Caroline and Jason McClain's First Dance

This was filmed from someone at my cousin Jason's Wedding this past weekend. I think it is so cool! It is a Peruvian Waltz. They lived in Peru for a while this year. I sadly missed the wedding but my Mom told me about it and it sounded wonderful.

We had meetings with the caterer yesterday for our wedding. We got a lot of stuff figured out including the table linens and everything. I am excited! Our theme is Autmun so that is the key if you come to the wedding. I think it is a wonderful setting for a fall wedding.

I found out from my mom a few more peoplet that are coming as well as some that are not. Those who aren't I didn't expect to come. My cousin Ali had a baby early this year and I totally understand her not wanting to travel with him, her husband is going to be away on business from what I understand. I'll get to meet her son one of these days. For now I can enjoy pictures people share ^_^

Just over a month left.. craaazzy!!

5 more weeks!

That is right folks 5 more weeks. I've heard personally from a handful of people that they are coming. My parents should be on their way back from Alabama at this point so I'll be able to find out first hand if they have recieved any of the reply cards back from people.

Tomorrow we are meeting with the caterer to finish up stuff at the Boettcher Mansion and to pick out our linens and silverware and such. I am excited! We also get to show them our idea of the centerpieces. Chris and I will then just need to order the flowers and pick up the rocks we need.. lol.. for the centerpieces.. it will work with the location trust me!

5 weeks from now I'll be married and enjoying my reception at this time.. and 5 weeks from tomorrow I'll be landing in Orlando, FL by now. I am so excited about everything. Chris and I need to book a hotel room. For the weekend of the wedding. We've agreed to make it easy and stay together the night before the wedding. Once we arrive at the Boettcher though we wont see eachother till I walk down the aisle.. ^_^

I have to make table assignments, my mom said that even though originally we were going to just let everyone pick their own table she said some people might feel better if they know where they are sitting. I guess that does make sense so as I find out who is coming I'm going to start making a list of who should sit at what table. Then we need to get a bunch of little name cards and label them. Oh the fun. Haha.

In non wedding news Chris and I intend to try and go to the Zoo soon. We haven't been yet this year and with my new camera I am dying to go. I plan on taking it with me to the Boettcher tomorrow and try and get some shots if I can.

Also it seems I picked poorly in the football pool this week.. oh well its all in good fun.

Can't wait to see everyone!!

Hair and Makeup Success!

So I had fun last night. Chris was a little frustrated just because we didn't get home until nearly midnight! Ugh, that was due to traffic caused by construction and our normal exit on I-25 was closed and we had to go up to the next exit and take another road back down. We also got a little lost in Golden because it was dark and the signs to get to I-70 east bound were confusing.

Still the appointment itself was great and I really liked the woman. Also I got bangs.. which will grow on me more I'm sure and of course grow out.. they look great with the hair for the wedding though.. lol.. and she colored my hair. I like it.. ^_^



This is a sample.. the back looks great too but I'll save that for the big day.. ^_^

The makeup around the eyes will be lighter because it will be during the day and natural lighting but I felt like a pretty princess hahaha..

But in general I am haaaappy.. ^_^

Tuesday, Tuesday

This weekend was actually very productive. 40 more days to go!

I met my mom on Saturday at Starbucks, mmm coffee! We were in search of some very specific things, jewelry, a wrap (in case it is cold, as it does tend to snow on Halloween), a head piece and shoes. I was excepting some success but we had total success. I also got to try on the sample of my wedding dress again! Sooo exciting. We found earrings and a bracelet at Macy's, a necklace at the Sterling Silver store, a wrap at Dillards, and shoes and a reeeeeaally pretty headband at Dina's Bridal. So I am not going with the flower on the side image I was thinking about (see the early hair post) but I am really happy with what I did find.

Things are getting really busy now, tonight I have my hair trial. She is only at the salon tues-thurs. We are meeting with the Boettcher Mansion on the 27th, as well as our caterer to pick linens. My dress ships on the 27th so I am hoping to be able to go try it on and get the hem setup on the 2nd. My bridal shower is on the 3rd and we meet the DJ on the 4th. We are doing our Bachelor/Bachelorette co-op party on the 16th. We have several people to pay between now and the 31st. I still have to work a lot between now and the end of Oct.

Tomorrow is the first day of Fall, but it still has been really warm out so I'm hoping that it means it wont be snowing on Halloween this year. We shall see. The weather here is always crazy.

Chris and I need to pick up the stuff for the favors and the centerpieces. We need to get gifts for people involved in the wedding. So much to do and time is starting to quickly tick by..

Oh I do have some new photos to share.. not many.. I looove my new camera though.. can't wait to get to disney world. ^_^.. my mom said she is going to use my camera at my wedding for me!!

Animals

Scenery

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Big Smiley Face.. ^_^

First off, I have had a cold all week and been really achey and cruddy feeling. I woke up feeling amazing this morning! So yay for that.
Second, I got a reply card given to me and it was a confirmed reply so I'm really excited now. Some one is coming to my wedding! Hahaha. One of guys we invited from work. Who we have known since we started is coming. Yay!
Third, it is friday and I get go home and have pizza. Hahaha.
Fourth, I am going shopping with my Mom tomorrow.

So I have lots to be happy about right now. Can't wait to get home. Chris had to stay home today because everyone is off on a fishing trip and one of the alpacas went into labor this morning right before we had to leave for work.

Its been a busy day and I am happy it is nearly over.

I can't wait to start hearing who is coming to my wedding!

Peace out everyone!

This might be easier..

I figured out it would be easier to share photo albums sometimes instead of trying to load individual photos because our internet here has issues..

Animals

..so some of those have been on here before but most have not. as I build up more photo albums I'll share more.. ^_^.. in other news we got all our invitations prepped yesterday and we are taking them to the post office this morning before work to get them mailed out. One more thing checked off my list and one less thing to worry about.. ^_^

So I am playing my first every football pool and I lost. But I did pretty well up until the games last night. I don't know why I picked the Chargers.. honestly.. oh well always another chance next weekend.. ^_^

Achilles started his advanced training last night. Only 5 more classes left. We did a review of heal and greeting strangers, as well as walking along other dogs. Achilles did pretty well. I plan on working more on his heal and stuff this week.. also he is getting really mouthy again so we need to work on that.

I've been doing really well with my exercise I worked out 6 days last week and so far 2 days this week. ^_^ I am seeing and feeling the difference too. ^_^ I can't wait to try my dress on again when it comes in. I hope I look great! It should be there in another 2 weeks.

Well gotta finish getting ready to go! Hope you have a wonderful week!

Wedding Update

We sent our wedding invitations to the printer to have them print them up for us because our printer was curling the pages. Not fun. *Fingers Crossed* we get them back before Monday.

I'm trying to setup a trial run with the hair/makeup lady we are going to use. Also going shopping for something to put in my hair my next Saturday off which is on the 18th.

I am still kind of bummed that I cannot go to my cousin Jason's Wedding on the 25th. I just have so much going on here and I do not have the funds to fly to Alabama. I do not expect them to come to my Wedding either since they are so close together. Who knows though. They may surprise us and come.

I need to go get something to eat. I've been doing awesome with my morning Zumba and staying on program with Weight Watchers! Can't wait for my dress to come in so I can see it on me!

Photo Fun..

I have played with my new camera every day for at least a few minutes so now here are some of my favorite shots.. again this is with a Canon EOS Rebel XS with a EF-S 18-55mm IS lens.. Enjoy the beginnings!


This is Tigger, She was a bit close so the flash created shadows but this was the same day I brought the camera home.. Donnamae has a book I can read to help teach me..


I took my camera out back the second day I had it for some outside shots before work.. here is one of the barn kittens..


Triplicat! hehe.. bad I know.. all the barn kittens..


The girls all came out of the barn to see what was going on..

Yesterday Higgins was in the window contemplating outside and I when picture happy. This is my favorite and now the background of my computer.

Happy Day!

So we are getting closer and closer!

We tried to make our invitations this past weekend but the paper was having issues with the ink from my parent's printer. Chris's mom is going to get a quote for us from her printer. It shouldn't be bad since we only need a small number and we have all the paper and everything. We hope to get them printed up this week so we can assemble them and mail them by next Monday.

I am still doing well with WW's I've lost a decent amount of weight since I started a whole 2 weeks ago. I've started working out every morning except Sunday now. I feel really motivated and just good in general.

We had Achilles sleep in our room the other day and it went really well so we may start doing that more and more and once winter comes we'll keep him in our room as much as we can to keep him warm, he doesn't have as heavy a coat as the other dogs.

One of the things I am really happy about is my wedding gift from Chris. At walmart yesterday we saw a deal we couldn't pass up. Chris bought me my new Cannon Rebel! It is the 10mp camera which is fine with me since I'm not a professional photographer. It came with an awesome camera bag and a 2GB memory card. All for the regular price of the camera itself. Chris said he'd intended to try and get me my camera before our Honeymoon and voila! Now what should I get him?? Oh dear.

I was so giddy yesterday but I didn't get to really play with it because it took 2 hours to charge the battery and his Mom had gotten new stuff for the Wii so we played frisbee golf and then after dinner we all watched The Hangover. Donnamae and David hadn't seen it before. Its so funny. We got The Hangover and American Werewolf in London on Bluray yesterday. I love that Walmart sells cheap ones now. ^_^

I'll share some of the shots from my new camera when I get them loaded on my computer at home. I was playing with it for a few minutes this morning. This was a really extravagant gift and I have no intention of asking for anything else for awhile. I need to pick up an extra battery for it and Donnamae who uses a Nikon and wants to start doing photography at least partially for a living has all kinds of recommendations for me for things to get.

I still carry my little 10mp Kodak Easyshare in my purse so if I see something I want to photograph I have something with me but when we go to Disney and for other things I'll take my new one. Like for my Bridal Shower.. ^_^

We are meeting up with the DJ on October 4th. My Bridal shower is the weekend right before that. We have a meeting setup to finalize everything at the Boettcher and another to see the caterer and pick our linens, we finally decided on our center pieces and our favors. I am feeling really positive about everything!! So it really is a happy day!