Life/Wedding

Well we are down to one month. I can't believe it is finally this close. It has been forever waiting for April to get here. I can't complain about the long engagement though. We are down to just last minute little things and final payments. I am still waiting on quite a few people to RSVP. I guess people don't know what that means these days. Vicki is coming in on Wed. for the whole month which is going to be a lot of fun. It will be nice seeing her for more then just a week at a time once or twice a year like normal. She finally got engaged so next will be her wedding. While she is here we are going to do a bunch of things, on top of the already busy month I have. We are planning a beach weekend the weekend before the wedding that will be just Girls while James goes fishing up in Huntsville at his Grandpa's lake house. We have my Bridal Shower next weekend which should be a lot of fun. Then of course there will be shopping, rock climbing, and girls nights.. Just like High School again pretty much. I am also getting excited about our Honeymoon. We leave May 2nd for a week long cruise. James has never been on one so hopefully he likes them as much as I do. I am also glad I get to see his Kansas family for the wedding. It has been over a year since we last saw them and I really enjoy spending time with them. Well I guess I better get back to work, but I will post more as the wedding gets closer and plenty after the wedding as well.

Brayden: Now & Then!

Brayden and almost 6 months old!Brayden at 1 week old!

As you can tell the little munchkin has grown a bunch over the last 6 months.

The New Year

Well we are well into 2009 and I haven't posted anything yet. I feel like I have been so busy that I can't even think straight. So we didn't do anything for New Years. We aren't a big fan of going out and being on the roads with everyone else who is drinking so we just hung out and the house. We met with the Pastor who is doing our wedding in January and that was kinda exciting and interesting. He is a really funny guy. He is the Pastor at Christ United Methodist (a lot of people go to that church that grew up here). He wasn't my first choice for a Pastor but Pace was taken on our wedding day. Anyways so we have 2 more meetings with him before the wedding and I think everything is going to run smoothly. James got to meet the DJ for the first time and he really liked him. I think we have one of the coolest DJ's that we could possibly have. So far this month we have celebrated my mom's birthday and I retook my Bridals in Downtown Richmond. I am waiting to get those so I can see how much better they turned out. I really am having second thoughts about our photographers for the wedding but its to late to change now. On another note Brayden is going to be 6 months old on Saturday. The time is really flying by. He has gotten so fat since he came home from the hospital. I will have to post a then and now photo so you can see for yourself. So enough about wedding stuff, it basically consumes my life until April. James finally got a raise again and a new personal truck. He hasn't had a personal truck for over a year now just his company truck. I am usually never home on the weekends so we have been debating about getting him is own truck so he can do whatever on the weekends and he finally convinced me and now he has a truck. He is pretty excited. I'm excited about the fact that Vicki is going to be in Texas in less then 2 months. I feel like it has been forever since we last hung out and in will be close to a year by the time she gets down here. I am hoping that she will be engaged when she gets down here. She thought Adam was going to propose on their anniversary, but no such luck so now it is a sit and wait kinda game. Well everything as you can see is going pretty good here. I just can't wait for the wedding and our honeymoon. Life will be a lot better after all of that is over with and plus I am excited to see James's Kansas family again for the wedding. I like them a lot better then his family down here, but pretty much everyone knows that and James isn't speaking to the family down here at the moment. I will up date again later, probably not until next month but who knows.

Brayden

Just wanted to post a picture of Brayden at 4 1/2 months. This is his Christmas picture. Isn't he the cutest thing?

Christmas

Okay so Christmas is here and gone. I still can't even believe that it over. It never really felt like Christmas this year. It was great to spend time with family and get awesome gifts. James and I opened our gifts Christmas Eve before church since we were going to have a busy Christmas. we both got GPS's and some other small things. We went to church on Christmas Eve with my parents and then stayed at their house. On Christmas morning we headed to Danny and Shannon's house to have brunch with the whole Harper, Beckman, Boyer family. It was good to see everyone and with it being Brayden's first Christmas we all got to see him on Christmas morning. After we finished up breakfast we headed to my parents house to do gifts with my side of the family. James got a new grill, a wii game and a few other things. I got a mixed photo frame of our engagement pictures, a wii game, the complete series of I LOVE LUCY and some other things. My parents got James and I a down comforter for our bed which was nice since I had been wanting one for awhile, but they are just to expensive. After gifts with my family we headed over to James's dad's house to do gift with that side of the family. Its a pretty simple Christmas with that side. We got money and gift cards which is actually better then gifts on that side, it works a lot easier. On Friday James had to work (and the whole weekend) so I headed to Rosharon with my family to visit some of my brother's family that lives down there. It was good to see them since I don't see them much. I probably wont see them again until the wedding and that is if they all come. Over all Christmas was pretty good. I just hope next year it actually feels a little more like Christmas. Now on to New Years, Valentines Day, Easter then the wedding. Pray that I stay sane until then.

Christmas & Life

I am so excited that Christmas is almost here. James and I have finished all of our Christmas shopping and everything is wrapped and under the tree. It's shocking that we were done shopping so early. We have a busy Christmas day this year too. We are doing out Christmas in the morning, heading to Danny & Shannon's for a brunch, then going to my parents house to do gifts with them then we have to swing by James's dad's house to do Christmas with them. Needless to say I am already tired just thinking about all the things we have to do that day. In other news, I was given a complete clean bill of health from the doctors all thought I still don't feel 100% like myself but I just try to ignore it and I am just hoping all of this is just anxiety about our wedding. Sometimes I feel pretty good and then other days I feel like crap, basically like death. James says it is all in my head, and that very well could be true, I just wish I felt like myself again. I am also very excited that Vicki will be here the whole month of April. We never get to spend that much time together since she moved to NY. Anyway, I guess I better get back to work even though the kid is in school.

P.S. Vicki took her LSATs again so pray that she does good this time so she can apply to Law School again and maybe just maybe she will apply to a school here in Texas and decided to come down here, I know she wants to go back to UB again but I sure would like her to come to school in Texas!

4 1/2 Months

Only 4 1/2 months to go until our wedding. It feels like the time is flying by. Everything is done so now we are just enjoying the time together until the big day. So things that have been going on in our lives. The first part of November I went to the emergency room because my heart was racing. It had done the same thing like 6 years ago and the doctors said it was just from caffeine. Well I was in the ER for like 2 hours and they didn't find anything so they sent me home and told me to follow up with my doctor and a cardiologist (I think I spelled that wrong). Anyways so the cardiologist had me wear a heart monitor for 21 days and nothing was abnormal on that so my doctor did blood work and he couldn't find anything. So basically I just have to live with my heart feeling like it is racing. It is actually common in healthy women my age and there is not diagnosis for it. I am thinking it is stress or anxiety. Anyways, James is still working a lot and I am hoping he decides to switch jobs sometime soon. We are loving our new place and are actually thinking about buying our first house next Fall. I have been talking with a realtor and a loan agent, so that is pretty exciting. On other notes, Brayden is getting so big and so cute. He is almost 4 months old and for my own EXCITEMENT Vicki is coming down for the whole month of April and I totally can not wait. We are going to have so much fun. Enough blogging for the day and sorry for rambling on. I'll write more later.