How time flies

I still remember celebrating the new yea of 2000. Prince's party like it's 1999! I was only 13, it's hard to believe how fast a whole 10 years can go. Obviously from 13 to 23 so much changes, too much to even recollect. The past year though was one of the most important of my life so far. I got to see one of my best friends get married to an awesome guy, and my dad remarried to a woman that I love. She treats us like we are her own! Of course I got married also. It was a stressfull year with all of the planning and it was a struggle just to make it to October. Honestly I wouldn't want to go back and do it again. hah. But that one day of 2009 was so worth it. The last 2 months of year after the wedding were hectic. Filled with holidays and family and catching up. As excited for the holidays as I was, I am happy that it's behind me and ready to begin the new year. There is so much I want to do this year that we weren't able to do last year because of trying to save money. So no better time then the new year to begin my list of "want to-do's" for 2010.

- Go tubing at mad river mountain
- play in the snow
- stay the weekend in a cabin
- go hiking
-go to a farmers market
- have people over for dinner
- visit ikea
- go canoeing
- go camping
- have a picnic
- take the dogs for more walks
- go to the zoo
- take a vacation

- go see more movies

- buy a house

- have a cookout

I am most looking most forward to summer, the long days and so much more to do! But that is all for now, I may come up with more stuff! We'll see, I have a whole year to figure it out! Hoping 2010 is a year of adventure and new experiences!

First Kiss of 2010!

Married Christmas

This year was Tony and I's first Christmas as a married couple. Not our first together, but first legit Christmas. It definantely felt different to me, I felt more like family to his family and he felt the same with mine. Christmas morning we kept waking up so finally we got up at 7:30. Went downstairs and went through our stockings.

We opened all of our presents together. I got a new laptop from Tony (which I'm on right now!) And I got him a ps3. We also got a few others smaller things. I got some boots and a bumpit (pretty exciting). A makeup kit thing, I got him 2 sweaters a couple games and a new blu ray movie for the ps3. 

When we were all done with our little Christmas we got ready to head over to spend some time with Tony's family. We had a surprise Christmas get together at his Aunt and Uncles house. We all made the food and everything turned out great! We ate and spent time together and it was great! It was nice to see everyone, we hadn't gotten to see since the wedding. It was also nice to officially be part of the family!

After this we headed to my mom's house. Where we spent time and exchanged gifts with my mom and sister. We got my sister 2 shirts and a super cute puffy vest. Which I would love for my self :) Mom got new pj's and some yankee candle stuff!

Saturday after Christmas we finally made it to my dads. It is always nice to see them and I always have such a good time! We opened gifts there and they took us out to lunch at Spaghetti Warehouse.

That was the end of our Christmas finally! It was a hectic 2 days, but we got to spend lots of time with everyone. Today we are you lounging around the house using our new Toys! I feel so blessed to have had such a great holiday and been so spoiled. Now I am just ready to start the new year!

Life after a wedding

Life after a wedding is calm. That pretty much sums it up. I thought I would be depressed when it was all over, but I think I ended up being more at ease. Don't get me wrong I am sad that this huge day in our lives is over. I've been dreaming of this day for a LONG time. So it's hard to belive that it has finally come and gone. It is nice to finally begin life after planning a wedding though. No more fighting and disagreements and stress. Now we just get to be married. Start doing all of the stuff we have been putting off because "we'll do it next year when we don't have a wedidng to pay for." I've begun making a mental list of everything I want to do in 2010. Just small things on the weekends nd maybe some places we would like to visit or people we would like to visit. I keep meaning to post pictures and a recount of the wedding on here, but I never did get around to it. I was putting of this first intial post-wedding blog post. I did begin this because of the wedding to keep everyone updated on what was going on. So hopefully you are interested in everyday boring life now! No more invitations to pick or flowers to make, or honeymoons to plan.
 Love you all. Jen-A :)

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And it all came tumbling down

Last night I was awaken by a loud crash. I was half out of it and thought maybe I just dreamt it. Well we woke up this morning and those glasses we got such a great price on.... were laying on the ground broken. Half of what we bought had fallen over and broke. I was really upset about it at first. We're trying so hard to be frugal, and can't afford to have that kind of stuff happen. But we did get a good price, so I guess it's better that cheap stuff broke rather than the $230 worth of liquor bottles. Just trying to think positively. It's just inconvienent, now we have to find new glasses for the candles, or make another trip down th cinci to go to ikea. Bah! Oh well ... Could have been worse.

Accomplished

Today Tony and I made it down to cincinnati. The plan was to visit Ikea to get votive holders, and then to swing over to Kentucky to get all of our liquor for the reception. It is suppose to be cheaper there for some reason? So we made it down to Ikea around noon. Boy do I love that place! It was so hard not to buy everything there! Had to keep telling myself wedding stuff only! We will come back and buy the crap out of this place after the wedding! Or when we finally buy our own place! Ikea is basically a huge warehouse with makeshift rooms upstairs put together with all of their stuff. You write down everything you want and then you go to the lower level. The lower level is just piles of anything you could ever want for your home! It's AAAmazing! So we found what we needed eventually after an hour and a half! Instead of buying actual votive holders we just bought 2 different types of drinking glasses. One type was $3.99/6 glasses, and the other was $1.99/6 glasses. We ended up with about 135 glasses for under $90.00! Which I don't think is too bad! So we felt good about getting that taken care of!

After that we headed down across the border. We ended up in Kentucky at a store called The Party Source. If Ikea is a homeowners dream, then this place is a drunks dream. We ended up buying all of the liquor for the reception. Which ended up being around $230 worth of alcohol! But that should be all we need, other then just a couple of kegs of beer. And you my friends better drink up, I don't want anything going to waste! So those were some big to-do's we got done! Also I ordered bubbles offline for our "send off" from the church.

We have also started buying our bridal party gifts. Which is a difficult task. Everyone is different and you want to get something everyone likes. It's hard when you have a bigger bridal party. What you get never seems like enough to show the people you love that you are thankful for them! On that same note we have also started getting parents gifts too.

So we got a lot done this weekend, and we had fun spending time together doing it. Which is what an engagement is about. It's hard when you are so wrapped up in just making it to the wedding date. You forget to enjoy the whole "engagement process" Well we have been enjoying the engagement process for 11 months now, and I am ready for the big day!

Hugs and Kisses :) Jen

The light at the end of the tunnel

I'm not sure if I see the light at the end of the tunnel yet. The light being the wedding of course. Everything still seems so surreal and so far in the distance. When I start to realize how close it actually is though, I start to panic. I feel like the procrastination is starting to set in. Everything I said "well I'll do that over the summer" or "I'll do that once the wedding gets closer" Well surprise! Summer is almost over and the wedding is definantly closer. I find myself at work going over every little detail, to the point that I'm completely zoning out. The big stuff is done, but now it's time to worry about the little stuff. There is so much little stuff though I worry I will forget a few of them.

I've been trying to make weekly To-Do lists. I feel like that is when I get the most done. I made one today, and we got our invitations ordered and engagement submitted to the newspaper. So I guess the moral of the story is make To-Do lists! That is all for now I guess. I'm just getting so excited and I think we're ready for the big day to get here! I can't wait for the fun to begin and for all of our friends and family to get into town!