2 days...!!!

3 freakin' days

Ahhhhhh, 3 days :)

Yesterday my co-workers threw me a lovely shower after hours in our office in Rock Hill. They are some of the sweetest women you will ever meet, not to go without mentioning the two guys we have on staff they're not too bad either. They gave us more than we needed and I am once again reminded of how God has blessed us with such wonderful people in our lives right now! Just a few pictures since I'm waiting on my mom to send me the rest but for now a teaser...

Lisa made me this incredible cake, and you would never know she taught herself how to decorate huh?

The food was beyond words! I got two recipes while there for a camel apple dip and cucumber sandwiches and I can't wait to make them for any party we may have coming up :)

I'm getting things marked off of my To Do list slowly and quickly really all at once, it's a process for sure. Tonight I'm meeting with Pastor Dennis to go over my nerves and over our vows and itinerary for the weekend. I'm hoping I get to see J tonight for longer than an hour. That's about how much I've seen him since Sunday.He's stressing with work, a lot of things have shifted over to him this week and he feels very stretched. Yesterday he started his day at 4:15 driving to a job site about 3 hours away from Camp Legune and then headed to Camp Legune to another job site. He didn't get home til 8:30 and since I'm not at the house I didn't see him. Please pray for him to have a great end to his week so he can relax on our honeymoon.

Tomorrow morning Mom, Allie and I are making the cupcakes for the wedding. Then once that's done I'm going to continue on with wrapping presents, finishing the slide show, filling salt and pepper shakers, packing, cleaning up our house and possibly helping my Mother in Law decorate for the rehearsal dinner if she'll let me. She kind of wants it to be a surprise!

I finished the itinerary. I've purchased buns, condiments and drinks. I've scanned a million pictures in for our slide show. I've worked two full days at work and made sure our wedding announcement is in the newspaper and applied for our marriage license! It's been a busy week and it's only Wed. BUT 3 days til I'm a married woman, I CANNOT WAIT!

I'm off to lunch now with my manager!

8 days

8 days... honestly this countdown is not helping me at all. I'm just ready for next Saturday to be here, yesterday.

Work has been crazy busy and so have things at home. Last night Buddy was sick, again. He threw up everywhere in the living room since he's been eating more and more crap he's not supposed to. So, we decided I better sleep at the new house on the couch with him instead of going back to my apartment. Good thing we decided that, God knew what was going to happen, Buddy woke up at 5 throwing up again. Praise the Lord we have tile everywhere downstairs!

I feel exhausted. I haven't been sleeping well. Super strange dreams and the ridiculously weird weather have been keeping me awake. I sleep for about 3-4 hours and then I am wide awake.

Finally, if all goes according to plan my things will be moved out of the apartment tonight. This has been stressing me out to say the very least. I just want to get it done and be done with the apartment by Sunday night so that next week I will NOT have to worry about it.

I'm guessing that all brides felt like this the week before the wedding? Kind of that 'I'm so ready for this to be here and over' feeling. I don't by any means want to wish it away, but I do want it to just be here already so I can be married to my best friend and so the stress will go away. I'm ready for the honeymoon.

Mom framed our engagement picture for the wedding and my bridal portrait as well! They look fantastic, I can't wait for J to see my bridal portrait or me in my dress for that matter :) If you're looking to print off picutres look no further than iprintfromhome, they do fabulous work and the prints were to me within 5 days of my order processing not to mention super cheap, with shipping for the two pictures it was $22. I framed my bridal portrait and engagement portrait for $61 total, that includes the cost to print the pictures too! Thank you Ikea and iprintfromhome for making this possible! PS See my sweater up there? I love it, I discovered my dog ate the buttons off of it this morning when I tried it on to wear today. I love that dog, I swear I do...

10 days

Last night was spent putting together our programs, praise the Lord J knows how to use a paper cutter. I am terrible at them as we learned last night. I had a glass of the Big Fire Pinot Noir thanks to our friend Kasey, it was fantastic and I recommend it! It made me really sleepy though :) but I think that's a combination of the wine and how little sleep I've been getting! I ran out of glue while putting the programs together so I'll be finishing up the last of the programs this weekend.

 My SoleMates were waiting on me when I got home last night! I can't wait to use them on the wedding day, they're supposed to make it so that your heel doesn't sink into the ground/grass if you're wearing stilettos. Fingers crossed they're going to work! I got Mom some too since she's wear some pretty fancy shoes too :) I'll give you bloggers my full review after the wedding.

10 freakin' days! So, so, so exciting! It's been really hard to focus at work, even my manager asked me today how I'm able to do it. No idea, I'm just trying to sure up everything at work and what doesn't happen will be waiting on me when I get back.  My rehearsal dinner dress came in and so did J's shirt as well, CAN NOT WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK!

A few pictures from my Bridesmaid Rachel's Bachlorette party this past weekend... be proud, I was the DD!

11 days

I can't believe it's only 11 days away! J decided we're moving all of my stuff on Thursday of this week, I think he knows that I'm stressing out about moving.

Things I've learned so far while planning and things to note:

1. I suck at invitations. I wish I could have sent out an email invitation but that wasn't possible. It seems like there are so many steps, print them, stuff them, seal them, address them, return address them, stamp them... ugh. Not my favorite thing to do during the planning of our wedding.
2. Keep all of your wedding stuff in one place NOT in 3 different places, I can't find the Mother's presents right now!
3. Everyone needs a dog or a pet, something that loves them unconditionally. It really helps when you're stressed, believe me.
4. When you're husband to be says he wants to help plan the wedding, what he really means is that he wants you to make him feel involved but doesn't care what the wedding is about as long as he gets to marry you at the end of the day.
5. Picking out music is tricky for a reception.
6. Give your mom a project during the wedding that is strictly hers. Trust me on this.
7. Time flies when you're engaged, while at first it may seem like its dragging, plan, plan, plan, buy, buy, buy, finish all projects early. I can't believe it's been 7 months already.
8. Esty.com is a God send for people on a budget.
9. Learn to delegate. This is something I learned in college that has helped me out.
10. Buying things online is the best way to get stuff for your wedding- it's like Christmas morning every time you check the mail. I LOVE it. Speaking of, check out what came in the mail today....

Things left to do:

1. Programs
2. Decorate ceremony site and reception hall
3. Meeting with DJ
4. Send list to photographer
5. Finish up the Itinerary
6. SAMS CLUB with Missy
7. Buy Fine Point Sharpie, twine and roses the day of

45 days

Only 45 days til the wedding, I can't believe it's so close! It feels soooo far away...

I had a bad allergy attack yesterday so I stayed home from work to recover from that and rest. I got to catch up on my laundry too which was nice. Most of day was spent laying on the couch with with Buddy watching TLC and MTV. We've been crazy busy with the house this past weekend and I can't believe it's actually our house! We have started painting and are slowly making progress, J and Carlos painted the Master Bedroom, the Guest room and bath, the landing area and 1/2 of the stairs and livingroom...we also bought blinds and our microwave for above the stove too.

Missy bought all of the plates, cups, silverware and beverage dispensers this weekend at Sams. Hopefully the bill won't be too incredibly high. Besides the food, we only have to pay for the chairs, alcohol, rental of the property and the photographer. Not too shabby since I paid for the DJ in full already as well as our wedding bands last week and I didn't have to dip into savings, praise the Lord!

Patrick Whitlock Hamilton Jr. was born yesterday at 4:18pm. He weighed 7 pounds 11 oz.

J and I were so excited to go to the hospital to meet him and wish Dana and Patrick Congrats! 

He slept almost the whole time we were there. I was nervous to hold him it's been forever since I've held a newborn, probably 11 years since Carson was born... geeze I feel old.

Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die

I've always wanted to go and eat Gelato in Italy!

I didn't know til I Googled it that Julia Roberts did it in Eat, Pray, Love. I haven't seen the movie, I heard it was awful. Anyone else have a review of the movie to share with me?

So since I was out yesterday I'm going to play catch up on the Photo Challenege!

Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you

My little sister inspires me! She has such a heart for missions and for serving the Lord. She makes me want to be better and walk out a better Christian walk.