Thanksgiving so soon??

How is it possible that Thanksgiving is only 3 short days away?!  Where did this year go?  I am really looking forward to my parents and grandma coming down for a few days!  Plus, I get to meet my new "sister" as my mom likes to call her... she finally got a new puppy!  Her name is Ginger and she's an apricot teacup poodle - she's 3 months old and 1.9 lbs.  I can't wait to see that little ball of fur!!  Here's some of the pics Mom's sent of her.. we Facetime every night :-)

 

This is one of my favorites!  Ginger snuggled down in between all of her "babies" and mom covered them all up for a nap.

 

I had a pretty mellow weekend.  Adam worked over 100 hours from Sunday-Saturday.. he's basically working for free at this point!  It's a shame he doesn't get paid overtime, he would have made a nice chunk of change, that boy is way to dedicated to his job, but I suppose that's part of the reason I love him!  That being said, I was single-moming it with the furbabies.  We've discovered that Mason likes to sleep on Henderson's blanket with him at night, so sweet! 

I had to take this picture of Henderson while Adam was at work.  Henderson willing put himself in his crate and was just giving me the most pathetic expression.  He looked so heart broken.

Who me, spoiled?

 ...and a couple quick cards!  I made the ballerina birthday card for a co-worker's daughter that turned 4.  She started dance lessons this fall so I also got her a cute little leotard. 

 I made myself do something other than "pink" for these shoe birthday cards.  I like the different color scheme! 



50 Shades of Pink

...more like hundreds.  For a girl that LOVES pink, it's even a little overwhelming for me trying to decide on WHICH pink (or pinks) for the wedding!  So, I did a quick search, and apparently, on a color wheel, there is at least 256 shades, but many more are "possible". 

 

Jen & I had a fabulous weekend doing all kinds of girlie thins - shopping, wine, shopping, wine, bridesmaid dress shopping, eating, wine, TV (Lifetime/TLC), chatting, laughing, and well, I told you, being girlie.  We even had a mini-makeover at the MAC counter. 

 

We found one bridesmaid dress we really really liked and low and behold, it DOESN'T COME IN ANY SHADE OF PINK!!!  How is that even possible.

 

So back to the drawing board.. at least we have narrowed down what we like.  I'm also sticking with my original thoughts on long, chiffon, pink (duh) and some sort of strap (really like the one-shoulder flower but some can look goofy). 

 

 

7 months!

It blows my mind that the wedding is only 7 months away!  It seems like just yesterday we had over a year to go.  Apparently, time flies when you're in love :-)

I am so excited for this weekend!  Jen is flying down!  I'll pick her up around 2 tomorrow for a fun-filled girlie weekend!  We are going to go bridesmaid dress shopping and I have a few other wedding to-dos to check off as well.  So excited to have some girl time -- Jen booked her flight 3 months ago so we've had fun counting down to her visit. 

Turkey Time

I was feeling super crafty Sunday and wanted to make a little goodie for some co-workers and visiting family for Thanksgiving.  This ended up being a lot of layers but they were bigger pieces so it didn't take that long to assemble.  The turkey is from the Create a Critter cartridge and the clear bags are from Michaels. 

   

Baby Boy Cards

We are getting ready to have a baby boy boom here in the next few months!  I haven't made baby cards before so thought I would give it a go!  I think these turned out adorable, but I'm kind of partial!   

 

 

Scrapbooking.. One thing you will never be finished with

I've always had this "dream" of being caught up with my scrapbooking.  You know, get pictures back in the mail, leisurely make pages full of wonderful creative ideas... yeah right.  I don't think I will ever be at that point, even if I didn't work full time!!  For a few months this year I was a little under 3 years behind.. now I'm back to 3 years and 2 months behind.  Sigh.

 

Since I'm a very goal-driven person, sometime in February I thought why don't I keep a tally of how many pages I do a month this year?  So far I'm at 106-12 x 12 pages.. not bad... but still.. over 3 years behind.  The rate I take pictures compared to the time I have to scrapbook them.. not equal. 

 

I know some scrapbookers don't scrapbook EVER picture they take but how could I ever chose?  I love them all!!!  So, some pages don't get to be as "creative" as others but all pages aren't created equal right? haha

 

This weekend I challenged myself to make at least 2-12x12 pages a night and so far I'm on track for the week!  I think Adam's going to have to work some this weekend so maybe I'll lock myself in my Scrapbook Heaven and see how far I can make it.. I'm still working on the cruise I took Labor Day of 2009.. next up is my move from TN, new house in LA and fall in Baton Rouge! 

 

Oh, and did I mention, I get huge feelings of guilt when I spend time scrapbooking vs planning for the wedding?!  haha That's a whole other post!

 

A stop along the way to happily ever after

As a picture/scrapbook fanatic, one of the things I've been looking forward to the most is our engagement pictures!  With that excitement, I have also stressed myself out over every detail in planning them!  Which photographer?!  What time of year?!  Where should we have them made?!  What will I wear? What will Adam wear?  What should our props/poses be?  What if I'm having a bad day?  What if it rains on the day we've planned?  I'm sooo making myself crazy!  After tons of planning and anticipation, we finally had our pics made 2 weeks ago in downtown Chattanooga.  Overall, I'm really pleased with the pics!  There's enough of the ones I like to really do a lot with.  Some funny things happened:

1. While taking pictures under the Walnut Street Bridge Adam saw a huge bug on my face.  I didn't notice it and then he killed it and got blood on himself.  Seconds later I had a big ol' whelp under my eye where it bit me!!!  The photographer said she could photoshop it out at least
2. After we finished the pictures we were walking back to the car and Adam realized his pants had been unzipped.  Wooops. 

The photographer made a cool video/slideshow of some of the pictures -- here's the link.

 

I was hoping for a pic of my bring that shows how beautiful it is but we didn't get one to my liking.  I guess there's always the wedding!