A Wedding Update

I realized that I hadn't bored you with an update of my wedding plans lately. I probably should since it is this HUGE thing that I am planning. I cannot believe all of the things that go into planning a wedding. When you get down to it there are a lot of fine details.

1) The Invitations-They are all assembled. The response cards are all completed with stamp. The return address is printed on the back. I will print off the envelopes next week. Yes I am printing them, those of you who have tried to read my handwriting understand. We are hoping to get them stuffed, stamped and sent by the 23rd.

2) The Church- I took my mother to the church for the first time last Sunday. We lucked out because they had the church all set-up for their hymn sing so that we could see how the church would look all opened up for the wedding. No matter what we won't be able to invite everyone on the guest list to the church unless we want standing room only and that would be VERY full!!!! We decided what to do with the aisle situation. The church has two aisle. I wasn't sure what we were going to do about that. We decided to pick an aisle, sit the bride's side on the left, grooms on the right and use the third section as overflow. I think that will do just fine. I also took lots of pictures of the church to show the florist. The church really isn't used too much so she will have a hard time getting in there when it is opened.

3) The Cake- We also went to see the cake lady on Sunday. The cake design is all set. all that we really have to do is find the color votives we want with the cake. I am really happy with the design that I chose. I think that it will turn out beautifully. I picked great flavors too. Yummy I can't wait to eat it!!!

4) The Center Piecese- They are now designed. I have put some prototypes together to determine which one is the best design. That was figured out last night by me, Josh, my mom, sister and aunt. So now I can put them together. That is one thing off the list...Check

5) The Favors- The candles are done. Well we are waiting for another color to come out on the candle line. Then we only have to put those together. We are almost ready to order the other things.

6) Garments- The girls are all set. Most of them have their dresses. The guys have their measurement cards. I am all set.

7) Decorations- We have basic ideas are in the middle of purchasing our supplies. We are trying to tastefully mesh the fall colors with the Purple of the dresses.

8) My beautification- my teeth are white!!! I highly recommend the premium white strips.

That is it!!!!! I think that we are rolling along pretty well. What do you think???

100 Hits

I have hit 100 hits on my blog. That was accomplished in only 8 days. That is an average f 12.5 hits a day. As my stat counter tells me that Wednesdays are the days with the most traffic. A BIG thank you to the audience of the Circus. I really appreciate your readership. I also love the feedback I get. I encourage you all to give me feedback and advice. I love to hear from my readers. Luckily with the counter it doesn't count the forty times a day I check back to see if anyone has made any comments........

The Little Houdini

Well in the danger of sounding like Those People. I am going to follow-up on yesterday's post. I of course do these things when I don't have to come home to the dog first. I don't know if I secretly dread coming home to a mess so I do it so that Josh can deal with it or what. So I left work about 10 minutes late yesterday and called home like I always do to say that I am on the way. In my conversation I of course asked if Jackson had made a mess in the kitchen. Knowing full well that if he had Josh would be sure to tell me. He informed me that there wasn't a mess in the kitchen because Jackson wasn't in the kitchen when he got home. Jackson somehow managed to escape from his fortress.

SO today we put him back in there with the gate a little bit off the ground and messed around with the cardboard "wall" hoping that we made it so that the little "satan dog" as Josh sometimes calls him, wouldn't escape.

Everyone double cross your fingers and blink twice. Maybe he won't escape today......

Fool Me Twice Shame On Me

As you remember a week ago I left our puppy Jackson in kitchen and he turned into the Amazing Shred-O. Well since then Josh has either had the day off or working overnights so Jackson was only in his crate for a handful of hours. As I said before I hate leaving him in the crate because he is getting bigger and yes we have a larger crate but he needs to move around more. Expecially since we leave him for 8-9 hours a day. I know it is cruel to leave him alone that much but I really want him to be able to be left alone in the house. We have tried leaving him alone loose in the house for 4 hours with success. I am so surprise that we haven't yet come home to a problem. We also know this because he runs outside right away and pees for like 3 minutes.

So today is his first day since last Tuesday that he will be left alone. So I set up the gate like I did last week and used the same cardboard box on the other end. I just hope that we don't come home to any sort of mess. I gave him all of his toys. I only gave him a splash of water. So everyone cross your fingers........

The Price of Beauty

I have decided to beautify myself for the wedding. My beautification for the moment is whitening my teeth. I have a bridge across my front teeth so the whitening isn't going to do anything for those teeth but they are still white. My bottom and side teeth are the one's that are really affected by soda and stuff like that. So on saturday I went to Wal-Mart to buy every household cleaner as we were out of EVERYTHING! So I swung down the handsoap aisle which happens to be the same aisle as the tooth care aisle. So I decided to purchase some Crest Premium Whitestrips. I figured hey it is cheaper than getting it done at the dentist office and paying up the wazoo for it. And if it doesn't work I am only out $30 not $300.

So I tried it out Saturday night. I also wore the strips for 1/2 twice yesterday per the instructions. By the end of the evening my teeth were pretty sensitive. So I bit the bullet this morning and applied the strips again. The sensitivity in my teeth isn't all THAT awful but it is just uncomfortable. I think that I will try to apply them 8-12 hours apart and see if that helps the sensitiviy issue. Gee I hope that it will be worth it!!!!!!!