So i’m checking off things on my list of TO DO!  It’s very slow but it’s coming.   I know I talk a lot about the wedding and the house but it seems that’s what is on my mind a lot lately, go figure!  I guess I could whine about my job and how chaotic and what a mess that is also. 

So, i’m at the 106 days until wedding mark!  (Am I pathetic for knowing this or more so for putting a countdown script on my wedding webpage..thanks to the knot).  I’m only getting married ONCE and gosh I can be a little excited and yes a little mushy over the whole ordeal.

Now for my weekly updates:

House –

I created a new web page for my April house pics I took this last weekend.  My first pics of the model were a little dark and not so clear about the size or beauty of the house.  While looking at the framing, I made Patrick head over to the model to measure the island for barstools and took a ton of pictures.  Finally, I have some clear pics of the model.  You can see it here April House Pics

Just to post a few on here though:

Here’s a pic of the framing – yes they put a porta potty in front of our house, go figure! There’s the back of the framing of our house.  Yes, i’m a dork.  Look at that wierd cut out where our patio is.
 
Here’s the entertainment center they JUST added as an option so Patrick had to call on Monday to get that added since we were worried about the hole we were going to have to fit our tv in and build shelves for. Now we don’t have to test our carpentry skills and rely on pros.

Here’s some great pics of the house: 
Great Room:
 
Our HUGE kitchen and dining room, how I love it. We have wood floors, stainless steel appliances, see thru fireplace from great room.
    
Masterbath
 
Finally a good pic of our bedroom, darker pic showing the door from our room to the patio and then a pic showing to the hall and then our masterbath
   

You can see more of my spam of pictures on the page.  I went a little nuts and i’m sure i’m driving people crazy with all these updates. 

Wedding –

Made my map card layout for the invitaions but bought the wrong color of paper for them so need to go this weekend and buy some whiter paper so they match the invites somewhat. 

Have lots of small details to deal with but plenty of time yet.  I’ve been in the process of ordering the girls presents for the wedding and getting the designers I have working on them send me ideas.  Their jewelry giving me a hella hard time.  I would post the link to the stuff but if they did read this by chance I don’t want them to see the suprise.  Let’s just say that both the jewelry and the other things i’m doing are very personal and no one should have things like them.  Suprisingly i’m not blowing a ton of money, nothing more then I expected anyhow. 

Think i’ll cut this off short, i’m a bit tired and we have a friend coming over supposedly.  He should’ve been here an hour or so ago but hasn’t shown yet so who knows.

till later ~
heather

I have been slacking on updates lately or venting here.   Last weekend we went out to look at the house and see if we had a frame, which we do!  Pics of the house are here:  HOUSE!

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Oh, we did go window shopping for dining room furniture.  We are VERY VERY fortunate and Patricks parents are giving us some money for our wedding present.  Long story made short, the money is going to our washer/dryer and then we found a beautiful dining room set.  The table has 4 side chairs, 2 arm chairs and then there’s the buffet with the hutch top.  It’s soooo pretty!  You can see it also on the house page!  It was at a great price and they had a sale so we saved 10% too.  We put some money down on it to hold our price and then once we have an actual closing date we’ll have it delivered.   We both just kept saying all weekend “we are so lucky” because no other words can explain how I feel lately.

Patrick came in last night while I was at my computer kneeled down by me and goes “wow, we have a lot going on this year..house, wedding, honeymoon”.  I looked at him and go “are you ok” and he just smiled and said yes.  It’s funny because I bet we’d be rich if we had a dollar for every time we say how lucky we are.  I know it’s corny and weird but I couldn’t have asked for a better man in my life, a better family to belong to (both mine and his).

I had a sad email from a relative yesterday and it just makes you realize how you can’t take things for granted.  This person has honestly been like a second mom to me in many ways.  She was around a lot when I was younger and I still call her every month or so to see what’s new. I love her to death and just wish she had things easier.  I wish I could do more for her and it just hurts to see people take advantage of her kindness also.  She looks out for everyone, sometimes more then herself.  She’s been through so much and it seems that things don’t go her way sometimes.  I’m not as religious as I used to be when younger.  I was raised Catholic and attended church every Sunday.  I still pray but sometimes find it’s only when things are rough and not like a daily thing as I did as a child.  I lately feel like she’s been let down and maybe all the years I’ve prayed for people don’t really help them.  I don’t know what that is supposed to mean.  I’m not trying to get all deep religious like now but it just hurts to see people hurting.   

My grandfather was in the hospital also in the past few months for his heart.  Mom keeps me up to date on things with the family so I do ask about how people are doing and what’s new.  She was the one that told me about Papa so I sent him some flowers to the hospital for his first surgery.  Since then I’ve kind of stayed in email touch with my granny and it feels great to have her back in my life. I know when I was younger, I didn’t realize how important these people are to me but as I’m getting older I really want them part of my life. I don’t want them to grow old without knowing that I’ve changed from my young irresponsible self.  I want them to see what I’ve turned out like and can’t wait to have them at the wedding.  In many ways I’ve felt like I’ve let down my family through the years and now am trying to make up in so many ways.  I didn’t send those thank you cards that they wanted me to, or call as much as they wanted me to, or visit.  I guess if I could say one things to my kids someday, it would be to never neglect your family and realize how important they are in your life.  It’s too short to let them slip out of touch, even if it’s for a few years.

Well, now that I’ve had this deep moment ..i’ll go back to work.  I have so much to do here lately and then on top I’m just beat at night and have been procrastinating my wedding details I should be working on.  I have to work on some of this stuff tonight!!!

 ~heather/sav

(someday i’ll explain my nickname sav/savvy)