Bridal fun!

So last weekend my maid of honor threw my shower and a party for me to celebrate my upcoming wedding. This is my MOH, Brittany.



I mentioned this in a previous post but I wanted to share some more pictures and details from the day. We had an excellent shower complete with awesome prizes, lots of gifts, family, friends and a fabulous cake!





Here are some more photos from my shower of the guests, decorations and of my grandma, mom and I.




Later that evening my friends, cousins, mom and aunt took me out to eat some Mexican food and then dancing at a tavern in a nearby town.

It was a lot of fun and I was even allowed on stage to sing with the live band that was entertaining people that night! Here are a few pics from that night! :)

Cool... youtube is such a funny thing.

Out of curiousity I went to youtube to a video of myself singing that a friend loaded about about 2 years ago and to my surprise it has over 2,000 views. wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjMPh9DDjkk

Fun weekend :)

I had a great weekend... I went back home and my BFF, who is my matron of honor, threw me a bridal shower AND a bachelorette party. It was a great time and definitely deserves a more detailed posting later... as for now I just wanted to post one pic from the shower. This pic also displays my new yeller hair. :)

TTFN

Back in the day...

Lately I have been collecting old pictures and scanning them into my computer. Some are just because I want to have the pictures in digital form and others are because I am going to make a slideshow for my wedding. I thought I would share some of the pictures throughout the next few blog posts.

In this post I am sharing some old pictures that I got from my grandpa. This installment of photos is of him and my grandmother. My grandma died in January 1986 and I was born in December 1986. I never met her but my family tells me I am a lot like her. My grandpa just turned 91 and pretty much is the greatest grandpa ever! I hope you enjoy looking at their old pictures!

Fun finds...

So I am a random person and there is nothing I like more than finding random funny things. Here are a couple of my recent finds...

FIRST- Go to Youtube and subscribe to the Gregory Brothers. They are hilarious and everything they get their hands on turns to gold! Seriously funny stuff.

SECOND- Go to this blog "Hyperbole and a Half", the writer is hilarious and she never seems to fail at making me laugh... most of the time until I cry!

THIRD- Here are some funny things I find in stores, hope you enjoy the pics!


That is my dear fiance in a hilarious panda style sleeping mask. I want to know who uses this to sleep? If its you I applaud you and ask that you send a picture of your ridiculousness to me so I can laugh at you. Loudly.



This is an energy drink I found at Party America. I found it funny and entertaining because of the packing and cleverness of it as a Halloween/vampire lover's item... BUT that was not as entertaining as the warning printed on the back of the package that actually warns (in all seriousness)to not use this bag of fake blood energy drink in an actual blood transfusion. Oh, some humans are so stupid.


FOURTH- Here are some random fun/awesome finds from the interwebs :)







Have a fantabulous day!

What I have been up to...

Well of course I am still waist deep in wedding planning BUT I have been doing a lot of other stuff.

What you ask?? WELL... booking more photo gigs, getting my apartment in order/ready for the move, cooking A LOT and getting in shape. :)

First off, back to the wedding stuff, we bought Micah's ring a couple weeks ago and it looks like this.


NOW for the good stuff. The food. Micah and I have been on this low-carb diet that we have read about. It was created by Tim Ferriss and you can read about it by clicking here. The diet is pretty simple and only has 4 rules. AND IT WORKS!!! Seriously, Micah has lost almost 15-17 pounds now and I have lost 12 pounds. We aren't all the way through it either. :) I won't lie though... its tough to not have cheese, carbs (Micah and I are HUGE bread and roll fans) and sugar. Stick with it though and you won't be disappointed! It also allows you to take 1 day off a week to cheat! YES CHEAT!! Here are the rules:

RULE #1- Avoid "white" carbohydrates
RULE #2- Eat the same few meals over and over again
RULE #3- Don't drink your calories
RULE #4- Take one day off a week

Each meal is made up of proteins (meat or egg whites), vegies and legumes. Because of the limited materials I have had to get pretty creative with our meals. Luckily, spices and seasonings are pretty calorie free! :)

Here are a few of the meals I have made:

Seasoned pork chops with steamed carrots and lentils that I spiced up with some minced garlic, salt and pepper.




These are some rice-less California rolls I made for lunch one day. I just used the crab meat and avocado wrapped in seaweed. I dipped them in soy sauce which isn't harmful enough to be left out of the diet. :)




Tonight I made Mexican stuffed peppers! I cut the tops off green peppers and cleared all the seeds out of the middle then stuffed it with a layer of re-fried beans, a little salsa,ground beef cooked with taco seasoning and then topped it with chunked cherry tomatoes. After stuffing the peppers I baked then in the oven for a bit and they were A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!





Other meals I have made for us on this diet is salad (of course); Curry chicken with squash, celery and peanuts; steaks (this seems like it should be cheating! We have had steaks about 5 times!); Grilled chicken breasts; black bean soup; Stir fry with soy sauce, peanuts, chicken, celery, broccoli and sweet pea pods; egg whites with salsa and so much more.

I hope you found this helpful and if you decide to give the diet a try comment and let me know!!

Engagement book

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Wedding clock is counting down...

So its little over a month until Micah and I's wedding and I am feeling the crunch to get things done! This weekend we went and bought Micah's ring as well as purchased plates, cups and silverware. There is still so much to do... I feel as if it may never get all done in time. Hopefully the big stuff will all get done. We shall see. I am just trying not to panic and am trying to remind myself that nothing is perfect, something will go wrong, I can't help it and that after all is said and done I still get to marry my best friend. I know that sounds clique but he is one of my best friends... it would be weird to spend the rest of your life with someone if they WEREN'T a good friend! haha So that is all for now. OH! I also ordered A LOT of engagement picture prints this week from Mpix.com and was very impressed to received the 40 8x10's and 2 20x30's only 1 day after ordering them online! Bravo Mpix, bravo!