Leaving on a Jet Plane...

We leave for Wyoming on Sunday morning! I'm so excited to go see the boys! I'm not so excited about how cold it's going to be!! It will definitely be nice to get away from work for a while! I feel like I haven't seen much of Josh at all! He's been working like CRAZY and my hours have been crazy as well! Hopefully it will calm down after we get back! We'll see!

I can't wait to come back and get our 1st Christmas tree! Mom brought up the stand last weekend! Woohoo for Christmas decorating!! I need to get my nativity set from Mom's! I have no idea where we're going to put any of this!

I really don't feel like fighting the crowds this Christmas! If I knew what I wanted to get people, I would so shop online! I guess I'll have to come up with a list!

Blah...I do not want to pack! I have always hated packing! I wish you could just point and it would fold and jump in the suitcase! But yay for flying! I always get a little nervous, but as I told Josh...planes are magical!! Kinda like a time machine! You get in the thing in your city and then just a short time later...*POOF*...your a couple thousand miles from home, in a land that is unlike yours! Not that Wyoming is crazy far away, but the scenery is different than Indiana. Same with Alabama, or Vegas, or LA...it's really neat that you can see many different terrains in the different countries. Well, I've only seen the different terrain in our country...but I plan to, some day, venture out!

Update...

So it's been a little while since I've updated this! So here we go...

Our Wedding day was PERFECT!! It was a gorgeous day with no rain! The only issue was that it was 80 something degrees in October! I was sweating to DEATH!! But it was a wonderful time anyway! Our photographer just updated us and said we should be getting our proofs this week! Yay!! I was lucky enough to have lots of friends and family take LOTS of pictures!! Thank you so much!! They are gorgeous!!

Josh and I went on a mini honeymoon to...Kentucky and North Carolina. I say Kentucky because NC is about a 7 hour drive, but we stopped on the way down and on the way back in KY so we didn't have to do the whole drive! It was a nice relaxing trip! We needed that! Poor Josh was sick the whole time, so I don't think he was able to enjoy it as much as he would have if he were healthy! We will have to go back some other time! It was gorgeous down there!

Married life is GREAT! It's lots of fun and sometimes hectic trying to learn to live with someone and intertwine your lives! I've had plenty of roommates, but when we lived together we usually did our own thing! Yes, we did things together and sometimes quite often, but trying to plan dinner and doing darn near everything together is completely different! But it's lots of fun!! We're really loving puting our own touches on the condo! It is definitely feeling like home and like it's ours!

Work for the both of us has been crazy!! This has been Josh's busy time and so he is swamped at work. And for me having a new boss trying to bring in new processes...that's definitely hectic! But it's going good!

Our 1st halloween as a married couple was kind of sad! I was disappointed that we didn't really have anywhere to go. All of our friends were doing something on their own and we couldn't make it to any family member's in time for trick or treating. I finally decided we were going to hand out candy! So I asked Josh to go get some candy while I put on a costume! He got back and I was ready and waiting for the trick or treaters...wouldn't you know it....not a single kid!!!! I was soooooo sad!! We'll have to make better plans for next year!

That's all that's going on here! I'll try to keep this updated a little more than once a month!

Let's hope it stays this way...

The forecast for next week is as follows:

Monday 10/6: Partly Cloudy

Tuesday 10/7: Partly Cloudy

Wednesday 10/8: Isolated Thunderstorms

Thursday 10/9: Few Showers
Friday 10/10: Showers

Saturday 10/11: Partly Cloudy

Sunday 10/12: Showers

On a more exciting note...we got our Papal Blessing in the mail today!! I didn't think it would come until after the wedding, but it came early! For those that don't know, a Papal Blessing is a Blessing from the Pope! He blessed our marriage! Yay!!

8 days left!

Bachelorette Party!

I've been wanting to post some pictures from the Bachelorette Party, but I was waiting for some of my friends to post pictures so I'd have more than 10 to post! But those girls must be as busy as I am because they haven't posted any. So this is what we got so far!

I had such a good time! We went to the Cheesecake Factory, Got our Nails done, went shopping for dresses, got ready at my place and then went to the Wine Bar and then to the Alley Cat! 2 completely different ends of the spectrum! They were both a lot of fun! Not sure that all of the Alley Cat Patrons were all that excited to have a Bachelorette Party there...but the bartender and Louie sure didn't mind!! I don't have any pictures of those 2...maybe later!

Not real sure what I was explaining here!

All of the girls who were at the Cheesecake Factory...minus Karen who was taking the picture!

I was sooooo ready for the Cheesecake portion of the afternoon!

At the salon getting our nails done!

Robyn getting her pedicure! Notice the little paper cup...they let us bring in some wine and drink it! Too bad we didn't know that before hand! We would've gotten champagne glasses...or not!

This is Karen getting her pedicure!! She's so excited!

Me and Mandy relaxing! That was the fastest pedicure EVER!! But Man was not too happy that they didn't do it the right way!

So...a couple of the girls wanted to go to the liquor store right next door. They decided I needed 2 little shooters! From the next few pictures you will see why one of the shooters is in Josh's car...UNOPENED!

Thinking about drinking the rest of it! BLECK! Vodka!

And the result of drinking the rest! BLECK! Vodka!Out at the Wine Bar! This place ROCKED!

Me and my Maid of Honor, Courtney!

Robyn and Sarah having a good time at the Wine Bar!

Rachel and Courtney!

2 "Brides to Be" Me and Karen at the Wine Bar!

Karen loves me!! The 1st night Josh and I actually hung out we stayed at Kyle's and the air matress contained Josh, me and Karen! We all 3 slept together that night!! It was a GOOOOOOOD night ;)

Ah...the Alley Cat! My 1st time there! Great times were had by all!

Back together again...causin trouble and running around! I did a little more stumbling than running though! Wouldn't have made it to the car without ya Rach!!

I was hoping I wasn't going to need to go tanning before the wedding, but after seeing these pictures I realize that I probably can't get away with it! Drat!

Couple's Shower

Ok, so we started a little thing in our family called a Couple's Shower. This is kinda more like a shower for the groom. It's a fun shower where guys are invited along with their ladies and there is some beer drinking and card playing and present opening going on! We had such a good time! Aunt Kay made her WONDERFUL chili! And then we had some ice cream cake and chocolate cake. We then opened some presents!

Here's Mandy, Michael and Sherry before we started to open presents.

This was from Aunt Mary Ellen! She thinks she's so funny. Apparently Josh thinks so too!

Apparently I needed some old tennis shoes of mine that were sitting on Mom's deck for FOREVER! Now we get them back! SWEET!
Now, for those of you who know Josh, you know that he likes to wear BROWN and BLACK and sometimes a dull color. So as a gift to me, my mom bought some colorful shirts for Josh to wear. He'll probably ONLY wear them on our honeymoon, but that's alright by me :)

Look at that pretty orange and green!!

Granny gave us a "Last Supper" plaque and a Crucifix.

Here's the Crucifix.

Derek and Sherry gave us some good Kitchen tools and a basket to keep them in!Mom gave Josh some tequilla with a note that said, "Remember, tequilla makes Jen's clothes fall off!" That'll be good for the honeymoon too!

Mom also gave me a crockpot so that I could make some food for Josh! Poor Josh, he starves to death right now because I don't cook!

1 month?

I seem to be only updating this about once a month. I'm going to try to get a little better at this! I have some fun pictures of the Couple's Shower and some of the Bachelorette Party! I want to put them up, but I dont' see that happening today. I'll be sure to put them up, hopefully sometime this week.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend! Our's was nice, but we drove forever!! We went to see Josh's dad and that's a 4 1/2 hour drive one way! It was good to see him though and we always get to relax while we're up there!!

I'll write a little more later. I have a new boss at work so I'd better do some work!

Bridal Shower

Ok, so my Bridal Shower was this past Saturday. Josh's mom flew his sister in from Wyoming to be here for it! That was so great! I really enjoyed her being out here!

So my mom had made note of the things she liked and disliked when going to some of the bridal showers in the past. She took those mental notes and put them to use for my party! She and my Aunts and Bridesmaids did such a great job with the whole thing! The decorations were gorgeous and everything went so smoothly!

This is the cake my mom had made for me! Tinker Bell in the middle. Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Cinderella and Belle!

We ate before everyone got there so that we could greet them at the door! When everyone arrived, they got to eat and I went to open presents as they ate. My mom isn't a big fan of silly games at these things, so we only had 2! We had HER favorite game...if there is writing on the bottom of the plate, you win a prize! And then we had one more...Josh's mom had a list of questions about Josh. I had to answer the questions. If I got it wrong, I had to stick a piece of bubble gum in my mouth! I think I missed 4 or 5 questions! My jaw was sore by the end of the shower! This is the big wad I had in my mouth!

This is what it looked like as I was chewing! Ok...so maybe I exaggerated a bit! And the apron is one that Josh made for his mom in HomeEc and now she gave it to me!

I got so many wonderful gifts! I can't wait to get them all in our condo and use them! I had such a fun time!

I also had my 1st dress fitting before my shower! I am getting so excited for the wedding! Not that I wasn't before, but it's getting close!! 61 days!