Life and... stuff

Big news and little news of all sorts for this post. First off I started teaching the flute to a girl and her mom in my church, and I may take on another student. Another thing is Joel and I BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! And I will not be posting pictures. Yet. I'm so swamped right now I can barely crochet in my very few minutes that are free... Jason's nap times are devoted to cleaning what packing clutter I can without waking him up because evenings are spent at the new house. You'll see why in my future post.... And in the meantime I need to think of a catchy title for that post haha! for now here's a cute picture of my son when we met Tim Duncan (after he left Ernie Hasse and Signature Sound :)

New Hair, "Doings"

Apparently I've been doing something wrong with my hair  for a very long time... I've been doing some research, and you're not supposed to wash your hair everyday... I have :P I've slowly been changing that habit, but my hair is so short in the front from re growth (will all readers please note I DO NOT cut my hair. Ever. Not even a trim. Period.) as my haird had broken off from lack of taking vitamin's for a time, since i breastfeed, that resulted in a large output of nutrients with not enough intake, thus, my hair broke off... Any way to continue, all those short hairs stick straight up and I didn't want to use hair spray (drying alcohols) and water wouldn't keep those hairs down long... More research ensued. I found out there are non-alcohol hairsprays out there... I went to Walmart and grabbed the first one I saw: L'oreal's Alcohol Free Hairspray.

 I wanted to see how it did: ( based on a 1-5 scale 1 being bad) 5 for hold, I went to silver dollar city went on 6 roller coasters and 2 water rides, and my hairstyle stayed in ( a front side pouf and a back pouf [no teasing]) my hair fell later because of a bobby pin malfunction. I'd also give it a 5 for scent. It doesn't smell gross like some hairsprays, and to me this is important. It has a light sweet/floral scent, but it's not too heavy on either the sweet or floral. A 3 for cost: $5.97 for a bottle that size is not too bad but I think they could have come down a buck... or two. I really don't like that price. A 4.5 for the non-buildup feel in my hair when I wash it... It combs out fairly easy but leaves a greasy feel on second day hair, but that just may be me, because my hair has oily tendencies... for now, (as I said earlier I'm in the process  of re-training my hair)

Anyway, how was everyone's Memorial day weekend? I'm kind of disappointed how my city I live in doesn't do more, only one place I saw had a flag half mast. Every other place had sales, to commercialize. How sick can people get? Commercializing a holiday meant for remembering the soldiers who died for our freedom, that's sick and twisted to me.

I'll stop there because laundry has to be done by someone, and it won't do itself... I'll ask a question before I go though, what is your favorite household chore to do? Mine is vacuuming or washing floors.

Tomorrow's The Big Day!!

Wow, we're here, alive. And I guess I'm taking it pretty calmly for now :) (who knows about tomorrow:) The rehearsal was pretty good, we ran through it a few times... and I think we'll do great tomorrow! The bridesmaids liked (I hope) the gifts I gave them... Here's a pic of one:

Then there were a few things inside... It's not much, I know, but I put thought into it.

I've been thinking about life is going to change, and I'm looking forward to it. It's hard not to, the "adventure" and spending my life with "my head" since I've been walking around without one for years now (according to Sister Sallie) Ok, It was funnier at Perkins today than it appears on this post.

Everyone gathered at Fox Hills Resort and we were waiting on a few lost family members of Joel's *ahem* not naming any names... coughBENcough Just kidding! It was actually kind of funny :) My future nice Gloria is our flower girl and she looked like she was having a good time walking up the aisle. Same with my Cousin Joe (he's shy around alot of people) The Tuxes all fit everyone, except two people who haven't tried them on yet. The dresses are all good and mine, I hope, is perfect!

I'll end up posting pictures later (I hope soon) and this is me, signing off for tonight: God Bless!

5 days....

Joel and I had to go and get some sort of license saying we could marry... or something like that... I don't really understand it all :P Let m.e tell you: I don't like going to the courthouse. At all. Period.

Anyway, Joel just told me that he still wants to spend every moment with me because he feels like he's going to be leaving without me... like he's up here for a visit... and I, actually, feel kinda the same way haha!! We're so used to him having to leave that it's hard to believe that we're actually getting married.

That's all I really have to say.... Anything everyone wants to know about??? Please let me know im my comments!!

8 days!!!!

OH MY WORD!!! I'M SOOO EXCITED!!!!... I apologize for that very necessary outburst. Any way... Toay I put the necessities in two rubermade containers, to take to the wedding... The guest book, card box, ring pillow etc. Also something to note: I finished the corsages too!! I never want to wrok with flowers ever again!... at least not for awhile.. haha!

Random thought: When I move to the house Joel and I will have in Arkansas I'm not allowed to have a pet... unless it's a fish. So: I want a fish... any suggestions as to the best fish?? haha! I really want a pet... so a fish it must be. I think I would like one fo these:

JUST KIDDING!!!!!

9 Days

We are getting in the single digits!!!!!!! My sweetheart is also coming up on this coming Sunday! So, I promised Flowers on my previous post, so, flowers are here! Boutteneries! The one with  white ribbon wraping is for my Darling Husband to Be (that gives me the good chills haha!:)

The reason I did his in white, is becuase I want him to stand out just a little bit. The Bride is in all white, and her bridesmaids are usually in the wedding colors. So, why not make that somehow true on the grooms side? That's my reasoning anyway.

The groomsmen, preacher, and father and grandfather (his dad passed away just little over a year ago. and his grandathers aren't able to come) are wraped in brown. Except for one tiny detail: my grandpa's has a little silver boot (as in boot-enerries) no pun intended.

Believe it or not, it's hard work doing boutteneires yourself! Oh well, I'm glad I did it though, I feel a sense of pride knowing that I did this, and we saved some money by not asking a florist to do it. Let me tell you though: I dont want to ever work with flowers again!....... At least not for a little while :)

10 days

OK, What should I talk about today.... How about the sand ceremony? If there's any complaints against it, well, on "9 days" post there will be flowers. So, here I go.

Joel and I decided we wanted to do some sort of unity ceremony, we didn't like the candle ceremony because, well, I'm scared that my veil, or worse, my hair will catch on fire (this was before I decided I was wearing my hair up) So I did a little research and came up with this:

I don't know if this picture is to small or not, but anyway,, most of the pictures on Bing were sand ceremonies. I brought this to Joel, and we talked about it and decided this was the one for us. Well, I didn't want to buy any of the expensive kits in the stores. So a couple weeks ago I convinced my darling mother to take me to an antique shop.

I found this bottle:

I washed and dried it, and since the opening was so small, I had to either but a funnel and two bottles..... Or buy to Vinegar/oil bottles.

Me and my wonderful mother again went somewhere: Appleton (!!) and we went to T.J. Maxx and found exactly what we were looking for!

Two Beautiful bottles that compliment the center piece. One of the side bottles will be filled with brown sand, the other with purple, which was bought at Hobby Lobby.

All in all here was how much this ceremony costs:

Centerpiece bottle: $6.00

Oil bottles: $4.00 apiece

Sand: $2.99 apiece

Compared to a $29.99 sand ceremony set from Hobby Lobby. (I would have had to buy the sand separately)

So there you have it! A Unity Sand Ceremony, that you can save a few dollars on :)

Big news and questions...

Okay, I'm getting married in October now ^_^ and I have to get two or three exams doen a week in order to graduate before I get married :/ eep! So, sorry everyone, this log will be on hold until I get married :( sorry everyone!! God Bless you all!!!!!!!

Sue

She is a Caucasion female, she wears a red and white bonnet and a matching red and white apron with lace on the hem.

Her name is "Sue." And I wanted to let you all know about her. I first discovered her in Branson, Missouri. And promplty lost touch with her until today. At first she was all in peices, but then I put her to rights and made her feel good about herself again, if I do say so myself :)

Oh, you would like to see her?? Well, here she is:

Joel named her, and even made her a theme song:

*sung to the tune of "I Had a Little Turtle"*

I had a Little Dolly

Her name was tiny Sue

I put her in a tea pot

To see what she could do

She burned her hands and fingers

And then she gave a squeal

I took out little dolly

And put her on the  window sill!



I'm Getting Married!!

Well, You all know that I'm engaged.... or at least you should know.. well the wedding date got changed. To THIS YEAR!!! :D so I'm going crazy with planning and getting school done.

I've only got 3 and 1/2 books left. after that, 4 necklaces to make, bouquet choices, figure out what I done with my hair and the bridesmaids hair.... oh boy...


Wish me luck.

This Picture was taken by moi, in Arkansas on my last visit... let me know what you think.

Joel is Up here!!!

Sooooo... Joel's up here again! We are spending ALOT of time together and enjoying EVERY milisecond of it!.... well.. except for the april fools joke. Anyway... so, yeah.. that's what's happening for now and hoping to make a couple morre "hair style" videos... Talk to you all later!

Don't slip on the...!. *falls*... ice.

So walking out to the mailbox to post a letter I fell on the ice... as you saw above. I'm kinda typing with one hand so forgive my mistakes please... I kinda had my hand torn up by the concrete.. and my chin is too... and my lip... well blowing up like a baloon. I already took two tylenol to kill the headache I know is coming. Here's the affects of my fall:

I dont know if you can see the scrapes on my chim... they're very light, but hurt like fire!

Baby Angelina: An Update

Last week sometime when little Angelina went to the Doctor for an "after Birth" check up the doctor found some dimples on her lower back to the left of her spine, almost right above her tail bone. Well, Doctor, fearing the worst told My aunt to take her to a specialist in Green Bay. He feared she might've had Spina Ambifida (I think I spelled that right??)

So we went, first, to the wrong Bay Care Clinic. Then they sent us to the right one, and it was AAlllllllll the waaaaay on the ooootherside of G.B. So we got there late, and found out we could've stayed at the other one and got Angelina treated there! UGH!!!

She got checked out and I'm glad to say: She is perfectly ok. Nothing wrong. Healty.

After our whole family and then some freaking out, she was ok. Mom and I were excited! So we went to lunch and I fed her while trying to eat with my left hand.... She must've been thoroughly annoyed, because I write with my right hand. So it was difficult :) either way she got what she wanted. She's healthy and loved by many.

P.S. I will add a picture later... my computer is too slow today :P

My attempts at changing my blog

Let me know what you all think about my changes? like 'em hate 'em? what would you change? Please let me know!

My (attempts at) Photography

As all of you know, when I went to Arkansas, I took alot of pictures... so I decided to play with some of them.... Let me know what you all think!

I played with the pictures on Picnik and Paint.net. Just fyi: I put my signature in the corner of each pic :)

Arkansas

After a great flight from Milwaukee to Chicago (which is only 20 minutes) i had to get on a flight to Little Rock, Arkansas! Yes, I was greatly excited, but I was also kind of nervous. I had about an hour layover, so to pass the time, I would make up stories about the people around me: where they were going, why they were going there, and where were they from. I did this for awhile and it seemed like a few minutes later, or so it seemed, we were boarding.
Once I was in my seat, I saw an elderly lady and, I assume, her husband. She was dressed very nicely, and had the most biggest diamond ever on her ring. So, again to pass the time I tried to think of why it was so big. First I thought, 50th anniversary, or maybe they were REALLY rich. or maybe itwas one of those fake ones you could buy at wal-mart. By the time this was done, i began to get nervous again: i was meeting my future mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and brother-in-law. then the thoughts came realing: what if they don't like me? How should I act? is there any subjects that shouldn't be talked about? What if they don't like me? what if I do something embarassing? What if they don't- wait, I said that already... But that was my main thought! Anyway, once our flight landed, I called Joel to tell him I was there, and he said that he was too. I walked out past security, and saw, Joel, his mom, and one of his sisters there... I hugged them all, after introductions, and my thought was "Two down, and four to go!" We went to his place and I met the rest of them. And of course everything went fine.
After spending a few days there on Friday we all headed to Texas! They had the greatest meetings I've ever been in, in my entire life! Bro. Fergusson preached a series on the Holy Ghost and how we shouldn't stop getting It. And I'll admit something right now: after being in a chruch who didn't teach everything, and didn't follow the Message 100%, I was frustrated and confused. Until Saturday night; I saw the first altar call in my life, and didn't understand for a good hour. I was about to walk out, and something directed my feet toward the front. I was up there. And I understood what was being said, and being done in the altar call. AND I'VE GOT IT!!! I've got the HOLY GHOST!!
Sunday Bro. Fergusson simplified his whole message, and I didn't need that anymore, I thought I needed that in the begining, but, God knew better, He knew I needed to experience it for myself. I thank Him for it!

That afternoon we headed back to Arkansas, and I would leave two days later, so we went around town and took plenty of pictures of Hot Springs:



Joel and a friend of his at Joel's work,his friend and him go to the Hot Springs (Bro. Kirby's church)




This water comes right out of the Hot Springs... I don't know if you can see the steam or not




A walking path, Great photo op.




You can see some of the hills in the background... The Ozarks I believe



The Arlington Hotel



A walk-way in the sreet that leads to... a wax meuseum? Wow. In the Middle of Downtown




I loved the street lamps! Gives an old time feel




The lake!




Stuck my camera out the window: I love those street lamps!




Now you can really tell: I LOVE those street lamps!! haha!





A Bath in one of the bath houses, it was turned into a visitor center, you could tour the place.




A fountain in the bath house, the green coloring tells how hard the water is




Joel's Mom... my future Mom in law!





Three of the four sister's, I could never get the other one in a picture for some reason..



They would use the water as a therapy, the wooden thing above you can kind of see: that is what the transported patients on who couldn't walk, and they would use this bath.

Sorry there's alot of pictures... But I just love Hot Springs! When I had to Leave, it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Leaving my sweetheart and a place I loved! I cried my eyes out on the airplane, which is kind of shameful. But it felt like my heart was tearing in half! Once I got home, I just emptied my suitcase on my bedroom floor, to get what I needed and after that 3 hour layover in Chicago: I was bushed! I fell asleep wishing....