friday's letters

Dear Gabbie Dog, I love you. I love you. I love you. annnnd I love you.

Dear Bachlorette Party Peoples, I am SO excited to see y'all this weekend for the Bachlorette Extravaganza. I hope my liver can handle it. But really, I am so flipping excited to get the party started and see all of your faces.

Dear Mom, You save my life, like everyday. Thank you.

Dear Jeff, I miss you like crazy. It's been a week and I just want to see you. Like right now. But like you said, together foreva soon :)

Dear Family, I thank God every day for you. Y'all are my world.

Dear Blog Frans, I love you guys. Your comments make my day. I'm sorry I have been a major slacker at reading blogs lately, but this whole 23 days until the wedding is not really allowing for much other time. Just know I love you guys and am thankful for you!

Love always,

Molly J

the best wedding advice I've ever received

So today marks the day of our first official wedding card in the mail. (not including the bridal shower)

At the end of this card, my relatives left a note. A P.S. in fact. He wanted to share some words of wisdom about the upcoming future of our married adventure.

This is the advice I received:

I died.

And died.

And died again.

The funniest part is that the card is from a distant realtive that I rarely ever see.

Although it was definitely the opposite of the best wedding advice I'd ever received, it made me chuckle. Thank you for the advice but I think I'll stick to getting married. :)

a wednesday full of wedding

24 days. Woweeeee. The day is approaching in the speed of lightning. Maybe even faster than that.

It was been go-go time for the past few months and somehow the list always has another "to-do". Even though I must say we are knocking things off the list left and right.

I also think that we have officially bought out Hobby Lobby. It's true. We are those people who go in and out of hobby lobby with our 40% coupon. We as in the whole family, one by one, exchanging iphones. It's hilarious.  Teamwork to the max, oh how teamwork has made this whole wedding. It really DOES take a village to plan a wedding. Thank the Lord for the help. Thank the Lord.

This past weekend (okay I know it's Wednesday but whatever) my parents, brother, and aunt ventured off to Missouri to my other aunt's house to make burlap runners, 56 of those bad boys, and some of the bridesmaids gifts.

pre-sew and iron

56 runners may not sound bad, but it's no joke. Mom and I were the edge folders/ironers and my aunts were the sewers. They turned out perfect though but I felt perdy bad I picked such an orny little runner to do.

I also realized that one of the coolest parts about living at the lake is riding the golf carts around, other than the whole seeing the gorgeous lake every day part. So much fun. That's probably why half of the time when I "golf" I usually just ride the golf cart and eat sunflower seeds.

Anywho, we even got to see a round two fireworks show on the lake. These bad boys lasted over an hour. Talk about an hour of a normal towns finale. Pure awesomesauce.

Sometimes it overwhelms me how incredibly lucky I am to have so many helpers, motivators, etc in this whole wedding process. Jeff and I are crazy lucky and I hope someday we can give back to them what they have all given to us.

These are the memories I will remember the most. The time together, the "mishaps", the work put into it all, that is what is remembered. Not what's on the tables. Not if everything is straight and perfectly placed. Not anything of those little things that really don't matter.

Not gonna lie, I'm going to miss all this after our day is here. It's been quite the blessing. And hopefully my mom doesn't kill my indecisiveness by then :) She really has been an angel!

HAPPY WEDNESDAY my frans.

buffalo chicken dip (i die)

Do you have a paper and pen? I hope so because you need to write this down, like right now.

If you know me at all, you should know my love for anything buffalo. And that does not include the animal.

If I see buffalo sauce anything on a menu, you bet I'm most likely going to snatch it up.

At my friends graduation party awhile back, her dad made some killer buffalo chicken dip. I may or may not have put a dent in it. Anyway, yesterday I figured I'd see if anything was like it online so I could make it for our little dinner for two.

I found and went running. To the store.

We made another dip too that I found on pinterest but it just doesn't really compare. And the prep work sucked majorly (it's the poolside dip).

So here is what you will need for the little piece of heaven:

2 (10 ounce) cans chunk chicken (doesn't that sound just lovely) , drained
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup Ranch dressing
3/4 cup Frank's Red Hot (I put in about a cup - we like it hot)
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 jumbo box of wheat thins (okay this is just a suggestion)


Here's how it works:

1.) Heat chicken and hot sauce in a skiller over medium heat, until heated through.
2.) Stir in cream cheese and ranch dressing.
3.) Mix in half of the shredded cheese, and transfer to slow cooker (if you are doing it for a par-tay - we just left it on low on the skillet for a bit to chow down)
4.) Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top, cover, and cook on Low setting until hot and bubbly.

That's it.

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Quick. Easy. Not many ingredients. AMAZING. IN LOVE.

But really, you should try it :)

Now I'm starving and am going to go heat some up. Speaking up, it feeds an army.

House Progress {1}

On May 29th, which happens to be the day before the best day of the whole year, we bought our casa.

When we first bought it we knew it was move in ready. What we also knew was that we were going to fix up a lot of things to make it more Molly-Jeff style and a little more up-to-date.

Like my mom said, with ideas comes time and work. True that. In my head I pictured painting the whole living area/kitchen/dining room and bedroom taking about a day or two. I figure the trim would just take about two seconds.

Now I'm laughing at myself. I guess I don't have much painting experience to know, it's a biatch.  Mostly the trim and the edging, which I definitely could not do very well. Thank the Lord my Mom and Dad came up for a few days and helped us knock it out.

So now we have the walls painted, the trim painted in the living area, and are working on getting some white doors to match the new trim.

What I present is a little "progress report" how the updates we've done. They are small, but have made a huge difference in making the house feel more ours. Plus, it'll be fun to look back at the process.

Now if someone could find the perfect area rug or the living room I would just love y'all to pieces. Needs some colors up in herre.

Now for the difference.{and yes I realize we don't have any decorations yet. baby steps..baby steps.}

BEFORE

See ya laaaaaaater maple smaple trim.

 

 

Wall Paint: Sherwin Williams - Versatile Gray. Trim Paint: Sherwin Williams - Dover White

Say goodbye to the maple doors soon!

Insert colorful rug here.

Well there is our first progress report, and I can't wait to see it all finished! Need some color to spice up all the brown.

Happy 4th of July EVE! Hope everyone is blowing up tanks and growing snakes.

life update {baseball + house + dress fitting}

Hey hey hey friends!

This whole posting once a week thang is getting old, I know I know. 

This past week/weekend I've taken a round trip to a few different cities and haven't been home much. I also thought it was a good idea to wash my SIM card and couldn't find it. Good news it is found and works. Mom's can find everything, it's true.

Last Sunday through Monday night I went to my future little town to work on the house. I realized something about myself, painting is definitely not my forte. Is that how you spell forte? I'm too lazy to check. Anyway, Patience comes along with painting, and I just didn't get that gene.

However, the house is finally starting to look homey and I am falling more in love with it as we get things done. So cool to see it transform. And glad we had little worker bees to help us paint and fix our deck. We also got new furniture so I'm getting super excited to go back and see the new and improved casa.

On Tuesday through Wednesday night we spent the day in Kansas City for my parents 30 year anniversary and my LAST wedding dress fitting. We went to the Royals baseball game Tuesday night and thankfully did not melt away in the bazillion degree heat. And surprisingly the Royals kicked MAJOR booty.

On the day of my wedding dress fitting I was getting all sorts of nervous that it wouldn't fit. I just knew that it would be too big. I have no idea why that was my biggest fear with the dress. Maybe because I wanted it to be perfect since it is obviously a huge part of the day.

But can I just tell you that feeling when I slipped that baby on and it fit.like.a.glove. Just perfect. I definitely fell in love with it again and cannot wait for Jeff to see it in a few short weeks. It's getting real folks! Ahh!

I also want to say THANK YOU to all of you who still come back to my little ol' blog even when I'm not consistent and MIA these days. I adore my followers, commenters, and friends I've met through here. I can't wait to get back into a routine, but thank you for supporting me while I am scattered getting ready to become a wife, teacher, and new home owner.

LOVE YOU LONG TIME.

30 years

To Mom & Dad on your 30 year Anniversary,

It's been 30 years since you made the best decision of your life.

30 years ago you bonded a love that has been the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Ever.

30 years you've stood side by side, best friends, and much much more.

I envy you guys. The love you have towards each other is a love that comes once in a lifetime. I have always looked up to that. You've shown me what it means to love, and to be loved back.

You've shown me how a person should be treated. How to love unconditionally. And how to make the best of even the worst situations. How to laugh when you should cry.

You are the best role models I could ever imagine.

Even the smallest details of your married haven't gone unnoticed. How you miss each other when away, how you hold hands and snuggle on the couch, how you do everything for your children, and how amazing of a grandma and grandpa you are.

I love you guys more than I could ever explain. I look up to you more than I could ever show.

But what I treasure most is the gift you have given me. Which obviously is life. Without you guys, I would have never found what I have found in my future husband. I wouldn't have known how much I was worth, and what I deserved.

Without you, I would be lost. Completely.

So what I'm really trying to say is HAPPY ANNIVERSARY.

You both deserve the world. The most happiest there is in the universe. And all the beautiful things life has to offer.

Enjoy YOUR day.

Love  always and forever...and ever...and ever,

Your Daughter