Mat and I are heading to the airport in about 10 minutes and the festivities will officially begin as our first guest arrives - my bridesmaid Joy! We're so excited for her to arrive and let this wedding weekend begin!

Tomorrow we plan to just run a few last minute errands before Joy and I head to meet my mom and sister for our manicures and pedicures. Then, we're having all our friends over to see our house (most for the first time) and have pizza and beer. We just can't wait. Everyone else should be arriving by Friday! Friday is also my bridal shower and I honestly can't wait! My sister (Maid of Honor) and my Mom are hosting the shower and I know it will be so fun and perfect. Friday night we'll head to our rehearsal and then the rehearsal dinner. Mat's mom has been working so hard to get everything ready for the rehearsal dinner and I can't wait for that too!

Saturday is the big day! The weather is supposed to be perfect and I know everything else will be too. I'm not nervous at all! I just honestly can't wait to marry the love of my life. I am so excited! I know we'll be super busy from here on out, so next time I blog, I'll be a married woman for SURE! Miss everyone who couldn't be here - Deana and Chi and all my other readers who can't be here. XOXOXO I'll have lots of pictures and stories to share. Wish us luck!

Few and Far Between...

I don't think there will be many posts in the next few days as Mat and I start to finalize everything possible for the wedding. It really is amazing how much we have to do for our wedding! We are so excited and can't wait to share the day with everyone. We have friends and family that start arriving on Wednesday, so we are getting so close!

This weekend we are going to try to get all those last minute details taken care of and then we'll have a couple days to clean house before people get to town. That's the plan anyway! We are looking forward to every part of the weekend and I am just so appreciative of everything everyone has done for us. It means so much and we just are so happy!

My conference ended today, so now I have a few more days to work and then I'll be off until after the wedding. EEK! I guess I better get some things done at work so I can relax and enjoy our wedding weekend!

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!

One Month Until the Big Day!

I can't even believe that one month from today I'll be a married woman. I am seriously so excited that I might burst! Plans are coming along nicely, it just seems like there is more than enough to do on our plates.

Last weekend we had a very busy weekend. It started with our night out to see Floater. We had a great time and went to bed late (crazy for us on a Friday night!). Saturday I had a heck of a time fiddling with our borrowed mower and couldn't get it to start, so I just bought a new mower. I usually find that buying new things solves problems fairly easily. But I really did buy a new mower! It is a nice electric mower that plugs in and we really like it. The other mower wasn't ours and we had plans to buy a new one, so I just did it. I did mow the lawn and let's just say, I'm not the best mower. But at least I tried and I'll get better.

That afternoon, we went to our friend Alana's graduation party. She graduated with her Master's degree from BSU in Counseling (I'm not sure what the exact degree was!). It was a great day at her parent's house. We had a fun time playing lawn games and just lounging in the shade. And eating! There was lots of eating and drinking. We ended up the evening at Alana's to play some Mario Party and Scattergories and then we called it a night.

Sunday morning was when we planted our seeds for the garden. We'll find out in a few days whether we'll be getting anything from them. Then we headed to clean my work and met my parents downtown for the Idaho Green Expo. This was the first year of the Green Expo and was a pretty cool event. They had all kinds of exhibitors with green ways of doing things - there were cloth diapers, organic food, sustainable furniture, organic pest control, etc. You name it, they probably had it there. So that was fun and then we had a little lunch together.

That night we drove to Twin Falls and stayed in a hotel there so I could do a site visit in the morning for work. I checked out a new hotel and an event center that was recently opened to see if it would work for any of our events. After I did those site visits we drove to Blackfoot for Mat's Great Grandma's funeral. It was a beautiful service and her niece gave a wonderful speech about some of the great memories of her life. It was a sad day, but also there was relief to know that she was in a better place and she isn't suffering any longer.

We drove home Monday night and basically collapsed into bed. I think my allergies are getting the best of me these last few days and my head is not having fun. So yesterday I just kind got through until I could go to sleep again! I feel much better today and I know I'll just keep getting better as the week goes by.

A Little Bit of Bridezilla

I think the whole theory is right about Bridezilla coming out as you get closer to the wedding. In this case, my Bridezilla reared her ugly head with the DJ. It wasn't that bad, but I did get frustrated. I felt like I did when we met with this local company who sets up receptions and ceremonies - like they were telling me how our wedding should go and I didn't get much say in it.

So the guy shows up and is what Mat and I had feared - an over the top, really animated DJ Guy. He was nice, but just so energetic that it kind of makes us sick. (After he left, Mat even asked if I thought he snorted some coke right before he came in our house!) So we sit down and start going through our ceremony details. One of things Mat and I had talked about the previous evening was how everything was going to happen, who was walking when, etc. But over the top, really animated DJ Guy really, really, really wanted to talk us out of playing certain music and how people were coming in, etc. That's where I was annoyed. Seriously dude, I don't see why you care so much. And why do we have to do the exact same ceremony as every single other person who gets married in Boise? So maybe our vision is different, but there is nothing wrong with that. So that's where I got irritated and just told him that I respected his opinion, but that Mat and I had talked through the ceremony and reception and we knew how we would like the evening to go.

The rest of the conversation went fairly well, but I know he was disappointed when we opted out of the "Grand Cake Cutting Theme" (why can't we just cut the cake without really loud wedding bells?). We're excited about how everything is going to go and it seems like it is all starting to fall into place.

After over the top, really animated DJ Guy left, we got to pick more dandelions! I will conquer you dandelions.

Songs, Songs and More Songs

Tonight we meet with our DJ to go over our ceremony and reception choices for songs. I have a feeling he is going to be disappointed in us. Not only did we pick most of our songs, nowhere on our list is the YMCA, Chicken Dance, I Will Always Love You, etc. When I talked to him on the phone, he said that we could pick out specific songs to play, but that he will let us know if he thinks a song won't win the crowd or something like that. So tonight should be interesting, but ultimately it is our wedding reception, so we'll just have to be strong and stick up for our songs!

After we got into bed, we were talking about how maybe I should do some of my impressions for the wedding reception. Over the years, I've mastered some really great impressions. So I did my most famous three: Jerry Seinfeld, Arnold Schwarznegger and Yoda, but then I couldn't think of a single other impression. Mat and I just stared at each other blankly, but nothing was coming to either one of us. So we turned off the lights and a few minutes later one popped into my head and I had to start laughing because it is one of my favorites, inspired from a Saturday Night Live sketch, when Horatio Sanz plays Aaron Neville. In the end, I think we decided to save my impressions for another occasion. Preferably when no one is around but Mat.

Edited to add:
I forgot until just now about how Mat suggested that I do my Jeff Probst impression. And then I told him that just repeating the same thing that Jiffy says every week isn't exactly an impression. But I am always spot on.

50 Days!

Just 50 short days until Mat and I are officially husband and wife! I really think we're right on track with everything that needs to get done. I just can't believe how fast the time is flying by! I know the wedding will come and go before I even know it. I'm just trying to enjoy everything and take time to enjoy the slow moments with Mat while we can. I know our lives our just going to get busier over the next several weeks.

We sent out the invitations and already have quite a few RSVPs. We even came home to a present the other day! That was so exciting!

Work is keeping me busy these days and will be keeping me busy right up until the wedding, after the wedding and after the honeymoon! I'm ready for Friday night to get here. Tomorrow my mom and I are going shopping and then my sister and I are going to get together for dinner and some good old fashioned hang out time. I think Sunday we might work in the yard some. Who knows? We are a crazy couple...

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!

MIA

So I am a bad blogger. I went to Kansas City, with every intention of blogging while I was there. I even brought a laptop from work so I could check my email and do a little blogging. Then I get to the hotel and it was 9.99 for access! No way. I figured I would just catch up when I got home. But then, errands and work happened!

So I'll have to catch you up now. I went to a meeting planner retreat and it was pretty fun. I met some great people that I can talk with and come up with great ideas for my association. Kansas City reminded me a lot of Tulsa, but bigger. The downtown area we stayed in was a little sketchy in areas, totally different from Boise. On Saturday it was basically deserted. But I tried to take a few pictures and I'll post those later.

This weekend was beautiful and we broke out the grill Saturday and Sunday night. Saturday night we cooked up some of the finest $1 hot dogs money can buy. Sunday we made like three pounds of chicken for the whole week. We also grilled eggplant, but I think we really went overboard on the salt. Now it is cold again. It only got up to 45 today and it was at least 80 this weekend. Boo. I'm ready for warm!!

Mat purchased shingles today for our new roof. Mat and his dad are going to start on it this weekend, which is just so exciting. So it isn't the most exciting, but we are saving a TON of money on labor and it will just help to increase the value of our house. Plus, we have to fix some places on the roof anyway to keep our homeowner's insurance.

We got our invitations back from the printer! And we found someone to marry us! We're doing pretty good in the wedding planning department.

Hangin' at the Mall

Mat and I headed to the mall today after work to do some shopping for wedding supplies. We looked for ties for the gents and didn't find "the one". We did find some cute vases to put flowers in that will go on either side of the arch we're using for our ceremony. I'm excited about those! Oh, Pottery Barn, I heart you.

We also went to Zurcher's, the party store. It isn't as much fun as it sounds. BUT we did find some blue napkins people will use while they are eating cake. They were quite the bargain. We were trying to find some little tea lights that are blue, but they didn't have any. We might have to look online for those.

Our big mission this week is to find someone to marry us! I know, I know, we have waited a long time to do this. I could on for hours about all the things we need to check off the list!

I never gave an update on our game night last Saturday! It was so much fun (as expected). We showed up around 8:00 pm and Mat and I headed straight for the food. The shish kabobs weren't ready yet, so we snacked on cheetos and chips and salsa until they were. We had some great shish kabobs right off the grill, yummy salad and more chips and cheetos! And then of course, my delicious dessert and some chocolate chip cookies that were scrumptious also.

We started out with Scene It, Battle of the Sexes. The girls started out very slowly, but steadily we did take over the boys and won! Next up was Taboo. We pulled names out of a hat for this one and unfortunately, I was not on the girl's team who had been training for this moment her whole life. Every single turn she went it was like magic or maybe she created the game and they scored like 8 points. Then there was Mat (on my team) who said, "This measures outsideness." (crickets chirping) or the other girl on our team who just would read the word at the top of the card and get buzzed 5 times on every turn. So then we started Cranium, but never got to finish this one since I got a beer spilled on my jeans and disrupted the whole game. And no, it wasn't me that spilled the beer! Overall, it was a great time and I would like to thank Alana again for a wonderful game night! Her friends were lots of fun and we hope there is another one sometime soon.

Yikes.

Is it possible to have a panic attack over your wedding invitations? I just sent them to my printer and fear that if I look at them again my eyes will either cross permanently or I will find a mistake. I'm just trying to breathe in and out. The phone just rang. How could my printer be calling so fast? That's because it wasn't him. Whoosh. Why is this so stressful?

Easter!

My family had a wonderful Easter Sunday! We had a delicious brunch and then all wanted to nap for the rest of the afternoon. I think we might have decided on our invitations and RSVP cards. Who would have thought this would have been such an ordeal? I really thought the wording would come so easily, but I think we analyzed every single word. Now, we just need to give them a final look and then we're sending them off to the printer! I can't wait to get them back.

I put lotion on my very dry hands today when I got to work. Now they are sweaty and I can barely type. I really can't win!

Weekend Recap

Monday morning is here. Ugh. I really did not want to get up this morning when it was still pitch black outside. It hasn't been dark when I've been waking up for a few weeks and now I'm back to bumbling around in the dark. I guess this won't last too much longer and then it will be officially Spring and we'll be done with this cold, icky weather.

It actually was nice enough yesterday that Mat and I ventured out to play disc golf. I feel like I'm basically horrible at this and I get nervous because there are a million other people and they are all good. So I feel like everyone is waiting on the slow one to finish. We didn't play the entire course - there are 20 holes - but it was fun just to get outside and especially at the end when the sun came out.

Friday night Mat and I headed to the gym, which is not really fun, but usually totally dead on Friday night, so way nicer when we don't have to wait on anyone and we kind of have the place to ourselves. Then we came home and prepared our homemade pizza! Mat made the crust earlier that day and then he rolled it out and put all the toppings on it. I basically just stood there and kept him company. :) We ended up watching Lost and went to bed early!

Saturday morning I just got some things done around the house - laundry, grocery list, etc. One big thing I accomplished was getting my wedding planner organized. I put everything into nice little plastic sleeves and organized receipts and all that fun stuff. Mat and I basically decided what we want to do for our wedding invitations and just need to finalize those in the next couple days. I'm thinking we'll have them printed in the next week!! That is a big relief. That night, we went to dinner with my mom and dad at a new place we haven't been before. It was pretty good, but I don't think will take the top spot away from any of our old favorites. Then we headed to my parents house for a game of Mexican Train Game Dominoes. We had fun, but it ended up being a pretty long game! Mat and I headed home and just went to bed. We're just so crazy sometimes!

Sunday we got our grocery shopping done and as you already know played some disc golf. We also watched The Darwin Awards and Jurassic Park. I bought Mat Jurassic Park for Christmas, so that was one we were watching as we were making dinner. The Darwin Awards we rented and I quickly closed my eyes. Mat said that he thought it was okay and enjoyed it. We roasted our first chicken ever last night! It was really good, but seemed like a lot of work when you can just buy those delicious rotisserie chickens for the same price and no work! So I don't know how many roasted chickens we'll be making in the future.

That pretty much sums it up! It was too short, as always, but we have such a great time together and it was so fun to see my parents and get to catch up with them. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

New House and Wedding Plans

We love our new house! We got the keys at 7:00 pm last night and I was so, so happy! Mat and I were jumping around and we just absolutely love it. It is going to be so perfect for us. We had our families come over and meet us there so they could go on the first official tour. They loved it, of course! After they left we walked around again and then decided that we had to go to Home Depot and walk around. We finally left there at 9:30 and we hadn't even had dinner! So we ended up eating about 10 and we were both ready to fall asleep. We have all kinds of ideas of things we want to do while we live in our house, but we know we can't do it all at once. I did tell Mat that I felt like when you buy a house you should get a big chunk of money to buy new furniture or to work on the yard or whatever you want! I don't know who would do this, but maybe the banks?? Hee hee. Well, I like the idea anyway!

AND we got a wedding photographer! We went to see her last week and I loved her. Mat really liked her, but he hadn't looked through as many local websites as I had. So he wanted to look and maybe talk with a couple other photographers. Well, he spent his whole day off on Monday looking at websites and only came up with one that he wanted to talk with. But they already were booked on our date, so Cristi it is! Here is her blog that has a lot of her work from this summer: http://photosbycristidame.blogspot.com/ and her website is: http://www.cristidamephotography.com/cdpMain.html. We are really happy! She is fun and young and exactly what we were hoping for. Hooray!

So tonight we are going to do a little cleaning (although it is pretty clean already) and maybe bring a couple boxes over. We know for sure we need to get a couple things - like a shower curtain! So we'll probably try to run a couple errands too. We are having sandwiches every night this week so we can do this kind of thing. I can't wait to get some pictures on our blog, but we'll be tearing down our computer soon so it might be a few weeks.

I wish I didn't have to work for a living! I could be moving and decorating right now. :)

Who Knew?

Mat and I found a house!! We already put in an offer and they accepted! So now all we have left to do is the inspection tonight and hopefully all will go well with it. We really can't believe that it has happened this fast. We are so excited and totally fell in love with our little house the minute we walked up the sidewalk. This is so exciting for us to be buying our first house together! We will probably close at the beginning of August. We have our work cut out for us for sure this month.

I'll try to get some pictures up as soon as I can. Maybe tomorrow since we have the day off for the 4th of July.

It was pretty surprising that we found something we both loved so soon! We went on Sunday with our realtor to look at houses. We had given her a list of 15 houses we wanted to see, thinking that was way too many, but she had called them all and we actually went to see all of them! The 6th house we pulled up to was our house! The street is lined with all sorts of great trees and all of the houses are in great condition. We walk up the sidewalk and I already love it! Mat was holding my hand and looked at me and squeezed it, which I think meant he loved it too! We walked in and kind of wandered around and just loved everything! It's a cute little two bedroom, one bathroom house with a great backyard! We are planning on lots of barbeques out there! So we ended up leaving and then looked at the rest of the houses, which of course were nothing compared to our little house. So we went back to look at it again and decided that we just had to have it!

We got the call yesterday that we did get the house and all they wanted to change on our offer was the closing date! Hurrah for us! So now that's where we are. Mat and I are already starting to make floorplans in our heads and decide what will look best in what place. This is just so fun and I can't believe it still!

Besides that, I did go trying on wedding dresses with my mom. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't find anything this time around. I think I have it narrowed down a lot more to what I want, so we'll hopefully have better luck next time around! No other wedding plans made yet. It's now less than a year away! ARGH! I can't wait though. It's going to be so wonderful.

Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

One Year from Today...

Mat and I will be getting married! Now it seems like it isn't so far away. Tomorrow, I can say "in less than a year" we'll be getting married! Panic time! Just kidding. We have lots of time, so I am not too worried yet.

I have plans to go shopping on Wednesday with my mom for my wedding dress! I am really looking forward to that and really hope we find something or at least get some ideas. I don't really know what I want yet, so maybe that will be good when I start looking.

Tonight Mat and I are meeting with a mortgage lender to see what we can qualify for as far as a loan goes. I am really excited to be moving forward with looking for a house. We both are really ready to have our own home and get out of the apartment living. So this is our first step and then we might be able to spend some time looking online for houses this weekend. We aren't working on Monday in hopes that we could actually go see some houses. But it is kind of last minute, so we may not be able to. But we can at least do some driving around to see some of the houses that we find online.

Saturday is my sister's baby shower! I think we are pretty much ready to go. There are a couple last minute items we need, but other than that all systems are go.

That's about it for now. I'm so excited for both the wedding and looking for a house. If only Mat and I didn't have to work anymore. Wouldn't that be great?

Oh Where, oh where have we been?

I'm back in action with the blog! It's been awhile since I wrote, I got caught up in loads of conference work and then I got to go to the conferences. So I am now back, and settled in a little.

Not much has been going on with us. Mat is still in the process of looking for a job, but he still is working so there isn't a rush. Just mainly a rush for him because he is ready to get out of his current job! We are getting anxious to start the wedding planning! We have 9 days until we get into the "less than a year away".

Mat was in his best friend Cory's wedding this past weekend and it was great for us to get to see how it all played out. It was a great wedding and the place they held it was beautiful. I can't wait to see how all the pictures turn out. And man, did they take a lot of pictures! It was really fun for me, since I got to tag along with Christina and the bridal party. I tried to do my best to help out with anything they needed, since I know it can be a stressful day. But I got to see them take all the pictures and just how the whole day happened. Christina looked beautiful and her dress was so pretty! Mat, of course, looked so handsome in his tux. We both just can't wait until our wedding! So now we are going to start our search for caterers, photographers, cake, etc. There is a lot to do, but we have a lot of time to do it in.

Next weekend is my sister's baby shower! This is going to be so much fun and I am really looking forward to it.

That's about it for now. Hopefully, I can get back into more regular posts now that work has slowed down a little. We'll just wait and see though!