again i admit i'm a dead beat blogger: WEDDDDDING

I decided to write about the lovely wedding day and i will start with the not so lovely wedding rehearsal.

For me the rehearsal was one of the worst parts of the whole wedding festivities. The day was lovely,
1.breakfast/shower with the aunties and cousins at the hotel who had flown in for the wedding
2. GIANT family picnic at Assiniboine park with both my parent's extended families complete with delicious bbq, potatoe sack races and 3 legged races. It was amazing. We planned it so that colin would have a chance to at least meet my family members before the crazyness of wedding day, and I got to visit and talk a bit too. I was sooooo grateful that all my family came out for the wedding, what a show of love and support!!!!
3. mani/pedi's, every girl's happy place :) Got to relax with my "maids" and get pampered for a bit (which was especially nice since i was sporting giant bruises from the races at the picnic)

4. dun dun dun THE REHEARSAL

THat would be my fake, oh yes everything's ok but inside i'm screaming and freaking out face.
We got to the church pretty early, which gave me a chance to talk with pastor j about how i wanted the stage set up and the flow of the ceremony. All the while i'm waiting for my parents to arrive so i can get my bag from their car and change into something cute/wash up from the races and events of the day. No fault to anybody, but my parents arrived with my bag and all the decorations at the same time as family, bridal party.....basically a huge mob of very helpful and loved people asking what they should do.
I had thought of this ahead of time and had written out where everything should be set up, so that people wouldn't ask me and these things could just be done. BUTTTT do you think i could find that paper? lol i'm not going to turn this into a rant....or i guess let myself rant anymore but i will just say i found the whole ordeal very stressful and it was probably my biggest bridezilla moment (we just won't talk about wedding morning in the car with my girls and my mom leaving the hair appointment haha).
All the decorations got set up, and i loved them, including a few of my faves
the table with our engagement photo and our parents and grandparents wedding photos

The sign made by my lil sis in law along with flowers and a picture right behind the last pew

AND my best decision, not to use the white folding backdrops we rented from the party store. They looked good in the pictures, and as soon as my loving man and his father set them up i HATED THEM.


SO colin was a lifesaver, he was so loving and could totally tell that i was stressed and did everything he could to make it easier. We were waiting for the sound guy and a few wedding party members to arrive, which allowed me time for a cry session in the bathroom with my mom--then i washed my face and rocked my sweaty shorts for the actual rehearsing part. SO maybe it's the setting up which i hated and not so much the rehearsing. Pastor J and Pastor D worked out their shared duties seamlessly, dad and i galloped down the aisle...which i'm sure scared everyone into thinking we'd repeat that the second day :) haha, but it went great, the little kids did so good.

ANd then we had a delicious bbq prepared by colin's mom and it was lovely, although i ate three bites of a hotdog which were forced on me by my sister because i was so preoccupied :)


To end of the very full and stressful but also fun day before the wedding, i got showered with unmentionables and a hotttttt kitchenaid mixer by my awesome bridesmaids who i love so much!!
i almost fainted when i saw the mixer.


Thats it for now folks, stayed tuned for the wedding day!!

Marriage license!! Booooyah

We bought our marriage license today. Colin says it still hasn't hit him. I'm hoping that me in a white dress will hit him, lol if it doesn't then I'm not sure what will.
I get so caught up with planning and organizing that sometimes I forget to take a minute to appreciate the man he is. Colin is truly my prince, say I'm cheesy and I will kick your shin BECAUSE I wanna shout so loud how happy I am that in less than two months I get to marry my very best friend. There isn't anyone I'd rather laugh with, explore with, grow with or even fight with! HE makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
I was reading my journal and I found a page were I wrote cute texts he had sent me:
Me: this (being in love) feels so amazing, like it's a dream. Pinch me
Colin: nah, let's just keep dreamin
<3 <3 <3

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I am getting married. I am getting married! I AM GETTING MARRRRRRRRIED!!!!! Holy cow, does this mean I'm suddenly a grown up? I still feel like such a kid. I am sitting on the couch wearing a purple polkadot pajama set, eating popcorn....secretly wearing my wedding ring. When I look at it I realize this must be real, when I tried on my wedding dress at the bridal salon, when I get emails from family saying flights are booked, all these things prove it's real but I feel like I'm dreaming. I get to marry my best friend, I get to laugh and smile forever.
So happy that when I pinch myself this ring is still on my finger. YES!!!

i haven't been to the gym in a week.
ooops. GET GOING!!!!

It's just about 8am, I just got off a night shift and I'm heading to the gym. Call me crazy...that's fine. I just think it's time to get my butt in gear, wean the body off of chocolate and spinach dip....and turn it into a lean mean drop-dead-gorgeous-in-my-wedding-dress machine :) wish me luck....and kick my butt if I try to quit, please!

heeeeya!!

It's my first day off today and I surprisingly feel pretty good considering I only slept a couple hours after my night shift!!! I am relaxing waiting to get the text from colin telling me he's awake so we can meet at the gym and pump some iron!!! We are both trying to make fitness a priority...for me it's because I want to looking smoking hott in my wedding dress--maybe for colin its because he wants to beat my mom at an arm wrestle?? hahaha, he hasn't tried yet actually, but she's pretty good at arm wrestling. I have only beat her once and it was after she had surgery :)Wanna see something gross??? this is what is preventing me from wanting another tattoo. I think I got a staph infection from the water at birds hill when I was there a few days after getting this tat. Water must have splashed up into it, and then since you have to put lotion on a new tattoo it smothered the infection and let it grow!! I had these spots from my arm pit down to my thigh. The worst part is that it's now five months later and I can still see marks on my skin from where the spots used to be. Love the tattoo, hated my spots.

CONSUMED!!!

With wedding planning!!!! Here's a horrendous picture of aly and i trying on dresses at David's Bridal in fargo. These are not the dresses or colors that we picked :) It was a fun day, although i'm sure aly got sick of trying on random dresses and posing for pictures!!!!
The new year has been busy, getting back to work and trying to fit in my social life. I feel like all i think about is wedding, which i'm hoping as i get more of the big things checked off the to-do list i will be able to think about it less. I doubt that will happen i will probably only think about it more and obsess over all the tiny details!!
In all reality if the napkins don't match the bridesmaid's shoes and the flower girl spills juice down her dress...it doesn't matter---what matters is Colin and I will be in a room filled with people we love who love us back and wish us the best in our life together. I feel so so fortunate to have amazing friends and family and our day will be so special celebrating with them!!! plus i'll look smoking hot and everyone will be staring at me ;) hahaha