Sar...You're the best!

Last week my BFF Sar threw me the absolute BEST bridal shower. Thanks to all who came. It was fun to see peeps I haven't seen in days, months, some even years. I had a lot of fun and got some pretty sweet stuff. Sar, you are the best! Love you!

Here are some pics of the event.

My Aunt RaNae's house with the food all set up.

My Grandma, Aunt Kathy, cousin Amy and Aunt RaNae

Opening Jana's gift

Trying on some stuff

Megan, Savannah and Ashlee

Some of the girls

This is my "little helper" for in the kitchen.

Hope you enjoy the pics! Thanks again Sar!

Cleansing...almost like a burden being lifted...

So these past few weeks I have been in the process of packing up my life. For the next few weeks or maybe more I will be moving in with my loving Grandma while all my belongings will be moving in with P's stuff in storage. It's amazing to realize just how much stuff one can accumulate over a few years. So slowly I have been throwing away, giving away and packing up what remains. It is so cleansing to get rid of stuff. It's like a stress relief. Sometimes I feel like Monica on Friends who just loves packing! I don't really love it but I love to see it all done. I wonder if I will ever be done, however because there is just so much of it. But I have to be done by Monday so we can take it all to storage. What's even better is I keep getting more stuff for the wedding! Can't wait to have my own place where I can really settle down and have an awesome kitchen cause that's where I have the most stuff. :)

FINALLY!!!

This weekend I finally finished addressing all of my announcements. It was such a good feeling. Since P wasn't feeling well, it was the perfect time to keep him company and get such a huge chore out of the way. It didn't hurt to watch Michael Phelps make history at the same time too. What is sad though, is now that the swimming portion of the Olympics is over, everyone will go back to not caring about the sport I love so much. So I'm happy the task is completed and I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment. Now onto my next task...finding a place to live! If anyone knows of a cheap basement apartment that is month to month rent please let me know! I've got 2 weeks to find a new home.

Excited About Bronze?

Last night P and I stayed up late watching the Olympics. Probably too late for me since I fell asleep. But I did awaken to watch the end of the Men's Team Gymnastics. Apparently while I was asleep the USA team was ahead and started to falter in the last two events. They did so poorly that they barely got Bronze, only because Germany didn't do a fantastic job. But what P and I discussed was, why were they so happy for Bronze? Wouldn't you have been happier for Gold? I would have. But then again they are all first time Olympians so getting any medal would probably make their day. So maybe I should go easy on the guys...

2 Months Left!

Well, so far I have made it 4 months of being engaged and am so happy to say that 2 months from today is the big day! I started stuffing envelopes yesterday...P said I had found a new love and it was stuffing envelopes! Guess he was feeling a little neglected. But I am a woman and can't really sit still for too long so as we watched the Olympics I also stuffed envelopes. It's a long hard job but coming along and didn't take as long as I thought. Now to addressing them. That might take forever. :( But it needs to be done and I hate projects hanging over my head so I am sure it will be done this week as we continue to watch the Olympics.

P.S. Congrats to the Men's 4 x 100 relay! That was AWESOME! I love swimming as most know so it brought back some really good memories. Of course I never broke any records like they did. Go USA!

Ever felt like that?

The Joys of Biking

So some of you , if not all of you who read this, know that I am training for a triathlon. You may think I am crazy for doing such a thing, which I may very well be, but what can I do? Just do it I guess. So in order to do that as well as save on gas, I have taken up riding my bike to work. This is going well so far, well, at least going to work. There are some hills and they can make me pretty tired but I just push through the pain. Going home, however, is a whole other story. You see, I live on top of a mountain and work down below. So going to work is a lot of downhill, while going home is almost entirely uphill. 6 miles of uphill gets a bit tiring, especially when it is about 600 degrees outside with a headwind of 100000 miles per hour. Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit but that's what it felt like. Yesterday was, in fact, only the second time I have attempted to ride home and luckily a girl I know stopped by me in her new SUV and asked me if I really wanted to ride the rest of the way home. I said of course not and gladly put my bike and myself in said SUV and rode home in air conditioning. Hopefully tomorrow will go a bit better. Don't judge that I took today off! ;)

Update on the Wedding

So in roughly 2 months I will no longer be a single woman, rather a married one. Wedding plans seem to be moving along. The latest? The invitations are now done! Well meaning they are printed and waiting for me to go pick them up. Then the fun begins! Stuffing 600 envelopes sounds like it would be fun, but I'm still a little skeptical of it all. :) Of course I have always wanted to double envelope my announcements so I went with that, but now that I am faced with the task, I'm wondering what I was thinking. All in all I am pleased with how it is progressing. The pictures are done and Aaron Snow, my awesome photographer, gave us a $100 credit for printing pics professionally by pictage.com. We ordered some of our favorites and are excited to see them. By the way, I previously thought it was pronounced pictage but found out yesterday that it is pictaaage instead. Just thought you all might want to know that random fact. By the way, not so familiar with the when it is appropriate to send out announcements. Guess I'll google it.

Let the Games Begin!

Well here I am, finally posting on my very own blog! I have been very scared and perhaps it will all crash and burn in my face, but I guess we'll see how it goes. My sister has been pushing me to do this so that she can keep up on the happenings of my life. Only took me 3 months or so to finally create the blog and one more month to write something. So all you be patient with me. :)