Well the stress is wearing off. I think I've reached numbness...I'm running on adreline and cranberry juice. No vodka I promise.
We've packed our honeymoon luggage and our weekend luggage. No I'm trying to move things upstairs in the event of a flood. But I'm convinced the more I move upstairs that the roof is going to blow off. Just my luck.
We're driving to NOLA tonight to pick up Jen at the airport. An odd but short minivacation for us. There and back.
Tommorow morning we pack up at the DeAngelo's house and head north. Evacuate to our wedding. Who would have ever thought?
My parents left tonight and are picking up Dawn my sister at the airport in Bham tonight as well.
I dunno if I've told you that my brother Timmy made me the most amazing prayer bench for us to use at the wedding and keep in our home afterwards. It's probably one of the most special gifts I could have ever recieved. I'll have it for years to come and it's handcrafted. Not off a registry but with his own blood sweat and tears. That makes me smile to think about my family what little true family I have left that way.
OK well I gotta run but that's my update for the day.
I hope to add one more before the wedding, but if not...
It's been grand. I've loved our dating, engagement and last 100 days and I'm ready for the next 5 years!
Thanks for all of YOUR love and support! I'll definately post some wedding pictures here.
Later,
The future Mrs. Stephen DeAngelo!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
What were we thinking???
I cannot belive that we planned our wedding during hurricane season???? We were more worried about football season that hurricanes? Ok so since 2005 the Gulf Coast has been recovering from the Big K...and have yet to have to deal with another miserable hurricane season. Never fear though, because if there's a time for it to happen. It's definately going to be the weekend of our wedding.
Granted, my worries are not that our outdoor chapel will have rain blowing sideways thruogh it on Sunday afternoon. I'm pretty sure we're going to be good to go with the wedding. It's everything else that concerns me.....
Like the fact that we'll be in Birmingham/Cancun when the storm hits. Our house will be here alone, will all my newly moved boxes, unpacked and on the floor.
While on our honeymoon, if Cancun is spared and giving that we're even able to fly there. We'll be thinking about our home, our friends and our families. Instead of enjoying bliss. And if it's bad....dear God please don't let it....we'll be staring at the TVs thinking about it 24/7.
So either way..there's something on my mind.
In other news, I just can't belive that there is only 4 days left! 4 jelly beans!!! and a million things to do!
We've had changes in the wedding party, music and have yet to make things like the programs....it's all going to happen I'm convinced. In what form or fashion, I really don't know.
I guess for now I'll just say how lucky I am to know that we're going to have the wedding with or with out the hurricane. It's just after the wedding part we have to figure out.
Any advice for preparing for the hurricane/wedding/honeymoon/mental breakdown?
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Eight Crazy Nights!
No we're not celebrating Haunnaka but we have been preparing for Hurricane Faye. Like I mentioned yesterday, I'm not so much stressed about the wedding right now as I have been about moving and other things.
This storm upped all of that about 100%. Not only am I hurrying to move things before it starts raining, but I'm moving a good portion of them in the downstairs part of the townhouse, in a location that is prone to flooding. Great, just great.
Good news is that we were very productive on Friday. Not only with the moving but Stephen and I both got our hair cut. We also made time to go to downtown Mobile and get our marriage license!!! It was so sweet when we arrived a Marine and his lady dressed in cute white summer dress had just gotten married.
So we filled out all the paperwork, signed our names, raised our right hands (yeah I dind't know that was part of it?!?!?) and got our marriage license. The lady specifically handed the license to me and gave me the instructions. Then she handed Stephen a work book with his name on a big label and told him to READ IT! It was a marriage prep book that is distributed by Extension of all things! It was fun. Then since it was such a beautiful day we went and wandered around Spanish Park.
Ha! Any one notice how similar this is to our Olympic Park engagement pictures? Guess we have a thing for water fountains!
Ok so the rain starts tommorow....got your floaties on?
This storm upped all of that about 100%. Not only am I hurrying to move things before it starts raining, but I'm moving a good portion of them in the downstairs part of the townhouse, in a location that is prone to flooding. Great, just great.
Good news is that we were very productive on Friday. Not only with the moving but Stephen and I both got our hair cut. We also made time to go to downtown Mobile and get our marriage license!!! It was so sweet when we arrived a Marine and his lady dressed in cute white summer dress had just gotten married.
So we filled out all the paperwork, signed our names, raised our right hands (yeah I dind't know that was part of it?!?!?) and got our marriage license. The lady specifically handed the license to me and gave me the instructions. Then she handed Stephen a work book with his name on a big label and told him to READ IT! It was a marriage prep book that is distributed by Extension of all things! It was fun. Then since it was such a beautiful day we went and wandered around Spanish Park.
Ha! Any one notice how similar this is to our Olympic Park engagement pictures? Guess we have a thing for water fountains!
Ok so the rain starts tommorow....got your floaties on?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
10...
Dear friends and Fam...
It's the big ONE OH.....ONLY 9 JELLY BEANS LEFT IN THE BOX!
Ten days to go! I don't even know what to say today. I can't think about the wedding, my mind is bogged down with the stress of figuring out how to move out of my apartment, finishing my grad school assignments, and all the end-of-year reports for work and new club meetings!
Now Faye is making our lives wet, dark and semi-miserable until mid-next week.
Any stress advice? I know the wedding is going to happen. Is it weird that I'm almost not worried about it?
pulling out my hair,
E
It's the big ONE OH.....ONLY 9 JELLY BEANS LEFT IN THE BOX!
Ten days to go! I don't even know what to say today. I can't think about the wedding, my mind is bogged down with the stress of figuring out how to move out of my apartment, finishing my grad school assignments, and all the end-of-year reports for work and new club meetings!
Now Faye is making our lives wet, dark and semi-miserable until mid-next week.
Any stress advice? I know the wedding is going to happen. Is it weird that I'm almost not worried about it?
pulling out my hair,
E
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
12 Days of Stress
On the 1st Day of stress my fiance' gave to me one lost car key,
on the 2nd day of stress my fiance' gave to me two advils,
on the 3rd day of stress my fiance' gave to me three late RSVPs,
on the 4th day of stress my fiance' gave to me four new bills,
on the 5th day of stress my fiance' gave to me FIVE to do lists!!!!
on the 6th day of stress my fiance' gave to me six more Advil
on the 7th day of stress my fiance gave to me seven moving boxes,
on the 8th day of stress my professor gave to me 80 pages of reading
on the 9th day of stress my mother gave me 9 kinds of guilt
on the 10th day of stress my boss gave me 10 DAYS OFF!!!
on the 11th day of stress I gave myself an 11 hour drive,
on the 12th day of stress God gave to me the patience to survive all of this stress!
and.....then we'll be married! forever. for good.
on the 2nd day of stress my fiance' gave to me two advils,
on the 3rd day of stress my fiance' gave to me three late RSVPs,
on the 4th day of stress my fiance' gave to me four new bills,
on the 5th day of stress my fiance' gave to me FIVE to do lists!!!!
on the 6th day of stress my fiance' gave to me six more Advil
on the 7th day of stress my fiance gave to me seven moving boxes,
on the 8th day of stress my professor gave to me 80 pages of reading
on the 9th day of stress my mother gave me 9 kinds of guilt
on the 10th day of stress my boss gave me 10 DAYS OFF!!!
on the 11th day of stress I gave myself an 11 hour drive,
on the 12th day of stress God gave to me the patience to survive all of this stress!
and.....then we'll be married! forever. for good.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Trip down memory lane
Ok so today is the one year anniversary of our engagement, thus in my life probably my happiest day yet! I wish that I could feel the same today as I did a year ago, but I wouldn't be honest if I said that I did.
Don't worry there's no real troube in paradise, I love Stephen more than ever but today I am a bottle of unexplainable emotions. Let me catch you up....
First off I'm at the MS 4-H Agents Summer Conference in Tupelo, we spent the day in seminars and toured Elivs' birthplace. It's rained since I woke up yesterday. Aunt Flo has come to visit and this weekend I survived my bachelorette party with only one true problem. I lost the key to my car. Not all my keys...just the one that starts my car. Yes I know...only me huh?
I also had a shower on Sunday at Stephen's Aunt Rita's house! It was a very nice shower and we got lots of very nice things. I think I've finally figured out how to survive a shower with out crying or shaking. It's still not a very easy thing to have everyone watch you and wisper over cake and punch.
Nonetheless Sunday brought forth a very real part of our lives right now. I guess you can say that reality hit...Stephen and I had a huge discussion (it wasn't a fight I promise) about how difficult it has been for him to adjust to all of these changes at once. I get that...I understand...I guess..?
A year ago we celebrated our engagement, we made a committment to each other to share the rest of our lives together, what a wonderful memory.
Today, instead we're trying to figure out how to juggle all the changes that have happend in our lives since today last year. It started with me moving to Mississippi and taking this new job.
I think when I made this move I truly expected Stephen to be around and move to Pascagoula much sooner. When that didn't happen I upped myself on our "patience" mantra and sucked it up. He finally moved here in July and we've given ourselves less than 60 days to adjust to us...us seeing each other everyday, us spending less than three hours on the phone a night, us moving our things in together and learning how to just deal with being around each other all the time.
If that's all we had to deal with, I think we would be ok. Instead he's having to deal with figuring out a new job...helping me move, helping to finish up with a ton of wedding tasks and just adjusting to a totally new life.
This is one time will I'll be really honest, stick my life out there and bust that view of perfect life bubble. Guys, I really wish this would have happened differently. Once MAJOR life change at a time.
None of this means that I'm not more excited than ever to look him in the face in three weeks and take that committment one more step up. It's all growing pains I know that.
And yet knowing that doesn't make me feel any better about spending our one engagement anniversary on the outs.
Don't worry there's no real troube in paradise, I love Stephen more than ever but today I am a bottle of unexplainable emotions. Let me catch you up....
First off I'm at the MS 4-H Agents Summer Conference in Tupelo, we spent the day in seminars and toured Elivs' birthplace. It's rained since I woke up yesterday. Aunt Flo has come to visit and this weekend I survived my bachelorette party with only one true problem. I lost the key to my car. Not all my keys...just the one that starts my car. Yes I know...only me huh?
I also had a shower on Sunday at Stephen's Aunt Rita's house! It was a very nice shower and we got lots of very nice things. I think I've finally figured out how to survive a shower with out crying or shaking. It's still not a very easy thing to have everyone watch you and wisper over cake and punch.
Nonetheless Sunday brought forth a very real part of our lives right now. I guess you can say that reality hit...Stephen and I had a huge discussion (it wasn't a fight I promise) about how difficult it has been for him to adjust to all of these changes at once. I get that...I understand...I guess..?
A year ago we celebrated our engagement, we made a committment to each other to share the rest of our lives together, what a wonderful memory.
Today, instead we're trying to figure out how to juggle all the changes that have happend in our lives since today last year. It started with me moving to Mississippi and taking this new job.
I think when I made this move I truly expected Stephen to be around and move to Pascagoula much sooner. When that didn't happen I upped myself on our "patience" mantra and sucked it up. He finally moved here in July and we've given ourselves less than 60 days to adjust to us...us seeing each other everyday, us spending less than three hours on the phone a night, us moving our things in together and learning how to just deal with being around each other all the time.
If that's all we had to deal with, I think we would be ok. Instead he's having to deal with figuring out a new job...helping me move, helping to finish up with a ton of wedding tasks and just adjusting to a totally new life.
This is one time will I'll be really honest, stick my life out there and bust that view of perfect life bubble. Guys, I really wish this would have happened differently. Once MAJOR life change at a time.
None of this means that I'm not more excited than ever to look him in the face in three weeks and take that committment one more step up. It's all growing pains I know that.
And yet knowing that doesn't make me feel any better about spending our one engagement anniversary on the outs.
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