by Carrie on August 27, 2010
Time to celebrate or panic, depending on who you talk to. We are finally into the double digit countdown – 92 days!
93 days until Disney World, but that’s besides the point.
I am not in any state of panic, more one of relaxing. This month is going to be SUPER easy for us. We’ve already done so much of the hard work, now it’s just picking a couple small last things and turning it all over to our day-of coordinator.
Yep, we hired our coordinator this past month and fortunately she’s a very calming presence. She’s seen the house and heard all of our ideas and not only was she excited about everything we had planned, but she seemed to understand everything that I was wanting the day to be like. This takes a huge amount of stress off my shoulders, I don’t have to worry about family running things the day-of…less work for all of us and more time to spend together.
We are still working on finishing up the last bit of our invitations & completing our wedding website (hopefully this will all be done this weekend!)
All of the decorations are planned and we’re in process of getting crafty and putting things together. I’d really like to have all of the decorations done by the end of September. If I succeed in that – we’ll pretty much be out of things to do except sit back and wait for RSVP’s to come in, attend a couple bridal showers, finally take our engagement photos, and go to a couple dress fittings…but all of that is not my job, I just have to show up. (YES!)
Now that most of the stress is all gone for at least another month, hopefully two – I have no idea what to do with all of this free time.
by Carrie on August 23, 2010
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Bob and I spent the weekend finishing out our registry. It’s amazing the things you learn about each other when you have 10 minutes to decide what might live in your home for the next 10 years and beyond.
He tends to gravitate to deeper manly man colors like burgundy, navy blue, and dark greens. I’m pretty confident that he could live in a dark man cave somewhere and thrive.
I tend to like neutrals and small bits of cohesive color everywhere. He kept telling me that I only like white/ivory/tan for everything. I didn’t believe him only because I love just about every color of the rainbow. I did not realize how “stuck” in neutrals I was until we went back over our completed lists…he’s so right (don’t let it go to your head dear!)
We spent about 15 minutes picking out towel colors that we both could live with. He won his blue and green and I won my tan and brown.
We also argued over bedsheets. I have this weird thing about sleeping on dark color sheets. I could have a million sets of white or ivory sheets and be happy. Again he tends to like the really DARK blues and reds. Those just don’t represent a restful night sleep to me. Apparently this issue means I need to get my head checked.
It’s been a lot of give and take to find things that we both enjoy and will fit in our house for many years to come. I guess that creating a registry teaches you a lot about each other and is just one more passage to get through before the wedding.
One thing we did agree on though – is when it comes to having kids, we’ll gladly hand the scanner over to our mothers to create that registry….We’re pretty much done with those things!
by Carrie on August 18, 2010
This kid is the best kid in the world:
My nephew Bryson will be our ring bearer at the wedding. He is one of the smartest, sweetest, and funniest kids I’ve ever met, and yes I do gush because he’s family. Since we’re having such a close family affair it only seemed right to have him involved – so ring bearer it is! And he’s REALLY excited about rocking a tux like the big guys.
We were having one problem though – and there is really no nice way to put this…I hate ring pillows. Those ugly satin things that you’ll use for one day in your life and then wonder why the heck you used something so horrible at such a pretty event. I hate those and those ridiculous flower girl baskets, but we’re not having a flower girl …so moving on back to the point. Pillows = Bad, Ring Bowls from Paloma’s Nest = happy tears!
btw – how cute is the wood thank you heart? excellent packaging!
The photos do not do this pretty little thing justice. I’m really happy that I decided to go this route and love it even more now that I have it. I can already guess that this will be my favorite keepsake from the wedding – and a usable one at that. It’s perfect for my bedside table to put my rings in every night before I go to sleep.
There are all sorts of customizations that you can do – names, dates, sayings…etc. We went with a sweet saying and our wedding date – and I love it (as if I hadn’t already said that enough)
by Carrie on August 15, 2010
Actually – I had a really productive weekend.
My Jeep has been having some issues lately and the most recent one was the A/C switch stopped working. Now with the August heat here in Texas this can be a really non fun thing to deal with. Fortunately my Dad is all sorts of handy, called a junk yard and was able to find a replacement switch for 1/5th of the cost of a new one, quick trip to Houston on Friday night and I was all set mid-day Saturday and heading back to Austin. Thanks Dad – you’re the best!
Saturday night, I just kinda relaxed. Read a book & caught up on my google reader.
Apparently if I relax a bit I end up with all sorts of pent up energy the next day. So much energy in fact that I not only cleaned my closet and my dresser in the bedroom, but also finally cleaned my side of the bed where the magazine monster had been stacking up and cleared out the drawers in my bedside table. Hows that for skipping the gym.
Every six months or so I try to go through my closet and donate all of the things that I’m not wearing anymore. Since we’re in late summer it’s a pretty good time to get it done. With back to school shopping going on, my lightly worn clothing might be helpful to someone. So here is the before:
Loads of clothes – half of them so old that I never wear them. I’ve heard that you only wear a certain percentage of your closet…and I tend to do that. I repeat certain shirts over and over for awhile and then they’ll sit there for a few months after that unworn. Also, yes the floor of my closet is covered in shoes, 90% of them I also no longer wear. There is a half empty shoe rack right in front of them, I was just too lazy to actually put them away.
This is what I was able to clean out of JUST my closet (not including any of the stuff from my dresser I can donate as well) :
Holy smokes – that is a lot of clothing. Happily all of this stuff is now boxed up and ready to be taken to Goodwill this week. Plus when I cleaned my dressers I added another large stack of clothing. It really felt good to purge all of this stuff that has been cluttering my space. Here are a few more photos – this time of the glorious organized by color and type afters:
Virtually everything now has a place, all of my shoes fit on the shoe rack, my other purses are stacked on top of my “winter” box full of sweaters – and look at all those empty hangers! Before I was actually having a hard time finding one when I needed to hang something up. Now the hard part will be keeping it this way all the time! Putting away my laundry is one of those habits I’d like to gain.
I also mentioned that I cleaned my side of the bed and my bedside table – the before is pretty ridiculous…I was being eaten by a magazine & book monster:
and the much calmer after:
It’s not so great when messes just get so incredibly out of hand as both my closet and bedroom had. I always use my excuse of I just don’t have time to keep things clean, but if I can just maintain this now life will be so much easier. The amazing part of this – I timed myself while cleaning, and I was able to tackle my closet, both dressers, bedside table, and the magazine monster in under two hours – and that includes boxing up the items to donate, bagging all of the trash, sorting out the stuff to recycle, and dusting and vacuuming. TWO HOURS! That’s it. Where is my excuse now?
p.s. double win here, cleaning out the closet was one of my August goals. Check one off this list as a win!
by Carrie on August 11, 2010
You’ve all heard me talk lots and lots about our two dogs – the two of them are so weird sometimes.
Take Katie for instance. She answers to bug, monster, katie-bug and just about any other name you can call her…but the funniest thing that she does is if you ask her a question.
She’ll start out normal:
Then if you start a question or a statement with Do… or So…, it’s like she’s really trying hard to understand what you’re asking. Either that or trying out for the dog version of poltergeist:
And then there is Faye, she doesn’t do much of anything – except sleep like this:
How did we end up with the crazies? Does anyone else’s dog do random stuff like this?
