Bad Dreams

So the wedding day nightmares have begun. I guess with wedding, wedding, wedding on the brain, dreams are sure to pop up about the actual wedding. I've had about 4 bad dreams now! I can only remember 3 of them though. I thought I'd share.

Dream 1

I'm not sure if some of you know what my "something old" is so I should start off by telling you how important my "something old" is to me. My MeMa and I were very close. She was very much like my 2nd mother. When I was little, I stayed with my MeMa and Papa all of the time and was always picked up immediately after she got off of work (3:00) from daycare. haha She was and still is a huge part of my life. Well, the Lord took my MeMa almost 5 years ago. You can imagine how difficult that was and how hard it's going to be not having her there physically at the wedding although I know she'll be there. I wish Brendan could have been able to meet her. WELL, my "something old" that I'll be wearing is her wedding band. It will be pinned inside my dress because her rings are too big for my fingers.

Well, back to the dream. I was at the church, fully dressed, when I remembered I didn't have my MeMa's rings! I was devastated and begged my Aunt Teresa to go back home to get them. I refused to get married without them. Aunt Teresa did NOT want to go back home to get them and thought I was being ridiculous and I just cried and cried.

What a nightmare! So I called Teresa (reality here) and told her she better not forget those rings and if she does, she better go back home to get them or she is going to have one super upset woman on her hands! haha


Dream 2

My dress was mixed up somehow and I had the wrong dress on! I didn't know how it happened. I just went to put the dress on before walking down the isle and then I saw it wasn't MY dress!

Fairly simple dream, but nonetheless, a nightmare!


Dream 3

The LATEST dream that I remember. My mother and I were sitting in church and during the service, I came to the realization that "today is my wedding day and programs aren't done, my bridal potrait isn't done, and my alterations have not even been done" So I start freaking out in church and leave the service early in a panic because I have SO much to do in such a short amount of time.


So those are the terrible dreams that I remember concerning the wedding. I hope they don't get any worse than that! I really hope that I only have pleasant dreams. hehee These dreams make me wake up in a panic. The next day after the latest dream, I called and made an appointment with the make up people and Emailed my photographer about portraits, and even started looking up program stuff. haha

Icky Sicky

So for the 2nd day in a row, I'm at home sick in bed. :o( I'm determined that no matter what, I'm going to work tomorrow! So I'm not doing anything but laying in bed and taking medicine all day so I can achieve that. BUT I'm bored. All I want to do is sleep so I decided I could update on here! Yay!

I cannot believe how close our wedding day is approaching. We are officially less than 4 months away. 116 more days to go! Which may seem like a lot but I just remember how big of a deal it was when we finally got into the 100's so I'm happy with that. I'll probably be nutty when we get into only double digits!! It seems like the planning is picking up more and more now that the special occassion is nearing! :o)

Inivitations have now been ordered! Oh and on my checklist that I so love checking things off on, I have checked off 82 out of 184. It's a thrill to be able to check things off. I predict that the next things I'll be able to check off is scheduling my bridal portrait and figuring out where we are getting the Tuxedos. Which I think we pretty much know because we checked the color of the bridemaids dresses with the color vest at one place and it matches up well! We just want to go back one more time. Probably this Saturday.

Also, I've been looking into gifts for the bridal party. I want to purchase those soon as soon as I figure out for sure what I'm getting people! Today will probably be spent looking for those..well when I'm awake because this medicine is kicking in and I'll probably be knocked out before too long. We're still stuck on music! We don't know what songs we want sung or what songs we want played. I do know what song I want to walk down the isle to. (Nice day for a white wedding) HAHAHA I'm only kidding!!! OH and Cole's dress was ordered yesterday! So that's exciting. She is seriously going to look like a princess in her puffy white dress!

I think that is all for now. Don't forget to book your hotel rooms! It's on the website when they need to be booked by in order to secure that rate and the block of rooms. I can't recall right off hand but it's on the site! :o)

It's about dog-gone time!

Well, after being told when the engagement announcement was going to be in the Dillon Herald- it wasn't! I had to Email them and then was promised that it would definitely be in today's edition of the Dillon Herald and guess what! IT IS! YAY!! Here is a link to where you can go to see the announcement, however, online it doesn't show the picture we used so I'll just include that on here! :o) http://thedillonherald.com/pages/full_story?article-Cox-Talty-Engagement%20=&page_label=socials&id=1972056-Cox-Talty-Engagement&widget=push&instance=secondary_stories_left_column&open=&

I hope that works! If not, just google The Dillon Herald and search for it on the website. I think it may be under "area news". The picture we put in with the announcement is this one:





Also, I've been trying to figure out hairstyles! I've accumulated SO much hair and Heaven's to Betsy I cut it! My mom would have a fit. Brendan and I know these 2 things about our future little Brendans and Jenns 1- They are going to have a head full of thick brown hair and 2- Brown Eyes. I tell you, one day Brendan Michael is going to give me some beautiful children. He is just so hansome! :) ohhhh RIGHT, back to the subject of hair. SO I know I want it up because A) The wedding is in June and if June in SC isn't hot enough, my dress weighs A TON and between that , my nerves, and constantly on the go, I'm going to be H-O-T and not the WHOA BABY HOT..The PUH-LEAZE go take a shower hot. :) So these are the hairstyles that I found that I want to try out to see how it looks! Let me know what which one you like best!

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I don't want hair on top of my head but I want it up so those are the only 2 pictures that I've found so far that I'm interested in seeing how they look!

Hopefully this weekend, we'll figure out where to get the tuxedos. SINCE I finally got my fabric! :o) Brendan is taking me on a date this weekend so I'm super excited. OH and my honorary bridesmaid's present came in last week and they are awesome and now I'm wishing I would have ordered myself one. I SO wish I could share them on here. I'm so bad with secrets! I once gave someone their present a month before I was supposed to because it had to be specially ordered and when it came in, I just couldn't help it! I think Brendan and I are like in that manner- hence why we always open a Christmas present 5 days before we are supposed to! hehee OKAY, I've gotta run and get prepared for tomorrow's school day! Hooray for Friday!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Good Morning! I'm the only one up! :o( I just thought I'd share about the new purchases for the weddding! yippee! Everything matches. The pillow, guest book, pen, flower basket. Unfortunately the internet is being extremely slow so I'm only uploading 2 pictures. Well, I hope everyone has a fantastic Valentine's Day!!!

No Debbie Downers

Sorry for the last post being a rant! I don't usually go on rants! I went to 3 job fairs this past Saturday (yesterday) and it was not very encouraging so please say a prayer and cross your fingers & your toes that I will land a teaching job here! I'm wishing and hoping hard!!!

SO all of the bridesmaids have been measured and the deposits have been made! So the dresses will be ordered Monday AM. I have to call up there to make sure they've ordered them. I feel like I am constantly calling these people. I will NOT suggest this bridal shop to anyone! That's for sure! Remember the fabric they were supposed to order for me? HA! Well, they never ordered it and when I called she said, "well, we have some fabric up here that you could just get." I was like ummmm, why didn't y'all just tell me this before?! Grrrrr! And then when Kaleigh went to go get sized, they didn't know which dress she was getting sized for and I'm thinking...shouldn't you guys know this kind of information seeing as to you are ordering them Monday morning?! I swear all Hell will break lose with these people if they order the wrong dresses. Ohhh sorry, right- NO Debbie Downers! :o) But on the optimistic side, the dresses are getting ordered and should be here either the 1st or 2nd week in May. That gives a month for any alternations that need to be done.

Our invitations will hopefully be ordered this week! Oh and I've decided (although not a fan :o) ) to send the President and his wife an invitation. I've heard they send a letter/card of congratulations and I think that would be neat to have and add to the scrapbook!

What about this weather!? It's crazy! Wednesday, we had snow again. Columbia didn't, but Florence did. It stuck around until the sun came out and then yesterday and today are so nice and it's not "warm" but its definitely not cold! It's nice! South Carolina weather is so unpredictable.

So I've started the slow transition of moving my classroom to Brendan's. It's so sad. I LOVE my school and the ladies I work with! I hope A) I get a job B) I teach with people who are at least half as awesome as the ladies I work with!

Well, I'm going to go and be productive!

Just a little concern...

This entry really has little to do with the wedding planning although I will share what little news I do have! :o) I'm so worried about the future of education in South Carolina. Well...really it's going on everywhere! The economy is taking it's toll on everyone including education. Budgets are getting majorly cut. Salaries are frozen (which stink, but moneys for various things that students need for better education are being cut which is far worse). There is just so much going on. Monday, our state superintendant held the first faculty meeting via internet and tv for all faculty, trying to answer questions that one may have and suggesting a plan. He sounded hopeful but I get all these Emails from our principal from the super stating about all these budget cuts. I've heard about the possiblity that we have to take a 5 day no pay vacation. (a week no pay for the summer basically). I've also heard about a possiblye 4 day school week. That would save on gas/transportation. But do you think it's that much that they'll actually be saving? It's hard enough to keep a 6 year olds attention for a few minutes..adding more time is not the best time idea- MY OPINION. I've also heard about laying off teachers and having larger classroom sizes. How unfair is that for the kids? That deserve a better education than that. It's not fair if they are in a class that is double the size of what they are accustomed to and besides that takes away from the one on one/ small group instruction that teachers are allowed to give them in order to help them build necessary skills! It's frustrating! Job security..ha, what's that? I'm just worried because I'm getting married in June and moving from Florence to Columbia which means, I'm in search for a job! A job that may not exist! I LOVE teaching and I really think it's one of the most rewarding, important things that I do! My kids mean the world to me and I don't want any kid being set up for possible failure. They deserve better. Teaching is what I love and I can't imagine not being able to teach. I'm just on a venting mode here. I'm concerned about the future of education and a job! I need a job! AND one would think having higher education would help, but it may hurt because of the salary having to be higher. I hope I'm wrong and I pray that things get better for the children's sake! Okay I'll stop with the ranting! :o) Just say a little prayer!


Wedding news. I ordered these way cute __________ for my honorary bridesmaids! I'm soooooo excited!!! I wish I could tell and share but I want it to be a surprise. So that is another thing to check off! According to the knot.com , I only have 76 more things to check off. OHHHH BOY!