SO much

There is so much going through my head right now, I'm not even sure where to start. It's all a jumbled mess of spaghetti. Lots of change right now.

Completely moved out of my apartment Monday.
(Wasn't sad. Was too tired and sweaty to be sad.)

Slept at the trailer for the first time Tuesday.
(Justin slept at his mom's Tuesday)

Last week of Awaken was last Wednesday.
(I miss them already...)

T minus 10 days and counting till Mr. and Mrs. Good!
(It still feels like forever to me)

2 days till my wonderful friend Skyla gets here.
(Can't wait....we have SO much to do and I need a Skyla-hug)

One week-ish until the CO peeps roll in.
(I miss their faces SO much! NEED to catch up with them!)

Bridal Shower Sunday.
(Just got the living room cleaned up fully...ish)

Remembered about the marriage license.
(Yeah. Going for that Monday.)

Hair fiasco on Sunday...many tears.
(fixed it yesterday, my normal girl agreed to do it!)

Trying to think about joining a small group at APC
(feel like I have no time to make a good decision about it)

Am tired and emotional.
(I'm a girl....the emotional thing was pretty much a given)

Loving eating my almond torte cake
(like 2-3 slices per day. Yum. Yeah.)

Really badly just want to sit with Justins arm around me for a while
(No time really...but we are getting married in 10 days. Should fix it.)

There. You've got facts and emotions.
Welcome to my pre-wedding life.

(I'm so grateful...for everything.)

Moving is Chaos

Wondering what all the pink blogs on the kitchen cabinets are?
They are my cute little heart shaped Post-It Notes of course!
They say "empty" on them.
So I know that the cabinet has been cleaned out and is done!
helps me out.

Sleepy Update

I am at work, being sleepy, waiting for 7:00am to come so I can give a med. All the kiddos are clean, dry, asleep and afebrile- Yes. So, I thought I'd do a quickie update. Sorry for all the update posts....I am just too tired.

1. Wedding is going well. Trying to collect all the last minute RSVP's.
2. I pick up my dress from alterations today - YAY! I love ANY excuse to try it on.
3. I am getting married in 25 very long/short days. I can't wait. (!!!)
4. This week has been packing packing packing. Justin and I are moving all my furniture and as much of my stuff as we can this Sunday. So, if you can help move....come on over on Sunday afternoon.
5. I am packing all day Friday and Saturday. I could use some help, so if you're free...head on over!
6. Our families and parents are wonderful...really. We love them.
7. Justin and I are planning a "fun day" coming up soon on our day off before the wedding.
8. I am sleepy.
9. I just found out about Pandora....I think it's neat.
10. I called and my cable/internet is getting turned off on Aug 24th
11. I'm really excited for my bridal shower on the 23th.
12. One of my friends and her husband are moving into my apartment after me. I'm glad someone I love will be in this cute little apartment. (I will miss it.)
13. Justin and I are pretty much done fixing up his place....we can't wait to organize it. Him more so than me. :)

ok, thats long and that's all. Can't think of anything else. Message me with any questions

Oh, one last thing. Justin is just amazing....he is so good at loving me and expressing his love for me. I always feel loved, cherished, protected by him. Case in point.....yesterday evening after he left he sent me a series of one-liner text messages with things he loves about me. I giggled the entire (almost) hour that he was sending them. I love being in love and being loved.

Well then.

Now I remember why I stopped really blogging in the first place!

I don't have time!

Lol. Really, I want to make time, but at the end of the night when it comes down to the fact that I have time for two or three things, eating, showering, talking with Jesus and calling Justin win out over blogging. Sad, but true.

Now I'm at work and the kiddos are all comfy cozy and (some) still asleep. I went downstairs to the cafeteria, grabbed some coffee and now I'm all set to go. I'm needing coffee more and more lately. :) We're pretty busy and sadly, I just think it's going to get worse as the wedding gets closer and my move out date moves up! It's all going well though. Here are some quickie updates:

Stellan is doing MUCH better. Go here to check up on him and get some CUTE pictures of him.

Justin and I are doing wonderful. Finished premarital counseling, chose a caterer, (almost) ordered flowers, picked up the rings, (almost) finished painting the spare bedroom, moved more of my stuff out and are going to sort through Justin's storage unit Sunday and pick furniture moving day #1!

Oops, a call bell is going off. Must go!

Blessed

I am so incredibly blessed.

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and then my phone rang, I got up to answer it, talked to Nikki for about an hour, got off, finished a part of a project and completely forgot I was writing a blog post.

:)

and now I'm too tired to finish.

Let's just take a quick summary of what otherwise would have been a long post about how great the Lord is, how amazing Justin is, and how much I love them.

- it is breath taking to watch the Lord orchestrate things in your life
- Justin, is by far (I think), the best fiance in the entire world
- I am blessed and excited to be his wife
- I love ribbon and I'm making invitations this week

smile

- the end -

(69 days)

73 days

I am sitting at work, snuggling a wee little two week old one. He is SO precious. All cute, warm and baby soap smelling, his little bottom lip stuck out. Seriously....I'm starting to get ideas!

:)

73 days left til I marry the most amazing man I've ever met.
Some days it feels like I won't have enough time to get everything done when at others it feels just WAAAY too long to wait to live closer than 1 hour to Justin.

I think that's the only thing that stinks about being engaged. It doesn't magically mean that I get to see Justin any more than I did before. In fact, in some cases, it means I get to see him less.

:( <---- my pouty face.

But really, it's all worth it and its all ok. In 73 days I won't have to say goodbye at the end of the night. That will be a beautiful thing.

My favorite website right now....

Hands down, it's www.theknot.com

It's not because I'm getting married, it's a bridal site, it's filled with oodles of pictures of dresses, cakes, invitations, flowers, etc. Or because I'm so overwhelmed that it's the only thing keeping me sane. (hehe. that's so far from the truth. I am PEACEFUL! And it is filled with oodles of photos. I'm pretty much positive that's a bad thing.)

It's because every time I go to the site it says something to this effect:

"Welcome back Justin and Kristen! Only 82 more days to go!"

YES! I LOVE the countdown. And I must admit I visit the site several times a day just to see that number. (smile)

Only 82 more days to go until we are Mr. and Mrs. Good! (!!!)
I love the sound of that and I can't wait.

P.S. - I am SO glad that we are only having a 96 day engagement. :)

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets make some people sweat, cause others to cry and some to simply run away screaming.

Me?

They make me really really happy. Nothing (almost) makes me so happy as to have all my info arranged into cute little grids and boxes. Big lists with bolded titles and indented subtitles make me smile.

Really.

Well, Justin makes me smile more, but you get the idea.

Justin and I are in wedding planning mode now. We have a spread sheet entitle "Guest List". The other one is entitled "Wedding Book" and it has like 8+ tabs on the bottom. Everything from Vision to Ceremony to Reception to Budget to Rehearsal to Legal to you get the picture. All those tabs are glorious and they all have lists on them with titles, subtitles, bolded and italicized things. Sigh. I love it. I feel calm when I look at the spreadsheet.

Actually, we're not totally all about the wedding right now. I like to think that we have a nice balance of things. We have hung out a few times since he asked me to marry him. (stop and smile right here, that's GREAT news!) Anyway, we've not had really a lot of alone time since then even when we're hanging out, so we've actually done very little (in the grand scheme of things) talking about the wedding. We've most definitely wasted time staring at each other, laughing, taking walks, hanging out with family, texting each other silly messages and in Justin's case, leaving cute little "I love you" notes just about everywhere for me to find.

It's been great. I LOVE being engaged! We keep looking at each other and going "We're getting married!!" and giggling. (Well, I've been giggling. Justin has not. He smiles, really big and manly. hehe.) It's amazing and so much fun. What we have been able to talk about so far has been really great. We are having tons of fun planning the big day. We can't stop smiling when we talk about it and we say "I love you" a lot while doing it. I love planning to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.

Anyway, the date is September 6, 2009. The day is starting to take shape and details will be out soon. Until then, we are spending time enjoying this season, drawing closer to the Lord and hanging out! Whoo-hoo!

Jesus is so faithful. Above and beyond what any of us deserve. Amazing. He is holy and we love Him. He's just the best. :)