wedding stuff #2

prologue
so you saw the invitations and everywhere on the web that i read, it said that if you bring them to the post office, and ask to have them hand-cancelled they will do it for you because they know that they are wedding invites.

present day
the invitations are done and i brought them to the post office today. i had a couple of international invites so i got those stamped properly and then said, "can i ask that these be hand-cancelled?" and she said, "you can ask." i paid for the international stamps and then she looked at me and said, "if you want, you can go right over there (pointing to a table) and use this stamp, like so, and cancel them yourself" (imagine me shaking my head yes vigorously) "but when you're done, this stamp has to come back to ME."

so i stood in the post office for 5 minutes and hand-cancelled all of my own invitations. now that is called making your own invitations!!!

wedding stuff

so this really isn't a wedding blog, as i've said, so i won't bore you too much, but brea generally gets what she wants. (ok, ok, not really, but since she asked...) the reason that i haven't had a post in so long is because i'm working on the invitations. some of you know (heck, maybe all of you know), i've bought the paper, and i'm printing them and putting them together here. so i finished the main part of the invite and i took some photos. i tried to adjust the color a bit so you could get a true sense of them, but here you go.

i'll be back soon with another non-wedding post. promise!

mia

sorry i've been M.I.A lately. i guess i must be busy or something. we did go to NC to get some wedding stuff done and for our parents to meet. all went well. this isn't a wedding blog, so i won't go into details, but we got loads done, lots of questions answered, and i feel like i can move on to finish planning.

now we're home, and i've been working in the garden, and doing stuff around the house. no great shakes, but just getting stuff done that needs to be done.

one thing i did do this weekend was make cereal cookies. they are quite possibly my FAVORITE cookies in the world. and they are loaded with fat. i'll post the recipe later today or tomorrow. but warning, they have a cup of butter AND a cup of oil, so if you're looking for a low-fat cookie, this is not the place for it. they are JUST the cookies a girl should eat that is getting married in four months. yeah. that's it.

enjoy.

new year!

so one of my new year resolutions was to update this blog on a more regular basis. obviously i haven't been sticking to that one. another one was to walk with laila for 40-50 mins 4x per week. haven't done that yet either. so i'm failing miserably so far this year. but i'll keep trying.

so what's new with us? we survived the road trip and even had fun! we got home and had two days to recoup before going back to work. we're both glad we did that. and then a short week at work -- which was also planned well.

went shopping with my baby sis this weekend and found a dress! yipee! bought it and everything. will be in sometime in april. i can't believe it. and we booked the caterer already for the wedding, and everyone's mailing in deposits for house rentals, things are moving right along.

and so that gets us to this week. my music man's brother - the film maker - is in town for 4 days and staying with us. gave me an excuse to clean up the study and the guest room. he leaves on thursday, but it's been fun having him around. next time, we get him to bring the whole family with him.

my big purchase with christmas money was a new lens (50mm f/1.8). for those of you that don't know what that means, it means that i can take pictures in low light without a flash. it's pretty cool. i showed my baby sis and my aunt when i went over for a visit, and when you see it in action, it's pretty sweet. i'll work on getting some photos up that i've taken with it, so you can get the full feel of it over the internet ;)

ok, first post of the year is done. happy new year all!

the latest

so, seattle was great. you can see photos here. i was glad that i had gotten a chance to meet some of my music man's family back in august in crosbyton, tx. and it was so much fun to meet more of them. seattle is a great city. i would love to live there if it didn't rain so much and they got more sunlight during the winter.

thanksgiving was also great. the whole family was here in texas and we spent lots of time together. my youngest nephew got into some chocolate cake (he *loves* chocolate). this is my favorite photo of that little incident.

you can see the cake in the fore-ground with a little tiny finger print in the icing on the top. guess that chocolate looked tasty enough to eat! he was covered in chocolate when it was all over.

and the big news...my music man proposed! here are two views of the ring...


pretty awesome, huh?

well that's it for now, i'll have another update soon. got more to share but didn't want to bore you too much! :)