The Beginning of Wedding Festivities!

Today began the start of the events for the wedding.Mom and I hosted the Bridesmaid Luncheon at The Looking Glass Restraunt this afternoon. We gave the girls their "bling" to wear on the wedding day. The food was amazing, the cake was delish, and the girls were just so sweet! I love those girls so much. They are my best friends. It was really cool to be sitting at the same table with my favorite, best girl friends!

Easter Festivities

Each year Johns family goes out of town for a huge family reunion. I really look forward to the trip every year. We went again this year and had even more fun then we did last year! I think it gets better each year.
Easter Sunday was so beautiful. It was so nice to be at church with my family and John. Dad can't usually come to church on Sunday mornings anymore because of his job but he got to Sunday! We were very happy! After church we went to my Nanny's house for lunch. Nanny hasn't had us for a long time. It's been about 5 years since we all were over there as a fmaily for Easter. It's something that I always enjoyed as a kid and I was really glad that John got to share the time with us together! Check out my adorable newphew! isn't he getting big! Check out April, about to burst! And my sweet sixth grade girls sunday school class!

A Proud Fiancee'

John had his first interview today for a job at a hospital. After about an hour and a half from the time he was interviewing I get a phone call from him with news. He got offered a job in his interview! With his experience they want him in telemetry (heart stuff :-) He is really excited about learning a lot in htis department. He told them he would let them know for sure within the week. We will pray hard together about it and we will make a desicion. It is at Saint Thomas Hospital. It seems they have great benefits, and now I have to learn what all goes along with this word "benefit" I'm gonna learn a lot of new terms that have to do with insurance plans and all that jazz. Aw, the joys of growing up and getting married!! So since he got a job offer I cooked a huge dinner all by myself! I cooked ribeye steak, green peas, baked potatos, macaronie and cheese, and a huge yeloow cake with chocolate icing! I got carried away with the sprinkles!
Wedding planning is being polished as we speak! They invitations are almost finished being designed and the cake lady is sending us a demo of the cake within the week! Then we have small details to cover! I just can't wait to be John's wife! A wife is something I have dreamed of and worked so hard to become good at my whole life. I'm so glad that God put us together. We are truly a blessed couple!

Babies! -Round One

We received a phone call yesterday afternoon that my cousin, Shelley's water broke! She was pregnant with twins. Originally due April 2 they decided to make their debut a bit early! Boy-Parker Charles weight: 3 lbs. 13 oz. 16 1/2 inches long and Girl-Kayla Marie weight: 3 lbs. 9oz. 17 inches long. We rushed to the hospital as fast as we could. It didn't take long and the precious little miracles were in the world! Mommy, Daddy and both babies are healthy and doing great! The babies will be in NICU for a bit but they are making wonderful progress already! They are both cute as a button!
April is due with Adam on April 10th. We can't wait for more baby to get here and I can't wait to see my new little nephew!!

She Made It

Last night I was so stressed out about all the many thing sI needed to get accomplished before today and all the things I had to do for today such as tests, performances, papers, and such. I literally had a breakdown. I wasn't sure where to start and I didn't see myself accomplishing all of my work in time. I found myself stepping back amid all the drama I was simply creating for myself and went out on my front porch swing and prayed. It's so amazing what a friend we have in Jesus and how He is ALWAYS there when we need Him. Even if it is for little dramatic breakdowns where we can't even see tomorrow because the day is so hectic. Once I started praying it was as if a sheet of comfort was laid upon me and all was put at ease. I sighed and all the drama and stress was gone away.
When we have our little moments in life we need to remember to take a moment away from the stress. Just to step back and turn away from it all and give it to Jesus. He'll help take it away and make it all better. What a good friend we all have!

Paint

Saturday morning John and I headed to our house and began painting our landry room. Here is a before and later is an after of our master work! We both learned that painting a room white ir really hard! I worked in the laundry room all morning while he scraped and painting the iron railing on the outside of the house. It was fun working on our house. It really doesn't need anymore work. We just needed to paint that one room becuase it was remodeled and the railing because they are old. It is looking great! While we were there we had some visitors! My and John's friends stopped by, Mr. Darell and Mrs. Ruth. They are the couple who let us borrow their boat all the time! And my mom, april and bryce +soon to be here adam stopped by. April and bryce hadn't seen the house yet. Mom brought John and I a few things for our house! She got my yellow rubber gloves that have a yellow decoratve trim. They are really cute and I begged her to get me them a long time ago and she wouldn't! She also got us an awesome picture for our kitchen that matches our decor perfectly and a decor kitchen towel that matches! We were so excited to get our first gifts! I had to hurry and clean all the paint off of me last night and get all dolled up for DeAnna's bridesmaid dinner. She is a May bride and also one of my bridesmaids. We went to The Old Spaghetti Factory. It was so yummy and a great time with all the girls! DeAnna is the on in the green dress! All of the bridesmaids all wore black! Unplanned but we were happy it worked out this way so De could stand out!

Vague On The Details

After an amazing response from blog readers everywhere I have decided to include some details that were vaguely written in previous posts! I was flattered and had no idea so many people read my blog! So here you are readers!
The interview!: It was with Lifeway Christian Resources. The job is a Summer Internship in the music publishing department. I would go to writers conferences and help be a part of working on childrens worship curriculum! I know, go ahead and say it "it's right up my alley!" I agree!
The house!: It's a 2 bed 1 bath dark red brick home about 10 minutes away from my parents house. It has all new floors and one huge, amazing laundry room! John and I are painting the laundry room on Saturday so start expecting pictures then! The laundry room had to be remodeled so we asked our landlord if we could paint it for something to do together! We weren't going to orignally rent, but when God showed us this amazing deal we couldn't pass it up! We knew this was our first place to live! We got our keys today and like to have NEVER left the place this morning. We love being there so it will be such a joy when we are there in June after our wedding!!!

100 Days

Yes, that's right. Only 100 days! Or you could say 3 months and 8 days. Either way...it's getting here quick! News, News- We got a house!!! It's in the area we wanted and it's just perfect for us! We can begin moving our stuff, in and cleaning, painting, and planting flowers...basically whatever we want, right now!!! We are going to go get our KEY ...yes a KEY! (oh my gosh, i can't believe it!) this week when we get a chance to go over there! Some of you readers may not understand my excitement of a key. But you see, the only key I have ever had has been the same house key I've had all my life. Now, I have a place to call mine and John's! Neither of us will reside in our new home until after our honeymoon! We decided that we will begin living there as together since it's our first big decision together at this point in our relationship! So, yah yah about that!
Today was just gorgeous was it not!? I worked out this morning after my first class and then carried on in class for the rest of the afternoon. Later, I got home, gave Boober a call and we went for a good mile jog. Yes, I'm trying to work on my bod for the wedding and summer. It's been fun working out so far at school. We have an amazing brand new complex. It has strict rules, but it's great!

Tasty Cake

My interview was today! I was looking forward to it all day, and it finally got here! It went really well. I felt great about it. God has given me peace about it all! If I get it that's great, and if I don't get it then that's great too because that just means He has another plan for me which is awesome!! God is so good isn't He?!! He has truly blessed me in my life with amazing oppertunities! I find out about my interview in April. I'll let you all know more about that then!
So we tasted our wedding cake the other day. Let's just say wow! and you're going to have to all come to the wedding to taste for yourself how Amazing it really is! mmmm good! We are sloooowly wraping up wedding planning and details so we can enjoy the month of April with all these babies and special birthdays coming our way then! Our goal is to have pretty much everything complete by then! It will happen!! Good luck to us! ;-)

A Snowy Adventure

This morning, while mom and I were finishing up the largest, most boring part of wedding planning we noticed something big and white in our field outside. Ontop of the snow was a huge white dog. It was my grandaddy's. We realized our wedding planning had to be put on a pause for a bit and we had to catch this dog and chase him back up to my grandparents house. So mom and I put on our snow clothes, which were quite halarious I must say! And at 7:00 this morning we went trucking up the road to find this dog. After about 30 minutes of trying to get him to come to us, he finally just decided to go back to his field through a huge whole in the fence. So we had to play detective, follow the dog print trail to the mysterious hole in the fence, fix it with bob wire, and then we finally got to go home!
After we got there we worked a little more, ate chili, cleaned, and I played outside with Buddy. I don't know what it is about snow, but Buddy loved it. Up to his bootie and all! When he first went out he just went crazy and ran straight into a ditch with probably 6 inches of snow. I couldn't see him for a bit, but he jumped right back out and went off running again with a snowy beard and all!
Tonight I get to spend some time with the Hines twins. I think we may watch a movie and get some dinner. Spring break will be officially over come Monday, and that makes me very sad! I still have a lot I need to do for school between now and then. So yes, I literally can NOT procrastinate any longer! Tuesday I have a very important interview for an amazing job this summer! Please pray pray!!

Camping for Spring Break

John, Holly, Sam, and I all went camping this weekend for springbreak. We went to our usual place in Dover. We got the best spot in the whole campground! That what we thought! It was so beautiful. We were right on the lake. We had the most amazing sunsets, yummy food, and fun times playing games. John and I got there a little before Sam and Holly so we tok a little walk. We were looking for the tree that I carved last time we went last year. We found it and had to take pictures beside it! We were so happy it was still there. We decided to take pictures beside it each time we went camping there. It was a good, relaxing trip. Now, I don't have school until Monday. I have several things I need to do, well a lot of things I need to do before school on Monday.