Back to Everyday Life

Hrmph. I hate going back to work. And being away from home for the week. It just plain sucks. Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, hello internet people! I got back to my sisters last night (I stay there through the week) and my kitties were so glad to see me! I spent the evening cuddling with them! I have to admit, it's been a difficult day. I just want to be at home with Jon, but I have to be here. So I went out to lunch and enjoyed the gorgeous weather! Then I went to Target after work! I picked up a couple of Halloween pillows and a new sweater!

I'm super excited about this weekend! It's Oktoberfest in Seymour, and since I've never been, Jon and I are going to go check it out. Also, we are getting Josh this weekend, so we are going to go pumpkin picking!!! Fall is finally here, and I am over the moon about it!

I wanted to share a couple things I didn't get to from the weekend. I made a shadow box to hang in our bedroom of some of our wedding stuff. Here it is.

Thing number 2. We have been tossing around ordering the complete collection of The Real Ghostbuster's cartoon. When Jon was little he was obsessed with The Ghostbuster's. Had all the toys and everything! So of course he simply had to have this collection! Also, Josh and I really like the show too. So we ordered it and it came this weekend!!

I also ordered Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel on dvd. I absolutely loved those movies as children and I just had to have them on dvd! I already watched Anne of Green Gables and I still love it! So good! Sigh.

Home Decor

I wanted to share some photos of our home! I suck at taking room pictures, and of course my camera is sucktastic, but you get the general idea! I have already posted pic's of our new bathroom decor, but here is our bathroom Halloween decor!

I've been wanting to post some pictures of our new bedding and the bedroom since we rearranged! Here are some bits of the bedroom.

Here is our new photo wall!

Recognize those frames?! They held the reserved table signs at our reception!

A Great Day

Oy! Our internet has been very hit and miss lately! It's so frustrating! Anyway, I had a great day today! This morning, I decorated for Halloween. Here a a few pictures of the decorations. None of the scary stuff is up yet. That's for the party!



Then my Mom, sisters Kelly and Rachel, and niece Kaitlyn and nephews Nolan and Braydon came to visit! They drove down to see the house and we went out to lunch. We went to a little hole in the wall mexican restaurant right around the corner from the house. Everybody really liked it! They really liked the Halloween decorations! It was really nice to see everybody. It's also nice to know that even though I'll be living away from them eventually, they'll be willing to come down for lunch every once in a while. Of course, I'm willing to go up to Indy for lunch too! Of course, we don't have to worry about that for a while. After lunch, we came back to the house and chatted. Jon got home from work just before they left, so they got to say hi. Jon came home with a terrible headache. We were supposed to go to the courthouse to deal with some paperwork, but he felt terrible so I told him to lay down for a while and he can handle the courthouse on Monday. So now I'm blogging, baking cookies, and watching Golden Girls. Yea! I completely forgot to lay out something for dinner tonight, so I think I'm going to go with frozen crab cakes and mashed potatoes for a quick dinner. I don't feel like taking on a serious meal. It's Friday after all! Has anyone else whipped out their fall scented candles?!?! Yum! I'm currently burning an apple cider, a pumpkin pie, and a farmhouse apple, all Yankee. I love fall and winter scents! My house smells amazing! Of course, that could be the chocolate chip cookies that just came out of the oven, lol. Well, I'm off to live life and continue this fantastic day. Have fun all!

Edit: Wow I just realized how crappy those pictures are! I have got to get a nicer camera! Apologies for the awful pics!

coffee buzz

Well hello there internet people!! Jon went back to work today which was sad :( I had a few hours of woe. I think I have the post wedding blues a little bit. I had read about women having the post wedding blues. I mean, you plan this huge event and you've dreamed about it since you were a little girl and now it's over. Not that I'm not completely blissful being married, but it's kind of a what do I do now moment. So I had some coffee and now I'm on a total coffee buzz! No sadness here! It helped that Jon is home and we are watching some Buffy while he relaxes for a bit. Tonight, we have to run to Walmart and get a few things.

Tomorrow, I think my mom and a couple of sisters and nieces and nephews may come down for lunch! Exciting! Plus, tomorrow I am decorating for Halloween! Woop! I've started planning our party and I'm getting super excited! Well, I'm off to run errands and spend an evening with my honey! Woohoo for newlyweds!

Day 3 of the Honeymoon: The Last Day

Jon and I have been having a great day! This morning we ran to the license branch to renew Jon's plates. Then we went shopping! Again!! We went to Bed Bath and Beyond and used our gift cards to get some essentials. Of course, I had to get a couple of fall themed Yankee candles, b/c those are essential to me! Then we went to Hobby Lobby. Jon and I decided to make a painting together for our bedroom and then I have had an idea I've wanted to try for a while now, so we got supplies for those projects. I'm so pumped b/c we got official Bob Ross canvases! Sweet! I seriously love me some Bob Ross. When I was little, I loved to watch his show. Still do as a matter of fact. After the shopping, we had lunch at Pen Station. Jon had never been there before. I got my old stand by, the philly cheese steak, and Jon tried the chicken teriyaki. We both got them loaded with mushrooms and onions. We really liked our sandwiches, and of course, the fries were the bomb. Then we came home and took a nap. Ah naps.
Now we are playing two games he downloaded on our new Xbox 360. The Impossible Game and I Made a Game with Zombies In It!!!!. They are addicting! I seriously suck at both of them but Jon has been rocking them out! He's awesome! Oh, and here is a picture I stole off of facebook from one of our friends. Our first wedding photos!

At the reception. (please excuse the very red face, I was already pretty tipsy here)

Our first dance!
The Kiss!
The cake shot!

Awwww! I'm such a goober! I got this from our friend Rachel who caught the bouquet! She is such a sweetie! So Dan (her gentlemen friend) if you are reading this, get on it man! That's the second one she's caught this year! Bwahahaha! Anywho, I'm off to enjoy my last honeymoon day!

Honeymoon Day 2

First off, a big thank you to David and Kate for their wedding gift!! An Xbox 360!! Jon is in seventh heaven! The plan for today was to go to Huber's Winery and take the tour. Both Jon and I are just sick of driving though, and since it is just over an hour to get there, we decided to skip the winery. We've driven a LOT in the past week and frankly, I'm sick of it. So today we decided to play it by ear and go with the flow! So today we had an early lunch at Larrison's Diner. I had the cheese steak sandwich and onion rings which were really good! Jon had the veggie beef soup and a grilled cheese and he like that. After that, we came home and vegged out. There was a nap taken. Jon got to get familiar with his new XBox 360 and I read some Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray magazines. I also did a huge amount of laundry. Actually, I'm still doing laundry. I know, I know, laundry on our honeymoon? But seriously, we had 10 loads to do! I don't know where it all came from, but it was past ridiculous! Tonight, we went to Game Stop and did a little shopping, then went to Culver's for dinner. They had a pumpkin cheesecake mixer that was AMAZING!!!! One very important thing we did today was decide on the date of our Halloween party! Oct 30th at 7pm! Woop! I did want to post a couple photos from our wedding day! Nothing fancy, just a few photos of the ladies getting our hair did.

Here is my "Ohmigosh I'm getting MARRIED TODAY!!!!!!" face!
My lovely mother getting here hair done.

Amber getting her hair done.

Rachel getting her hair done.

And Me! Also getting my hair done!

Lovely no?

Well poo.

What did I wake up to at 6:30am this morning?! Construction starting in the empty lot next to us. Joy. Not only are we in for months of early morning wake up calls, but now we're going to have neighbors. Well it was fun while it lasted.

Day one of our honeymoon!

For those of you who don't know, we decided to stay home for our honeymoon and do day trips to attractions around southern Indiana. It saves us money, and we get to sleep in our own bed!
Today, we decided to visit Bluespring Caverns! It is an underground river that you tour by boat. It was really cool! It was freezing down in that cave, but it was also really beautiful! We were the only two people on the tour, so it was really romantic! You get to experience complete darkness and complete silence, which is just weird! You can have your hand right in front of your eyes, and you can't see it at all! My favorite part of the tour is when our guide focused his spotlight so that the ceiling of the cave was reflected in the water. It was so cool! The water in the cave is so clear that you can see all the way to the bottom! Jon and I really liked the tour, and I think we might take Josh there next summer.
We went home and just ate leftover's and things for lunch and Jon took a nap. Then, we went shopping! We hit Best Buy and Target and got a bunch of stuff. We get 10% off everything left on our registry, so we printed it off and we are going over it tonight to see what we want to get off of it and use the 10% off we get. After shopping, we went and had dinner at Red Lobster. We are both super stuffed! We decided that since it is our honeymoon, we were just going to go for it, so we got an appetizer, drinks, dinner, and desert! I don't think I've ever done that before! All in all, we had a great day! I'm just so happy! It sounds so corny, but I am! We're both just running on a happy high!

Our Wedding!

This may be a short post, but I just wanted to say I'm back! As a Mrs.!!!!!!!! The wedding was amazing! It went perfectly, not a hitch! Our families made everything as smooth as possible and they were truly amazing in the support they gave us this weekend!! Friday we headed out first thing in the morning and made it to Monticello by around 11am. We met Jon's family at the hotel and then we all when and met my mom and headed strait to the reception hall. We decorated until around 3pm, then went and checked into the hotel. We decided to chill for a bit so we lounged in the hot tub at the hotel for a bit. It was really nice to have that downtime. Jon and I headed over to the church to meet the pastor at 5:30pm. We had a little meeting and then everybody started getting there at 6:30pm. We had our rehearsal (we totally forgot to break out the camera for this! so sad we don't have pictures!) and ran through the ceremony a few times. We went to our rehearsal dinner and then headed back to the hotel. Amber and Dustin had a hotel room that connected to ours so we hung out with them for a bit, then to bed it was!!! Saturday (Wedding Day!) I got up around 7:30am and started getting ready for the day. At 8:40am, Amber and I headed over to my sister's house to meet my Mom and sister Rachel to go to our hair appointments. Amy and my nieces came too, which was really nice b/c Amy was taking pictures the whole time! Yea! After our hair appointments, Amber and I met the guys at the hotel, (where Jon was under strict instructions not to look at me!) and they followed us out to my parent's house. The photographers were there and they started taking pictures as the wedding party got ready. We did a lot of pictures outside on the farm, and then it rained! I mean it poured down! So we headed to the church, and lo and behold, it stopped raining just in time for us to take the rest of our pictures outside the church! It was perfect timing, so thank you mother nature! The weather really couldn't have been more perfect, it was the perfect temp, and there was a great breeze, so I never got hot enough to get red in the face! It was great! The ceremony started at 5:30pm and it was beautiful. I walked down the aisle barefoot b/c I was very done with my heels. Jon tried to put his ring on me and I think I'll always remember that part of our ceremony most clearly. That and the vows. Just looking strait into each others eyes as we promised to be together forever. Since we had taken all of our pictures before the wedding, after the ceremony, we signed our marriage license, and then it was strait to the reception! We had so much fun! We danced and drank the night away! We truly had the best day ever! Sigh. Well, I'm off to start mah honeymoon! I'll try to get some pictures from people to post on here!
Edit: I guess this wasn't short after all!
Edit 2: Oh and I didn't cry! I totally surprised myself, but I was fairly calm all day! No tears!

We're getting hitched!

Wow. I can't believe that I'm going to be married in 2 days! It's just surreal! Jon and I just keep looking at each other and smiling! Today we took care of last minute stuff, b/c we are heading out first thing tomorrow morning. We were able to get my car fixed this morning, so we are going to be taking it to the wedding. Turns out the goons at Walmart didn't put things back together right when they changed my oil, so I've been leaking oil! At least it was a cheap fix! Thank goodness! We ran to the store and stocked up on groceries and things for next week on the honeymoon. Jon and I managed to fit a nap in after going to the store and picking up my car. ;) We also paid all our bills that are due in the next couple weeks b/c we didn't want to have to worry about it on our honeymoon. We picked Josh up from school and packed our bags. All we have left to do is pack everything in the car! My favorite thing from today happened when we stopped by Jon's grandma's to pick up Josh's suit. She gave me my old and borrowed! I'm going to be wearing a necklace and ring that belonged to Jon's great grandma! I'm really excited to be able to wear an important family piece during our wedding. Jon got a little choked up when he found out I'd be wearing his great grandma's jewelry during the wedding! It was just beyond sweet of his grandma to let me borrow them! So now I have my old and borrowed, my dress is new, and my garter is blue! I'm all set!

I'm just beyond excited! I'll be out until after the wedding, but I promise to update as soon as I can with pictures! I think I'm going to try to split up the wedding into a few different posts so that there isn't just one huge one! Here are some gorgeous wedding pictures from weheartit.com and stylemepretty.com to ogle!