The moving boxes have taken over…..

I was hoping by now to have gotten our pro-pictures back so that I could start the thank you notes, alas our photog is swamped, apparently September was THE month to get married.

But back to your regularly scheduled update… the moving boxes have taken over Lee’s bachelor pad and I am beginning to wonder if we can throw away everything we both own and start over from scratch…. did I ever mention how much I hate packing? Well I hate packing. On the bright side the new apartment is huge and best of all Lee and I will both be able to be in the kitchen without worry that someone is going to get hurt or seriously maimed.

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We got it !!

That’s right folks, we got the new apartment! and Lee and I are moving from his bachelor pad of 15 years to a lovely 4 bedroom apartment not to far from where we are now.

Now you may be wondering why Lee and I decided to get a 4 bedroom apartment, while yes we do have a bit of stuff, it isn’t just that. It is important to both Lee and I that we have a guest room for those times we have family or friends come visit so that people do not HAVE to stay at a hotel. Obviously you can stay at a hotel if you prefer to but we wanted to make sure we had some room for family or friends to stay.  And we both wanted some of our own space, an office was important for Lee and a Craft/sewing room is important for me.

 

Update

Well since we are married, in coming days since we are all done with wedding things, we will be changing the name of the blog, but not deleting it.

 

Stay tuned for updates!

 

Well, we did it!

Well folks we did it. We got married! And now we are living in Lee’s bacholor pad until next month when we move into bigger and better digs!

Lee and I wan’t to thank everyone who came out for the wedding, we had so much fun and hope that everyone else did as well.

I will never forget all our con friends breaking out into a rendition of Bohemian Rapsoidy nor the Best Man and Maid of Honor speeches.

I am finally married to the love of my life, and my best friend.

 

Pictures will follow as soon as we have them back from the photographer.

 

One more day to go…

Well folks Lee and I will be getting married tomorrow morning.

Each of us is off to do last minute primping and relaxing with our respective brides maids and goomsmen.

Due to various things there is a change in lineup. One of my bridesmaids husband is deploying this weekend and another was in a serious car accident she is also the mother of the flower girl so we are down a couple bridesmaids and have a stand in flower girl/jr bridesmaid in the form of Scarlett Heare.

We ask that you keep them all in your prayers.

 

People get ready…..

In a little over two weeks… We dance!

 

Licensed To Wed

Well, a few days ago Lee and I went to the courthouse and got the marriage license, so now we are able to get married at any time between now and October.

Baring the fact that I got lost, I have a terrible sense of direction, it wasn’t that big of a deal to get the license we spent most of the time waiting in line with about 10 other couples all on the same mission.

 

August 4

Well folks, we are one month away from the big day. Am I freaking out? Just a little bit.

But today is also another day, you see I have always been a student of WWII, that era has always held an interest for me for various reasons. On this day in 1944 Anne Frank and her family was arrested in Amsterdam and sent to Auschwitz Anne and her sister were later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne died of Typhus in 1945.

For some reason, and I can’t quite explain it, I have always been an almost rabid supporter of remembrance. I have to remember what happened, we all do. I remember a speech class in college at NRCC, we had an assignment on a historical event. Originally my topic was on the Privateers and the downfall of the Spanish Armada, our speeches were going to be done over 2 weeks, I got lucky and my date was the Friday of the last week. On the first day of speeches a punk in my class got up and gave his speech on the Holocaust, The Shoah, saying it never happened, that it was all a lie and spewing neo-nazi rhetoric. I was sick to my stomach and the entire class was stunned. After class I went up to the professor and informed her I was changing my topic to the Holocaust at first I got a little guff, then I informed her either I changed my topic or I was going to the dean, the president of the school and the local newspaper about what happened and her not allowing refutation of this punk’s topic. I re-used a paper from my High School AP world history class, added some things to it and brought in graphics and refuted everything the punk had said. I received an A for that assignment and about half way through the semester the Punk disappeared.

I may not be Jewish, but I will never forget.

 

A funny thing happend on the way to a wedding shower…

So, Lee and I are well aware that a lot of the wedding shower invites arrived late, unfortunately there were things beyond the hostess’ control going on there that led them to going out late, and everyone has her and our apologies on this, sometimes life happens as I am sure we have all experienced at one time or another.

Lee and I decided early on that our one “demand” with the whole wedding shower business was that there was only one shower and that it be co-ed. We know it is a little bit of a break with tradition, but honestly I have been to a few wedding showers in my life both as a friend and a member of wedding parties, and the whole shower thing can get out of hand. One friend of mine who did not put any limits on the shower situation ended up having 5 wedding showers and hated it. So call Lee and I Bride and Groom-zilla’s on this but honestly we didn’t want wedding shower after wedding shower because honestly on some level it makes both of us somewhat uncomfortable, ok ok this one is more of the fact that it makes me uncomfortable then making Lee uncomfortable and I realize that I need to accept the fact that for once in my life I will be one of two people who are the center of attention in an event and I can’t stand back and do all the planning and prep work and let someone else be in the spotlight (why hasn’t someone developed human cloning or look-a-like androids yet??? – - LOL!).

 

Okay…

Lets try this again when I am not feeling like a mac truck decided to run me over, back up and run me over again.

The question of where we are registered has come up, the information has been passed along to various family and friends, in case anyone has forgotten, the info can also be found on the wedding blog or you can ask Lee or I and we will re-activate the info tree. I just hate that it looks like Lee and I are asking for stuff, it makes me uncomfortable. On a lighter note, if it is bake ware it is my fault, if it is electronics lets just say I’m not the biggest geek in this budding family =P.

Also, we realize that some of you received the shower invites late, we apologize, the Maid of Honor apologizes, it is one of those things that unfortunately falls under “life sometimes interferes” there are things that were beyond anyone’s control involved there.

I apologize for the previous post, it was a bit grouchy, I was exhausted and I have badly hurt my knee in recent events of cleaning out my grandmother’s house and resulting issues driving a u-haul almost 3000 miles cross country.