Day 30

Love Actually Soundtrack

Today I am posting a link to the Love Actually Theme song for a couple of reasons. First, tonight TJ and I were watching a rerun of How I Met Your Mother and the episode had the characters at movie and in the background TJ said hey isn't that the music from Love Actually? LOL! I guess I have made him watch the movie too many times. It is my favorite movie and don't tell anyone but I think TJ really likes it.

My thoughts are we will have the bridesmaids walk to one of the three versions of this song. Now here is the crazy part! You can't buy the soundtrack with the three Craig Armstrong songs in the US. Apparently they only sell that version in the United Kingdom. Then thanks to a review they directed me to amazon.com/uk and guess what I bought the CD with the songs I wanted and it was less than what I would have paid at the US Amazon site including shipping! YAY!

This is going to be a fun mail week for me! With all my ebay purchases and now this I should be getting all kinds of fun mail over the next two weeks! :) I love mail!

Day 29

Wedding, Wedding, Wedding, Wedding! That is all I have talked about for the past few days! Sunday, I finally got TJ up on on the details. I am not sure if he cared but I filled him in! I have been adding things to the calendar left and right including centerpiece put together day, address the invitations day, mail the invitations day, take our photos day, bridesmaids dresses day etc. I need to have it all on a calendar and it makes me feel better when it is!! I need help...

Day 28

Kim's Bridal Shower was today! It was fun and she got some really cute things! Leave it to me however to bring the x-rated gifts! LOL! And the best card in the world! These things however are not made for children so I won't post those pics!  1 week from today she finally gets married and gets to get her life started as a wife!! Time goes way to fast, before you know it its over and done! I can't imagine the nerves that she is feeling this week! I am pretty sure I will be freaking out the week before my wedding! I have already told my dad who is coming into town early to stay out of my way because this is going to be wedding central and he doesn't want to get in my way! Hehe! I'm not going to lie, I am getting more excited but I am also realizing I have several more things to check off my list! YIKES!

Bahahahaha! X-Rated Gift Bag=Awesome! :)

Days 22-27

 This is the video I made for my Mema. It's a little long but you will read about it below in Days 22-23. Enjoy!

Day 27-

Sneak Peak of Centerpieces! This was just a quickly thrown together example!

Today we finally met with our wedding venue! I am so excited now! I have been very concerned because I have felt there were so many unanswered questions. Now I have a visual and I think its going to be amazing. I just need to make sure my goofy fiance behaves! My mom took some pictures today so as soon as she emails them to me I will post them!

Day 26-

On Thursday I took TJ to see our venue. I figured he needed to see it before we got married there and all. Well we look around and he sees everything then I go show him where everyone is staying the night before the wedding and where we will have our rehearsal dinner. This jackrabbit that he saw was the most excited he got all night! Awesome!

Day 24-25

Mom, Kaytie, and I headed to Lake Tenkiller  for a day and a half. It was a nice girls trip away even though we were all exhausted after my mema's funeral on Monday. We left late Monday night and headed back on Wednesday. It was nice to get to relax and chat with each other about life.

Day 22-23

On Sunday TJ and I headed to Durant to be with my dad while he prepared for my mema's funeral. When I arrived I was told I needed to do the video since my aunt Robin was not handling things very well. We went to the viewing then I headed to the church to sort through pictures and put them in some kind of order. Sadly, this is the 3rd video I have had to make for a grandparent. I kind of enjoy it however. It seems like it gives me some colusre. It's one of the last ways I can connect with my grandparents before I have to say goodbye. About 3:30 am we finally finished the video. Needless to say I was exhausted the next day for the funeral. All in all it was a nice service and I think the video turned out well. Now my attention moves to my Papa Leon and hoping he can cope without my mema.

Day 21

So this weekend my hubby to be had an archery shoot in Kansas. This is what he does for a living. He shoots on the US Paralympic Archery team. It's fun and I like to go places with him. He has gone all over the country to shoot and if I can get off work I get to go with him. In 2008 I got to go to Beijing, China for the Paralympic Games to watch him shoot. Let me tell you, there is nothing like watching the person you love compete for not only a medal but for the USA! WOW! I think I nearly had a heart attack every time he shot! China was really the only super exciting archery shoot,  its otherwise a really boring sport! Today I sat in the shade and read my kindle and visited with the people around me. I did enjoy that, it was very relaxing and so many of the same people go to each shoot so you get to know them pretty well. We are pretty much exhausted now from the quick trip. Tomorrow we head to Durant to be with my family before my Mema's funeral on Monday. So we have a few more long days ahead.

Day 20

My Mema passed away today. :( She has been in and out of the hospital for years now. There have been many times when we thought she was going to pass and didn't and would still be around to be her crazy old self. While I am sad for my family and for the fact she is not with us any more, I know in my heart she is so much happier now. Her best friend in the whole world Helen passed away a few years ago and poor Mema missed her everyday and now they can hang out again.

In my family, we are family. We would spend a few weeks in the summer with Mema and Papa and she would make us go to vacation bible school and go pick up aluminum cans along side the road! LOL! She would even serve us coffee with sugar and milk in rocket ship cups! She wrapped our Christmas presents in Wal-Mart sacks and would buy us school supplies from Dollar General every year. You have to understand my Mema loved a deal and loved Wal-Mart and Dollar General! Her and Helen would go to Wal-Mart EVERYDAY! My Mema also let us drive her pick up truck at an age that was definitely not the legal driving age! She was crazy and we were okay with that!

As she got older she sometimes didn't remember who we were or forgot things etc. However, she would still be her old self just a self that thought we were still little. When I went to visit her over Christmas in the hospital I was telling her that I got engaged. She had only met TJ a few times and she wasn't remembering things too well. She looked over at me and said "Are you marrying that TJ?" She liked him and thought he was a good guy! Needless to say we were all surprised that she remembered who he was or that she'd ever met him.

On a side note when I visited my Grandma Norma in the hospital before she passed away I was showing her pictures of me and TJ and she looked at one of the two of us and said "I think its true love." It's nice to know that even though neither of my Grandma's will be at the wedding they both approved.

I will miss my Mema. I hope my Dad and Aunt Robin will be able to cope and be assured she is in a better happier place. I hope that my brother and sister and I will have a moment to mourn. Since Jan. 6th 2009 we have now lost 3 grandparents. Our hearts are heavy and we have barely learned what life is like without one grandparent then we lose another. Our Grandparents loved us and would call us often to check in. We would also visit on a fairly regular basis. So there has been an adjustment to living daily without someone that cared about you checking in on you anymore.

Life goes on, but tomorrow is not guaranteed, so live it to the fullest and tell the people you love that you love them as much as possible.

Day 19

Welcome to my new office space! This is my new desk at work! I am so excited for many reasons! 1. I love to redecorate anytime. 2. I organized EVERYTHING! In fact there is a wall of filing cabinets you can't see that I organized so well I want to show people when they come in the office! 3. It means I'm moving up (if only by inches!) I will share this office with the next person who comes to work in our department. There is another corner where there is another desk where I was before. The only thing left to do is hang my degrees on the wall, but I will do that when I come back from vacation! Yup! You heard me I am off all next week! I can't wait! I haven't had a week off since Christmas break last year! Woo Hoo! I don't know what I am going to do with myself! Read a few books I am sure and work on wedding stuff. Other than that my mom, sister and brother and I are going to Lake Tenkiller for a few days. It's gonna be a great week! :)