Fun Wedding Fact Of The Week!

Why do we call it a toast? You can raise your glass to ancient Rome-the word stems from their tradition of putting a piece of burnt toast in the bottom of a wineglass to reduce the wine's acidity.

Organizing

I have spent the day today organizing things in my room and getting my wedding things in order. I am hoping to take all of my bridesmaids dress hunting sometime in January. I will be sure to let each of you know the exact date. I am still undecided on bridesmaids dresses. I know that I don't want them all to be the same because I just don't think some girls look good in certain dresses. I know that I want them all to be in blue and that I want long dresses. As for the exact design I don't know. Our engagement pictures should be here this week and I will definately post them as soon as I get them. I have previewed a few of them online and I love them. They are really good and I can't wait to show everyone. Hopefully they will be here tomorrow but I am really thinking it will be more like Wednesday. As soon as I get the pictures I will be working on doing our save the dates. I want to get them out in January. So far it's looking like January will be a busy month. I go back to school on the 12th, I am attending the Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley concert (I have floor seats), my birthday is this month, I have to do bridesmaid dresses and save the dates. Whew, looks like I am going to be pretty busy.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

The fiance bought us tickets to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra! I absolutly loved the show. It was amazing. The many different lights, fire, with the combination of their amazing music is wonderful. I personally can not do them justice. At some points throughout the show it snowed inside the arena! It was so cool. When the lights would hit the snow it looked like glitter! If you have never seen them or even heard their music I highly recommend that you do! The show is very good and is definately worth spending the money on! The orchestra also stayed after the show to give autographs! Our tickets are signed and they also gave out guitar picks! This is the most amazing orchestra I have ever seen and I think that everyone should see them at some point. I have posted pictures of the concert but trust me even the pictures don't do them justice.

Christmas

Me and my cute baby Holli!
Our mexican domino game!

Mom (the scorekeeper) and her dog Sammy!

Opening presents at my Aunt's!

Playing dirty santa!

I am finally getting around to posting about Christmas. We had a terrific Christmas. On Christmas eve we went over to the fiance's parents house and had Christmas with his parents and his grandmother. We had a really good time he got lots and lots of clothes which is all he wanted. I got coca-cola dishes, a cookie jar, glasses, some clothes, and coca-cola silverware. I am doing my kitchen in coca-cola so that should explain all the coke stuff. His mom also made us each a blanket. My blanket is pink John Deere and the fiance's is brown John Deere. They are really nice and warm! Christmas morning was spent with my parents. I got tons of clothes and a cute new purse. The fiance got some clothes and a Gander Mountain gift card. After Christmas with my parents we went to our church to have Christmas with my Mom's aunts and uncles! We played dirty santa and had lots of fun. Then that night we went to my Aunt's house and had christmas with my cousins. We always draw names and by gifts that way. After that we came back to my parents house and played mexican dominos. I won the first game and the fiance won the second game. We ate and ate all day but the food was soo good. I hope everyone had just as good a christmas as we did.

Tonight!

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas! I will post more about christmas later but for now I would like to post about what I am doing tonight! The fiance and I are going to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra tonight! He got us tickets and we are right by the stage! I can't wait! We have both seen them before and loved everything about the show! I have lots of cleaning to do since I got so many christmas presents! I will try to post tomorrow but for now this is it!

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Whew it has been quite a weekend! I don't think I have really rested since Wednesday! On Thursday my Mom and I went and finished our christmas shopping!! yay!! I am done! Then Friday we were wrapping presents and finishing up some christmas projects. Saturday we had the Fowlkes family christmas and were supposed to go to the fiance's family for a christmas as well! But the fiance ended up working untill 10 and we did not get to go to his family christmas! Sunday we had christmas at our church on Sunday morning! Since I am a assistant teacher at our church I got a few gifts! I got a beautiful angel that says hope on it, some candy (yum), and a couple christmas ornaments that my cousin Tanner made me! We also finally got to do our secret sis exchange and my secret sis ended up being Nancy! She gave me a $25 gift card to Ruby Tuesday's which I'm sure the fiance and I will be using soon! We also drew for our new secret sis and I am very excited to start giving my new one gifts! Then that afternoon we went christmas caroling to some of the older people in our church! They all really seemed to enjoy it and Ms. Vonnie had hot chocolate (that was delicious) and cookies for us waiting at her house! After christmas caroling we had to go to my aunt's house for her birthday party! I finally managed to get home at about 8! I thought I would post some pictures of a few christmas items around our house!
Here is our christmas tree! I wish you could see it in person because It looks much better in person!!

This is an ornament I made for my mom! It has an R on it for our last initial! I stole this ornament idea from the blog Kelly's Korner! So I have to give her credit for the idea!

And this is what my new initial will be next christmas!! Needless to say I haven't done much wedding stuff! I did look at some bridesmaid dresses on David's Bridal! I haven't decided on any yet! I have a few days of nothing to do untill christmas eve! So maybe I will do some stuff then! This is a really long post so I hope you didn't get bored reading it! I will try to post some this week but I'm not sure how much time I will have!

LET iT SNOW LET iT SNOW LET iT SNOW!

THERE iS SNOW ON THE GROUND!! MOST OF iT iS iCE BUT iT'S STiLL SOME SNOW!! MY EXTREMELY SWEET FiANCE BRAVED THE iCY ELEMENTS AND WENT AND GOT ME A COMPUTER CORD FOR MY LAPTOP SiNCE iT HAS BEEN DOWN FOR A WEEK! i AM SOO GLAD TO HAVE iT BACK! i AM OFFiCiALLY ON CHRiSTMAS BREAK NOW!! YESTERDAY i MADE SOME VERY CUTE CHRiSTMAS ORNAMENTS SO i WiLL POST SOME PiCS SOON OF THEM! TONiGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE OUR SECRET SiSTER REVEAL PARTY BUT DUE TO THE WEATHER iT HAS BEEN CHANGED :( NO FiNDiNG OUT WHO MY SECRET SiSTER iS TONiGHT! SO iNSTEAD SiNCE THE PARTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED THE FiANCE AND i ARE GOiNG OUT TO EAT AT CHiLi'S FOR A FRiENDS BiRTHDAY PARTY! ONCE AGAiN WE ARE GOiNG TO HAVE TO GET OUT iN THE iCY MESS! OH WELL iT WiLL BE WORTH THE FUN!! THAT'S REALLY ABOUT iT! SORRY GUYS NO WEDDiNG STUFF TODAY! i HAVEN'T HAD TiME TO DO ANY BUT i WiLL BE LOOKiNG AT SOME THiNGS TODAY!! SO DON'T WORRY SOON i WiLL POST SOME THiNGS ABOUT THE WEDDiNG!

Today my Mom and I took Holli to have her picture made with Santa at Petsmart! She didn't really like Santa too much! I love her picture though it's really cute! I also like the fact that half of the money from our picture purchase goes to help the Humane Society! I am considering taking Shadow to have his picture taken with Santa too! After we were finished we took Holli back home and went back to town to do some Christmas shopping. I got my secret sister's gift for tuesday night and I hope she will love it! I also got my Christmas Outfit for the Sunday service before Christmas! I am very pleased with it, it's really cute! I really can't believe that Christmas is just around the corner! It seems like December just started! Oh and by the way our big day is 7 months away today!! YIKES!! I need to start planning more! Anyway I hope you are having a fabulous Christmas season!

Hello

Hello everyone, sorry it has been so long! I am finished with three of my finals and only have two left! I am very glad they are almost over! So I haven't had much wedding planning time lately with finals and all! I should be able to get back to that after Monday! Tomorrow my Mom and I are taking Holli to get her picture made with santa! I'm so excited about it! I can't wait to see how it turns out. We are also going to be doing some much needed christmas shopping tomorrow. So that's it for now! Have a fabulous weekend!!

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

I have been very busy lately. This past weekend I was in the Madrigal Feaste for choir on friday and saturday night. Sunday I attended A Keyboard Christmas at Woodland Heights Church in Conway. It was very good I just love piano music. This week is finals week! I have been studying all day. I am finished with one of my classes but I still have four more tests to take. So needless to say I have not had much time to do wedding stuff and probably won't untill finals are over. So I am not sure when I will be posting next I still have tons of studying to do! I will post as soon as I can! Have a wonderful week!

New!

Hello Everyone! I wanted to take a few minutes to let you know that I added a guestbook at the bottom of my blog yesterday! I would love for everyone to sign it! That's it for now! I hope you all are doing great!

Frosty :)

Helpful Hints!

I bought this book at Hastings on saturday for $6! I had read that it was a really helpful book so I decided to get it and see! So far I really like it, it gives lists on every little detail for your big day! I think it would be very helpful for every bride. Online you can get it for $12 mine was used so that is why I got it so cheap! Yesterday was the first day back to school from the break! It wasn't so bad! Finals start in a week and then we are out for a whole month!! It is definately time to get some new classes. Anyway hope you enjoy the rest of the week!

iT'S BEGiNNiNG TO LOOK A LOT LiKE CHRiSTMAS

TOMORROW iS DECEMBER FiRST! i CAN'T BELiEVE THAT THERE ARE ONLY 25 DAYS TiLL CHRiSTMAS! THAT MEANS i NEED TO GET MY CHRiSTMAS SHOPPiNG DONE! AS YOU CAN TELL i UPDATED MY BLOG TO HELP GET EVERYONE iNTO THE CHRiSTMAS SPiRiT! i DECiDED TO UPLOAD SOME PiCTURES OF MY ADORABLE DOG HOLLi iN HER NEW CHRiSTMAS SHiRT! SHE WOULDN'T COOPERATE VERY WELL SO THE PiCTURES AREN'T THE BEST! i HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM THOUGH!!

I am going to be having a fun table at my wedding! I think these ideas are so cute! They are actually pictures of candy bars from the knot! Mine would not just be a candy bar but I love some of these ideas! I also really like how fun they are! It makes me want to go to a candy store!

HAPPY THANKSGiViNG!!

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Wedding Cake Monday!

I just thought I would post a few pictures of some beautiful wedding cakes. I am still undecided on a cake! I want something unique and different and I just haven't found that perfect one yet! That just means that I have to keep looking! Let me know which cake you like the best!

Friday Fun!

I am officially on thanksgiving break! Tomorrow my Mom and I are going to dazzle days. We also have the Thanksgiving supper at church tomorrow night! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Something Blue!

Isn't this the cutest idea! I love having the initals on the bottom of the shoes. It's so cute! Plus it can also be my something blue! Hmmm... this could definately be a possibility. Anyways, I have been very busy but things are finally starting to calm down. Tomorrow is the last day of school before Thanksgiving break!! So I will have plenty of time to blog next week! As for today I'm super busy! I have a five page research paper to write, a music history test to study for, and a choir concert tonight! Could I be any busier? But I am very excited about Thanksgiving and the fact that tomorrow is FRIDAY!! I am also in love with the shoe idea! I just think it is soo cute! Hopefully I will have my engagement pictures soon! I am sick of waiting! Anyways enjoy the rest of the week!

DIY

The big day is 8 months away today!! I have been looking into doing some diy projects on small things for the wedding. I'm not quite sure what that will include just yet but it will be fun to do some hands on stuff for the wedding. I have also been looking for bridesmaid dresses online. My bridesmaids and I will be going to look for their dresses soon, probaby sometime in January. There is still a lot to be done and only 8 more months to do it in. Looks like I'm gonna be getting very busy.

YAY!!

SO i HEARD FROM OUR PHOTOGRAPHER TODAY AND HE iS ALMOST DONE WiTH OUR PiCTURES!! SO i SHOULD BE GETTiNG THEM SOON!! i AM SOO EXCiTED i CAN'T WAiT TO SHOW THEM OFF! i WiLL BE SURE TO POST THEM AS SOON AS i GET THEM. SO MAKE SURE YOU CHECK BACK FOR THEM!! i DiD NOT ENJOY THE RAiN TODAY! i HATE GOiNG TO SCHOOL AND WALKiNG TO CLASSES iN THE RAiN! i USUALLY END UP SOAKED BY THE END OF THE DAY! ALTHOUGH TODAY iT WAS JUST MY FEET! i AM DEFiNATELY GLAD THE RAiN HAS STOPPED! HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAViNG A WONDERFUL WEEK!

Update

I was looking through blogs and found this cute word collage from wordle. So I decided to put some of the words for our wedding in one. You should be able to click it and enlarge the picture. The "theme" for our wedding is garden. I found out this weekend that there is a new cake place opening in Conway. So we are definately going to have to check it out. The end of the semester is very close so I have been very busy writing papers and studying for tests. Hope you all have a great week!

Happy to Announce...

I now have a pianist! I asked my old piano teacher, Mrs. Becky Cameron, to play at our wedding. She was very excited to play and I am glad that she accepted! Now I just have to decide on the songs I want her to play. I am still working on finding the perfect invitations. It's just so hard to choose! We are also still waiting on our engagement pictures. I am very anxious to see them I know they are going to be very good. I am just trying to be patient in waiting which is really hard! I also wanted to say that I added a link to a website on here it's under The Palm Gifts. It's a monogram website and they have really cute stuff so take a look at it if you are as monogram obsessed as I am. Well, hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Our Anniversary!

I just thought I would take the time to brag a little! Last thursday was our three year anniversary and we had a great day! We went out to eat at Michelanglo's in Conway! I love that place if you haven't tried it you definately should! We even ate dessert and it was the best cheesecake I have ever had! Heath gave me a pink ipod nano for our anniversary! It's the best I really had been wanting one! Now I am just trying to figure out how everything works on it! That's really all I had to say I just wanted to share with you about our night! By the way I am still waiting on those ideas!

Yellow roses are my favorite flower so they are definately included in my wedding.
The color blue on the table cloth is one of my main colors!

The green is more of an accent color!

I wanted everyone to be able to see the colors for our wedding. These colors are not exactly the same colors but are very close. I got these photos off of theknot.com! I absolutly love that website! I have been very busy today researching things for the wedding such as save the date cards and invitations. There are so many choices it's hard to choose! If anyone knows of any cute ideas I would be more then happy to consider them, just let me know what it is! Oh and I know you all are just dying to see my dress (hehe) but sorry it's under wraps untill the wedding day! Only certain people have seen it and they better keep quiet! But I did buy my dress at Ashley's Bridal in Sherwood and they were very nice and helpful. I definately enjoyed my time there. Well, that's about it for now! Don't forget to give me those ideas!

HALLOWEEN 2008

I thought you might enjoy seeing some of our pictures from halloween. I carved the face pumpkin and Heath carved the wolves one. It was fun carving the pumpkins. Today we went to Russellville to do our engagement pictures and I am so excited about them. I cannot wait to get them back so I can show them off to everyone. I will definately be posting them as soon as I get them back. I do want to say bear with me as I try to figure out this blog thing. It's a little different then a wedding website. I hope you are enjoying it though.

Website Problems

After many problems with different wedding websites I decided to publish a blog instead. I hope you will continue to follow in our wedding journey with us through this blog. This blog should not cause any problems so everyone should be able to follow it easier. Well, today is three years that we have been together and tomorrow is halloween. We are doing some engagement pictures Sunday in Russellville. So I will be posting pictures as soon as I can. I hope you enjoy following in our journey the date is getting closer as we speak!