I'm married!!!

I finally have the chance to write a post about the recent events.  Tyler and I were married on August 14th at 2:30pm in the St. Louis Temple. It was such a beautiful ceremony and we were lucky to have the people we love be there with us to witness our sealing. Only a couple funny things to mention about the events prior, Tyler forgot to shave in all the excitement so we had to procure his dads electric razor 10 minutes before the sealing. I was so hot in my dress I thought I was going to pass out and had to have a drink of water before proceeding cause I was getting all nervous and anxious about passing out cause I was so hot. Other than those two things, it all went well.  We were greeted outside by everyone and we then had dozens of pictures taken.

 After all the pictures were taken about 4:45pm we managed to head to reception site which was at the 9th street abbey in Soulard. We had a great time visiting with all our family and friends and had a delicious meal of either chicken saltimbocca or chili rubbed porkchops.  We had cesear salad and for dessert delicious lemon wedding cake and raspberry cake along with chocolate cake. The grooms cake was all chocolate with two strawberries as a groom and bride.  To accompany the wedding cake, we also had Ted Drewe's Frozen custard station with a ton of toppings to choose from.  We had a wonderful guitarist who played throughout the event and we had our first dance to "Making Memories of Us" by Keith Urban.  After all the goodbyes at around 9pm, we took more pictures and finally left for the Hilton Homewood Suites where we were greeted with Sparkling peach drink, brownie bites, petit four carrot cake, keylime pie, apple streudel bites. My sister Katherine did a wonderful job! The next morning we headed over to my mom and dads and spent the afternoon with them before having my mom and brother drop us off at the airport to head off to our honeymoon in Florida.

We are happy to be home now and enjoying being together and setting up our house though that really means finding a place for Tyler's stuff!  We went to our church for the first time today and we were warmly greeted and everyone seems to be really nice. Overall, this whole wedding experience was very good and though I would never want to do it again I am glad that it is finally over.

Wedding Week

So, my wedding is now in three days and everything seems to going well. I have come to the conclusion that something won't go well and to just go with it and not get worked up about it.  Tyler and I went and got our marriage license on Monday and paid the photographer our last payment.  Otherwise we are just hanging out here in IL with my family enjoying their company. Tyler and I went to Cahokia mounds yesterday. It is a national historic site that is about 10 miles from my house. It is an area with large mounds of dirt build by people over a 1000 years ago. We were able to go to the museum and watch the movie, walk around the exhibits and at the end we walked up Monks Mound which is 100ft tall and has over 100 steps to climb. We had a great time and I loved showing him the place since it was a very frequented field trip spot when I was growing up. Though walking through the museum there were only 3 new exhibits.
Anyway, not much else to report. Just hanging out until the big day.

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.