Horrible

So - I am horrible at updating this blog. : )

Life is good right now, I love being married. I love all of it.

I love waking in the night and finding Tim holding my hand, I love the sound of his snore. I love the warmth of his side of the bed. I love the extra snooze in the morning for 5 minutes of cuddling before the day starts. I love that the car is warm every morning before I even get out to it. I love that my english muffin is toasted and waiting for my when I get to the kitchen in the morning. I love cooking dinner for Tim. I love the quietness we share. I love the conversation we share. I love the competiveness of the Wii every day. I love doing his laundry and the smell of him on the clothes. I love rubbing the top of his head. I love the way he puts his arm around me and cups my shoulder in his hand. I love the way he teases me out of a bad mood.

I just love him so much, and feel so loved by him.

Married!

Finally the day came. It was perfect, everything went just as planned and better.

Catching up . . . .

So I just realized - or had pointed out to me - that I had not updated this blog in a very long time. So much has happened - I have been so busy. I will try to do a quick update then post pics later.

It is now only 30 days to the wedding - I am so excited! Things are done as much as they can be for now, just last minute stuff to do.

A friend is making the cake - she makes beautiful cakes and did one for her grandparents that was exactly what I had pictured for mine - she offered - I went for it!!

I am still going to make about 250 cupcakes - I think I have decided on the punch. I am hoping to make white grape/peach. We'll see if I can find enough of it.

Bunnie, Melinda and I made 250 white chocolate seashells to go on the cupcakes. The seashell favors are done.

I found a great deal on silk calla lillies for my flowers. I am still deciding on for Tim. I would love to find a really small calla lilly for his lapel.

I have the pics planned out that I want - a friend from work is going to do the pics - that is exciting. She takes the same style as I do and we like the same stuff.

Tim is the love of my life and I am so anxious to start our together life. Sometimes when we are driving along somewhere, talking or just being quiet, it feels as if we have been married for years. It is exciting, new, wonderful, and comfortable, I have never felt so loved, or loved so much. I have never been so much myself with any man. I love being me with him, and I love that he is totally himself with me.

That is all I can think of for now - did I say I was excited????

28 years ago today

Hard to believe that 28 years ago at this minute I was anxiously waiting to meet my first born. Jason is 28 today - so hard to believe that it was that long ago.

I am so proud of the man he has grown into. Even though the piece of his life are still falling into place he tries to follow the plan that God has for him. He has grown into a wonderful man.

Weird Pics

I have been playing with my camera settings in prep for trying to take a pic of the space station tonight. Some of them have turned out pretty cool.

on the cake

Well - it went on pretty easy. Smoothed out pretty nice. I kinda wished I had made some of the white chocolate shells to try on it. Oh well - I may try it again with all the decorations. This last pic is what I would like it to look like, or similar.

my first try at fondant frosting for the wedding cake

So I tried out the marshmallow fondant frosting that I found on the internet. It was so sticky to make - the pics don't even show how sticky but it ended up turning out pretty smooth. In the next couple days I will try putting it on a cake.

I also made a few white chocolate shells - I want to see how they freeze. See if I can make them way ahead and freeze them. I think they turned out pretty good.

Let you know how the frosting works on the cake.

classes

I am taking a 2 week on line class in Photoshop, I am learning some pretty cool stuff. Here are a few examples of what I have done.

this and that

So here are a couple of the trial shells I did for favors. I have about 180 of them left to go!!

We finished cleaning out the back bedroom that will be Scotts. Now we just need to paint it and then get Scott moved into it. The dining room is next, then on to the rest of the house. It is coming along. Only 15 weekends left to go to get it all done.

It has been hot the last few days, finally feels like summer. Tim and I headed to the coast after work on Thursday. It was so cold and windy that we could hardly walk on the beach. We did snap a few pics (see the post below). We did not stay on the beach too long. But we do have so much fun together!

a few pics

Make a Smilebox scrap pages

favors

So the asthma episode is pretty much over. Just a little tiredness left really.

Now I am ready to be on the move, I am starting on the wedding favors, kinda stumbled on what I wated to do. Seashells with our names and dates in them with bows. So easy and cheap and can be part of the decorations. And I found white paper lanterns at the dollar store with lights already in them - SCORE!!!

I will post a pic of the favors later.

cough cough cough

I have been down with an asthma attack for a few days now - it is finally getting some better. Tim has been so good, coming here every day at lunch and bringing me a big pop. : ) I was hoping to head back to work tomorrow but I don't know. We'll see. I can hardly wait to get a good deep breath without coughing up a lung. On the plus side I have been coughing so hard I think it is kinda like sit ups!

Engaged!

So I am engaged! The wedding is Nov 6th. It will be a small ceremony with a reception following.

Never thought it would happen to me, Tim is a wonderful man, and treats me like a Princess! I love him more than I thought I would love any one!

Chelsey's graduation

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

So I guess . . .

So I guess after being lazy and just posting pictures I ought to write something.

First off, I love that new program, SmileBox. There are about a million different layouts and ways you can use them. Makes posting pics a little more interesting and very easy to make it look like I worked hard at it. : )

So those pics were of our trip to Virginia to see Chels graduate. It was an amazing trip. The cabin we rented was really set in a beautiful location. Liberty University was huge. Much bigger than I ever imagined. There were 6500 graduates. I will post pics of this later.

We saw so much while we were there and did not really even scratch the surface of what we could have seen.

I will post more photo books as I get them done.

Tim and I traveled really well together. We drove over 2000 miles in the week we were there. We had a blast!

It was a little sad to tell Chelsey good bye. But I am so proud of her, and she seems to really like the job she has. I know this is where God wants her for now and that makes it so much easier.

Last One of DC

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

One last album before bed

Make a Smilebox postcard

Found this new program on line - Love it!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Make a Smilebox postcard

An irregular blogger :)

So I really thought I would be much better about posting to this blog - kinda like a diary. And then I remembered, even growing up I would start a diary every year and by the middle of January there would be just a few entries. LOL I haven't changed much in that area I guess. So I guess I will just write when I have time and not worry about recording everyday happenings.

Life goes on - I am busy - hopping between here and Tim's. Last weekend we went to the coast it was beautiful over there. Seems funny but we have had better weather over there this winter than over the last summer. It has been too cold to walk too much on the beach but it has been clear and beautiful.

We went to Comedy on the Coast, it was so funny. But went so much later than we thought, got home well after mid-night - actually like 2:30. Took me all week to recover from that. I am getting old I guess.

I am headed to Tim's today to helping him clean out his basement. Started a couple weekends ago - it is going to take some time. He is a "keeper" kinda like dad was. There is stuff down there that has not been touched in years - now I am a "thrower" - so this will be interesting. :) We have never had a fight, I don't anticipate it, but it will be fun to see how this all goes.

Feb. 14th will be one year from our first date. never thought I would date anyone this long. Or actually date any one. At this point in my life I never thought I would find love. But this has been an amazing adventure. We get along so well. Like to do the same things. He is so calm and even tempered and we are so good together. He calms me, settles me when I get too stressed. Tim has really taught me how to relax and not be so obsessive. I am getting him out and moving more. Doing more than just hanging out. We compliment each other so well. People at work have told me he is a different person, happier, since we started going out. That makes me smile. Tim makes me smile. I love him, I feel like I have waited my whole life for this person. I have never known a man like him, never been treated so well, or loved so completely. I have never felt like I could truly be myself with any other, but I can with Tim. Makes me wonder sometimes how my life would have been different if I had waited for this kind of love in the first place.

Ok - well I have rambled enough - need to get up and clean my house before I head down to Tim's.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to All!

I did not do much for New Year's Eve - just went to Tim's - he was feeling under the weather so it was quiet, we shared a kiss at midnight and then I drove home. It was quiet but nice.

Today though, Chelsey and I went out today to get some pics for her graduation. Man it was raining and cold, we did not get too many but here are a few we did get. I edited them in Photoshop. I think she is beautiful! We will probably go back out on Saturday - maybe.