Wedding Shower #1

Me and Casey's mom, Karen

I had my first wedding shower today and it was so much fun. It was fall themed with chocolate treats, and lots of people from Casey's family, my two aunts, my cousin, and then Travis's nana, mom, and cousin Lucy came. It was really a great turnout and we got lots of goodies. Now I just have to learn how to cook...

My mom is alive!

Ok, well where to begin. My mom's alive. After 15 years she's decided it's time to come out of the shadows, yet again, and try to contact me. This time it's not as easy to find me, seeing as how her only contact is my grandmother that I haven't spoken to in over 5 years. Apparently, my mom called my grandma (her mom) on Monday. She's currently living in New Mexico, with a woman she met in prison. Yep, that's right. You can't even make up a story this good. She told my grandma she was in a car accident two years ago and no longer has the use of her right arm, she's had two surgeries and still needs one more. I'm thinking that's probably why she called, she wants money. She has to want something. It's just too weird. If she googled me, my facebook would pop up saying that I was engaged to Travis, which I changed my settings so that won't happen, I didn't realize that happened. Well then she could have googled Travis, and I'm thinking that's what it is. Now I'm just afraid she'll show up here or at the wedding. Anyways, I just needed to vent and try to deal with this. My aunt has her phone number and I don't know what to do with it. I'm not doing anything until after the wedding. I don't know that I want to speak to her, I have some questions, but I think other people could ask her those for me. I don't know what to say to her. Help! Thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank goodness Travis is by my side through all of this. Casey's mom said that God works in mysterious ways and sometimes has a sick sense of humor, I agree, but he also knows that I probably couldn't have handled this information before now. My life is on track and couldn't be better and I get this, but I can handle it. I have the most amazing future husband (not too far away!!!), friends, and family (not all are legally related, but they completely count) I could ask for and I am so thankful to have all of them by my side during this.

Goodbye sleepless nights

Well we have done a lot of work this week for the wedding. Travis promised me three full days of wedding, and luckily for him we only needed two. We went and got our rings. His looks just like something he would wear. We had to send off my engagement ring with my band to get it fitted, hopefully it works, we'll see. I feel so weird without my engagement ring. I know one morning I'm going to wake up and think I've lost it until I realize where it really is. We went and picked out what the boys will be wearing. We met with the caterer, the cake lady, and the florist. Everything is going very smoothly. Travis drug me to the woods with him for the night and it was actually really nice. I slept until 10:30, which was amazing because I've been getting up with a million things on my mind around 7ish every morning. I woke up this morning and didn't even think about the wedding. Now all we need to do is pack for the honeymoon! Oh, and have some showers.

More wedding

Ok, well the wedding is getting close and there is still so much to do. We went and met with the cake lady last and and she really liked both of the cakes I had picked out. She said she can definitely do them both, and Travis is really excited because he's going to put a picture of his best friends lab on the top of his cake. I tried pulling for Abbi in her pirate costume, but he insisted in wouldn't fit in with the theme. I ordered a veil yesterday also. I'm not 100 percent sure I'm going to wear one, but we'll try it and see. We are slowly but surely getting invitations addressed and I can't wait to start getting the RSVP cards back. My first shower is Nov. 9 so it's coming up. We registered at Bed Bath and Beyond and Target. Registering was definitely the most fun Travis has had planning for the wedding, and at Bed Bath and Beyond they offered us beverages, I liked it. Today we are going back up to the place we're having the wedding and meeting with the caterer. Another stressful meeting I wish someone else could handle. I don't know what everyone wants to eat or how much to get and I don't care. I'm just to the point I'm over it, and I want it to be here. I love everyone and want them to come and have a wonderful time, but I'm so over planning it. My head constantly hurts and I can't go to sleep without Tylenol PM even when I'm completely exhausted.

Fair, birthdays and flower girls.

Travis and I at the fair

At West End
The girls trying on their flower girl dresses

Saturday was Casey's birthday and the Razorback game vs. Auburn, which we actually won (amazingly). After everyone came up to West End to watch the game, and I worked, we went out to Cajun's to celebrate. Travis was away in the woods trying to kill the big deer he has pictures of. He killed a doe, and is back in the woods today for the big one.



Monday night we went to the fair with some friends. It was so much fun. The corn dog was just as good as I remembered and the cotton candy was even better. Travis did make me ride one ride, the pirate ship and the entire time I had my head burried in his shoulder and a death grip on his hand. I hate rides. The boys could barely make it past all the games at the front of the fair, and they wasted about 200 between two of them winning little stuffed animals for the dogs to rip up in about five seconds. It was a little warm outside, but it was still a nice night and we all had a good time.

Yesterday afternoon, Amber and I took Casey out to lunch for her birthday. Afterwards, Casey and I met up with Jess and the girls so they could try on their dresses. They love them and I'm so excited. They were concerned about how they were going to do their hair and what shoes to wear. They're so grown up already, it's scary.

Travis is home, but now it's hunting season

Back a day early:

Well, Travis surprised me Saturday night when I got off work by being at the house waiting for me. He wasn't supposed to fly in until Sunday, but he missed me and was ready to be home so he flew back a day early. I was so excited to see him. It was a long two weeks. Of course, the next morning he got up and went hunting (the real reason he came home a day early).

Wedding news:

I went for my first dress fitting on Wednesday. The lady said it should be done in 2-3 weeks. I just hope I don't gain any weight between now and the wedding because if she gets the top as tight as she wants, I will not be able to breathe. I don't care if I can breathe, as long as it stays up and I'm not tugging at it all night.
Travis is starting to get excited about the honeymoon. He talked to some people about cruises and he got all kinds of advice so now he's ready to go. I personally cannot wait for the honeymoon. The ship looks gorgeous and I am going to need a vacation if I make it to the wedding day. It seems like all day every day I'm thinking about the wedding and what else we need to do or get. We are cutting it close with so many things I just hope everything works out. I know it will, I'm just not sure how it will.

Well Travis is in the woods, he killed a doe this afternoon. He's very excited because he's got a lot of pictures of bucks, one really big one. So I'm thinking I'm never going to see him now. We're going to the fair next week and I'm so excited, corn dogs and cotton candy here I come (I'll worry about fitting in that wedding dress after the fair).

Two months and two days till the wedding!!!

I'm back!

Abbi is the cutest pirate ever!

Ok, so I've been away, computer problems and then I forgot the gmail account that I had to create to do this in the first place and I was too lazy to search for it. Anyways, I'm back, and I'll try to not disappear again. So Travis is in Sarasota still. He had to go down there for two weeks to supposedly work on a few things. So far he's only face actual batters once I believe, and he's supposed to face them again on Friday, two days before he leaves. I don't understand this baseball stuff sometimes, really a lot of times.

As far as wedding planning goes, things are going well. I'm going to meet with the caterer and the people at the place next week and get further details about how everything will be set up. We've bought some decorations, we've set a date for a shower (Nov. 15), when Travis gets back we're going to go register, I made an appointment with the lady that will alter my dress for next Wednesday...I don't know what else. All I know is that my head is already hurting I'm pretty sure because I'm stressing out. I can't sleep very well, thank goodness for Tyenol PM and good wine. I got my passport in the mail yesterday which was very exciting because I was nervous I had waited too long or something. It only took 8 days which is insane. My passport beat my birth certificate here.

Well that is all I know for now, four days till Travis gets back!!!