Wedding Update

The wedding plans are coming along nicely. We are getting very close to be done. We have officially picked a florist and paid the deposit. Finding a florist was definitely the most frustrating thing we've had to do so far, imagine that. But we really like the one we picked, it's a family owned florist and the Mother and Daughter who run it are really sweet and easy to work with so we are happy with our choice.

We have also found some muscians that I think we are probably going to hire. My Mom and I heard them play at another wedding and it was beautiful! I'm not a big fan of recorded music at weddings. Live music is just so beautiful and I have such an appreciation for the talent and enthusiasm that the musicians I have. I had one wish in all my years of dreaming about my wedding day, and that was to walk down the aisle to live music. So I'm really hoping this works out!!

My Mom has recruited a couple of my aunts to help us decorate the church which will be a big help. So she came up Saturday and we went over and I kind of told her what I wanted, actually I told her exactly what I wanted ;) We are going with simple but elegant. I really like candles more so than flowers, plus they are cheaper!! So for only a couple hundred dollars we are going to be able to decorate the church. I think it's going to look really nice.

Well that's it so far! Have a great week!

State Fair

We had a really fun time last night at the NC State Fair. For those of you who don't know, I start getting excited about the fair around like January. I absolutely LOVE the state fair!! I still have yet to meet someone who gets as excited as I do about the fair, it's crazy. Usually I eat until I'm sick but this year Kyle and I did really well. Here's all that we ate:
- Al's french fries
- nachos and cheese
- giant dill pickle
- deep fried snickers bar
- grilled corn on the cob
- candy apple

I was so proud because we usually also get a bloomin' onion and fudge. We were good this time. But all of those upside down, spinning rides did kinda get to both of us. Those rides are not as cool when you're not a kid anymore. But we did also got to see all of the animals (the Angus beef cows looked really yummy), and we saw the art work, and cooking contests (somebody made a Paula Dean cake and it had a stick of butter on top, I thought that was funny), and the arts and crafts. Then of course every night, they always do fireworks!! :) We had such a great time!

Well I'm off to work, so everyone else: Have a great weekend!

Pics

Here's the pictures from our engagement party :)

Me and Kyle


Me and the sisters, Lesley and Leah


Chad


Boys watching football


opening presents


Dad, me, Crystin, Mom, G-ma


Me and the bridesmaids

Nice Weekend

Wow, It's been a really long time since I've posted anything, life is so busy!! We did have a very nice weekend though. Saturday my Mom and I went to a wedding at our church which was really fun and we got some ideas for decorating, music, ceremony stuff, etc. Then we met with another florist (the 4th one we've met with!) but we weren't really impressed. So we are going to go with one of the other ones that was a little more expensive but one that will do exactly what I want and do a great job. So hopefully that will be one more thing I can check off of the list. Then my Aunt gave Kyle and I an engagement party Saturday night which was cool. We had good food and got lots of presents!! (pics coming soon) I've got all of our gifts so far displayed on the dining room table, hehe, I'm super excited!!!!!

Then Sunday came and I wasn't feeling great at all!! I woke up with a bad headache and decided to go to church anyways hoping it would go away if I ate something. It did NOT go away, in fact it got tons worse and I had to leave and go sit in the car but then I started feeling sick. So anyways, I threw up the medicine I had taken so I had to wait for my stomach to settle and try taking some more. I spent most of the afternoon in bed and my headache finally went away. But the medicine I had taken left me feeling really crappy. I still feel crappy today and in fact I am developing some type of cold/virus. My throat is killing me and my lymph nodes are pretty swollen. So I'm drinking lots of fluids and trying to get some rest, ha!. I have to get well by Friday because we are going to the NC State Fair!!!! I can't wait!

I hope everyone else is happy and well!!