Life as we know it

Right now... I am just tired. After not sleeping well two nights ago, and still trying to recover, I am just pooped. I found my wedding shoes or as a coworker stated "my cinderella slippers". After searching through 7 department/shoe stores I knew these were the ones as soon as I walked in.

Now it's just getting everything else done. First wedding dress fitting on Wednesday, friends wedding on Friday, my little sister graduates from high school on Saturday and we (my family except for Allen) leave for Connecticut on the 5th of June for my Uncle's Navy retirement celebration. Once we get back it will be  10 weeks until the wedding and 4 weeks until summer school begins.Wedding showers on the 3rd and 22nd of June and one on July 23rd. So what's left to do? Jewelry, finalize the reception with Chris (caterer), order invitations (i know, i know), programs, center pieces, finalize with cake baker, flower girl baskets, music, scan pictures for slide show, decide on wedding bands, more but too much going through my head.

When we went to our wedding counseling, the lady explain the difference between a mans brain and a woman's brain. Women have a ball of string. Everything is intertwined. For instance, right now i am thinking about what to write, the wedding, summer school, lesson plans for church, EYH workshops for MTSU, need to do laundry, wedding ideas, family stuff. However, a man's brain is very different. They have a one room brain like a hotel. Everything has a room and you can't be in two rooms at the same time. Like Allen cant play Call of Duty and talk wedding. It is just impossible. Or talk and eat at the same time. It is either one or the other.

Oh the insainity...

Things have begun to pick up on my end. Bridesmaid dresses are almost ordered (except for my sisters). Still in search of flowergirl dresses. You know when have a picture of something in your mind and are in search of that picture. Well that is what i am going through. Little white puffy dresses that seems to be hard to find as Christmas. Ross, Marshal's, TJ Max, Belk, Walmart, Children's place, Gymbori, Baby Gap, Sears, JC Penny's all a negative. Still looking any ideas?
Perfecting the guest list at this moment before we go order the invitations this week. Hopefully this week.

Engagement Pictures

Finally!

After several weeks of scheduling and rescheduling, they are finally done. We had to work between tornadoes, torrential down pours, finals and sleep patterns.  Just a sampling...

4 months

As of this past Wednesday, it is officially for months until the wedding. I feel as though I am so behind. Invitations have not been ordered, flowers are still in the air, groomsmen have not been fitted for tuxes, cake has not been ordered. However, we have picked out the center pieces, bridesmaid dresses are in the process of being ordered,  we have an idea on the food.

It seems like forever since my last post. Okay almost 2 months, but things have been pretty crazy. On the 26th of March, we went to our marriage counseling class. From 9-3, we were head deep into our relationship. We discovered so much that we did not know about each other after all this time. One thing we have to work on is communication. Talking things out when we are upset is one thing we both are not good with.

decisions decisions...

168 day... I can tell already those day are going to go fast. Between school and work, wedding planning has kind of been pushed to the back burner. However, we are slowly getting things done.

Color Scheme : check

Bridesmaid dresses : check

Honeymoon: check

Pictures to come soon.

Slow going

185 days. We are getting so excited! Allen's grandmother found this puppy at a friends apartment complex. No tags, no collar.  Land lord said she hadn't seen anyone claim it. So it is ours. Monday, we took Bailey to get checked out and to make sure he was not microchipped. Luck for us, he wasn't. Bailey is a Shi Tzu puppy. About 1 year old and healthy.

my "swishy" spot

            210 Days! I can tell already that they are going to go by fast. If you didn't know already, i would say 95% of the people who read this, i am a cancer survivor. Seven years this June. A brain tumor at 15 isn't something I would recommend for anyone let alone myself. When we looked at the scans after surgery and all there was was a round "swishy " spot as my mom called it. Doctors said it was an Astrocytoma Brain Tumor. 

 
And today, I am cancer free. A childhood cancer survivor. However, the tumor and surgery did come with its "leftovers".  I now have a new friend that will probably stick with me for life. I am a 6 year epileptic. In the beginning it was a constant battle. The surgery was in June of 2004 and by October 2004 the Seizures had began. I was taken out of school in December 2004 because we could not get them under control. If i were to have a seizure at school, I could potentially harm myself or others. So, my parents opted for me to be placed into a home bound program. After numerous trips back and forth to Vanderbilt that Winter, i finally went back to school the follow February. Soon after that, Allen and I met. It wasn't weird between us. He looked passed the cancer and the epilepsy to who i was on the inside.

Well today, my mom and I went to the Neurologist. No seizures for almost two years! What a blessing! 

Are things downhill from here? Not a chance. School started yesterday and I am glad I got all the wedding stuff done that I did. Looking at the course load, I am going to be slammed.