OMG I'm such a slacker....not only have I slacked off on my online blog, but I've slacked on my journal to my son.
So much has happened! I'm extremely lucky and blessed and just wish I were better at this whole blog thing.
So the original wedding date was Nov. 14 2009, however - the Army is not giving Steven any extra leave, so when he does get back to Georgia he'll only have 14 1/2 days of leave. Not including travel days of course...So we moved it up to Oct. 31 - Halloween! Someone asked me yesterday if we were doing a themed wedding...uhhhh NO WAY....not my style at all...
We scaled down A LOT...only having 1 attendant each, his best friend and my half sister. We had 5 plus my half sister was a junior bridesmaid, but since my original MOH couldn't make it on Oct. 31 we decided to not have attendants, but then my mother was afraid my sister's feelings would be hurt if she weren't in it, so we decided to do a MOH and Best Man, so my sister is going to be the MOH...we're just going to skip on the flower girl and ring bearer.
I want to do the sand ceremony, so I need to look more into that and into getting stuff for it. And I've been meaning to talk to Steven, but I mentioned to his preacher that I want to do Communion also.
Steven is suppose to order our invites tonight or tomorrow....I'm using this site http://www.cardsandpockets.com/ and I was going to make the pocket fold card part myself, but since we don't have that much time left we ordering the Easy-Order Kits - which comes with the pocket fold, invite mat, invite paper, inserts, RSVP envelopes if you want, and mailing envelopes...We got them in my colors, the pocket folds are Clover green, the invite mat is Watermelon pink, and the inserts are Snow White and the mailing envelopes are Watermelon pink! I made the invite on Photo Shop CS4, along with a directions insert since most guests on my side are from out of town. I made the invite and directions insert the size I wanted it in inches on Photo Shop CS4 and put a border around them so I could easily cut them out!!!!
I eventually made it back to Tennessee from Oklahoma - Sept 13...Steven drove me to Oklahoma City, I flew to Chicago O'Hare, it was RAINING so bad that my flight into O'Hare was late and I had 2 connectors to catch...luckily the gate attendant was super helpful and exchanged my 2 connections for a direct flight from O'Hare to Atlanta...granted it was a later flight and I had a 3+ hour lay over...but I didn't mind. However, Steven didn't have a great commute back. It had been raining all weekend, and it started raining pretty hard, and so he slowed down, and ended up hydroplaning. Luckily he wasn't hurt, and nobody else was hurt. Today is Oct. 2 and the insurance company is just not calling to tell him that the car is totalled. I can understand not knowing right after, and having to get the car apart, but this is like 3 weeks later...what was the car guy doing with his car for so long? Or what was the insurance company doing for 3 weeks? Anyways...this is pretty long, so I will continue this story later. Which will give me motivation to blog!
Love ya'll!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Guess What?!?!?!
I'm engaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been in Oklahoma since the end of July, and have loved every moment! I'm ready to get home to start planning the wedding of my dreams! So far we have the location, someone to marry us, someone to do flowers, and our attendants! I even have the bridesmaid dresses picked out!!! I found a great deal on a beautiful dress on David's Bridal website for 80 bucks. I hope everyone is able to get their size, I would hate it if most of my bridesmaids already had the dress and one waited to long and their size was gone....that would suck. I told my maid of honor if that happened to her I'd just pick a special dress for her, but I don't want to have to many different dresses. Since my sister who is the junior bridesmaid is also having a different dress. Anyways, I have so much to think about and do. And very little time, less than 80 days. AHHHHH.....
Well, anyways, going to go snuggle with my honey!
-Mandi
I've been in Oklahoma since the end of July, and have loved every moment! I'm ready to get home to start planning the wedding of my dreams! So far we have the location, someone to marry us, someone to do flowers, and our attendants! I even have the bridesmaid dresses picked out!!! I found a great deal on a beautiful dress on David's Bridal website for 80 bucks. I hope everyone is able to get their size, I would hate it if most of my bridesmaids already had the dress and one waited to long and their size was gone....that would suck. I told my maid of honor if that happened to her I'd just pick a special dress for her, but I don't want to have to many different dresses. Since my sister who is the junior bridesmaid is also having a different dress. Anyways, I have so much to think about and do. And very little time, less than 80 days. AHHHHH.....Well, anyways, going to go snuggle with my honey!
-Mandi
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wrote this a while back...oops
I've been in Fort Sill, OK for 2 weeks now, and blogger doesn't really work on their internet, so I haven't been updating as much and I wrote this on the day I was flying out. A lot happened after I wrote this, like a major LAYOVER in Dallas, TX. But that is for another post because this one is long enough.....
Friday, July 31, 2009
So I’m sitting at the Atlanta Airport waiting on my 4:50pm flight to Dallas, TX and I’m on the floor because my gate is so packed from the Miami flight that has been delayed. As I sit here though, I have been people watching. And let me just say there are a lot of different people out there. And it got me thinking, what do people think when they look at me.
I obviously do not have the answer to the question; however I can think about what I want them to think. I’d like them to think that I’m a kind, caring person. That I’m not uglier than a toad and that I am not fatter than a hippo. I know I’m not the most fashionable girl, and I’m sitting here in torn jeans, pink flip flops and a pink Fudruckers shirt that says “Best Buns in Town” on the back. I’ve got my spring green Dell laptop on my lap and my carry on next to me and a Starbucks Java Chip Frappe that I’ve been nursing for a little while. I know that it shouldn’t matter what people think of me when they pass me, chances are they don’t even notice me since I’m on the floor in the corner almost. But it is something I think about. And something I am concerned with.
As I’m sitting here typing this, a family with a 2 year old little girl stood next to me. I happened to have some stickers in my bag, so I gave her one and talked with her. She’s on her way to Florida to see the Alligators; her mom told me she wanted to see them. How exciting! She has the cutest puppy with her too, his name is Noodles. I of course showed her Artie, my teddy bear in Camo!
I am writing this in Microsoft Word for a few reasons. One is because well, I’m cheap and broke and don’t see paying for internet when I’ll have it for free once I make it to Fort Sill, OK. Another is that I didn’t want to forget my thoughts and never write this blog. I tend to do that a lot, think “Oh hey, that would make a good blog” and then never write it down, and when I am at my blog I can not remember what it was I wanted to write.
I live in Chattanooga as most of you know, and it is much cheaper to fly out of either Nashville or Atlanta. So I asked my mother to drive me to Atlanta today. My mom grew up here and her parents still live here. My grandmother (Sweetie is what we call her) has not been doing real well, so I thought how nice would it be for us to stop by and see them on our way to the airport. I have not had a positive visit with my grandparents since I was a little girl. Sweetie is very hard to please, and is getting increasingly worse in her old age. They did find out that I am going to get married, my grandfather asked when my mother told him that we were going to visit on the way to the airport since I was going to visit Steven. So mom told him yes. I’m so glad I don’t have to tell them that now. While in Atlanta we went to the Varsity and ate. Gosh I love that place. If you are EVER in the Atlanta area you should go and get a chili dog w/ onions and onion rings. They are famous for their onion rings. Nice and greasy!
Mom dropped me off at the Check-In desk and I had a HUGE bag to check, well, Steven thought the bag was included in the price of the ticket, he thought wrong. I only had $7 bucks on me and so I had to call mom to turn around and make the horrific trek back to the airport to bring me money. Luckily my grandfather had given her some extra money. The lady at the check-in desk said I could carry it on, but I saw the thing were you check to see if it will fit and looking at it I noticed, it would NOT fit, and I had things in there that they would make me throw away if I were to carry it on. No thanks. So after waiting for mom to bring the money I finally got my bag checked and made it through the security check point with flying colors. So I am now waiting for my flight. I think there are 2 in front of mine, including this Miami one that just boarded. The next one is a flight to Chicago. It looks like mine MIGHT be delayed a few minutes because of it. We’ll see though.
Have a great day and next time you hear from me I will be comfortable in my fiancé’s hotel room!
Friday, July 31, 2009
So I’m sitting at the Atlanta Airport waiting on my 4:50pm flight to Dallas, TX and I’m on the floor because my gate is so packed from the Miami flight that has been delayed. As I sit here though, I have been people watching. And let me just say there are a lot of different people out there. And it got me thinking, what do people think when they look at me.
I obviously do not have the answer to the question; however I can think about what I want them to think. I’d like them to think that I’m a kind, caring person. That I’m not uglier than a toad and that I am not fatter than a hippo. I know I’m not the most fashionable girl, and I’m sitting here in torn jeans, pink flip flops and a pink Fudruckers shirt that says “Best Buns in Town” on the back. I’ve got my spring green Dell laptop on my lap and my carry on next to me and a Starbucks Java Chip Frappe that I’ve been nursing for a little while. I know that it shouldn’t matter what people think of me when they pass me, chances are they don’t even notice me since I’m on the floor in the corner almost. But it is something I think about. And something I am concerned with.
As I’m sitting here typing this, a family with a 2 year old little girl stood next to me. I happened to have some stickers in my bag, so I gave her one and talked with her. She’s on her way to Florida to see the Alligators; her mom told me she wanted to see them. How exciting! She has the cutest puppy with her too, his name is Noodles. I of course showed her Artie, my teddy bear in Camo!
I am writing this in Microsoft Word for a few reasons. One is because well, I’m cheap and broke and don’t see paying for internet when I’ll have it for free once I make it to Fort Sill, OK. Another is that I didn’t want to forget my thoughts and never write this blog. I tend to do that a lot, think “Oh hey, that would make a good blog” and then never write it down, and when I am at my blog I can not remember what it was I wanted to write.
I live in Chattanooga as most of you know, and it is much cheaper to fly out of either Nashville or Atlanta. So I asked my mother to drive me to Atlanta today. My mom grew up here and her parents still live here. My grandmother (Sweetie is what we call her) has not been doing real well, so I thought how nice would it be for us to stop by and see them on our way to the airport. I have not had a positive visit with my grandparents since I was a little girl. Sweetie is very hard to please, and is getting increasingly worse in her old age. They did find out that I am going to get married, my grandfather asked when my mother told him that we were going to visit on the way to the airport since I was going to visit Steven. So mom told him yes. I’m so glad I don’t have to tell them that now. While in Atlanta we went to the Varsity and ate. Gosh I love that place. If you are EVER in the Atlanta area you should go and get a chili dog w/ onions and onion rings. They are famous for their onion rings. Nice and greasy!
Mom dropped me off at the Check-In desk and I had a HUGE bag to check, well, Steven thought the bag was included in the price of the ticket, he thought wrong. I only had $7 bucks on me and so I had to call mom to turn around and make the horrific trek back to the airport to bring me money. Luckily my grandfather had given her some extra money. The lady at the check-in desk said I could carry it on, but I saw the thing were you check to see if it will fit and looking at it I noticed, it would NOT fit, and I had things in there that they would make me throw away if I were to carry it on. No thanks. So after waiting for mom to bring the money I finally got my bag checked and made it through the security check point with flying colors. So I am now waiting for my flight. I think there are 2 in front of mine, including this Miami one that just boarded. The next one is a flight to Chicago. It looks like mine MIGHT be delayed a few minutes because of it. We’ll see though.
Have a great day and next time you hear from me I will be comfortable in my fiancé’s hotel room!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Journal
The adoptive parents gave me a basket of things at the hospital. One of those things was a journal. Maybe tomorrow I'll take pictures of the basket and journal and post them on here! It was truly a great gift!
So, I started a journal shortly after my son was born. I had been toying with this idea for a while, I've kept a journal off and on throughout my teenage years and in college. Before they gave me the journal I had thought about writing about my experience to my son.
I'm a pretty stubborn person, I came to realize that while pregnant - my old therapist told me that I was, and after looking back at how I handled certain things in my life, I had an epiphany - I AM STUBBORN.
I knew the adoption was going to be hard. I had expected that. I mean, who expects that handing over your only child would be a piece of cheesecake?(I've been reading a lot of The Pioneer Woman today!) I mean really - people are just DUMB if they think this is an easy way out. (That is another topic for another day mind you) Well, my stubborn self decided I didn't need to write to get through this, and that I didn't need to talk about my feelings.
BOY was I wrong, seeing as I ended up at Valley in January. (The local mental health hospital)
You see, half way through my pregnancy my therapist took a new job, and left me for a job that allowed her to work from home. Well she did set me up with my therapist now, and this is where my point comes in.(if I even have a point...) Up to a certain point, I can't really remember when, I never left her office with a dry eye. It was so foreign to me to cry in therapy. I hardly ever cried with my other therapist. I was almost ready to quit seeing this therapist because I didn't want to cry any more. HUGE MISTAKE! Glad I didn't make that one! She suggested I start a journal, so I told her about my idea about writing to him. And she thought it was a wonderful idea. I had heard about that idea a few years back. It's always easier to write to someone than just to write to nobody.
Well last night I wrote in my journal for the first time in over a month. I hadn't been doing a very good job at keeping it up. (big shocker there, huh) And I had been wanting to write in it on every 10th of the month, seeing as he was born on Dec. 10. Well this month I forgot, well I thought about it, but just neglected to for no other reason than I didn't know what to say. Not only was it his 7 month birthday but it was my 24th birthday. The last few entries in the journal I seem to be repeating myself. Telling him how sorry I am I haven't kept it up, and how I'll do better. And I really let that get to me last night because I was like, WOAH, those are empty promises and if he sees them as those then how are we going to have a positive reunion. We wouldn't.
Anyways, I'll get to what I was trying to tell you about now since this is clearly LONG enough. I decided (and told him in my entry last night) that I would no longer just write willy-nilly. I would however, choose ONE (or 2) things to write about and then close. So I haven't started yet, but I think I might start tonight, erm this morning. (3am much)
If you got to this point in the entry, thanks for reading. Sorry I was so long winded tonight.
So, I started a journal shortly after my son was born. I had been toying with this idea for a while, I've kept a journal off and on throughout my teenage years and in college. Before they gave me the journal I had thought about writing about my experience to my son.
I'm a pretty stubborn person, I came to realize that while pregnant - my old therapist told me that I was, and after looking back at how I handled certain things in my life, I had an epiphany - I AM STUBBORN.
I knew the adoption was going to be hard. I had expected that. I mean, who expects that handing over your only child would be a piece of cheesecake?(I've been reading a lot of The Pioneer Woman today!) I mean really - people are just DUMB if they think this is an easy way out. (That is another topic for another day mind you) Well, my stubborn self decided I didn't need to write to get through this, and that I didn't need to talk about my feelings.
BOY was I wrong, seeing as I ended up at Valley in January. (The local mental health hospital)
You see, half way through my pregnancy my therapist took a new job, and left me for a job that allowed her to work from home. Well she did set me up with my therapist now, and this is where my point comes in.(if I even have a point...) Up to a certain point, I can't really remember when, I never left her office with a dry eye. It was so foreign to me to cry in therapy. I hardly ever cried with my other therapist. I was almost ready to quit seeing this therapist because I didn't want to cry any more. HUGE MISTAKE! Glad I didn't make that one! She suggested I start a journal, so I told her about my idea about writing to him. And she thought it was a wonderful idea. I had heard about that idea a few years back. It's always easier to write to someone than just to write to nobody.
Well last night I wrote in my journal for the first time in over a month. I hadn't been doing a very good job at keeping it up. (big shocker there, huh) And I had been wanting to write in it on every 10th of the month, seeing as he was born on Dec. 10. Well this month I forgot, well I thought about it, but just neglected to for no other reason than I didn't know what to say. Not only was it his 7 month birthday but it was my 24th birthday. The last few entries in the journal I seem to be repeating myself. Telling him how sorry I am I haven't kept it up, and how I'll do better. And I really let that get to me last night because I was like, WOAH, those are empty promises and if he sees them as those then how are we going to have a positive reunion. We wouldn't.
Anyways, I'll get to what I was trying to tell you about now since this is clearly LONG enough. I decided (and told him in my entry last night) that I would no longer just write willy-nilly. I would however, choose ONE (or 2) things to write about and then close. So I haven't started yet, but I think I might start tonight, erm this morning. (3am much)
If you got to this point in the entry, thanks for reading. Sorry I was so long winded tonight.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Show us your life - Wedding Dress Edition
A friend of mine, Christie did a thing from this site last month called Show Us Your Place Friday and now they're doing Show Us Your Life Fridays, the site is Kelly's Korner.
This week is Show Us Your Life - Wedding Dress
Well, I'm not married, but every little girl dreams of their wedding day and has a picture of their perfect dress. So if I could have any dress it would probably be this one I found the other day when looking around.
It's a Mori Lee by Madeline Gardner, I would probably loss the ribbon. Or exchange it for a pink or green one, seeing as I want my wedding colors to be pink and green.
Next week Kelly's Korner is doing wedding party - so I'll post the bridesmaids dresses and stuff I liked next week!
This week is Show Us Your Life - Wedding Dress
Well, I'm not married, but every little girl dreams of their wedding day and has a picture of their perfect dress. So if I could have any dress it would probably be this one I found the other day when looking around.
It's a Mori Lee by Madeline Gardner, I would probably loss the ribbon. Or exchange it for a pink or green one, seeing as I want my wedding colors to be pink and green.
Next week Kelly's Korner is doing wedding party - so I'll post the bridesmaids dresses and stuff I liked next week!
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