Rainy Weddings, Honeymoons, Lost Diamonds and Luggage

After the title I just gave you, I'm not sure how much explanation is really necessary.  That is really how it all went down....okay so maybe there is a little bit more to it than that.  BUT the rainy wedding was the truth, so was a rainy honeymoon come to think of it.......and we did have lost luggage and lost diamonds.  I know I had said I was ready for a new crazy adventure, but that wasn't EXACTLY what I had been planning on to kick off week one of marriage.  Oh well, what can ya do?  At least it makes for a good story someone else can laugh at later :)  SO let's start at the beginning.....

I slept in til 745 the morning of the wedding, probably because we weren't getting married til 2 and probably because I was up all night.....either way, it felt nice.  Minus that part where it was pouring rain...  Tracy and I then went to my hair appointment and Scottsdale (thank goodness for a carpool buddy-she is a great one!).  I think we got home around 1030?  And everyone was all busy putting up chairs and such.in and amongst the rain......my photography girls came around 11 and we goofed around a bit, the make up lady was supposed to come around noon......she got lost, i mildly panicked but then she showed up at like 1220 and all was okay again.  I seriously need to make enough money for her to come over like everyday.  Anyway....we got me all dressed and ready by 130-i don't think I have ever in my life had so many people hands shoving dress parts around my butt-it was a lovely bonding moment for the 7 of us in the room :)  Everyone left me by myself in the room when they went out to either a) check to see if everyone was ready or b) get things rolling.  I seriously thought i was going to fall over and die!  I was SO nervous, I couldn't hear anyone bustling around, I couldn't check out the window to see what was going on....I was seriously freaking out.  Then someone finnaly came to get me and I seriously wanted to fall over.  WORST part of the whole thing.  Well that and the fact that the rain stopped like right at 145......talk about making one nervous for delays too.  Then I saw my Daddy and he walked me down the aisle and I was totally fine, smiles and everything.  AND THEN I saw Joshua standing next to Robert, with big ole tears in his sweet eyes....he kills me.  I was doing so good!  Right up until the time that he and my Dad were both crying and then he took my hand........I held it together for a good while, tho i certainly did want to start balling everywhere.  Robert read a little about us to share with our guests.....my favorite line was "Josh says the most beautiful thing about Aly is her smile, it accentuates her body.....uh beauty...." and we all died laughing.  And then a short time later he made us read our vows and then i started blubbering all over the dang place. But my makeup held up well and the crazy photographer said my crying was cute.  I'm pretty sure that my wedding day is the one and only day that I accomplished looking cute while crying, sadly I don't think I could ever duplicate it again.  Anyway, after all that blubbering mess we were married and oh so happy!  We at some cake and signed the license and then took no lie.......like 2400 pictures. crazy-ness.  sadly it started raining right as we finally got to take some photos of the bride and groom......so i only have a very limited number of those.....but its okay, they are lovely. it took like an hour to get back into regular clothes......so many buttons and clasps and whatever else-good thing i had tracy and my mom do it or we never would have gotten home!
The day of the reception was gorgeous, it rained until 2pm, but Michelle did an amazing job of decorating despite the weather and it turned out so beautiful!  It had been 84 for Thanksgiving, but the night of the reception it was in the high 40's, I felt so bad that the guests were so cold! And I'll be honest in my selfish bride way, I was sad for me too cause we had no heater under that gazebo! It was SO cold!  My photo booth girls never showed up-so sadly we didn't have enough publicity for the corner with the lifesize photos of josh and i, but we got a few funny ones!

We had Saturday to do nothing or to visit family, we made the rounds and visited each side since so many came into town just for us.  It was a lovely relaxing day, minus that part where we forgot to pack and were up til 2am trying to pack for a 10 day vacation....oops......and then I forgot my formal dress for the Captains dinner, so I drove to my mom's house at 7am to get it, pack it and be ready to go at 730 since Josh's mom was picking us up to drop us at the airport.  I was such a nervous wreck on the way there-so worried i had forgotten something and that we wouldn't be able to get on the cruise! We had plenty of time to just chill in the airport, which was nice, and our flight to LA was so short!  When we got down to the baggage terminal  we saw a few others from our flight picking up there bags so we waited a few minutes......then the carousel turned off......the Cruise ship attendant was waiting there with the ENTIRE group ready to board the bus......and we were holding everyone up.  The ladies in the baggage claim said that they had no clue which plane it was on, but they would try to track it down and bring it to the ship before it departed at 4.  It was 1030.......needless to say we were very nervous.  We boarded the bus that drove us to the cruise ship, got through all of the cruise ship security, sat on the deck and anxiously waited for a phone call......it never came.  At 315 I called Southwest and the lady in baggage claim says, "Oh well I think it's gone out of here all ready, I see no record of it here anymore which means they should have already brought it to your cruise ship!" ohhhhhhhhh boy.  We crossed our fingers, cause there was no way of knowing until all baggage was delivered to rooms around 7pm.  At 714 our bags were at our door......Day 1 of Honeymoon-not the best ever, but we knew the next day would be so much fun!

Day 2 of the cruise we explored the ship, stuffed our faces and lazed around.  Sometime while we were at dinner, they delivered a note under our door saying our Shore Excursion for the following day had been canceled.  We were so bummed!  Josh booked it 6 months ago cause it was the only thing we REALLY wanted to do!  We got over it when we realized that the oxygen lines for the helmet dive were malfunctioning, we really didn't want to explore the ocean floor with no air......so the excursion desk hooked us up with a Safari Jeep deal so our money didn't go to waste!  We thought that would be SO awesome!  Josh loves his jeep and he loves off roading, so why not do it in mexico where the weather is so nice!................We loaded into a bus that drove us to the other side of Cabo San Lucas, they let us out in the middle of the desert off the highway (literally) at this tiny little gated house (I'm sure it was ancient).  There was a giant old dog in the driveway and a Mercedes off road vehicle that reminded me largely of a tank.  There were straps hanging from the ceiling and 3 step stools to get in...we looked at each other and the group we were with.  We had no idea that the people on the bus were all going to the same place.  We soon realized we were the only ones under the age of 55-and thats no lie.  At this point we were still excited about the safari......we had a great tour guide! he was so funny and LOVED to pick on us, especially once he found out we were newly married!  We rode in this giant tank for like 5 minutes.........seriously only 5 down this little dirt road....enjoy the pic cause its the only one I have access to at the moment......

Then we had to unload everyone.........that was a chore since 3 of them had canes.  I love old people, don't get me wrong but this was just not an excursion that fit them.  Or us for that matter.  So we all "hop" out and our guide leads us down a dirt path for a "hike" in the desert.  He starts showing us the plants and pointing out the cactus, and the cameras start going nuts.  All of these people were from Minnesota or something cause they had never seen cactus before.  Our guide proceeds to tell us that the only cactus that they do not have in Mexico is the Saguaro......and then we got a lesson on the Saguaro.......we both were beginning to wonder why we paid money for all of this education we had learned in public school 15 years earlier...... at least our tour guide had good jokes.

So we get to the bottom of a giant hill on this hike and we arrive in sand.  And he says, "Let me show you the amazing ficus tree!" Josh and I both rolled our eyes because everyone we know in Arizona owns a ficus.  I will hand it to this guy tho, this one had some pretty cool roots!

We hopped back into the tank and drove down about 5 minutes to the beach where they have a turtle rescue operation.  We stayed a few minutes to watch the waves and then drove another 3 minutes to a little ramada on a hill where a lovely lady had prepared us an "authentic Mexican lunch".......we ate cheese melted on a tortilla with some refried beans. hahah

Then they had the "tequila tasting".........um yeah..

On day 4 we made it to Puerto Vallarta and since we had no shore excursions we were free to explore.  We hopped a taxi to downtown for some shopping.  The shopping rather stunk.  So we decided instead to find us some REAL Mexican food for lunch.  And we DID, it was amazing.  Our waiter took us to the roof top that overlooks the ocean and we got the most incredibly huge plate of the most delicious food we have ever eaten.  It was incredible.  Minus that part where Puerto Vallarta was 96 and humid that day.  We were back in our room an hour later enjoying the a/c.....haha :) 

We LOVED our balcony room, we were not really fans of hanging out on the top deck where everyone was so obnoxious, so instead we spent a lot of time watching the ocean pass by while we sat on our deck chairs with our ice cream/coffee/hot chocolate/etc.  We ate twice our body weight in food that entire week and it was so worth it.  We took advantage of free room service and the midnight snack bar often. And it was wonderful.  Not a great way to start off the marriage if you want your husband to think you are an incredible cook, we were so spoiled with such good food that whole time that it was almost disappointing to have to come home and make dinner!

We made it back to LA a week later, leaving the ship with a new watch and a Carnival Splendor ornament to remember our trip by.  We had all of our luggage this time and happily made our way over to LAX to grab our rental car for the remainder of our stay.  We immediately headed to our hotel room to drop off our crap and head over to Six Flags to use up our passes..........then we passed by Disneyland and our hotel was a block later.....thank you hotels.com for sucking at telling us which hotel was closest to Six Flags.  When we realized that Six Flags was more than 50 minutes away we just decided to hop down the street to Disney since they were open for another 13 hours!  I had never been during the Christmas season to see all of their incredible decorations so I was so stoked!  It was crowded, but it wasn't terrible and we had so much fun! You'd think i'd have some pictures, but I ended up with like 5 from the whole day.........BUT i did find a "Finding Nemo" ornament, which we also took home as a memento of our trip.  Good thing too cause I didn't have a whole lot of ornaments!

The next day we went to Universal Studios cause we had an annual pass and why not use free things?  So we headed off about 9am, it was cold and veryyyyyyy rainy.  Did I mention that it was VERY rainy?  Anyways....there was NO ONE there. Can you ever guess why?  We immediately purchased an umbrella and some cheap gloves cause our hands were freezing!  They had adorable minions I wanted to purchase but I promised myself I would wait til we left so I didn't have to carry it around.  It was so nice to not have to wait in any lines!  We took lots of pictures of Josh to send to Uncle Rob with Josh pouting about the fact that his uncle couldn't be there with him!  They are funny so I will post them later.  At lunch we were admiring my ring and talking about how weird it was that we were married.  An hour later on our way to a ride I realized that while looking at my wedding band, I was actually staring straight through to my finger.  I PANICKED and started searching all of my pockets and Josh's pockets, we searched the mittens........nothing......it was gone.  I was so devastated.  I had worn the ring for 8 days doing nothing but sitting in a beach chair and one of my diamonds was gone!  You would think I would have half a brain and some logic, but my immediate thought was "my mine cut diamonds! they stopped cutting them like that 100 years ago! they won't have any anymore!" DUMB. but that was my thought.  I wanted to sit down and cry, but the ground was wet.  I was wet and cold and now I wanted to cry.  At that point I was just ready to go home.  We decided to leave the park early to go sit in the warm airport til our flight so I could mope about not having my diamonds and be out of the rain.  It was not quite 2pm.  Our flight was at 7.  Just because this will be necessary information in a moment.  and for the record, LAX is 22 minutes (CHECK GOOGLE I DO NOT LIE) from Universal Studios.  Sweet, 4 hours to sit in the cozy airport. WRONG.  So we leave Universal Studios cold, grouchy, wet, diamondless, exhausted and minion-less. We get in the car and head to the freeway.  Which we enter and it does not move.  I will spare you the conversation from the car.  Just know this, we arrived at the rental car facility (a mile and a half from LAX) at 5:56.  We boarded the next shuttle and made it to the airport at 6:17.  We checked in as fast as we could, having to transfer some pants from one bag to another to avoid an extra fee. We pretty much threw our luggage at the poor luggage people and ran to security at 6:28.  We had a 7pm flight.  Southwest boards at 6:40.  We were seriously pushing it.  I get randomly pulled for the x-ray screening. Seriously.  And I can hear some guy in a room somewhere speaking into the TSA lady's head set. "She's carrying something on her waist.  you need to check her waist"  And she just sort of looks at me and looks at my pants.  Because I was already a grouch and in no mood for this crap so that I might miss my flight I just lifted my shirt to my midriff and said, "I have nothing, is it my buttons? Please feel free to check it out. Sooner is better"  She looked at my waist and touched my tag on the pocked and said "all clear, just a tag"  and let me be on my way.  It was now 6:36 and we were booking it with shoes untied and everything.  When we were halfway to the gate we hear "Flight 1829 to Phoenix is now delayed due to weather." Breathless, we both just sat down on the nearest chair and then decided we were hungry for a burrito.  So we waited another hour and a half for our dang flight home.  Thank goodness my Mom and Dad were already waiting at the gate when we got home cause we were MORE than ready to be home.  We crash landed in bed and didnt wake up for 11 hours. 

We had a blast on our honeymoon! It wasn't at all what we expected, but we wouldn't trade a single minute of the alone time we had together, we hadn't had a whole lot of that before so it was glorious to have nothing but "us" time for 9 straight days!

SLACKER.

I apologize for royally sucking at all things blogging.  I promised pictures of our house, pictures of the dog, pictures from the honeymoon, .........and i promised myself i would document all of the craziness so as not to forget all the ridiculously funny things that happened. And here i am 4 months later, still haven't blogged and have yet to get the dang thank you cards mailed. bummage.  i will do better.  even if it means i must blog on my lunch hour.  it will be done. before our 1 year anniversary......

3 years ago today

it's 12:37 am. i should have been in bed eons ago.  but let's be honest--does one ever sleep the night before what is to be the biggest day of your life? i mostly doubt it.

3 years ago in August, a cute boy came into my equipment room, never said two words, just grinned stupidly while he picked up his equipment. I came home from working football practice.  it was the first night in the history of the world i had come home and OUT LOUD mentioned that i thought a boy was cute.  he had blonde hair and blue eyes and a big goofy grin.  after mom's shock was over, she told me that it might be best not to date someone in the middle of season just in case things didn't work out.....5 days later i woke up to a text message from a number i didn't recognize, from a boy oh so excited to have found my number.

3 years ago on September 16th, 2009. a black jeep followed me home from football practice at 7pm.  my heart nearly jumped out of my chest when i realized it was actually following me into my driveway.  and in it was that blonde haired blue eyed boy, with a big goofy grin on his face.  and he asked me to kiss him. i was so scared and nervous that i avoided it for what felt like ten years, then i finally gave in and swiped my lips across his in less than .02 seconds and quickly ran away like a fool.  the next week i watched a football game at his house.  he took another girl to homecoming and my heart nearly broke. then a few weeks later i began to wonder if i wasn't just a game to him. but i wasn't. cause...

3 years ago on November 4th, 2008, in the parking lot outside of the rockin r ranch after a varsity football banquet, that same blonde haired, blue eyed boy with that cute goofy grin walked me to my car.  told me i was beautiful. and before he closed the door of his jeep, he said the words, "I love you." and drove away.

3 years ago on November 22nd, at a giant 18th birthday bash in my yard, that sweet blonde haired, blue eyed boy brought me pink roses. with a card that read, "someone like you only happens once in a lifetime"

3 years ago, the day after Thanksgiving, I woke up to a text from that blonde haired boy telling me what he thought of me and how we should grow old together.

and

3 years ago today, on December 1st, that same blonde haired, blue eyed boy, with that silly, irresistible grin, sat me down on the couch in the living room of his mom's house and said, "i know the next 6 months will be uncertain, and we may be far away at colleges next year, but would you be willing to take a journey with me to see where it leads? will you be my girlfriend?"

and

here we are, 3 years later on the same day.  again ready to start a new uncertain journey together. the last few years have brought many changes and challenges, many blessings and opportunities.  and i know this new journey will be the same-but this time it is a little bigger, and i get to be the wife :)

I love you Joshua Zahn.  I love our crazy life, where we have been, and where we are going.  I am so proud to be your wife and share another whirlwind journey with you on a grander scale than before.  I am excited to take on this new challenge with you by my side, and to know that as we discover our journey this time, we will be doing it united as one.

Today I will marry my prince charming and begin a new life with my very best friend.  It may be a crazy life, but it will be a wonderful one, and it will be ours.  A life full of love. A life full of laughter.  Everyday. :)


xoxo,
Aly

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it is technically wayyyyy past my bedtime..... and i have yet to post pictures of the house....oops. the good news is however that i FINALLY found the camera charger! HOOORAY!  josh's ring is in, my dress is picked up, our cruise documents are printed. i need a bathing suit.... but thats another story. i royally sucked at my diet and keeping up with the new meds i'm supposed to take. super great since i have a follow up in 4 days. ughhh. there has been so much stress and crap and drama that i'm just ready to be done right now. that sounds so awful and depressing, but it is what i feel. hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day and a great start to the week!  i will soon have pictures. really. it will happen.

much loves but i'm going to sleep now......if i ever get sleep between now and december first i will consider it nothing short of a miracle!

Invites, Countdowns and Missing Camera Chargers......

Okay so i totally left everyone hanging on that last post. SUPER apology. please accept it.  let me just give you a quick rundown of how the whole "share the big news thing" really went down.

So I posted that the day before we had a scheduled appointment to sign our closing docs. I probably single-handedly jinxed us, but i like to blame it on josh's brother chris who kindly texted us as we entered the appointment saying something along the lines of "hopefully you have no curveballs!". good job chris.  we got there at 4. waited til 8, finally signed docs sometime after 8 (which consequently meant that we couldn't watch chris's kids for the evening-that'll show him! just kidding jihae- we love your husband and your kids and we still feel super bad for not watching them that day!)  so anyway, docs were signed and we were supposed to get a call the next day for our keys............3 days later on friday at 4 pm we got the call that we officially owned the house.  i will let you guess how those three days full of phone calls went. you can imagine it well i'm sure.  SO ANYWAY..........we are home owners!! josh moved into the house the first weekend of october, despite the fact that we had no appliance and only one working sink. but no biggy.  a boy can survive just fine with his dog and a dorm fridge!  last week we officially got all the appliances, brand new faucets for the sink and finished building the table and the entertainment center.  it is all starting to come together quite nicely!
in the middle of all of this, i somehow found time to send invitations out nearly a week late. successful i know.  at least they are out people!  life is a little hectic right now!  the good news is, that everyone has their assigned jobs now, everything is all in order, invites are out, and life is good!  so now we are officially done, we just have to get to the wedding week and all will be well!
i promised some folks some pictures of the new house..........i fully intended to have them in this post.......i cleaned up the house too, vacuumed, dusted, put all the boxes away neatly, put dishes in cupboards and picked up the dog toys daisy conveniently spread across the living room floor. and i was pleased with the effort despite the fact that the dog brings in massive amounts of dirt on a second by second basis. and then i learned that my camera battery is at 4%. and we cannot find the charger anywhere. and the only other camera we have is a 5 mega pixel and will not provide us decent photos.........so please bear with me.  it is most likely in one of the last few boxes i have left to move
from my parents house to our new house.  i must say, as nice as it is to almost have our house in order, it is becoming increasingly difficult to live out of two houses and try to remember which house contains what.....only 5 more weeks tho! thank goodness!  and i promise some pictures will arrive as soon as i can find the blasted charger!

65 days and counting

We are SO close to the 2 month mark people! I am beyond thrilled right now-but SO ready for the wait to be over lol.  Not that anyone really cares, but I have to tell you anyway because it excites me.
I have checked off a TON of stuff in the wedding to do list this last month!  We are SO close to being 100% done with it that I could throw a party!
Here is my list of accomplishments:

• Bridesmaid dresses ordered (plus one extra)
• Meeting with Michelle from idoparties to finalize plans. (she's amazing check her out please www.idoparties.blogspot.com)
• Ordered boys bright blue socks
• fitted everyone for vans
• after 4 failed attempts for the vans i originally wanted, we came up with a new planand ordered a total of 17 vans, half from the store and half delivered to my door step-FOR FREE. yes.
• ordered unnecessary "mrs. zahn" hanger for photos. i love it, so everyone can stop asking me why. because i said so and i can and it was on sale on etsy and i got 2 dollar shipping and because my photographer will do something super cool with it, kapeesh?
• found super amazing thank you gifts and bridesmaid gifts on etsy
• ordered said amazing gifts
• ordered matching necklaces for my girls (again from etsy, love that place)
• ordered shrugs for dresses
• ordered 2 boxes of wedding sparklers, got FREE shipping, and gave half of one box to Lindsey and Michael Carter for their wedding
• handmade 35 ceremony and 235 reception invites with Tracy, Lynn, Mom, Emily and Nicole while they boys had a "play date" with guns in the desert. it took us 8 hours, but those girls are awesome
• scheduled my dress fitting despite the fact that i majorly failed at working out and will probably be to big for the durned tiny dress in 2 weeks. don't judge me. i went on vacation. then halloween started advertising and there is a stupid candy bucket on my desk. i have no self control. i have since realized i picked a super terrible time to plan a wedding if i wanted to be smaller not bigger. halloween, 4 birthdays, bridal showers, thanksgiving, wedding, christmas. holy food and excess poundage. ugh
• found blue sprinkles for dessert bar
• picked more desserts to finalize menu for dessert bar
• found a projector for the wedding video
• finished a folder of pictures to be dumped in said wedding video
• ALMOST finished the wedding website where all people will rsvp and find registry information. talk about ridiculousness. i still have to input the entire guest list before the invites depart my humble abode, that may take me a week, literally.
• ordered an amazingly hilarious sign for our guest book table (again from etsy. yes i realize it is a terrible habit okay? it's not over yet tho, i have super huge plans for my money and that website....)
• talked to Kalea Taylor about wedding flowers, she is super awesome and designed a bouquet far better than my original idea. AND it includes bling. i'm in heaven. oh and i get a zebra ribbon. take that.
• found a scrapbook for our guest book-and my cousin Lynn is going to help me make it if i can ever get to Tucson! such a sweetie!
• WE FOUND OUR FIRST DANCE SONG. this is a big deal okay? it's been in debate. but we found the most perfectest one ever. now we just need to fill two more hours with music lol thank goodness we meet with Joey tomorrow to discuss dj-ing business.
• MOM found the most perfect necklace and got it for 4 dollars because she used her super kohls cash. i just said one day, i think i want a pendant like "insert my description during convo here" and she nailed it AND saved super big money. solid
• found a picture of a hairdo i would like. sick.
• scouted out jewelry shops for josh's ring-which we will be buying this next month for sure because i feel as if we are already WAY behind in that.. no biggy. can be handled.

as for now, that is all i can come up with off the top of my little noggin.

hate to leave you with a cliff hanger but i'm going to.........tomorrow i have a HUGE story to tell you. and hopefully lots of pictures!  Joshua booger wouldn't let me tell you so you have to settle for this sad little wedding countdown list instead. forgive me. i promise tomorrow will be worth it.
xoxo

DOUBLE DIGITS

We have finally hit the double digit stage of our wedding countdown!  Yes, 99 days does sound long, but not nearly as long as the 234 we started at!  I am ready for it to be here even though everyone tells me its about to be stressful.  I don't feel like it will be, in fact i think it will be fun since we have everything in order and everyone has assignments.  And in all honesty, I'm tired of waiting.  I'm ready to be out-and yes i know its a lot of responsibility and it isn't all a picnic............tell me what i don't know.  We are in the process of buying a house. it is incredibly stressful and nerve wracking.  and i feel like people i don't know are living in my bank accounts-literally. they are money sucking leeches too and i don't even have the dang house yet.  hopefully soon. it is a beautiful 3 bed 2 bath fairly close to gilbert and in a gated community.  it has just enough yard miss puppy can play and we can still do a little teeny tiny bit of landscaping-like really teeny tiny, but it's much better than most of what we have seen!  in all honestly i am uneasy about it at this point- we were looking just over 5 weeks, our agent found it at 1130pm, we saw it next day, completely bank owned, put on offer in, beat 4 other offers, the call came through that they accepted our offer while we were on vacation, all the paperwork was done for the loan before we even got the executed documents, the inspection came back with all things fixable by even me, and it only needs landscaping and a few ceiling fans. seriously, right now its all too surreal, its too good to be true or something. i'm a paranoid psycho right now-i cannot even explain. pray for it all to go well from here please!
puppy is doing good-she weighs in at more than 50 pounds now and has hit the 6 month mark, we had her spayed last month and she seemed to do well-let me tell you it is not easy to keep a cone on a lab puppy, nor is it easy to keep her from running, jumping, hopping, playing, moving......we are glad that those two weeks are over!
last week we got the opportunity to go to spokane, washington to visit josh's uncle rob and his girlfriend rhonda. it was a good time, it was so nice to be away from home for a little while, and spokane is beautiful and green and COOL. we even got to go to a theme park in idaho (which is where i gave the go ahead to purchase a house......yes i bought a house on vacation, i'm awesome)  i super sucked at taking photos this go round, wish i would have tho.  too bad cause it was so pretty, i was just so enjoying relaxing that i didn't even think about it!  but i did learn how to make homemade rolls, bread and cinnamon rolls- it was awesome. i am so using it so i become the ultimate house wife-i am determined to learn to make much from scratch!
today we bought the runner for the yard-and we did flowers with miss kalea taylor-they are going to be so much better than i thought, she can get everything whole sale because she is that awesome and when you get it wholesale you can get anything you want at anytime of year and even though daisies are not in season in december. kalea is my new favorite. we will have beautiful beautiful flowers-and they will have bling- i am so excited! 99 days could come a little faster please!