Progress and Christmas Shock

First of all:  Merry Christmas!!!  And just in case nothing happens worth mentioning and I don't write another blog before: Happy New Year!

 

Christmas has come and gone. After weeks, possibly months of preparing, shopping, cooking, planning, wrapping, baking, and being excited; it is finally done and over with.

As enjoyable as my Christmas was, it felt a bit anti-climatic. 

*sigh*

Back to normal life without Holiday Cheer. 

 

 

On the bright side, now I can focus on wedding stuff!  I have a date picked out to go check out dresses for the bride's maids and am bugging Ty about going to look at tuxes.  I also plan on going to register VERY soon.

I also have plans on starting to get flowers for centerpieces and bouqets soon. 

Time to buckle down and get it all done!!!

And it looks like my honorary Mother-of-the-Bride and Maid-of-Honor are starting to plan the other wedding events, also!  Wedding Shower and Bacheloretter Party planning has officially started :)  Other than being very clear about what I do NOT want, they are pretty much taking care of those things without me. I have enough other stuff to worry about! 

 

And in other news....

 

I bought into one of those crazy diet plans that promises crazy results.  Don't laugh or lecture, I have to at least try.  We shall see....

 

 

Oh, and if anybody wants to donate money towards getting a 3-bedroom place so that Whimzy can have her own play room and we can have our living room back, just contact me ;)

 



Speech Therapy and Hectic Holiday

So, I know.  It has been awhile. 

I try not to post if I don't have anything interesting to say.

And besides, it has been insanely busy.

It seems like every single day there is something going on that requires a good chunk of time.

School has been pretty crazy, too.  My team is not the most cooperative group of people that I have ever worked with. 

I am hoping that next week slows down a bit.  I could use a bit of a break after Christmas.

 

Whimzy starts her group speech therapy today. Ty and I are both going to see how it works and to try to help as much as we can.

Wow.  I have so much to talk about, buy my brain is not working like it should.

 

Well, maybe in a bit I will write something more interesting or at least better written.

 

For now, I will just go take some Tylenol and get ready to get going.

Buying The Dress and Caramel Apple Cookies

Well, the dress is bought! 

It is green ;)

I could not be happier.

Gotta start working my arms out so I can look sexy in it! 

Plus, I got to hang out with my lovelies (well most of them!) last night.

It was perfect. 

Since the fiancee can see this, I am not posting pics of the dress!  Guess everybody just has to come to the wedding. 

 

So I mentioned Caramel Apple Cookies last week.  They were so good.

 

 

I know it is all crumbly, but I wanted to show the caramel inside!

So, this is the link that I got the recipe from:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2J1Hss/www.jenncooks.com/2011/11/11/caramel-apple-cookies/

Mine ended up being not quite as flat as the recipe's picture, but they were amazing.  Also, just a tip, warm them up in the microwave after they cool down and you want to eat them!  It makes the caramel all melty again :)

 

Oh, and I got the runners for the tables in the mail this week! 

They are amazing. 

 

Happy St. Nick's!!

 

<3



Mommy Needs A Nap

I was really tired last night, but we had a few friends over.

My MOH and a bridesmaid discussed my bachelorette party.

It got late.

Finally, I was ready to hop in the bathtub and pass out pleasantly next to my Ty.

The bathtub faucet wouldn't turn off. 

The part that controls the temperature and flow of water was broken.

We got it down to a trickle, but I was making a 1am phone call to my landlord.

He did not pick up, so we had to sleep right across from the bathroom with the bathtub running.

I did NOT sleep well. 

At all. 

The landlord came and looked at it, sort of fixed it, and is sending his handy man within the next few days to really fix it. 

Freakin' A.  Just weird.

 

So other than that, Ty's work flew Santa in a helicopter. to the warehouse today to see all the kiddies and have breakfast.

Whimzy was way more impressed by the helicopter than Santa.

 

So here are two of my three Pinterest projects from this week:

 

1.  The Christmas List ornament.  Note to self: put the little stuff in before the list, otherwise you cannot see the little stuff. 

I cannot find the link anywhere!  If anybody has it, just let me know so I can give due credit.

 

2.  Cream Cheese Brownies.  Amazing! Really made me want to make cheesecake. 

Link: http://stylishcuisine.com/?p=3915

 

I also made Caramel Apple Cookies, but I don't have pictures yet.  Hopefully by tomorrow :)

 

Other than my awesome Pinterest stuff, I am feeling pretty good. 

Holiday stuff is going really well, wedding plans are going along. 

Right now, I honestly just need a nap, though. 

Hoping that the ribs in the slow-cooker will be an easy dinner and I can relax for the rest of the night. 

Happy weekend everybody!