Best Advice Yet!

So we had our usual Thursday night softball game in Little Elm, which I have to say is my favorite night of the week. I love spending time with Cindy, Brandy, and Holly and just having some real girl talk. Our real girl talk got really good last night and I heard the best advice yet. It is not the first time I have ever heard this, but last night it just hit me, the light bulb came on and it really meant something. It all started over a few beers and talking about the three M's... marriage, money and men. I started venting about last weeks mood and how Alex was not helping it get any better. Pretty much after pouring my heart out about how I felt about the three M's, Brandy looks at me and simply says " Marriage is Hard, and it's not going to get any easier. You learn to take the bad and enjoy the good." I have heard that so many times, but for some reason last night it just hit home. Made me look at my relationship with Alex in a completely different way.

Less than 2 1/2 months till this becomes a family! 

On a different note...I have been wanting a new king bed set for a while now. I had purchased a Queen bed spread several years ago and have been using that. It is to small, a greenish blue color that matched nothing, and I never cared enough to make my bed because I hated the way it looked. So I was talking with Kayla our roommate and talking about how I loved how she made her bed everyday, and how I really wanted a black and white king size bed spread, and I would make my bed everyday. So Wednesday night she comes home with a brand new king size beautiful black and white bed in a bag! I was shocked.... she said it was an early Birthday-Thank You present. This is not an actual picture of my bed before but I wanted to get the point across. 

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Isn't it lovely? I am so thankful I have great people in my life. Thank you Kayla. That is not the only thing that Kayla has brought in the house that I love. Let's start from the beginning, Kayla and Josh which is Alex's cousin moved in the beginning of June, and are staying in one of our spare bedrooms. Long story short they needed to get out of his mom's house and we have more than enough room for them. Well they didn't come alone they have an adorable 3 year old little boy named Jayden. I absolutely love having him around the house, you can be having the worst day ever and you come home and see his smile how can you not smile with him. I mean look...

How can you not love this adorable face? What I love is that even Alex is a sucker for this little boy. Almost everyday he takes him outside to go hit some baseballs in the backyard. He can even cheer up Alex when he comes home in a bad mood. I love to see them together makes me really believe that Alex is going to be a great dad some day. 

Till then...

My Rain Cloud is Gone

I was starting to think I was going to be stuck in a funk forever. I had tried everything...girl's night, shopping, cleaning, and even comfort food!  Nothing seemed to work, I think it was like a cold it had to run it's course. 

So this week is going by very quickly which is a good thing because this weekend we have big plans to go cake tasting!  I am super excited and stressing out at the same time. All I think about when I start thinking wedding cakes is ... $$$!  With really no ideas of what I was looking for I went searching online, found this one and just fell in love.

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I love It! It's a little big but the simplicity of it just makes the cake so beautiful to me.  The tree bark stand really brings it together with the rustic look I am going for. I think I could even love it without the flowers. Of course the ribbon will be the Lapis Purple I am going with, and if I do go with flowers they will be a lighter purple color. Speaking of falling in love...

I found the tree bark stand idea at Kinser Event Company's Blog and I absolutely fell head over heels! Now if I can only find someone who is chopping down some tress to get some pieces cut. Seems like ever since all those cake shows came on TLC and Food Network everyone wants to charge an arm and a leg for wedding cakes. Maybe this being my very 1st wedding cake purchase I just have a small case of  sticker shock. 

So the Bride's Maid dresses have been found and it's all left to the girls to get them before the wedding. Megan and I went to David's Bridal yesterday after a long time of procrastinating the trip to find dresses. I had looked at DB's before and was not happy with the selecting, so then we were left with trying to get all the girls together to go dress sale shopping, resulting in failure. Got a email from DB's yesterday with some new fall dress styles and actually liked a couple of them. Resulting in dress success! 

So here they are you really can't tell from the picture but the fabric is Satin, and the sides have pockets, which the girls love! It was a very quick and easy trip and I am very happy to say "It's over"! I am very excited to be checking things off my list again. I ordered our invitations last week so they should be coming in soon. I think I am going to keep those a surprise, don't want to give everything away! 

So cross your fingers we find cake's Alex and I can agree on...style and price!!!

Until then.. 

I just need to ramble...

Why is it the idea to blog only pops in my head when I am annoyed or pissed and have the urge to get it out?  I don't want this to be a place where I come and just bash my life or where I come to pour my heart out, not really my thing. I am just going to take a few deep breathes and start over....
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This weekend was a very busy weekend as always in our house. I got the feeling this weekend like I have been neglecting wedding planning. The previous statement is very true to set the record straight, seems like I have an overwhelming feeling when it comes to wedding planning. I am back at square one with... " I don't know where to begin!" So there I went Sunday night at 8pm writing out all the things that needed to be done before August 1st.

The list looked a little like this..

1. Invitations  - Order & Ship
2.Cake - Appt & Order
3. DJ - Find and Book
4.Center Pieces - Mason Jars (10)
5. Tux's for the guys
6. Bride's Maid Dresses

Then my mind went on a 10 mile run, and didn't stop for any breaks. I was then stressing about the funds to cover all this and when and were all this had to be done by. Was there going to be a surcharge for this and a late fee for that. I stopped my self before having a small panic attack. Monday morning has been a success I called and booked the cake tasting, and A-ok'ed the invitations with Alex so they are ready to order on Friday. I messaged a few DJ friends of ours to see if they would be interested. Last but not least made a phone call to my brides maid's to scheduled a dress shopping trip for Friday.

I think I am pretty amazing sometimes every now I am stressed up the my eye balls, Just a few seconds to get my mind right and I am off on a mission of getting things checked of my list again. Megan is a humongous help she has no idea how much she keeps me sane...Thank you Megan.

This week is going to be busy as usual...just excited to have today to do nothing!

Till then,