Big.
Written by Sara on July 29, 2010 – 10:56 am -
Dear readers, I’ve been struggling to find the words to blog ever since our wedding day, simply because it was such an overwhelmingly wonderful day and I just can’t seem to find the words.
But – I’m going to try.
Our wedding day was full of tears (mostly my Mom’s), happy claps (mostly my maid of honor Kristen’s), sweating (everyone; it was nearly 100 degrees outside) and happy-nervous energy (mostly mine).
I promise to bring you full-on recaps as soon as A) I feel up to it – I’m still rather exhausted and overwhelmed by the hugeness of it all, and B) we get our professional pictures back from our lovely photographers.
Be back soon, I promise. Just know this: it wasn’t perfect, it didn’t go all as planned, but the utter fact that it WAS is just big. It’s BIG.
[Photo by my dearest friend and maid of honor, Kristen]
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Coming to you from inside wedding week…
Written by Sara on July 12, 2010 – 9:52 am -…and we’re looking good!
Hey y’all – it’s wedding week here in our neck of the woods!
Projects left to complete:
- Make our tiered cake.
- Make a tiny loaf of bread for communion.
- Line the flower girl dresses.
- Febreeze the burlap table squares.
- Finalize the wedding day agenda.
- Confirm cake, flowers.
- Pick up my wedding gown!
- Add wedding dance playlists to ipod and back-up ipod.
- Make signs for tables.
- Pull together props for photos.
- Put together my “just in case” bag for the wedding day, full of safety pins, sewing materials, etc.
- Finish packing for the honeymoon.
I’m sure there are other little things to finalize, but that’s all I can think of right now.
I’ll try and post one more time before our wedding this weekend!
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101 in 1001: June 2010
Written by Sara on July 4, 2010 – 12:18 pm -Hello all!
As a reminder, I had a rough month accomplishing my goals in May, so I kept these same goals on my plate for June.
Here’s what I hoped to accomplish this month:
- Make or bake at least one Rachael Ray recipe.
- Try beets…again.
- Go bowling…and actually try to bowl well.
And…0-3. Boo me!
But, here are the goals I did accomplish in June:
- Purchase a new computer! I’m typing to you from my new Macbook Pro.
- Get into graduate school! I actually did this in March, but I can talk about it now, since I’ve told my employer. As of this August, I will be a graduate student at the University of South Dakota pursuing my Master’s in English Literature and my teaching certification! I think USD will be a great start on my path to higher education and eventually pursuing a PhD.
- Go garage saling at least one time per year. Jordan and I set out looking for a dresser, so we hit up some local garage sales. No luck, but it was fun!
- Try at least one new wine per month for a year. I’m on #5 of 12, and this month I tried New Age Wine at my bachelorette party; it was delicious with a lime!
That’s it!
Here are my goals for July:
- Get married! We’re only 13 days away!
- Take a trip overseas. We’re going to Jamaica for our honeymoon!
- Write a poem.
- Cut bangs into my hair…again.
- Go kayaking.
- Take one shot of tequila.
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