Goodbye August....Hello September!

August where did you go??? It really flew by! Not much happened this month. I started getting wedding projects done. I have made up the table numbers. I am now starting to work on the favors. I also sent out the wedding invitations about a week ago.

I had my bridal shower and lingerie shower. I was most excited to just see my mom and Jen. :o) We did get some good stuff! My kitchen has appliances....too many for the counter space. :-P

Now we are ending the month with Erin's mom having some health problems and stressing out. However we are doing our best to stay positive.

I even get two packages to end out the month today! :o) Paper from Envelope Mall to use for my favor boxes. Also, a little something from Von Maur! :-P

Hello September....

This month you bring me the 'one month left' until my wedding day countdown. You bring Erin's birthday on the 8th; my mom on the 12th; fall TV in the middle of the month. Final appointments with wedding vendors. Possibly a big change for Erin and I..... :-P You also bring FALL!!!

Hope everyone had a great August and will have a great September.

Update....And September brings us Jen's 2 year anniversary on the 29th. :o)

Rearranging Part 2

The new sitting area in the living room.

His and Her chairs. Lol. :o)

My picture arrangement....Plus I have room for more pictures.

Maybe wedding ones. :o)

Rearranging day is over. I only moved the TV in our room. Erin is going to be surprised when he gets home tomorrow. :o)

SOOOO sore! No more moving furniture alone. I have learned my lesson.

Rearranging Part 1

So, I am rearranging things in the office and living room. The main reason is to provide more sitting area in the living room. We are going to have visitors the next 2 months and I want to have more than 3 places to sit in the living room. What does this mean??

It means, the bookshelves from downstairs are being moved into the office and the chairs from upstairs are going to the living room. In all this, I may rearrange the bedroom too. We will see....

Here are some pics of the office. Don't ask how I moved the furniture myself, I do not know what possessed me to do this alone!

Bookshelves are now on either side of the office window

the blanket chest is a temporary wedding table....

My computer/office stuff

Lexi helping me.

She has been in this spot since I started putting things onto the bookshelves.

More to come.....

little update

Let's just say the past few days have been overwhelming and very stressful. I may have come home late last night and been woken up WAY too early by Lexi, but I feel a lot calmer. I will say that Nancy is doing very well for just having a quadruple bypass. Erin stayed for a few more days and will be back here in OH with me sometime Monday. :o)

Our wedding invitations were mailed out last week. YAY! I can't believe we are to that point. I have had one returned invite so far...no postage. oops. Also my dress is at the tailors being bustled. :o)

Big project for the next day or two - re arrange the office/living room again. Nothing major. We are going to move the 2 big bookshelves upstairs to the office and the recliner and Ikea chair downstairs. This way we have more seating downstairs. I came up with the idea driving home and Erin liked it. Also, make some rehearsal invites. That ordeal -- I'm over it! But Nancy wants invites so I said I'd handle it. Got to get some ideas.....

Well, I'm off. Store for some food and then I think I'll start rearranging things. I even have a picture idea....Pictures to come. :o)

hair

So, I've decided on this hair for my wedding. I found some cute bobby pins for it.

But I recently saw something on tv and the bride had her hair up similar to this with a headband and I thought it was really cute. I just went to Etsy and I like these bands...

Pearls

Crystals

So I don't know....

mini update

Haven't blogged in a bit....but that's because I'm not allowed to write anything about what's happening here! :o( I understand though. Erin is being cautious.....who knows who reads my thoughts. Plus I don't want to jinx anything. If I get too excited and tell the world, it won't actually happen.

In other news...I have finished wedding invites and we are going to mail them tomorrow. I addressed, stamped, and sealed 163 invites. I also, addressed and stamped 163 RSVP cards. I also made all the table numbers. 15 of them. There better only be 15 tables. Paper is ordered for the favor boxes, while the tags are all cut out, stamped, and hole punched. Bells are ordered, I already have 60 thanks to Jen! I can't do seating cards(bells) until I get RSVP's. We have to finalize the program and then I can make those. I also need to get ribbon. I did make our card box for those that bring cards to the wedding. So I'm in a good place! I checked my to-do list and basically what can be done is done. :o) (I'm preparing in case I get a job....I better get a job before then!)

I am sooo making Erin write thank you notes. He tried to get smart with me about how he is just showing up to get married...then I asked him if he wanted to make the favor boxes when we get the paper. His reply-- 'Hell No' I rest my case.

Oh I'm going to the tailors tomorrow to get my dress bustled and possibly hemmed. YAY!!

In other news....Nancy (Erin's mom) had quadruple by-pass surgery yesterday. Erin's brother is there right now. News is she is doing well, did well during the surgery, is in ICU (protocal), and will hopefully be able to take calls tonight. Erin's brother said she looked like hell, but that is expected. We are going to go visit this weekend and take her flowers. (Erin doesn't know about the flower part yet - I just decided)

Well that's all from here. I swear the minute I can I'm sooooo blogging about 'other' things! Here are some random pictures.

table numbers

favor tags (183 or them)

Lexi being sooo kind to help me with the wedding invites.

she wouldn't look at me....she was watching the camera light on the wall.

project pictures

favor boxes. Found a really cute stamp that says

'...and they lived happily ever after' :o)

Table numbers are glued onto brown backing paper