Life has been Redic

You can only imagine life before a wedding that is less than 3 weeks away, hollyyy crap.


Here are a few pictures of the last month or so...


hikings, birthdays, and savannah, ga for st patricks day. 

17 more days! I'm so excited!! I may or may not post before/after then for a while. But maybe I can find some time.

Savannah, GA

Of course I can't go into DETAIL about a bachelorette party, but we seriously had more fun than I could have ever imagined. Once I put together some appropriate pictures to share from multiple cameras, I'll add them here. I believe they said over a million people were in Savannah for St. Patricks Day.

I hope everyone has had an amazing March so far. I've turned 25 and this past weekend reminded me that I am indeed 25...not 19. Only a few short weeks till I get to marry my best friend.

:) Happy Monday!

MARCH!

I've been awful at blogging, but with 44 days until our wedding - you can understand why!

Anyways, the best month of the year has arrived today - MARCH! Don't get me wrong, this year April will outshine any month, but for the most part, March is my FAVORITE month.

I HATE winter! I hate winter clothes, I hate being pale, I hate winter shoes. I hate being sick. I hate snow. I hate being cold. BLAH. We didn't have a cold winter down here in the south this year (thank God!), but I'd rather it be 85 than 45 any day of the year. March is like that light at the end of the winter tunnel and it makes me all excited and giddy, because I LOVE SPRING. My sinuses could argue with me, but I'll take more sneezing with warmer weather any day.

ALSO, my birthday is slap dab in the middle of the month. March 14th! I LOVE BIRTHDAYS. I love celebrating other peoples birthday, family birthdays, and especially MY birthday. It's an ongoing joke about how much my sister and I love our birthdays (and hers happens to be in March as well!). My poor parents, I'm not sure how they ever deal dealt with us.

AND to top it all off, ST. PATRICKS DAY! My faaavorite drinking holiday of the year, and Cinco de Mayo isn't far behind. I know this is the youngin' in me, but I love days dedicated to drinking. It's like the day is saying, "Don't feel bad about having a beer, that's what today is for!" Other holidays you could easily argue that it isn't dedicated to drinking even though you drink during it, but you can't argue (at least in America) about St. Patty's Day and Cinco de Mayo. Of course this year is going to be awesome - it's on a Saturday and it will be my bachelorette weekend in Savannah, GA! How much better could it get?

March just makes me so happy. I'm so glad you're here March I could just kiss you all over! (too much? eh, whatevs.)

Happy March! (I swear I will do a picture post of my life soon)

Life as we know it.

The next two months are going to be ridiculous. Please bare with me as I attempt to keep up with my blog, celebrate Phil and myself's 25th birthday, go on a bachelorette party and then get married - oh yeah, and live my day to day normal life...seriously.


I don't deal well under stress, and I had my first "wedding" break down the other day. I just laid in Phil's chest and boohoo'd over the question, "What kind of belt buckle should the guys wear?" I had yet to think about this, nor care about this. I couldn't even help the tears. Poor Phil, he just rubbed my back and said - "everything's going to be okay, it's not a big deal." So, needless to say, Phil and his judgement will figure that one out.


The big things were the easy part, but the "What songs should play while people are waiting/seating themselves?" or "What kind of shoes should the guys wear?" Or "You don't have a something blue?? What are you going to wear?" These are the questions driving me insane.

Today we get to celebrate a big day - Phil is turning 25. I think I have told him at least 12 times today how thankful I am he was born. I'm not sure how or why I've been so lucky to have such an amazing guy - but I won't ask any questions and I'll keep him to myself. I wish I had all the money in the world to make this day so special for him, but a few gifts, a dinner and movie is all I can manage.

^That would be Phil and I at our high school senior prom in 2005.

If you would have told me then I was going to marry this guy 7 years later, I'm not so sure I would have believed you, or would have said, "Yeah, right, in my dreams!" Well ladies and gents - dreams do come true. I love you Phil and I hope I can attempt to make this day half as special as you are to me and I cannot wait to become your wife in just 8 weeks.

Andddd here we are now. Love ya babe.

Eventually I'll put up photos of my life these past few weeks!

The Final Stretch

The wedding is coming in a' hurry! It's almost 2 months away, AH! Phil and I made a list last night of all the things we had to accomplish, and it's kind of amazing to see how short the list has dwindle down to. I mean, don't get me wrong - we have our hands full until the day of, but it's mostly just little things.
We purchased our wedding bands last night and it was so surreal to see Phil try his on. Mine isn't as big of a deal since I've had a ring on the left side for almost a year now, so I was just trying to find a pretty band that corresponded well with my beautiful ring (which by the way took me FOREVER to find).

Saturday I went to try my wedding dress on for the first time. I completely fell in love all over again. There were plenty of girls trying on dresses at the store and I kept telling myself that I picked the right one - for me at least. That's what's so awesome about wedding dresses. There are SO many different kinds that go along with SO many different type of girls. Plenty of the girls were trying on beautiful dresses, but they were perfect for them - not me. It's awesome to see another girl try on "the one", because you can tell - everyone in the room can tell when a girl picks the "perfect" dress!

We also picked out Tess' beautiful flower girl dress, and boy does it sparkle and flow. She is going to be such a princess at the wedding and I know she is going to steal the show - which I'm totally okay with.

I have my bridal shower this weekend (i know it's early, but living 3 hours away you gotta do what you gotta do!) and the bachelorette party in Savannah, Ga for St. Pattys in a month! Oh yeah, can't forget i'm turning 25 in a month too and Phils 25th birthday is in a week and a half - whewwww. Writing all of that down makes me tired!

Have a wonderful Monday :)

New Cord.. whoohoo

My chord finally decided to show up today, so here I am posting on my computer. You don't realize how easy and accessible typing is until you are forced to press your Ipad buttons for 10 days. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being a brat that I had an Ipad for backup - I just missed my computer.

Allman is growing steadily, she went on her first swim yesterday.

She's even cute when she's soak and wet!! :)

Last weekend was Phil and myselfs 5 year "dating" anniversary. I came home to this...

He had candles lit and a bottle of wine for us before we went out to dinner. He's precious. We didn't do anything big or give any gifts because we don't really have time to go shopping or really have all that much money with a wedding on the way.

The next day we celebrated dads 55th birthday in Asheville. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures, but I did get a picture of the kiddos being silly in downtown Asheville.

We had so much fun, and dad really enjoyed being around all the amazing company.

This past weekend was filled with both Phil and I being sick, andddd wedding planning. We finally ordered the invitations, picked out the flowers, and the napkins and table clothes. I can't even begin to tell you what the next 70 days have in store for me, but it's going to be a whirlwind.

This weekend I go to finally try MY dress on. It came in a few weeks ago. I'm actually really excited about this. The whole wedding planning extravaganza is not my forte, but picking out my dress is up there on one of my favorite parts! We are also going to get my niece (flower girl) her dress.

Here are a few more pictures of Allman and Zepp - like I don't post enough of these...

 ^^(This is seriously how she sleeps??)

(Besties, kind of..)

Sometimes they aren't so sweet

Well, my "sweet" little Allman chewed my power cord to my computer. So, until I have enough time to go get a new one, I won't exactly be blogging as it takes WAY too much time from my Ipad, and let's face it - with a wedding in less than 3 months - time is of the essence.


Eventually, I'll go get one. When I decide to get off my lazy bum and go to the dreaded mall where the apple store is - or i may just order one online.