Gravity

Things are starting to fall into place so quickly! I've gotten 7 RSVP's so far for the wedding and the invites only went out 2 days ago, thank you for your promptness. We close on the house this afternoon! Pray for us not to stress about anything and for things to go smooth sailing, I can't wait to get started on fixing it up for us :) I know J can't wait to get his hands dirty with the house! Rachel bought me a cake and sparkling wine to celebrate being a home owner last night, she's so sweet!

Photo Challenge Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist

Oh John Mayer, I love when you sing and play guitar.

Otherwise, I kind of think you're tool and a smooth talker.

Random Fact Thursday:

Asparagus is one of the primary vegetables noted for containing Glutathione, an antioxidant. Glutathione (GSH) is found in the body and is important in fighting against diseases like Cancer and Alzheimer’s. Although foods like asparagus do not contain Glutathione GSH, they do assist the body in producing it. While eating asparagus may not directly cure cancer or your morning hangover, it can increase the glutathione level and possibly help the liver clear toxins faster, making the healing process more efficient.

Thanks, MSN & Bing!

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Day 12 - A picture of something you love

I love a lot of things. Like Jesus, friendships, family, J, and sushi just ot name a few. I tend to mention those a lot on here. So, I wanted to post something different.

I LOVE when it rains when we go to White Lake, NC and we get to swim!

That's me, J and my little brother Carson. He's not so little now he's as big as I am and he's only 11.

It's been a quite day at work this morning. I've been cleaning up a bit and started a list of things I need to finish up before the end of the week and I am hoping I will motivate myself to finish it. It's kind of gloomy out and that tends to distract me easily.

The invitations are in the mail! I need to work on the rest of them and get them out this week but with the house closing tomorrow and grocery shopping last night I haven't had time. By the time all of the invitations are sent out, we will have invited about 215 people. We are figuring that about 150 will show.

Things left to do before the wedding:

1. Buy the Plates, cups and flatware
2. Check in with the food guy 
3. Buy sand and tiki torches
4. Find/rent or purchase beverage dispensers
5. Mail out the rehersal dinner invites
6. Decide on Music for the ceremony and reception
7. Make sure that the people who agreed to sing are still going to be able to
8. Print off Bridal Portriat and Engagement Pictures
9. Print and put together the programs
10. Fill out the itenerary and hand out to ALL bridal party members and family
11. Wrap the presents for the bridal party
12. Find clothes for the honeymoon and shoes for the rehersal dinner/bachlorette party

Picked up our wedding bands yesterday afternoon, I'm happy with our purchase. J is pretty excited about his ring even though he didn't get the diamonds he wanted in it :)

By the way isn't this gorgeous? I found it on Style Me Pretty, if I wasn't already doing illuminaries I would totally do this!

Invitation Tuesday

Ladies and Gentlemen, yes it is that time, it's Invitation time. The majority of last night was spent stuffing and addressing and stamping and licking... the licking only lasted for about 5 minutes til J got me a sponge to seal the envelopes. I address 100 invitations and I'm about to head to the post office to mail them out, by the way can I again point out how freakin' expensive postage is? Geezee.... I still have about 5 more to print out and send out but for now I've run out.

Coming to a mailbox near you... Thanks again to Sheila for her help with the design of our invites. Please check out her Etsy store, Sprice Prints for all of your design needs!

Photo Challenge Day 11 - A picture of something you hate

I absolutely cannot stand when people don't text you back with in a reasonable amount of time or claim that they 'never got your text.' Come on folks, we all know good and well you got it...

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!

It's a Monday and I've been playing catch up at work all morning since I was out on Friday. I just logged onto my blog account and found that I WON the Spring Giveaway by Jessica Lynn Originals!! Her stamps are amazing, check out her Esty store here!

Bridal portraits went fantastic on Friday, Brett as always was amazing to work with! My little surprise didn't seem to work out as planned but I'm so excited about the pictures it doesn't even matter! I can't wait for J to see them, and well me the day of the wedding, it's getting so close! The sun decided to semi-shine for about 30 minutes so we had some decent lighting, thank you Lord.

Another big praise the Lord is the fact that we didn't close on Friday and although it stunk not being able to work on the new house this weekend I'm so glad that we didn't close on Friday, sounds weird right? We found out on Thursday that we wouldn't be able to close the next day due to some paperwork not being filed, BUT we didn't find out til late Friday afternoon that I have to be at the closing and I wouldn't have been on Friday since I was taking my bridal portraits!! See, it's the little things like that that make me know how great our God is. We had no idea I had to be there since we're buying the house in J's name.

We layed around the house all weekend since we both weren't feeling 100% and it was nice, we haven't done that in a looonnnngggg time. I'm thankful for our lazy weekend as well, since the next month we have something to do every single weekend! Rest is always appreciated.

Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most ****** up things with

A person who I used to do crazy things with ALL the time is Ashley, aka Red. I don't do such crazy things now, apparently I'm growing up?! Who knows. We've been friends since we were Freshmen at NGU. Sadly, we don't live close enough to get together very often these day...

Throw back to Freshman year...

Using her 'handles' in the dorm room Junior year... (apparently we didn't take many pictures sophomore year?!)

Girls beach trip with the 'Tricks' in 2008

Hey Christina, we were at Chick Fil A in Myrtle Beach in the above picture!
I had a Kid's strip meal and Ashley was enjoying the Chargrilled wrap I think

Mardis Gras Virgins 2009, yes it was our first Mardis Gras ever. We drove through one of New Orleans drive thru daiquiri shops at 10 am after a 13 hour drive from SC to NOLA.

Columbia to see Corey Smith, this was the night I spilled an entire case of beverages onto my brand new leopard print flats.... Still sad about those to this day.

Promise

Day 9 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most

I don't have a picture of the person that has gotten me through the most, his name is Jesus. He's been there for me through so many hard and good times in my life, there are too many to count. I know that He will never leave me and foresake me, He promised.

Matthew 28:20 "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen."

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Bridal portriats are tomorrow, fingers crossed they're going to go well and no rain! Busy work day ahead since I'm off tomorrow, hopefully I'll get everything done.

Change your mind

Sister Hazel is making my Wednesday go by swimmingly. I hope your day is going well too blogger!

Day 8 - A picture that makes you laugh

Somehow through this challenge I always come up with two pictures for each day. Apparently I'm 'trying' to overachieve this challenge? Ehhh, who knows...

This was Christmas 2009 with the girls and Stephanie invented 'Red Drinking Hood'
As you can see I loved this picture then and I still do now, I laugh every time I see it!

This was the day of Jeremy's graduation from Clemson. We went out to City Tavern in Greenville and someone bought us shots since we both graduated and Amber took this picture and this is what turned out. It makes me laugh that we were doing the same thing and didn't even know it til afterwards :)

You don't know how it feels

Praise the Lord it is March 1st today! For a few reason, number 1- only 1 month and 29 days til the wedding, number 2- I can listen to Pandora again for free! Yes, I am cheap but Pandora is the best free internet radio station out there right no. Finally, number 3- Spring is almost here favorite time of the year! This morning so far has been really busy for me so far. I've had 3 meetings already and it's only 11:30, although all have been productive I still can't believe my morning is gone. Tom Petty is playing on my Pandora this morning, hence the name of the this post.

J is sick again and is home from work today. Luckily he felt it coming on yesterday and was able to bring some work home to do while there today, I guess that's not really lucky more like helpful since his company allows him to do that.

No news on the wedding front as of today. I was going to work on the wedding weekend itenerary compliments of Sheila  but when I got home last night it was pouring down rain and I didn't want to bring my computer out in it. Dad called this morning and said that the underwriters for the house loan, etc. have some questions about the bottom of our back door and have requested to know why it is the way it is. So Dad called for a contractor to come out and see what the problem is. We've known from the beginning the wood beneath the door frame had water damage, we had been planning on fixing it once we moved in. Hopefully things go smoothly today so we can close on Friday, your prayers are appreciated!

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Day 7 - A picture of your most treasured item

Well, I have two.

1.) My engagement ring. It never comes off of my hand except to clean it. Isn't it so pretty?

2.) My Tiffany's bracelet that J got me for graduation. Yes, I do look like a goober but I was so excited when I saw a little blue box sitting in front of me!!