I have funny friends

I receive all sorts of entertaining emails from my friends. I even have an email folder just for such things! They help me get through the week! I was trying to think of some fun things to put on my blog and thought this could work. So every once in a while, when I’ve saved up enough good emails I’ll post a few. Here are a few from last week. I may be the only person that gets a kick out of this... but its my blog so that's okay lol.


"Oh man, I don’t know if I can sing in front of anyone else!!!!! I get embarrassed… Although I probably shouldn’t, since I’m Mr. 100% Actually that’s my new nick name…you know 50 cent? Well I’m 100 cent!! (percent)" - Maximus*
(In reference to getting a score of 100 while singing on Rock Band)

"ALERT ALERT – I am going to walk to the cafeteria to get coffee. I will be back in 5 minutes. I will respond to any additional e-mails at that time. Please do not self-destruct yourselves." - Evelyn*

"In other news I just caved and had a dark chocolate truffle. Kick you in the teeth fantastic!" - Martha*

*All names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Reminder

This is the email I just sent my husband:

"Hey babe. You told me to send you an email today reminding you to do something. But I can't remember what you wanted me to remind you to do! Here's hoping you remember what you told me to remind you about because I don't!"

It just made me laugh out loud... doesn't take much I guess :)

HAPPY FRIDAY!

The morning of...

I had an idea in my mind of what my wedding day would be like since before I even got engaged. I always knew I would get married in the fall. I knew it would be a gorgeous day! I envisioned the wedding party all getting together before the wedding for some fun portraits outside. Maybe a big field somewhere or a vineyard perhaps. Where ever we went it would be gorgeous out and we would take tons of fun pictures outside without a care in the world. I was nervous of course leading up to the big day. I had worries every now and again that something would be forgotten or something would go wrong but I always just told myself it would all work out perfectly, it had to... it was my wedding day. I did not once envision rain on my wedding day... not once. I also never envisioned the power going out in the church, or my cake collapsing... but those are just a few of the things that helped make our day special. Had someone told me that three months ago I would have told them they were crazy. How could any of that be good??? But somehow for us it all worked out. I'm not gonna lie... I'm still mad it rained on my wedding day... but all things considered I think the day went pretty well.




(all photo credit: Jacob Bergmeier of NoDo Photography)
(except the shot of the rain boots: Wolf Hansen) :)

The day before...

I spent the day before my wedding relaxing with my girls. We went and had our eyebrows done which might sound silly to some of you but obviously you have never been to Daniel. He is like an eyebrow GOD! It was great! Then we went for mani's and pedi's. I was treated like a princess, it was quite nice, I could totally have gotten used to that! :)


Then we were off to the church for the rehearsal which went well. Then off to Michael's parents for the best rehearsal dinner ever... at least that's what I hear. The nervous bride I was, I took maybe two bites off of my moms plate and that was it :)


Once we were done with the rehearsal dinner we should have gone home put on our pj's and just relaxed, went to bed early for ample beauty sleep and called it a night. Well that is what I suggest you do the night before you wedding. DO NOT decide you are going to make all of the bouquets the night before your wedding... that is a bad idea. UNLESS of course you have some of the most awesome bridesmaids in the world there to do it all for you! We got back to Elyse's parents house and spent the better half of the night trying to get my flowers to open up. It was quite the task and at about 3am I finally told them all I was sorry but I had to go to bed if I was going to look at all rested on my wedding day. So they stayed up and made all 7 bouquets! They rocked!!!

2010

HELLO! I realize I have been away from the blog for... a LONG time. I'm going to make more of an effort to get back into blogging. So today I will start getting you caught up on the past couple months. Today I will leave you with some pre wedding goodness :)

These are a few more pictures from my Bridal Shower. I had SO MUCH FUN! It's not often that you are filled with a room full of women that are there to love and support you! It was an amazing day! I had most of my best friends there... even Jenny ready to pop and all. There was AMAZING food! You would have thought we were at a 5 star restaurant. We played all sorts of fun games too. It was just an all around awesome afternoon!



Then from the shower we went to my new house to drop off all of my presents, and let me tell you... there were TONS! We honestly have not unpacked a single thing from our old kitchen, were just using all of our new goodies! Anyways once we were done at my house the girls decided to blind fold me! They secretly drove me out to this cute hotel in RI right by the beach to spend the night. It was a ton of fun!

Did I really get married last weekend?

It doesn't feel real yet. I mean I saw some pictures from my wedding, so I guess it actually happened... but it sure doesn't feel real yet! I wonder when it will...

Anyways we just got back from our honeymoon and it was UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE! I was looking at some of the pictures and had a hard time believing I was actually there. The beaches on most of the islands were crazy beautiful! Looked like something you would find on a postcard not in real life! It was so much fun! We flew to San Juan Puerto Rico and left from there. We hit... St. Thomas, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts, and then back to San Juan. It was awesome!!! The weather was great (big switch from our wedding day where it rained and poured on us all day long!).
In St. Thomas we went to Magen's Bay which was beautiful! I had never seen a beach like that! Soft white sand, clear blue water, oh it was great! We just laid on the beach and drank fruity drinks all day... it was the life!
Barbados we went to the beach too which was hands down our favorite beach out of the whole trip. It was big and beautiful and just unreal! The people kept trying to get us to go scuba diving and buy jewelry and drugs off of them but once we got used to that it was fine :)
Dominica is the only island we went to where we were nervous to get off the ship. You could tell just from looking at the port that it was not the... most safe looking place we had ever been. We decided to get off and if we were scared we could just turn around and run back to the ship :) It was pretty sketchy! There were a few times we would turn to walk down a street and turn right around because it was too scary lol! But we did end up finding a bar right by the dock and had some chicken fajita type things that were to die for! All in all were glad we got off to explore but have no desire to go back to Dominica.
St. Lucia was beautiful! While there we went kayaking to Pigeon Island. It was actually a lot of fun and not quite as hard or scary as I had thought it would be. Once we got to the island we went for a 15 minute hike to the top of a mountain and the views were amazing! I know I keep saying everything was AMAZING but it totally was! After our hike we got to go snorkeling which was also pretty cool. Something I said I would never do because the water freaks me out but it was pretty great!
While on Antigua we went horseback riding. That was... interesting! My horses name was Bright Lights and Michael's was Contriban. We had both never riden a horse before so it was a new experience for both of us. You could tell as soon as Michael got on his horse he wanted to scream like a little girl hahaha but he held it together and did great. My horse was a little fisty and kept trying to bite the horse in front of it. He ran a few times which was actually pretty cool. We got to ride them all along this trail overlooking the ocean, then they actually let us ride along the beach for a while. At the end they said if we wanted we could ride the horses into the water so like an idiot I said yes. It was the scariest thing of my life! The water freaks me out as it is, and riding one into the ocean... not a good idea. We had no saddle on and the horse was wet and slippery... something I will surely NEVER do again but I'm glad I can say I tried (unlike my sissy husband :) haha.
St. Kitts was our last stop and we decided to do the zip line thing. We were both very nervous but once you started it was not very scary at all. It was actually just really cool. It was like you were flying over the rain forest and it opened up at some points so you could see the ocean! I would do that again in a heartbeat!
All in all our honeymoon was AMAZING! We couldn't have asked for a better trip, better weather, better entertainment, it was all around the best honeymoon EVER!!!
I was only able to upload a few pictures so here are some to hold you over :)

My Bridal Shower

This is a picture of my bridal party! Minus my good friend Miss Loren but she lives in Texas so I guessss I'll let it go this once. I had a great weekend with all my friends and family. My girls threw me the most awesome bridal shower EVER! It was great! The food was AMAZING!!! That was mostly compliments of Miss Tina Sue who was in fact Loren's stand in :) We had all sorts of deliciousness... blueberry french toast, breakfast casserole, quiche, mac & cheese... and that was just the first course! Wolf even jumped in and made something amazing! We had cake, donuts, pumpkin rolls... it was AMAZING! So when I can't fit into my wedding dress in less than a month you will know why!
After the shower I was blindfolded and locked in the back of a car for TWO AND A HALF HOURS!!! Shame on my friends! But it was totally worth it because we ended up in Rhode Island right by the beach! We had some more great food! A few drinks... just a few! Then did a little shopping!
All in all it was a pretty stellar weekend and I am so lucky and blessed to have such amazing friends and family!!!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! Now the countdown officially begins till the big day... less than a month! EEEKKKKKKKKK! :)