The Crazy Life

Ah!  So It has been almost 3 weeks since my last post, which isn't surprising once you hear my ridiculous schedule!

Holiday Info:  After a great Christmas with my parents and an additionaly almost two weeks before that for me of being home, My Hubby (tobe) and I went up to Crystal Mountain where we are getting married for NYE!  It was awesome!  We skiied, met with the wedding coordinator, relaxed, and most of all had a great NYE at the resort. I'll have to post a picture of all of us later! 

After NYE, we flew to Florida to be with Brandon's parents for the last week of break.  We had a very relaxing week of mostly nothing and it actually worked out perfectly for my crazy schedule of when I got back.

School: Even though I am back and it is officially my last full semester..it is the craziest semester I have ever experienced!!  I am truly bust from 8am to 8pm Monday thru Thursday and if it weren't for nothing on Friday I don't know how I would make through!  I have a lot of practicum/clinic hours, class, and work (as a personal trainer at the gym as always).

Other than all this, my hubby (tobe) and I finally finished our registry, almost have all of the invitations finished and ready to send out, and are trying to finalize more of the plans!

Hope all is well with everyone else and congrats to all those I know how who are newly prego &/or just has  a baby!

Lately

So..Haven't blogged in awhile, but between being home, on break, spending time with family..I have had no time for anything!!  Let alone I have just been pure lazy!

Anyways, I almost have all of my invitations finished for the wedding!!!  We decided to make our invitations because it is half the price by using stuff at scrapbook store and printing things off on cardstock at Kinko's!  It has been so great, but a lot of work.  Basically there is a black shiny big outside envelope, then a white 4 fold envelope closed by a cut-out I used that is in the shape of my flocked damask print and the actual invitation is glued to this white outside envelope...kind of like this picture and the envelope of the back left!

The actual is mounted with two different types of paper behind it too!  Then there is an isnert about our website, an insert about the reception, and the response card which is like the envelope of the top left in which we included a sticker to close as shown with the response to be marked on the inside! :)  We are really excited and they are almost complete and ready to be mailed out!

If you haven't read my wedding website yet, we are having a mini-destination wedding about 3 hours from where my hubby(tobe) are from at a golf and ski resort in which his parents have a townhouse.  So that means we need to plan on sending out the invitations about 5 months in advance if they still want to be able to book rooms after they receive the invitations! (We already sent save-the-dates with a magnet, information about the hotel, and information about our website)

Beyond that I finally ordered my underskirt for my wedding dress :)  It will be interesting because I decided on a 6 hoop petticoat that has the ability to remove the rings and comes up a little big higher.  The whole problem is that I have no idea what to expect as to how the skirt will fit in the waist because I am pretty petite and more than that how long it will be!?  It should be interesting!  Furthermore I decided on the hoop skirt, which could be good or bad..many people say they have no problems with it and its not uncomfortable, but then again it just might be a pain!  If you have any advice or have heard in anything let me know, but it was half the price of a non-hoop skirt!

Other than that my hubby(tobe) and I are heading up to where we are getting married for NYE tomorrow to spend a little time with his family and brothers family.  After that we are headed for FL for a week to spend time with his parents before we head back to school!

Registry.Registry.Registry

Hi All!!  So I have been very busy with my hubby(to be) registering for the upcoming wedding the past couple days as well as celebrating Christmas with my older brother's family!

Friday, we spent the day at Macy's registering for just about everything that we could.  We are really struggling to find a place to register that we like because we are not interested in registering at bed, bath, and beyond.  SO..despite what everyone else has been telling us, we decided to do our major registering at Macy's.  We really found everything that we needed there except for any furniture, lamps, and decorations.  We have been trying to find a way register at IKEA which does not have registry and found a site called http://www.myregistry.com/ which allows you to put anything from any store on your registry.  You sign up with your own registry and people can purchase online.  Additionally the site has the ability to give you a cash gifton their too.

So while we have it all figured out, it is the hardest thing to decide how to decorate, what colors, how it should flow, what do you really need..so if anyone has something that they for sure know is the best thing they registered for let me know!

Saturday, we went to Chicago to go to IKEA to check out some of the furniture that they had for our apartment.  The biggest thing we have been looking for is a sleeper sofa, which I have to say is really hard to find that is nice, comfortable, functional, and for a good price.  The biggest thing is we ended up buying all of our living room furniture while we were there.  We got a sectional sleeper sofa (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90125722)

We decided to get the sofa in the dark beige and we got a smaller loveseat/chair in this color..

Along with some dark brown end tables and coffee table!  We also found a shag carpet that is orange with lime green, light pink, and purple..and we hopefully will find some pillows that will match with it in those colors and lamps as well!

We also found all this stuff for our bedroom, but I willl post more later once we have decided on what we are going to go with! 

Saturday night we spent time with my brothers family while they opened their xmas gifts together because they are going to Disney World for Christmas and leave in a few days.  We got to play with all their toys, eat spaghetti dinner, etc.

Sunday slept in, did a little shopping with family, baked cookies, puppy, chow, and celebrated christmas with my brothers family at my house!  It was so great to see them play with all their toys and eat dinner with everyone before they leave for Florida.

Well I am headed to bed!  Nite :)

The Windy City!!

Hi All!  So I am finally done with finals!! :)  So exI am so excited and while the semester was long, hard, and probably the worst & best yet..its over!!

So if you don't know my hubby(tobe) already has a job a big accounting firm in Chicago starting next fall and as of the last semester I have been searching for a an externship position in the Chicago area for next year and my last year of my doctorate..

The best news is that..I found one!!!  I just found out for sure last week and I am so excited.  It is located outside the city in Niles, IL, but I am so excited to be able to rest assured that I have a position for next year!!  It is with a private audiology clinic that has other locations around the midwest.

On top of that we started looking for apartments as well just to play around the past week and if you knew my hubby well enough and know that he is a finance/accounting guy you would understand that I am under strict rules on the type of apartment, location, and of course the price!  So we were kind of at odds on what we wanted except for the location which would be between each place of work..around Logan Square..But much to our surprise one of our really close friends mom's offered us her apartment to rent downtown chicago over looking Navy Pier and about 2 minutes from Brandon's office!  We are so excited and decided to except the offer!! :)

Here are a few pictures of the new place and we can't wait to move in..which wont be until August, but now we have to really buckle down and get ready for everything as I said "in the windy city"!

We are so excited for the new apartment..but we are going to have some challeneges being that it is one bedroom one bath, but we can't wait to furnish and pic everything out!!  But we still have already have to start looking so that we can find the cheapest, best options we can...oh the life a new graduate!

Well..if you have any suggestions of places for good furniture or know anyone getting rid of anything let me knoww!  I am about to and get my hair colored for the first time since August! :)

My First Blog

So, it is my first blog!  I have been thinking about starting one based on other blogs that I love reading daily to keep updated on their lives and all the things they are facing.  I decided to start this not only for people to read and be updated, but to be a place where I can talk about what I am up to, what we are up to, and what I've been thinking about!  It is a good way to vent, discuss, and let thoe who live far away from hear about my daily life!

As of right now I am finishing up my last final of the semester tomorrow and this has been a slight detour from studying, but plenty of fun!  I am really looking forward to Christmas break and I am heading home tomorrow.. So wish me luck and after my final I will start blogging more and get you'all up to date on the new blessings that have been put in my life the past few weeks!