Wedding Plans

I have to admit once again that I am horrible at keeping up with a blog. I like to read other people's and get upset when they don't update them and then I think of mine and feel bad.  With only 33 more days to go, all of the wedding plans are finally coming together. The dress is altered and ready to wear, the cake is ordered, flowers are picked out and ordered and wedding rings have been purchased. Tyler's came in already but mine is yet to be completed.  The menu and reception site are done and invitations were sent two weeks ago so if you haven't gotten one then you aren't invited. So far I have only received two can't make it's and all the rest are going to be there. Deciding on who to invite to this wedding was hard and in the end I just had to make some difficult choices.  I hope everyone understands.  I wanted to keep this wedding small, intimate and celebrate with the people whom I care about and have kept in close contact with me during the years.
In other news, we have decided on where we are going for our honeymoon. ..........FLORIDA!!!! Yes, that's right. In the end, I really just want to go to the beach and swim in an ocean and go fishing so this was cheap and since the oil spill tickets are affordable. I am super excited to go and hope to make a detour to Disney World for a couple of days.
So, with only a month away till the big day I will make some concluding thoughts about my reign as a single lady in my twenties.  It was the best and I wouldn't change any of it for the world!!! I am so happy that I was able to experience everything that I did and become the person who I am today. Thinking back to all the dumb guys that I thought would be great to be married to back when I was 21 and 22 yrs old I now can see that I would have never tapped into my true potential.  Moving to Seattle and going to graduate school at 25 yrs old was a huge turning point in my life. I was living over a thousand miles away from anyone I knew and studying to become something that many my age aren't even considering.  I made some great friends and many memories in Seattle and gained confidence in myself that I would have never had if I had married at such a young age. Looking back on my twenties I can say without a doubt that I have no regrets.  Besides, had I not moved to Seattle I would have never met Tyler. He is my best friend and I wouldn't change that for anything. Now that I am 29 I am now ready to be married and ready to allow someone else in my life. Though I believe I have integrated him into my life over the past two and half years and am now ready to go all the way.  I am excitedly looking forward to this new phase in my life and I know that it will be hard and that there will be many challenges but at least this time I won't be going in alone. I will have Tyler and all of my experience from my twenties to draw from to overcome anything.

Wedding Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.com

I'm Engaged!

For those who don't know Tyler and I are engaged! He proposed to me on Friday April 16th. I have a beautiful, gorgeous ring and a very handsome fiance.  We have been dating for 2.5yrs now and will be getting married on August 14, 2010 in St. Louis Missouri. We are both very excited!

Christmas Time!

I haven't kept up to date with this blog but I am going to try to get it to present. In the past month Harvey completed his training and graduated from puppy kindergarten. He weighs about 30pds now and loves the snow. For Christmas this year, Tyler surprised me with a brand new pool table! All he told me was that it was a game. I had no idea what it was until I went down to the garage and saw it there all set up. It has been so much fun having my own pool table. We are actually improving a lot now. It's great not having to play for each game and sacrifice our lungs to secondhand smoke anymore.

Also, we were given tickets for the Dallas Mavericksvs phoenix suns game and had a blast. We won 102-101. Lots of fans and good support for the team.
I was able to get some time off to come down to Illinois for Christmas this year. I am here until the 28th. Its been a lot of fun playing with Ruben and hanging out with mom and the family. We having been playing lots of Band Hero, Super Mario Bros Wii, eating lots of cookies, tamales, flautas, and cake. Ruben got a bunch of new toys, a cozy coupe car, little kitchen, tools, etc. We are having a lot of fun playing with him.

It's been pretty cold here with snow on Christmas and snow this morning when we woke up. Overall, its been a pretty enjoyable holiday!

Oklahoma

Yesterday we went to the property in OK that my mom and dad own. Since owning for over 35 yrs, they haven't done a thing with it. Well since I live 3hrs away from the land I decided to change that. I bought a gate so we could actually drive into the property instead of lifting the barb wire fence. We spent the whole day saturday digging a driveway and constructing a new fence and installed a new gate that we bought off craigslist for real cheap. We did all the work with a shovel and our own muscles! There is no water or electricity out there so we did the best we could.

Harvey had the best time ever out there. He acted like he owned the place and ran wild like the puppy he is. He was going non-stop until he got spooked at night and we put him in the truck to go to sleep. While we were there two other dogs came over and played with Harvey. A big pregnant dog we named "baby mama" hung out with us all day. We fed her every piece of food that we had brought for Harvey except for a handful for him to have for dinner. She is very big and will probably have puppies soon.

We finished the gate and hope to go back very soon. Next time we are going to work on a fire pit and mow down some of the grass.

6 Months!!!!

I have come to the conclusion that I am not good at keeping a blog. So in a renewed effort, I will try and update this once a week or so. Six months have gone by and my life has changed dramatically. Since, my last post I was hired at a new job, moved from Seattle, have a new apartment (living by myself!!!) and have a brand new puppy named Harvey. So far, I am enjoying my job and find it very challenging and rewarding. I like all my co-workers and my boss is the nicest lady I have met. She is very positive and willing to do anything to make sure my job experience is the best. Since getting my new job, I have finally been able to pay bills and stop using my credit card for groceries! I now actually have a savings. Though the best thing I think has been that I finally have health insurance again. Going for a 1 1/2 yr without insurance was hard but I was fortunate to never get sick so I had to only go for health maintenance appts.
I really like my new apartment and have nearly made it the way I would like it. I have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room and a two car garage. Its like a town house. I also have a balcony that I have been decorating with lots of plants so I can have my own little garden sanctuary.


Harvey is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. I found Harvey on accident at a animal shelter. I had orginially planned on getting another puppy but when I got there two days later someone had already adopted her. So I looked around and saw a small cage with three little puppies in it. I asked if they were for adoption and they were. Apparently they had just been brought in that morning and I wanted to hold them right away they were so tiny. The first one I held was Harvey. I didn't think he was very beautiful at first but after holding him and feeling his gentle personality I knew he was the one I was going to leave with. Tyler and I looked at all three puppies and ultimately I chose the little brindle colored puppy. I love this puppy so much and take such good care of him. He came from a horrible dilapidated shelter and I am so glad I was there to rescue him from having to spend the night there in the heat. Harvey is now 15 weeks old, healthy, bouncy, loving puppy who loves to chew and follow you every where. He is very loyal and always looks to please me. He is never alone and if so only for a couple hours. Otherwise he is with either me or tyler. He is now going to puppy training school and doing well. He can sit, lay, walk on a leash, leave it and stay. He is doing well for being the youngest in the class. On Halloween Harvey dressed up as a bumble bee and went to the Petsmart parade. He had his picture taken and was able to socialize with other dogs.
Currently, he was just fixed so he is laying low for the time being. Poor guy. He is now officially cone head!

Well that is all of the update for now. I am just busy working and taking care of my puppy. My family will hopefully be able to visit me for Thanksgiving. Other than that I will post more next week.

The Completed Arbor in My Backyard!

So, I posted pictures of the completed arbor but I wanted to post pictures of the arbor in its final resting space...in my backyard. I went to Ace Hardware and bought two hanging flower baskets and a bunch of flowers and decorated the arbor. I took a ton of pictures and the arbor is definitely the centerpiece of the yard now. I love looking at it and can't wait for it to be filled with vines and flowers.