Watching my checklist Diminish..

Day by day I'm crossing more off. I trully feel like I'm ahead of the game. I don't want to jinx myself though.

Here's some of the recent checks! =)

Flowergirl Dresses
We finally have both of our flowergirl dresses purchased. Makayla is in pink and Ember will be in white with a pink sash..I think I want to add a flower to it too, but here they are. =)

Ember's is from Davids Bridal and it is white with pickups. It's so pretty..can't wait til it comes in. Though the delivery date makes us all a little nervous: July 26, 2010. Ahh!

Makayla's we got at the Burlington Coat Factory..

So check!! =)

Tuxes
Josh, groomsman, my dad, and grandfather are all fitted for their tuxes. All that's left is Josh's dad and Dustin, our ringbearer, who can't get fitted until the beginning of July.

Check and Check! =)

Tablerunners
They are DONE! D. O. N. E. I can't believe it. Also the pink one's I ordered off theknot.com's wedding classifieds are in. I plan to use them to swag across the head table, cake table, and entrance.


Check, Check, Check!! =)

Escort Cards
The half that we can do is done. We can only do the numbers on one side until we get the rsvp's back and get the table seating figured out. Josh had helped with these a lot. =)

So I'm considering this a check.
Check, check, check, and check!! =)

Money Bag
This was just a quick sew after I completed the table runners, but I'm so happy with how it turned out. Though the $ dance doesn't go over well on theknot.com and other places it's a tradition and it's so much fun in my own opinion. I've always loved folding my dollar up into some kind of shape (a crane now..how appropriate ;) and going round and round dancing with the bride. It's a blast.

Here it is..



Check, check, check, check, and check!! =)

Invitations
I can not believe these are completed. I'm blown away by it. I started at the end of December and finished early May. Here they are..I'm so proud.....

Check, check, check, check, check, and CHECK!! =)

Father - Daughter Dance Song
I finally got around to purchasing and downloading the song we will be using for the father-daughter dance. It's perfect for my dad and I. Ever since I can remember my dad has called me "Daddy's Little Angel". Finding this song was just perfect...



Checkity, check, check, check, check, check, chhhhhhhhheck! =)



Feels so good to be getting this all done. =) More to update later.

An Amazing Day with Amazing Women

My Shower was May 2, 2010 at 3pm. It rained earlier in the day and cleared up toward the end it was a perfect day for a "shower"

I'll post more pics when I get them all back, but for now the ones I have will have to do.

In attendance I'd say there were about 50 or so women there it was great to see everyone and meet some of Josh's family who I did not know yet.

Everything became a lot more REAL there. I successfully made Aleece cry as well as many other women in the room. I guess the speech I did came out alright afterall.

So here's how it all went down.

I arrived with my mom and we helped to finish setting what was left to set up. From there as everyone came in they were to sign into the guestbook, drop there recipe for me in a basket, and then take there tickets to enter in the chinese auction for 13 different themed baskets. As the shower went on we pulled a ticket and a guest won the basket. We did this instead of the games and I think it turned out wonderfully. =)

When I walked in though the first thing I noticed was the clothesline above the head table with multiple pairs of undies hanging from it, hahaha! I guess there's a poem or a game to go with it, but Aleece just wanted to use it for decoration. It was definitely a coversation piece, haha!

Yes, there's even a pair on my chair, haha

From there Aleece made her little introduction speech and we all began eating. There was SO much food and it was all so good. Speaking of food the favors for each guest were so yummy. They had a truffle, pretzels with rollos melted in them, peanut butter balls with chocolate, and a strawberry dipped in white chocolate. So yummy!

The centerpieces were "flower pots" and they had "flowers" (cupcakes iced to look like flowers). Each guest also had a callalily at their place setting and they were to remove the cupcake to eat and replace it with the callalily after they wrote advice for Josh and I on it. So I then had advice bouquets. It was really cute and I loved reading all of them at the end of the shower. A lot of them made me laugh. =)

Mid-lunch? Josh comes in carrying a vase with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. It was so sweet and everyone "Awwwwww'd" even though Josh didn't want them to. Hehe, it was really cute. =)


After everyone ate I began my speeches and introduced my flowergirls as well as my bridesmaids. I had previously made jewelry for each of them and handed these out as well. From what I could tell they all loved them.

One of our flowergirls: Makayla =)

Our other flowergirl: Ember =)

I then gave Aleece her MOH specific gift and I'm pretty sure she loved it too. The day before she's telling me "If you haven't noticed I love zebra print"...really?! I had NO idea. ;) hahaha!

Zebra suitcase with a bunch of different "zebra" things inside

From there I began opening gifts and let me tell you everything was so nice. We got a lot of kitchen stuff to update what we have already and I got some nice personal stuff as well.

One of the gifts table

A great knife set

From my mom =)

From Josh's grandma, absolutely beautifully handmade

An awesome new toaster so I don't have burnt toast everytime we use the one we had before

A great pots and pans set =)

Loved this baset from the Miller's everything to make the pizza they put on the recipe card they brought

This bag was unbelievably hard to get into, so I ripped it

Joshs's mom and sis made this for me. Love it!

They made these too..my something blue =)

wine glasses, yay! =)

My ribbon bouquet for the rehearsal =)..Thanks Keishybabe!

The rake & shovel we had on our registry =P..gag gifts from cousins =)

Gilley in the card basket, haha

Phyllis, our savior for the weekend had to leave, but since she made the cake and will be making our wedding cake she wanted a picture with me and the cake before she had to go. Let me tell you that cake was delicious! =)


It was really an amazing day with amazing women that I'm never going to forget. =)

..now on to those Thank You cards!