I finally got around to putting up the wedding countdown over there on the sidebar. It's nothing fancy but I had to create it myself on some website generating some HTML code. Either way, it's up to keep tabs on when our big day is!
Anyways, we have started handing out some of the invitations while we were in Dallas over spring break to some of my friends and family. We had only printed up something like 20 or 25. We are getting the other 200+ envelopes addressed now and we will be printing the final invitations in the next few days. We hope to have these out in the next week or so, but that's being optimistic.
Other than that, we have been kind of dragging our feet (we know, we only have 2 months left, there is definitely not room for that). We have gotten a few things out of the way though. I don't know how to say this lightly and delicately, but Samm had her "big girl" doctor's appointment today. Apparently, she didn't have the horrific experience that some others have. Anyways, that is all I am going to say on that. I'm sure if she wants to share some more on that she will, but I will not.
I think it is starting to sink in that we have 2 months left! We still have so much to do, but it seems like we have plenty of time. We are still trying to keep everything in front of us so we don't forget something and not leave it to the last minute. We're still working out details on the decorations and food, stuff like that. Believe me, it's been an adventure so far. No stress freakouts or anything like that, but it's definitely starting to sink in that this is creeping up VERY quickly.
Oh, one more thing we are working on! We are still trying to plan the honeymoon and make reservations. We are really liking the idea of going down to the coast (somewhere, probably Corpus Christi) and possibly even spend 1 night camping on the beach. We are really excited, but like a lot of other things, no real plans yet.
Wish us luck!!
Invitations!!!
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Well blogging world, we have finally finished our invitations! Well, okay, that was misleading...
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Well blogging world, we have finally finished some of our invitations!
After many hours of designing, picture taking, editing, cropping copying and pasting, thousands of hole-punches, corners and paper-cutting, and some assembly,!!!.... we have finished some of the invitations.
If you haven't given us your address, time is swiftly running out!
I'm really excited about these suckers. We took our own photos, designed everything on our own, and threw them together. Blooper of the week!: We had to make our own Target Registry cards because the one we went to completely robbed us of our complimentary bag-o-stuff. After much stressing that wasn't even worth it, after printing page after page and cutting rectangle after rectangle, I notice a typo. "www.targert.com." It was such a stressful day that all I could do was one of those pitiful "I give up" laughs. My sweet, loving sister wouldn't accept a pitiful "I give up" laugh for an answer, so with her help, we printed out more and cut them out in a third of the time it took me in the first place. Shout out to Jenni!! I really appreciate the help! ♥
Success of the week: These works of art know as announcement/invitations, all together, cost less than $50! *high fives all round*
Spencer has also been amazing. He did a great percentage of that hole-punching and cornering mentioned earlier. We each have sore hands, but I think it was worth it! Keep your eye out for em, these things are masterpieces!
Tomorrow, we are headed out to Dallas so invitations will be put on hold, but we'll get back next Wednesday and it'll be full steam ahead!
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Well blogging world, we have finally finished some of our invitations!
After many hours of designing, picture taking, editing, cropping copying and pasting, thousands of hole-punches, corners and paper-cutting, and some assembly,!!!.... we have finished some of the invitations.
If you haven't given us your address, time is swiftly running out!
I'm really excited about these suckers. We took our own photos, designed everything on our own, and threw them together. Blooper of the week!: We had to make our own Target Registry cards because the one we went to completely robbed us of our complimentary bag-o-stuff. After much stressing that wasn't even worth it, after printing page after page and cutting rectangle after rectangle, I notice a typo. "www.targert.com." It was such a stressful day that all I could do was one of those pitiful "I give up" laughs. My sweet, loving sister wouldn't accept a pitiful "I give up" laugh for an answer, so with her help, we printed out more and cut them out in a third of the time it took me in the first place. Shout out to Jenni!! I really appreciate the help! ♥
Success of the week: These works of art know as announcement/invitations, all together, cost less than $50! *high fives all round*
Spencer has also been amazing. He did a great percentage of that hole-punching and cornering mentioned earlier. We each have sore hands, but I think it was worth it! Keep your eye out for em, these things are masterpieces!
Tomorrow, we are headed out to Dallas so invitations will be put on hold, but we'll get back next Wednesday and it'll be full steam ahead!
Wedding: Registered!
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Yesterday Samm and I went to go register for gifts. We hit up Bed Bath and Beyond and went biserk!
We were there for over two and a half hours and we were scanning like crazy. We went over just about every inch of that store and you would be able to tell by looking at the length of our list. We ended up with 9 pages and something like 160 items. We scanned sheets, towels, kitchen utensils and appliances and everything in between!
Anyways, for the most part we had a blast and we are both really excited about starting our lives together in our own place.
We are planning on registering at Target as well, but we were a little burned out after our time at BBandB.
Other wedding plans we are working on:
Our announcements are pretty much layed out, we have the pictures picked out, we just have to go print the pictures, print the announcement and put everything together. We have most of our address list put together and just need to get all the pieces together. We're re-evaluating our decoration plans for the church to make sure everything is a go. We've set up times for Samm's endowment and our sealing in the temple.
Things are moving! We are really excited now that this is only about 3 months away.
We were there for over two and a half hours and we were scanning like crazy. We went over just about every inch of that store and you would be able to tell by looking at the length of our list. We ended up with 9 pages and something like 160 items. We scanned sheets, towels, kitchen utensils and appliances and everything in between!
Anyways, for the most part we had a blast and we are both really excited about starting our lives together in our own place.
We are planning on registering at Target as well, but we were a little burned out after our time at BBandB.
Other wedding plans we are working on:
Our announcements are pretty much layed out, we have the pictures picked out, we just have to go print the pictures, print the announcement and put everything together. We have most of our address list put together and just need to get all the pieces together. We're re-evaluating our decoration plans for the church to make sure everything is a go. We've set up times for Samm's endowment and our sealing in the temple.
Things are moving! We are really excited now that this is only about 3 months away.
Valentine's Day
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So this Valentine's Day was great! Last week was our one year dating anniversary. As Spencer said, we went to Joe's Crab Shack and ate yummy crab stuffed shrimp! He also got me beautiful tulips (the same flowers that he got me for Valentine's Day last year) and a very funny card! For Valentine's Day this year, he got me some sweet little goodies and a handwritten note. I went back and read his handwritten note from last Valentine's Day. It was really moving to see not only how our love has progressed, but how truly present it was, even in the very very early stages of our relationship.
He also bought steak and other sides and made me a steak dinner! It was amazing! Spencer has a picture on his facebook profile if you want to see what it looked like.
Poor guy, three weeks in a row, this truly is the Love Month! First our date-iversary, then Valentine's Day, then next week is my birthday! He's so sweet, I'm so excited!
I love that man! May 28th is crawling...
That's all I have for ya!
He also bought steak and other sides and made me a steak dinner! It was amazing! Spencer has a picture on his facebook profile if you want to see what it looked like.
Poor guy, three weeks in a row, this truly is the Love Month! First our date-iversary, then Valentine's Day, then next week is my birthday! He's so sweet, I'm so excited!
I love that man! May 28th is crawling...
That's all I have for ya!
Progress ever more
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Posts have been few and far between these past few months since we decided to post-pone the wedding, but things are still working on our front. We have taken our engagement pictures and are working on putting together our announcement/invitations. We are heading out soon to register and we hope to get these things out in the mail here in the next week or so. No, we are not going to post pictures JUST yet, you have to wait!
Other things that we have been working on is finalizing dates and times with the ceremony and temple itself and things there are moving along. We are still working on decorations and making sure everything is going to be all beautiful for our big day. Anyways, wedding plans are still moving along.
More about our everyday life!
Monday was our 1 year anniversary of dating. February 7, 2010 is the day that we had decided that we wanted to be official and exclusive and shut down the "talking stage!" haha BEST. DECISION. OF. MY. LIFE. hands down. What did we do to celebrate our special day you might ask? Well let me tell you.
On our 6 monthiversary, we went to Joe's Crab Shack and had their crab stuff shrimp and absolutely fell in love with it! We have been wanting to go back sometime, but just haven't been able to make the plans. Anniversary comes around and we decide that we could not put it off any longer. We headed back and just DEVOURED those little guys. SOOO tasty.
I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. Before dinner, we exchanged cards and Samtha got a little pot of red tulips. Samtha completely out did me here. I hit up United before heading to meet her before dinner and I picked out some flowers and found a pretty funny card and wrote a little "I love you," in it. Samantha, on the other hand, hand wrote an amazing letter and even had a few doodles on it. She even hand made the envelope that the letter was in.
Score: Samantha 1, Spencer 0
But just wait. I've got my chances coming up with Valentine's Day on Monday and her birthday the next Monday. We will see how that score ends up...haha
Other things that we have been working on is finalizing dates and times with the ceremony and temple itself and things there are moving along. We are still working on decorations and making sure everything is going to be all beautiful for our big day. Anyways, wedding plans are still moving along.
More about our everyday life!
Monday was our 1 year anniversary of dating. February 7, 2010 is the day that we had decided that we wanted to be official and exclusive and shut down the "talking stage!" haha BEST. DECISION. OF. MY. LIFE. hands down. What did we do to celebrate our special day you might ask? Well let me tell you.
On our 6 monthiversary, we went to Joe's Crab Shack and had their crab stuff shrimp and absolutely fell in love with it! We have been wanting to go back sometime, but just haven't been able to make the plans. Anniversary comes around and we decide that we could not put it off any longer. We headed back and just DEVOURED those little guys. SOOO tasty.
I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. Before dinner, we exchanged cards and Samtha got a little pot of red tulips. Samtha completely out did me here. I hit up United before heading to meet her before dinner and I picked out some flowers and found a pretty funny card and wrote a little "I love you," in it. Samantha, on the other hand, hand wrote an amazing letter and even had a few doodles on it. She even hand made the envelope that the letter was in.
Score: Samantha 1, Spencer 0
But just wait. I've got my chances coming up with Valentine's Day on Monday and her birthday the next Monday. We will see how that score ends up...haha
Keep on Truckin
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It's been busy, but I figured I'd go ahead and post again instead of waiting for Spencer any longer.
We've enjoyed our vacation, but we are back in the swing of things. Wedding planning is back on the table. We have already seen the family get back into it as well, which is a little frightening. We absolutely appreciate their help, but we want their help, not have them plan the wedding for us. If you want to give me any ideas, family, either email the whole list to me at once, or tell me one at a time. When you list out every idea you have ever had in a row (exaggeration), I get frustrated and shut down. As any normal human being would.
Moving on, we have our outfits and date set for taking engagement pictures. I'm a little nervous because everything is yellow and brown here in Lubbock, but what can you expect? It's winter! And we can't wait any longer to get the announcements out. Anyone have any pretty places that don't need green grass and flowers to look pretty?
If worse comes to worst, we can always send out some of the pictures we took with our family. We have a few but they aren't the best. (Our family was not impressed with that photographer at all.) The only good pictures were Spencer's and mine because we set them up (location and poses, etc.) But that's a different story altogether.
We were thinking about Mackenzie Park (the pretty side) but it's dead! Which I guess isn't a bad thing if the grass isn't green, it'll make our outfits stand out that much more, but our second outfit include a lot of yellow... oh well, this will work. My sister also suggested Ransom Canyon. But if you have any other suggestions, please let us know!
We've enjoyed our vacation, but we are back in the swing of things. Wedding planning is back on the table. We have already seen the family get back into it as well, which is a little frightening. We absolutely appreciate their help, but we want their help, not have them plan the wedding for us. If you want to give me any ideas, family, either email the whole list to me at once, or tell me one at a time. When you list out every idea you have ever had in a row (exaggeration), I get frustrated and shut down. As any normal human being would.
Moving on, we have our outfits and date set for taking engagement pictures. I'm a little nervous because everything is yellow and brown here in Lubbock, but what can you expect? It's winter! And we can't wait any longer to get the announcements out. Anyone have any pretty places that don't need green grass and flowers to look pretty?
If worse comes to worst, we can always send out some of the pictures we took with our family. We have a few but they aren't the best. (Our family was not impressed with that photographer at all.) The only good pictures were Spencer's and mine because we set them up (location and poses, etc.) But that's a different story altogether.
We were thinking about Mackenzie Park (the pretty side) but it's dead! Which I guess isn't a bad thing if the grass isn't green, it'll make our outfits stand out that much more, but our second outfit include a lot of yellow... oh well, this will work. My sister also suggested Ransom Canyon. But if you have any other suggestions, please let us know!
The Three Bears
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Christmas this year looked to be a disaster. After a big family feud, we all decided that we were just going to do all of our family festivities on Christmas Eve. This left Christmas morning to each individual family to celebrate privately. This also left Spencer and I an opportunity to share our first Christmas together.
This Christmas made my top #1. (Necessary redundancy because it was that amazing!)
Christmas Eve was more fun than we thought it would be after the feud. Then Christmas morning, I grabbed Tori (who was just as excited as I was to spend Christmas at Spencer's), grabbed stockings and a few last minute things, and went to Spencer's apartment.
Everything was perfect. We turned on Christmas music while we ate breakfast, complete with Reese's Puff cereal, and enjoyed each other's company and the few Christmas decorations that went unused at my parent's house. It may not seem like much, with just a tiny Christmas tree with a bunch of plastic ornaments and our one personal ornament I got from Shayla, a couple of Santa hats (that, when not on our heads, we decorated the TV with), a few red bows, some LED icicle lights that we strung around the kitchen bar, and a porcelain-like Christmas tree that lit up that Preston broke.
It couldn't have been better. Tori opened her stocking, consisting of a soft pig that squeaks, and a rawhide which she devoured in less than an hour. Then Spencer and I started opening gifts. I won't boast and brag about what I got, nor what I gave, but just getting spend such a wonderful holiday with my favorite person was enough happiness for me to share. Add my favorite bearkins, and I felt so spoiled! We may not be married yet, and Tori may just be our adopted fur-child, but we felt like the happiest little family there ever was.
I love you bear!
This Christmas made my top #1. (Necessary redundancy because it was that amazing!)
Christmas Eve was more fun than we thought it would be after the feud. Then Christmas morning, I grabbed Tori (who was just as excited as I was to spend Christmas at Spencer's), grabbed stockings and a few last minute things, and went to Spencer's apartment.
Everything was perfect. We turned on Christmas music while we ate breakfast, complete with Reese's Puff cereal, and enjoyed each other's company and the few Christmas decorations that went unused at my parent's house. It may not seem like much, with just a tiny Christmas tree with a bunch of plastic ornaments and our one personal ornament I got from Shayla, a couple of Santa hats (that, when not on our heads, we decorated the TV with), a few red bows, some LED icicle lights that we strung around the kitchen bar, and a porcelain-like Christmas tree that lit up that Preston broke.
It couldn't have been better. Tori opened her stocking, consisting of a soft pig that squeaks, and a rawhide which she devoured in less than an hour. Then Spencer and I started opening gifts. I won't boast and brag about what I got, nor what I gave, but just getting spend such a wonderful holiday with my favorite person was enough happiness for me to share. Add my favorite bearkins, and I felt so spoiled! We may not be married yet, and Tori may just be our adopted fur-child, but we felt like the happiest little family there ever was.
I love you bear!
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