Concert

Last night we went to the Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley/Darius Rucker concert and it was amazing. Travis's parents had won really good seats and they switched us mid way through so we got to sit much closer. Afterwards Travis headed down to the duck woods. Only one week of hunting left!!!

Our vows and some pics of the honeymoon and wedding

I promised to share our vows with everyone after the wedding, so here ya go.

Brittany,
I have always dreamed of this day. Of the day where I am standing here in this very spot getting ready to marry the girl of my dreams; but in that dream I never knew the woman I would be marrying would be the nicest , most loving, caring and giving woman I’ve ever known. I love you so much. I was born to love you baby. I just thank God for bringing us together. You know, before I met you I wasn’t the best person, but your love saved me and made me the man I wanted and needed to be. So I just wanted to say thank you. And if you marry me today, I cross my heart and promise to give all I have to give to make all of your dreams come true, and I promise to love, honor and cherish you for the rest of my life. I love you so much baby.

Travis,
The day I met you changed my life forever. I have grown to be a better and stronger person because I know that you will be with me through everything, good and bad.
I promise love and support you in everything that you do. I will be by your side through every win, and every loss, in life, and baseball. I promise to allow you to follow your dreams, and I will be with you every step of the way. I will be faithful to you and appreciative of everything that you do for me and our family. You are an amazing man and I am so lucky to be able to call you my husband. You are my favorite, forever and always, and I love you.

It's almost here!

Ok, so the wedding day is less than 48 hours away, and I'm doing really good I think. I'm not stressed out. I just finished my vows, which I promise I will post both of our vows after the ceremony. Travis actually wrote his first, which I thought was cute. He made a playlist he titled "Love" and listened to music and wrote his vows.

Everything is going really amazingly well. I love, love, love our preacher. We had met with a man before and he wouldn't marry us because we lived together. He knew going into that we lived together and met with us anyway. He said he could marry us if we made other arrangements between then and the ceremony, but we didn't really have any options for that, nor did I really want to do that. I understood he didn't agree, but I didn't understand how it would be better if we didn't live together for three weeks. If you don't agree you don't agree, and that should be final. I mean we were already planning on not spending the night before the wedding together, would that have been ok or no? I know I'm being silly, but it was really upsetting to me. However, we found an amazing man that we have really connected with to do the ceremony and I'm so excited. Just another example as to how everything really does happen for a reason.

Tomorrow I have to get my nails done, eyebrows waxed, and I have to attend the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner. So far everything is going extremely smoothly and I'm just ready for it to be here. I'm spending tomorrow night with my closest friends. We got a hotel room to just hang out and talk all night (well not all night I have to get some beauty sleep). I promise to post pics on Saturday if I can remember to have someone take some with my camera.

Last minute advice

Ok, there are only 10 days until our wedding. At this moment I'm not stressed, but I really feel like I am leaving things out. So, I need any last minute tips, thoughts or suggestions for the wedding day. Also, for any of you that have been on a cruise, any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all of your help.

Bachelor/Bachelorette and Engagement Pics!!!

We had our bachelor/bachelorette party this weekend. We rented a 24 person stretch SUV limo and drove around and went out downtown. I broke my camera so I don't have many pics and I also lost my phone, so send me your phone numbers!!!!


Benny and AJ~I went to kindergarten with them.

Me and my maid of honor, Casey

The girls!

Our photographer came down this past weekend and we took engagement pics. Yes, we are sitting in a baseball dugout and I'm wearing a Reds jersey. Anyways, I'll get more and post them soon. They turned out really, really good. I will post more soon.

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.