Looking for ideas!

Ok, everyone I need your ideas for the wedding reception! Travis and I don't want to listen to glasses clinking all night and kissing every 10 seconds. We want our guests to have to work for it. Send me your ideas for what you think our guests should have to do to earn our kiss.

time is flying by

It feels like it was March and now all of a sudden June is almost over. It's going to be September before I even realize it. I can't wait! Wedding planning is going well. I'm feeling more in control now. The bridesmaid dresses arrived last week so they're hanging in the laundry room ready for alterations. I ordered the flower girl dresses last week and they're so cute I can't wait for them to arrive. My veil has arrived and is in Calgary waiting for me to pick it up, probably tomorrow. It arrived almost a month early so I'm hoping my dress will be the same since it's not supposed to be here till the middle to end of August when we're on vacation. All the flowers have been ordered and I'm so happy and excited about them. Invitations have gone out in the mail and the rest of them will be hand delivered tonight so now all I have to do is sit back and wait for RSVP's to come rolling in. Our wedding bands are being designed as we speak. We're getting them custom made by a goldsmith in town and they're going to be beautiful I can't wait to see the models. Other than wedding stuff our life has been fairly quiet. Travis is done with fire courses for the summer, yay! On his last course he was the superstar, as usual. It's so funny, I remember telling my friend Emma probably a year before I met Travis that the next boy I dated would be a firefighter. Well he wasn't exactly the next boy I dated but I still think that on some subconscious level we were meant to be. My psychic sense told me so but it made his pick up line at the bar perfect! Anyways, Travis is done his fire courses for now but has been saving lives all over the place. I was working all weekend and got called down to the ER cause a trauma patient had come in and there's Travis in his blue inch-too-short (it makes him look even cuter in his too short pants) lifesaving coveralls saving the life of a rather large man who almost fell through his patio railing. He got more action in that trauma than I did. I got booted out of the trauma room to cover the rest of the ER while everyone else got to save lives. Not fair. We didn't get anymore major traumas over the weekend but it was still really busy. It down poured rain all day yesterday. Actually, it started Saturday night with thunder and lightening that knocked out the power for about an hour and the rain didn't stop until late yesterday afternoon. The parking lot at work was like a swimming pool, actually most of the roads around town were like swimming pools. Everything looks like it dried up overnight so hopefully we've seen the last of the rain for a little while. I have a week off work now and I'm going to spend it getting our house organized again. I'm not sure how it happens so quickly but we're living in a disaster zone right now. Actually, Travis did some cleaning yesterday and it looks much better so I don't have much left to do today.

Tagged again! 5 things.....

Liz tagged me again....at least I have something to blog about now...thanks Liz, I was looking for inspiration.

What were you doing 10 years ago? (five things)
1. First communion with the Grade 2 class.
2. Writing gr.11 final exams.
3. On the verge of failing physics and math 11, although I pulled through and passed them both in the end.
4. Losing the year end cooking award to a Allen Brigden, so unfair....maybe Liz and I shouldn't have broken so many dishes (or was that grade 9??)
5. Getting ready for my final summer vacation as a highschool student.

Five snacks I enjoy
1. Candy of any kind
2. Ben and Jerry's icecream, specifically Half Baked or Oatmeal Cookie
3. Cracker, pepperoni, cheese and pickle towers
4. Nachos
5. Cookies

Five songs I know all the lyrics to
1. I Know a Weinie Man
2. I'm a Little Piece of Tin
3. Boom Chica
4. "Once an austrain went yodellaying on a mountain so high...."
5. "french friend eyeballs swimming in a pool of meat, and I forgot my spoon..."
(I spent a lot of summers at camp)

Five things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay off all my stinkin' student loans
2. Buy a big house and hire a maid
3. Give money to people who need it more than I do
4. Find a nice retirement home for my parents (ha ha ha just kidding!)
5. My own personal masseuse to come to my house everyday

Five bad habits:
1. Cutting the tops off bags and leaving them on the counter
2. Procrastinating
3. When I turn the light on in the bedroom at night and forget to warn Travis
4. I eat too much candy
5. Leaving the lights on

Five things I like to do:
1. Lie on the couch with travis, even though he ends up sleeping most of the time
2. Rent movies, which he never lets me do
3. Cook
4. Have people over for dinner
5. Shop

Five things I will never wear again:
1. My wedding dress, even though I technically havn't worn it yet
2. My t-shirt that says "Not everything is flat on the praries" Seriously, what was I thinking when I bought that, it's just an invitation for everyone to look at my boobs. I think it was only $5 and that's why I bought it.
3. Those terrible heels I wore in Vegas that killed my feet
4. My smurfette Halloween costume but only cause it doesn't fit me. It was probably the coolest Halloween costume ever and I was only 4, too young to really appreciate it.
5. My awful Aspen neck brace that I lived in for 3 months. Yay!!!!! I never have to wear that again...fingers crossed anyways.

Five Favorite Toys
1. My Kitchen Aid mixer
2. My espresso machine, a daily necessity
3. My computer
4. My ice cream maker
5. Monopoly! I win every time.

I tag......Fiona, Jen M and Jen D, Travis and Carrie

My herb garden

My herbs are growing!!! Last week I planted oregano, basil and parsley and they're actually growing. Look!




I also bought some parsley, basil and lavender plants that I'm going to transplant into pots tonight.

Stupid TV Show

I watched this show yesterday called Wedding SOS and now it's got me totally overwhelmed thinking about the amount of stuff we still have to do. It's about couples who are planning their wedding themselves (just like us!) and everything starts falling apart so a wedding planner comes in 3 weeks before the wedding and grants the couple 3 wishes to save their wedding. It's a terrible show for people who are in the midst of planning their wedding to watch because it reconfirms all the fears I have about forgetting the little things or heaven forbid, thinking everything will just work itself out. So I'm watching this show in a panic, I'm breaking out in a cold sweat, my hands are shaking, I'm hyperventilating, I might start crying or I might faint I'm feeling so overwhelmed (ok maybe it wasn't that bad, but it was close!). So then Travis comes home from work and I'm on the computer freaking out over everything and nothing, and he just says "we have lots of time" and "we'll be fine." While in my head I'm screaming "WE WILL NOT BE FINE! DON'T YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO DO AND HOW LITTLE TIME WE HAVE TO DO IT! WHY DON'T YOU GET IT!" Good thing I was keeping it in my head or we could have had a real problem. In reality though we only have 2 full weekends off together before the wedding to make whatever decisions and do whatever needs to be done together. 2 weekends!!!!!! Ok, deep breath.....in......out.....we'll be fine....that's my new mantra, we'll be fine.