It’s Wedding Week!

Well folks it’s officially wedding week!! Who’s excited?! We are!!

The weather is looking good so far.   http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/USNH0003

Keep your fingers crossed and toes too!

Things are all coming together. I am meeting with a local farm near us about flowers today. That was the last minute thing that has been giving me a little stress lately because places are running out as the flower season is coming to an end soon and frost will be here before we know it.  So I will be glad to know that we are good to go with all of that today.

Finishing touches are all getting wrapped up this week and I am just hoping that I don’t forget anything. Brian’s mom will be coming up tomorrow night and staying with us and helping out with some last minute shopping etc that needs to get done. That will be great!

Then Wednesday is our last day of work for the week and Thursday is Brian’s Birthday!!!! WooHooo!! Then Friday we will pack up and head up to the farm for the weekend! I am so excited!  I get to marry my best friend this weekend and be surrounded by family and friends that love us. It is all just so unbelievable sometimes.

I am so grateful that we were able to even do this and I really hope that everyone enjoys themselves as much as I know that we will!!

I don’t have any pictures to post yet, but I wanted to just say here that I am so thankful for all of those who came and helped put on a fantastic wedding shower for me. Two weekends ago. The food was amazing and the gifts were so thoughtful and I had so much fun. Thank you all.  I feel truly blessed to have such wonderful people in my life that care so much. Thank you so very much.

Vows! Wow! & Mini-Moon Plans

When we first thought about writing our own vows, we were so excited! And, although we are still SUPER excited to read our own vows to each other, now it just seems to be a bit harder than we thought.

First of all, finding the time to just sit and start writing can be very hard to do when there are a million wedding crafts to do and house stuff to clean and organize and kids every other weekend and work all day etc etc.

Secondly, even just thinking of writing and reading such intimate things to each we both start tearing up. It seems like it will be impossible for us to do it without blubbering all the way through. Jeesh! (Good thing I got that extra waterproof mascara!)

But I do want to get them written soon or at least first drafts started as we only have…

23 DAYS left!!!!

Wow!

It is very exciting to think that I will be changing my name and joined with my best friend in such a meaningful new way. I really can’t wait. And I can’t wait to have all kinds of family and friends around for the weekend too!

Another exciting thing is that we have sort of realized this week that we are planning a fantastic little Mini-Moon! Very exciting because I didn’t really think we were going to have any sort of getaway for us but then we remembered that the weekend of October 8-10 we are going down to Pennsylvania for Brian’s Induction Ceremony to the Hall of Fame at his old High School (North Penn) for his amazing swim team. As this will be my first trip to Philadelphia and Brian’s old home town we decided to make a real adventure of it.

We both took that Friday off and will be driving down and staying in a nice  hotel right in downtown Philadelphia. Then getting up Saturday morning and going to the Art Museum there (a.k.a. the” Rocky staircase”, pictures to come of course), getting a real Philly Cheese Steak for lunch (yummmmm) and going to LOVE Park. As well as any more Philly fun we can come up with. Then we will drive out to Lansdale where Brian is from and go to his  ceremony and I will get to meet some of his friends that he spent numerous amount of time in the water with. Including one of his great friends Josh who unfortunately can’t make it to the wedding. And who I am excited to meet.

Then Saturday night we are staying here: Normandy Farm. Which looks really nice and we will have brunch there in the morning before we make the trip home. Sooo Yeah Mini-Moon!