Only a few small changes

So that was only a small, little blogging break.

I was beginning to find it far too overwhelming trying to work a full time job, handle a social life, plan a wedding and keep a functioning blog, so I decided to take a little, unannounced break.

There have only been a few small changes....

First of all....I got married!!

Our wedding was last Saturday and it was perfect. The weather was fantastic, everything went the way I planned and I am now officially the wife of my best friend. I could not be happier.

Today is my first day back after an amazing week in Boston with my brand new hubby. I'm still trying to get my bearings and find a way back into a somewhat normal routine, that will hopefully include some kind of regular blogging.

Stay tuned for updates!!

A DIY Fail

You will remember a few months ago I posted about how much I wanted these

For myself and my bridesmaids on the morning of the wedding. I have researched and researched and they are so expensive.

SO the bestest and I have started a weekly crafting/pilates night to actually complete all of the random crafts we both pin on Pinterest, and we decided to make this our project a few weeks ago. We Googled tutorials and found plenty that promised this was an easy craft, fully fooling ourselves that it was doable.

We ran out and got all of the tools

and began twisting and forming the wires just like the tutorials said...which resulted in this disaster

Granted the bestest was a but better than me...

...she at least got a full word before she gave up.

Needless to say these have been properly disposed off.

My crafting lessons for the week:

* Just because a tutorial swears that something is easy, does not mean that it is
* Bending wire is probably the most frustrating task on earth
* When new to crafting start with a simple, fool proof task for the sake of your own confidence
* ALWAYS but just enough for a test
* Sometimes buying it from a qualified professional is the better option

I heart

I heart - That two months from now I will become a Mrs!

I heart warm weather (even though it is FREEZING today...I'm ignoring it and pretending I'm still in last week)

I heart skirts and ballet flats

I heart skinny jeans and heels

I heart weekly girls night

I heart pretty flowers

Just a quick post to show everyone that I am alive after my little disappearance. I spent the last couple of weeks reflecting and weighing my options but I am back and ready to catch everyone up in the coming weeks.

Wedding Check in

I can't believe it is already April!! Time is literally FLYING and before I know it I'm going to be at the back of the church waiting for the doors to open so I can meet my brand new husband!

I have skipped quite a few Wedding Wednesdays, and I have lots to talk about, so I figured today I would show you how I did on my March wedding list.

*Bridal Party Gifts: I AM working on it. In fact, I'm going out tonight to make some progress

* Find a Card Box: I did find one, but I need the boy to help me make it. Maybe I will make this one a goal for this week.

* Find perfect hair pieces for MOH and Flower Girls: Still haven't bought the MOH's, still haven't found the girls.

* Find cake serving set: Yes! I used a gift card I got for my shower and picked up a few small essentials. Now I need to get it engraved

* Get Favours filled and wrapped: I did pick them up, and I do have a whole blog post dedicated to how much I love them planned. Candy should be purchased this week and the wrapping will begin!

* Find a Cake Topper: Yup. It's not the one I said I found last month, because in reality that one was FAR too expensive. I actually let the boy pick it as I was standing in front of a million tiny toppers and found it impossible to make a decision. If I didn't let him pick we would probably still be standing there.

* Find a rehearsal dinner dress: I beat the odds and wore my dress to my amazing SURPRISE shower. So now I need to find another dress for the rehearsal dinner.

* Frame my engagement photo: Nope. It's huge and I don't know what I want to do with it yet...

* Find Flower Girl Baskets: Yup. They are adorable and will match their dresses perfectly. Another gift card purchase.

* Decide what to give Chris: I'm working on it. I now have ideas which is a start....right?

* Write Speeches: Again, I'm working on it.

* Work on Slideshow: It's not finished but all the photo's have been scanned and it has a beginning.

* Get marriage License: Nope. This is an absolute MUST for this month.

* Set Ceremony: We have a work in progress.

* Find clips for my hair: Nope. These little clips are proving to be impossible to find. I think I may have to start searching the internet.

* Meet with the DJ: Nope. I haven't even e-mailed him. This is another must

* Find and Print Favour tags: I actually made them and it turned out to be a very successful DIY project. Now I just need to have them printed and I'm ready to go!

* Start Seating Chart: I am so glad I decided to start this as responses are slowly trickling in. It's not easy, and people get moved quite often so I am glad that I will at least have a draft two weeks before the wedding.

* Book room for the Wedding Night: Yup. We now have a place to sleep!

* Get on Honeymoon Planning: We have a game plan and anyone who knows me knows how important a game plan is. We also found the hotel and plan on booking in the coming weeks, so I would say we have made a dent in this!

April's List:

*Go to My Bachelorette: I have been waiting for this for months. The most important ladies in my life will be coming with me to a chalet for the weekend. I can't wait! I am so looking forward to a stress free weekend spend catching up and taking a well needed break from the craziness of wedding planning.

*Get Everything Printed, Organized and Ready to Go: I have lots of DIY paper projects that need to be printed and organized so that they are easy to set up the day before the wedding

*Finish the Bridal Party Gifts: Ambitious, I know, but it NEEDS to get done. This is something I absolutely cannot leave until the last minute.

*Set Day of Itinerary: Like I said, game plans are important. I need to have one on my wedding day and everyone needs to know it. I REFUSE to be running late.

*Wrap Favours: I do not want to do this in May so it needs to get done this month.

I am actually in fairly good shape. Most of the things that are left are little, so if they get done great, if not oh well. We will see how it all goes!

Thoughts on Thursday

- It's almost the weekend!

- This wedding is taking over my room. I'm buried in shower gifts, and shower balloons, and small wedding details. I think by the time May comes around I'm not going to have a place to sleep.

- There are some HUGE changes coming this year (besides the obvious getting married and moving out...) that have me feeling extremely conflicted emotionally.

- I am so unbelievably out of shape it isn't even funny

- I thought this exercise thing was supposed to get easier with time

- I love, love, LOVE getting wedding responses in the mail. It has pretty much become the highlight of my day.

- I'm looking for some new quick, easy and relatively healthy meals that can preferably be made in the slow cooker. Any suggestions???

- I'm also looking for some new blogs to follow. I have found the a lot of my staples have stopped posting completely, and I can't survive a day at work without reading blogs. Who are some of your favourites??

- My poor puppy is sick! Chris is home with him today, and I'm very worried at work.

- Thank you cards are exhausting! I'm about halfway through and I have been writing them every night since Sunday. I'm not looking forward to doing over 80 of these after the wedding.

- Chris and I have a bit of a road trip planned this weekend and I'm very excited

That's it for today. Happy Thursday!!!

A Weekend Surprise

This weekend took a surprising turn as Saturday was my bridal shower!

I will be honest and say I was moderately surprised. I had an idea that it was this weekend, just from all of the suspicious behaviour going on around me, but I was sure it would be Sunday. When the boy told me we had a wedding appointment on Saturday and had to dress up for it I didn't even blink. Then I started to over think it and got more suspicious and decided that I would wear my shower dress just in case. By the time my mom called me on Saturday afternoon and told me I had to go pick up my sick grandmother I had it pretty much figured out.

Either way, my beautiful bridesmaids worked tirelessly for months to plan me the perfect shower and it definitely showed.

The day was amazing! Filled with 40+ of my favourite woman. I (hopefully!) got to have at least a short conversation with everyone there and I was adequately spoiled.

My bestest (and MOH) and I

My beautiful mama and sister

I think the pictures speak louder than words. It was such an amazing day, that made me feel so loved. A huge thank you to my awesome bridesmaids. I know it couldn't have been easy and I really appreciate it.

Sunday was spent recovering, finding the perfect thank you cards and attempting to write them.

A Decade

10 years ago a boy gave me a rose and a teddy bear and asked me what, at the time, seemed like the most important question a boy could ever ask..

..will you go out with me?

I answered with yes.


7 years later the same boy took me away for the weekend. On a very cold January afternoon he convinced me to go skating, and while there he got down on one knee and asked me another very important question...

...Will you marry me?

I again answered with yes.


3 months from now I will walk down the aisle and meet the same boy who has stood by my side for the last decade and promise to love, honour and cherish him for the rest of my life.

Between these big moments have been a million tiny ones. We have laughed and cried. Talked and screamed. Lived and learned. I wouldn't trade any of it. Every single moment has made us the people that we are now and brought us to this place.

So to my wonderful fiance, Happy Anniversary! The last 10 years have been amazing and I'm so excited to see what comes next.

Wedding Wednesday: The Master List!

I can't believe that tomorrow will be March 1st! This month flew, and it's already time to see how I did on the February to do list!

* LIMO, LIMO, LIMO: Yes! I FINALLY did this one! I'm so excited that this is not going to sit on my to-do list for the third month in a row. We finally decided on the limo bus route and booked with Privately Yours limousine. We got an awesome deal as well, due to a cancellation, which worked perfectly for us.

*Bridal Party Gifts: This month I'm counting this one. They have been officially started, with strong plans to finish them shortly

*Flower Girl Dresses: This was SO fun. My sister and I spent the better part of a Saturday dragging the girls around looking for the perfect (and perfectly priced) dresses. We finally found them in some small, hole in the wall mall, a place my mother had been telling us to go for months. They are perfect, the girls love them and most importantly they were only $50.00 a dress!

* Go for my first dress fitting: I did do this. Unfortunately I did it right in the middle of last week, or otherwise known as the week from hell. I don't want to talk about it.

* Find a Card Box: We find the first failure! In my defense the bestest and I did go looking.... Maybe I will just rent one.

* Find perfect hair pieces for MOH and Flower Girls: This is one of those on the fence ones. I have found the MOH's. I simply need to buy it. I'm in the process of finding something for the girls.

* Find cake serving set: Right. I still need to do that

* Get Favours filled and wrapped: HA! How about we make picking them up a priority for March and filling them an April task??

* Set appointment with Venue to set the meals: We went two weeks ago. It was a crappy, snowy day which didn't exactly make my beautiful venue all the pretty. In any case we now have a menu set in stone.

* Find a Cake Topper: I'm counting this one. I did FIND a cake topper. The problem came about with the price, so the purchasing has yet to happen. I'm working on the boy.

* Find a rehearsal dinner dress: .....again....I did find one. I also went as far as to buy it but I also totally plan on wearing it to my surprise bridal shower (yes you read that right. The bridal shower is a surprise. I plan on cracking the mystery and wearing the dress). So if I manage to pull that off then the dress becomes my bridal shower dress. If not, I have found a purchased the perfect rehearsal dinner dress.

* Frame my engagement photo: Yeah not even close. It's still leaning against my wall in plastic wrap.

* Find Flower Girl Baskets: Nope. But maybe now that I have dresses....

* Meet with the Minister: Yes! We will be married by Debbie, our churches only female minister. I really liked her. She was easy going and seemed to set the atmosphere that Chris and I were looking to have on that day. I'm looking forward to working with her.

* Decide what to give Chris: Nothing has changed here. I'm still at a total loss, and he is absolutely no help.

* Mail Invitations: They went out last week and I got my very first response back yesterday. Very exciting

* Write Speeches: Maybe I will give this job to Chris

* Work on Slideshow: It's not finished but all the photo's have been scanned and it has a beginning.

As we get closer and closer to the big day, I'm having a harder time finding things to do, so March's list is shorter

* Get marriage License: We could officially do this on Saturday. I want to get this done ASAP so it's one less thing to worry about in the weeks before the wedding

* Set Ceremony: I need to pick all of the music and decide on some other small aspects so that everyone knows exactly what is happening

* Find clips for my hair: I finally picked a hair style. One that comes with pretty little pins. Pretty little pins that are IMPOSSIBLE to find.

* Meet with the DJ: We have an amazing DJ that I pretty much fell in love with instantly. We booked him with just a random package just so I could make sure I had him. So we need to meet with him to iron out some last minute details

* Find and Print Favour tags: Should get this done before all the wrapping starts

* Start Seating Chart: I have heard this is not fun. I want to get a jump start on it as responses are coming in.

* Book hotel suite: We have a block of rooms reserved but I want to book our suite within the next couple of days just to be absolutely sure.

* Get on Honeymoon Planning: We have a location and a way there. That's about it.