A Crisis

Two posts in one day. Whew.

But, I have a crisis.
And little man is asleep, so I figured I'd ask you all.
A wedding crisis.

I am freaking out.

The problem?

I'm questioning our wedding date.

Why?

1.) October 20th, our date, is in the middle of my grad school that I'm supposed to be starting next Fall.

2.) I don't want to live with Jeff before we get married.

{he will be living in a town 2.5 hours from where I live now...close to my grad school}

I think that is one joy of being married, and I don't want to

mess it up by living with him before hand. Ya know? Or maybe I'm just whack.

Either way I stressing a tad & wondering if I should change it.

ya..has nothing to do with anything, but it made me smile. Fro yo?

The only reason I didn't want to have it next summer because I was going

to be student teaching for an entire year {in my current town} and knew I'd be busy and stressed

and felt like I wouldn't be able to put a full effort into each of them...and that definitely is not what I wanted to do. Especially since both of them are very important things.

Hints moving the date to October.

{1st date was June 23}

Words of wisdom?

Bring em on.

Pretty pretty please with a strawberry on top!



Truthful Tuesday {camelbak, baby}

Truth is....

Camelbak water bottles ROCK.

I'm not sure if anyone has this problem,

but I never drink enough water in the day to hydrate myself.

It leaves me tired, blah, and all those lovely awful things.

I usually just forget to drink it.

Or get preoccupied.

Or uh...drink pop.

Crap.

Until now.

I discovered {really really late} the power of legit water bottles.

Meet my new best friend.

Mrs. Camelbak.

We bond for about 72 oz. a day.

Is that healthy?

haha.

I now drink tons of water and literally feel so much better.

It could be in my head, but it's crazy what being hydrated can do to your body.

Like make you not want to sleep 24 hours of the day.

It does cool things like that, which I am a big fan of!

So...if you and water don't get along.

I would really recommend one of these.

And the only reason I did a whole post on it was because it is making me feel like a new person.

A little more pep in my step and that is exactly what I need.

What? Water?

Ya...I guess it's the truth. It only took me 22 years to figure out.

No more Hell no H20.

And if you get a KU one, you will be much cooler in my book. ;)

P.S. I realize probably 99.9% of the world knows this and probably drinks enough water

and feels all super duper active, but for you people like me.....here ya go, drink up!

Surprise, Surprise

Remeber Momma J's birthday last Tuesday?

Well this past weekend my Dad & Little Brother put together a

surprise party for her on Friday night in honor of the big day.

Even after plans changed, they were still able to pull off the surprise

and really get my mom. Little Brother only had a few hours to pull off making the food,

setting everything up, and even had to work that day.

{i would have helped but i had to work in a town 2 hours away so I wasn't able to

get there until an hour before mom got there}

He deserves the "child of the year" award.

Surprisingly as well, mostly everyone we invited for the shindig showed up.

Jeff even showed up at midnight after driving 8 hours from Minnesota just to make

it for the party. Ya, I think I'll keep him. :)

It was a blast celebrating her big day with her closest friends and family

and obviously partying the night away.

Saturday my older brother & his wife showed up and I got to see

my adorable little niece.
 She can "pound it" and quack like a duck. She's legit.

Later in the day we all went to the

Interstate Fair & Rodeo in a town near by.

I stinking love fairs.

Especially this one because it means so much to Mr. Fiance.

Jeff got the ol VIP and we were able to park behind the stage for the concert.

Two Steps Back, Casey Donahew, & Joe Nichols were the acts for the night.

Pretty awesome line up and we practically had front row seats

without having to deal with the crazy teenagers screaming for 4 straight hours.

Minus the fact that right when the leading act {joe nichols} came on it started raining and lightning.

Guess it was time for us to leave and hit up the town.

 

Then Jeff, his friend, and I went out to boogey the night away at a local bar.

I, however, decided I would drink about 50 beers too many.

Always a bad idea.

Oh, and to make it all peachy....we had to meet with Father in the morning

to talk about what we had to do in order to get married in my church.

Fail again.

The good news is we made it to the meeting with Father on time

and it went really well. Or in Jeff's words "that was cake".

I was stressing for nothing.

Then we had a fabulous home cooked meal by my Mom,

and slowly the crew started to depart and head back to their homestead.

If only we could all live in the same place....

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!

Sing Along Sunday

Sunday rocks.

Weekends rock.

Family rocks.

A perfect weekend with my favorite people in the entire world.

On the way home I was listening to to some tunes,

and shazamed about 500 of them.

I decided I was going to write a post on Sundays {when I found a song}

 that I loved, hit home, got me thinkin',

or whatever else that I wanted to share.

My song for today is I Love You This Big by Scotty McCreery.

Anyway, this song makes me cry a good 3/4 times I listen to it.

I adore it. Everything about it.

And I saw him sing it when he won American Idol with so much emotion,

that is just gets to me every time.

I also love it because I immediately think of Jeff 
and the tears just come.

My favorite line of the song is

"And I'll spend the rest of my life explaining what words cannot describe but I'll try...

I love you this big."

It's true. I will never be able to explain how I feel.

And I don't want to.

Shout out to all the Scotty fans!
Whoop Whoop



Wedding Friday? {Engagement Pictures}

Since I missed Wedding Wednesday on...Wednesday,

we are going to try round two on Friday.

Plus, Friday is awesome and so are weddings so might as

well combine them right? Right.

So Jeffy and I are going to be getting our engagment pictures this

coming fall. Well, at least that is the current plan.

Crossing the fingers.

And I've been searching for unique ideas for our "shoot"

so they don't look like every single other "planned" engaged couples pictures.

I want them to look real. natural. like love...not just a pose for the camera.

I absolutely cannot wait to get them taken,

and here are some fun shots I've found!

{Plus, we have a few unique ideas we have already came up

with but you will just have to see those after they are taken. Whoop Whoop.}

so happy. & I am so obsessed with this picture.

this is for you jeffy

haha not gonna do this but I freaking love the picture either way.

simple, but so..so sweet

picta frame

i adore the fun "real" pictures

yup you have me forever. watch out. ;)

love.love.love

smokin!

that's love.

pure joy.

i love this. so much. a touch is all it takes


Now I am like 10x more excited.
Yeee.
can't wait!



Attitude is Everything

This is a keeper.

{sorry no Wedding Wednesday yesterday..I decided to age 100 years and go to bed before 9 and didn't have time to write it. maybe I'll do it tomorrow tomorrow, it's only a day away!}

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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It w...ill make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

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I need to read this. over & over....and over.

I am in charge of how I act. no one else.

on repeat read right now.

love it.

 

Happy Thursday peeps.

Truthful Tuesday {Momma J's Bday Style}

Truth is....
It's Momma J's Birthday TODAY.


Happy Birthday

to the best momma {grandma & wife} in the world !!!!

I wish I were there with you to celebrate with you on

the big day, but I will be there in 5 days to have some

late birthday fun.

Since I cannot be there you have to do these things:

-Make Dad & Patrick make you an Angel Food Cake

-Let them sing happy birthday to you

-Treat yourself to something nice
-Enjoy your small vacation with Dad {even tho I don't get to come}

-And smile because you have given so much love & joy

to everyone around you, especially to me.

Give this Momma some love!

She deserves it :)

ps. she is 50. dont tell.

Love you Mom
& Happy Birthday!