Wedding Nightmares...Again!

The other day I told you guys that I had my first wedding nightmares. Well it happened again last night. If this is any sign of what is to come in the future nights, I am not sure that I want to go to sleep, haha! I hate having nightmares, but ones about the wedding scare me more I think just because I truly am worried about a lot of this stuff happening.

Last night's nightmare was quite interesting. I remember that three specific things happened. Right now I can only seem to remember two of them though. Odd that I can't remember all of them, they were so vivid this morning when I woke up but now that I have been at work for a while, I can't seem to remember the last one. Well, I can definitely tell you that in this nightmare, my wedding dress was PURPLE. And not like there was a mistake and someone had accidentally died it this color. I had ORDERED it in this color. Huh? If I were ever going to order a dress in a fun color, anyone who knows me, knows that it would be PINK, not purple!

This dress is similar to the one in my dream

The other part of the dream that I remember pretty clearly is that there were a few times that I stepped on the skirt of my dress because it wasn't hemmed correctly and it was too long. I remember that each time that I stepped on it, the tulle started to tear where the tulle was connected to the waist of the dress. I think I cried because of this in the dream, haha! That would be like me though, so I can't say that that part was too far off.

There were some other crazy things too but I can't remember the details, I just know that it happened if that makes any sense. I am thinking that the dreams came as a result of me being excited about my first fitting tonight. I can't wait especially since they are going to start working on my cap sleeves! I can't wait to see how they turn out and how they are going to look with my dress. Eeek! I am so excited. Hopefully I can get some pictures of the cap sleeves to show you what they look like. No promises, but I will try my best!

Okay ladies, any of you who have had wedding nightmares, did any of them come true? Or were they completely ridiculous that there was no way that it would happen?

Well, Sometimes You Just Have to Roll With It

Something I never thought I would have to worry about has happened. A really great friend of mine that I asked to be in the wedding had to tell me today that she can't be in the wedding because of some personal reasons. I completely understand why she had to and I could never be upset about her making the best decision for her and her family. I love her to death and I know that she is still going to be at the wedding as a guest so I am just glad that she will still be able to share that day with us.

Well, with that being said, I have to find someone else to be in the wedding. I have already asked someone else, but I am not sure if they are going to be able to. I guess I just have to wait and see. The only problem is that we are running low on time to order the dress. It only takes four to six weeks, but I would rather error on the side of caution.

I am really surprised with myself and how I am handling this situation. I am not even stressing about it. Which is awesome, but with everything else that has been going on lately with work and wedding planning, I am surprised that I am not stressing out over this. I am glad that I am not though, that is for sure. I think I am slowly starting to realize that you have to roll with things and take them as they come. The more you stress, the worse it could get so it is just easier to not stress about it and just take it day by day.

Have any of you had a similar situation? How did you handle it?

Stressed and Overloaded to the MAX!!

Right now to say that I am stressed and overloaded is an understatement. Things have become crazy and hectic in my life. All within the past two weeks. Yes, the wedding planning is playing a big part in that. However, so is work, more so than I think the wedding is.

Let me explain. I work for a company that puts on hundreds of rodeos across the country. I really don't do anything involving the rodeos because I work in the accounting department. I take care of things like paying our bills and month end stuff and journal entries. Pretty much all accounting related stuff. Well, this lovely time of year we have our biggest event of the year. It is held every year at the beginning of December. Even though I don't go to this event or have anything to do with the planning of it, it becomes the busiest and most stressful time of the year for me.

I have almost every person in the office bringing me check requests and invoices that have to be entered and paid before the week of Thanksgiving. This makes me a big ball of stress. I feel like I never have enough time to get these things done. I have tried asking people to get these into me earlier so that I have time to process everything in a timely, not rushed manor, but that never seems to happen. And of course it won't fail, someone will bring me something the day before they have to leave and will need it ASAP. Ugh!! I wish everyone that worked here were planners like me.

Anyways, the stress of work plus the stress of the wedding planning is slowly making me go crazy. So crazy that when I get home at night, instead of working on things for the wedding, I tend to curl up on the couch with some dinner and watch TV the whole night instead of doing anything productive. Lets hope that tonight will be different and that I actually get something done.

Anyone feeling like this lately?

Best Birthday/Christmas Present Ever!!

Last Friday Aran bought me the best Birthday/Christmas present ever!! I can't even begin to describe how excited I am about this gift. My birthday is in December so if there is something that I want that is a little more on the expensive side or it is all that I want, I will just ask Aran or my Mom, whoever is the one buying the gift to just make it a Birthday/Christmas present. So this year, when I found out that this guy,

was going to be going on tour with this guy

along with these guys

I knew that I absolutely HAD to be there if they made a stop in Colorado.

Well, they announced the tour dates and Denver, CO was on the list for January 21st!! Eeeeekkk! You have no idea how excited I was when I saw this. So last Friday the tickets went on sale and my amazing fiance bought me two tickets for my Birthday/Christmas present! 

I am so excited to see Scotty McCreery! And of course Brad Paisley and The Band Perry. I am a huge Scotty fan and have been since his first audition on American Idol. So, again, VERY EXCITED!

I am even more excited to get to take this person with me

Photo taken by JM PhotoArt at Lou's husbands homecoming

Now with these awesome tickets in hand, I have two AMAZING things to look forward to in January! My Wedding being the more amazing thing of the two, haha! 

2 Months To Go!!

Today marks the 2 month mark! Yep, 61 days and counting. Where did all of my time go? I am definitely starting to feel the time crunch. I have a lot of things left to do and throughout these next few weeks, I am hoping to cross a lot of those things off of my list.

Something that I have heard of other brides having are wedding nightmares. I have been pretty curious to see if I would start having them or if I was going to be extremely lucky and not have them at all. Well, I seem to be on the unlucky half of that because I had my first one this weekend. In my dream it was the wedding day and a lot of little things that I plan on finishing this month were not done. The big one that I can remember is that the sign for the photo booth wasn't done. So there I was the day of the wedding making a trip to Hobby Lobby to finish the bad boy.

Found Via Google Image Search

Now, I don't know if this dream came up because we had been looking at an antique store earlier that day for a frame for the photo booth sign or if that is really something that I am worried about getting done. Probably both, but either way, the nightmares have started.

You know what else has been a nightmare? Trying to get something that I purchased from a seller on Amazon. I ordered these very plain pink and white tote bags from a seller on Amazon for like $5 each. I figured if I got them in time I could spruce them up a bit with a few fabric flowers and jewels or something. Well, I ordered them back in the beginning of September thinking that I would have plenty of time. Well, I received a shipment a week later but it only had two of the ten bags that I ordered. The rest were out of stock and it said that they would be shipped soon. Well here I am two months later and I still don't have the rest of them. I was told that they would be here by next week. But, I have been told that before by this company. So if they aren't here by next week not only am I going to call and raise a little hell, but I am demanding my money back and I will have to figure something else out. Fingers crossed that they actually come next week!

I also ordered my jewelry this weekend. I can't wait until it gets here! I am so excited to see what it looks like with my dress and everything. Speaking of which, I am going in for my first fitting on Thursday. Now I figured I should probably bring my petticoat, and anything else that I plan on wearing with my dress like my veil and shoes, but is there anything else that I need to bring? For those of you that have already done this, any suggestions?

http://www.etsy.com/listing/72374409/jewelry-set-swarovski-pearl-necklace-and

One other thing that I ordered this past weekend was a custom stamp from a seller on Etsy. It is for our favor boxes for our candy buffet. I found the cutest boxes and as soon as I get this stamp I will be customizing them and I can't wait to see how they turn out. I cant' wait to show you guys either!

I know that I have so many more things that I want to tell you guys, but I will save those for another post. This one is getting a tad long, haha! I hope that everyone had a great weekend and has a great week too!

Did you have wedding nightmares? What should I expect at my first fitting?

New Blog Design?

I have really been wanting to do a major blog make over here lately. I am just so bored with the design that I have right now and not only that but I just want more things on it. I want a new header that has pictures on it. I want side bar titles and I want a kick ass navigation bar.

Well, here is my problem. I can't seem to find a blog designer that is a) reasonably priced and b) offers a package that has everything that I want. There are a lot of blog designs out there that look really similar too, so much that you can tell that they have all come from the same person. I really want mine to be unique to me more than the designer.

Do you guys have any suggestions for a great blog designer that I can look into? Who have you used to design your blog? Or did you do your own design? Do you have any tips for me if you have done your own?

Klutz McGee Over Here

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a klutz. I am always hurting myself in the strangest ways. Whether it be ankle sprains(I am famous for these), running into things, or tripping over my own feet, it never fails. Now that you have that little bit of background info on me, here is what happened last night.

Via Google Image Search

I had just gotten home from walking a few miles with my friend Kristen like we do every Tuesday and Thursday and I decided to take a bath. It was really cold outside and I couldn't seem to get warmed up so I figured a nice hot relaxing bath would be perfect. Well as I was getting into the bath, I put my hand on the wall of the tub and apparently there was water on it and my hand slipped. The end result was my arm and the left side of my body hitting the wall of the tub.

I have been in a little bit of pain since it happened and this morning I have a very light bruise on my side that is about the size of a grapefruit. My only worry is that I bruised my ribs. From what I have been told I would probably be in a little bit more pain than I am right now. I am hoping that it is just a surface bruise if that makes sense. Well, I guess we will find out eventually, right?

I hope everyone is having a good Friday and I hope that everyone has a great weekend too! Hopefully you are not a klutz like me and don't hurt yourself right before the weekend!

Klutz McGee, that is me!