So I can finally say my life is back to to normal! It's amazing how planning a wedding can turn your whole life up side down! I'm glad to say I never have to go through it again....dont get me wrong it was all worth it in the end to marry the man of my dreams...but the road getting there was not easy. I seemed to have alot of bumps along the way! :)

I have not blogged in forever because it seems i can never find the time. My life is now just simple stresses to deal with like being tired from working so much or headaches from studying too much of my bio class I'm in. I am currently just working and going to school. I am really hoping to find out what makes me happy!! I am glad to get back into blogging because i love hearing all the amazing things about other people's lives.

So its OFFICALLY ALMOST HERE!!! I have waited a year and 6 months to marry the man I love with all my heart and its finally going to be here in less than 3 days now!! I can't believe it. My heart is beating so fast when I think about everything. I am the happiest I have ever been and the feelings are truly unexplainable!!! I feel I am on top of the entire world right now! I truly am thanking God everyday for bringing such an amazing man into my life. I have a busy two days ahead of me! Tomorrow i am going to get my hair freshly hightlighted, then trimmed then off to my mommas so we can go into town for some last mintute things. We have to get my ribbion for my cake and flowers for it along with some things for the rehersal dinna. My mom is the sweetest person i know! She is doing the dinner @ her house. She is buying 30 New York strip steaks, along with cheesy potatoes, mac n cheese, shrimp, garlic bread, and dessert..YUM. I can't wait even tho i think i will be soo nervous i wont get to enjoy the yummy food.

Friday we are spending the whole day before rehersal @ 4 At the reception site setting up everything for the BIG DAY!!! Then we are off to the Domician Republic for a whole week. Are resort is all in clusive so i cant wait to get some drinks because I defiently need after planning this wedding..LOL I cant wait to post pics of the wedding and honeymoon!! :)

XO!

So the wedding is so CLOSE!!! 23 days!! I can't believe, we have been engaged for one yr and 6 months and now it is finally here. It's so surreal. You wait your whole life to find that one soul mate and when your dreams come true, the feeling is truly amazing. Love is incrediable feeling and I thank God everyday for the love John and I have with eachother. I am so excited to marry the love of my life!! So I've been crazy busy it seems. Last mintute things for the wedding to do and two weekends ago i have my bachorlette party!! SOO MUCH FUN!! It was so nice to get out with all my girlfriends and have fun. One of my good friends works @ the Radission Hotel in Kalamazoo so she got a sweet deal on a room there. We started off the night in the hotel room making long island ice teas. Then we went to a very fancy resturant located right in the hotel. They had a pink rose lying on my seat and the owner of the resturant gave me a free double shot!! :) Soon once dinner was over we were all feeling pretty good but that was just the begining to the rest of the night. We went down to Monco Bay which is a piano bar...(HINT:MATT from American Idol plays there) then we ended the night in Wild bull....it was defeintely crazy but so much fun! HEre are some pics from the night....

So i have not blogged in a looonnnggg time so i have lots of catchup!! :) My life has been crazy every since the big move!!! Yes, we got our house finally and we have been settled in for a little over a month now!! I could not be anymore happy with the house. The wedding is coming so fast now that i have been so busy with trying to get everything done for it. So I had my bridal showertwo weekends ago and here are some pics from it:

So John and I had amazing day today!!!!!!! We met with the lady to do our cake and she was one of the best woman I have ever met in my life. It was awsome!! We ended up spending 3 hrs there. She even gave us a discount for being catholic bc she was catholic...now when i say discount your thinking like 20 bucks right....nope 112.05 dollars to be exact. YEA...thats what I am saying. I truly beileve God brings people into your life for a reason even if its only for spilt moments and i believe God had me find this lady out of the paper for a good reason. I have everything done for the wedding, besides my cake and flowers and I have been looking everywhere for a cake I like and every site i got on i never found one cake i liked. Well i found this ladys advertisement in the wheeler dealer and got on her internet site and the cake i picked was on her main page...Weird huh....I guess when somethings are just ment to be they work out. After we left the ladys house we headed to the mall bc john got my a gift card for hollister for my Birthday!!!!!!! :) I'm turning 21 monday! I got a bathing suit and i cant wait to wear it on the honeymoon!! :) Which is another good note, we booked the honeymoon and were going to the Domincian Republic!!! more details of that later...:)

So i'm excited because I got a phone call @ 9am saying my class today got canceled, which is an amazing feeling after you've worked the last three days straight and been stressed to the max. We are having alot of stress between john and I lately bc of trying to get the loan to finalize through the bank, kim are loan officer said they would put of through the ringer....wow was she not kidding one bit when she quoted that to us. Literally we have been through the ringer. I'm hoping everything this week will go through and we will be done with signing ALL the paper work, you literally sign your life away it feels like..lol. ok I'll stop be so dramtic...haha. No but really i am hoping to have a good weekend...John and I are going saturday to lansing to pick out the cake!! :) I cant wait. I found one online that i love.
The bridemaids dresses are green and my colors are spring green and irvoy so i thought this would be perfect!!!!! :)

Then sunday we have chruch and then marriage counlsing again. We've already had a weekend retreat back in december and now we have this one which is every sunday in febrauary. The last one was amazing it taught such good commucation skills and how to cope with eachothers feelings. Well this one is alot different. Maybe bc it got started off to a bad start. It was @ St. Marys in jackson and we got there early and i dont know if anyone is familiar with St. Marys but it it huge and it has almost 15 different doors to get into the place. Well they is no nice sign saying "marriage counlsing" so john and i walked around for 30 mintutes checking every door in sight possible...no luck. Well by this time is was 2:20 and the class started @ 2. so we walk to the car to leave and this lady in a van pulls up to the front door. I jump out and explain and she says i dont know anything but I am glad to help, well finally after checking three other buldings we got in. When we walked in everyone kinda looked upset but its not are fault we couldnt find the building and it was locked!!!!!!! I mean who locks a building there having class in?????

So today has been quite a day all ready. I had to wake up @ 7:45am which competely sucked bc thursdays are usally my only day to sleep in...i know suck it up right? lol. anyways, i had to get all ready so john and i could go down to the post office to get our pictures taken for our passports. Were going to Dominican Republic for our honeymoon. :) Well everything went smooth with mine but when it came to johns, he had a bith RECORD not a birth certificate so his could no be proccessed yet. Which i mean we have plenty of time but everything we do lately is such a looonnnggg proccess it seems. Now we have to call down to coldwater and see if the clerks office can print us off one and pay more dam money we dont have right now...I swear its on thing after another. Then after we left the post office we went to jcc to get johns records that he was attending there so are loan can get finalized this week so we can move in to the house:) well the guys like it wont get to flagstar till monday or tuesday bc we have to mail which we intended we would be taking it there today. Then after we left there we had to go to flagstar STILL anywayz bc kim needed some more papers signed and a paper signed from me. Let me mention this is johns third time this week in there...I thought getting house would be easy...Let me tell you planning a wedding and trying to move into a house @ the same time....DONT recommed it @ all. I'm trying to stay postive and have faith its just really hard bc i want things to run smoothly and right when we think we are done with one task there like oh no you gotta go here now....

hopefully this misery will be over soon......................