Less than 3 months

Holy Moly!! In less than 3 months I am going be a Talty! A Mrs. I will no longer be Miss Cox- except to my students who will always know me as just that. It's truly hard to believe that June is so close! Today we got our end of the year folder from school which is like a checklist of things to get done and the date they need to be completed. It's crazy that the school year is coming to a close. Today report cards went out! Only one more time to recieve report cards. Craziness!!

So I'm not sure if I've mentioned about my bridal bouquet for my portrait or not..seems like I have. Well, I have it now and it looks SO amazing ! I am so pleased with it! I'm not worried at all about the flowers! I know they'll look great!

I'm supposed to have my fitting tomorrow for my dress. I hope that goes well! Other wise, Jenn is going on the water and tic tac diet. haha

Saturday, Brendan and I are being thrown a shower by our fabulous friends, the Ancones and the Davis'. I've been trying to figure out what to wear and I think I found something today! I had to hide it though. haha I have a coupon but it doesn't start until tomorrow. HEY, I'm a budget girl so I had to do what I had to do! Wonder if Brendan would like to match me? haha I'm only kidding. We occassionally coordinate together..mostly unintentional..but NEVER do we match. I refuse.

Our invitations will be going out soon! How exciting is that?! VERY. I answered it! I'm thrilled.

Also, I've done better about picking music. Finally! One of our singers kept asking me what song what song?! :o) Well, yesterday, I finally told him what song I liked! Also, Brendan and I have started picking the music for the ceremony. I'll have to talk to my pianist, Katherine, to get her seal of approval though!

This is pretty much all of the wedding planning news I have as of right now. I think anywho.

Love to you all!

How sweet it is to be loved by Y O U

This week/weekend, we got quite a bit of stuff done and figured out! I am so blessed to have such wonderful people (my Brendan and futre mother in law :o) I just wanted to say that instead of her name..how cool!hehee) who are SO helpful and help to alleviate the stress I accumulate daily! We have completed our inserts, rsvps, and started on the favors! I am excited! Our RSVPs are going to be asked to come back a little earlier than expected because the cost of stamps is going up in May! May 11th to be exact! Again! So our invites are probably going to go out a little earlier than we had originally planned. The inserts and RSVPs we made ourselves! So don't judge! hehee We did our best and got plenty frustrated with it..luckily, I'm marrying a guy that doesn't give up! haha So he figured out how to best make the rsvps! Good job Brendan!

So you've probably noticed the new picture on top there. I'm not sure if its going to stay because it's an awfully big picture! I like how Cole and Camden's blog look but I don't want to be a copycat!

Can you believe that the wedding is a little less than 3 months away?! I've scheduled my bridal portraits for May and already have my make up scheduled for the wedding day! Speaking of how fast time is flying by! Yesterday marked the last day of the 3rd nine weeks of school! WOW. We are on our last nine weeks of school and then I'm done being a teacher at BES. :( I am seriously going to miss my awesome school and ever more awesome colleagues. Please Please say a prayer and send hopeful thoughts my way that I will find a teaching job in Columbia that I will love just as much..or just a job teaching in general. I honestly love teaching and can't imagine not teaching and the thought of that makes me so sad!

Also, Twilight came out on DVD this past weekend. WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO. You know I got my copy! I'm pysched and have already watched it a few times which has inspired me to re read the series. haha Like I don't have enough on my plate! My obession returns! haha

Well, I've officially reminded my daddy of what I've told him I wanted him to do in my wedding since I was a little girl. He remembered! So he'll be singing! I'm excited although he wants me to hear him first b/c he said some of his vocal chords got messed up a while back when he was sick. But I don't care! I know he'll do awesome!

Well, American Idol is on so I'm going to go and root my Danny on! Yes, I'm a loser and vote like a bajillion times.haha

I love me students!

I just had to share. This is completely unrelated to wedding planning. Today, I am taking a break and NOT going to think about the checklist! hehee Today when I walked into my classroom, a "leprechaun" named O'Reilly had visited my room. He made such a mess in my room! Chairs and desks were all over the place! It was chaotic! Well, as you can see, his tiny little footprints led us into the closet where we discovered a note from O'Reilly. He even left his footprints on some student's desks! When we got to the closet, we noticed a bowl and a note. It was some magic green powder (pistachio pudding). The note said we had to add milk and each give it a shake while saying the magic words: Leprechaun Leprechaun, Shamrocks Seen, Magic powder, green, green, green! We had so much fun today trying to catch O'Reilly! We even thought we saw him a few times. He's just so fast so we never could catch him! We wanted to catch him so bad because if you catch a Leprechaun on this special day, he has to give you all of his gold! Oh well, maybe next year!

In case you've been living under a rock....

I am marrying one incredible man! Words cannot even express how much I love this man! Although his really sweet- cavity like side shows itself rarely, when it does, it makes me melt into a puddle! Last week, I turned in my teaching contract in Florence- unsigned. It was really hard for me to do because I love my co workers and my job so much. When I handed it to my principal, I just cried in his office. I was kind of embarrassed! I knew it was going to be hard but I didn't think I would be all that emotional! Well, Brendan knew that I had kind of a ratty week and so when I got to Irmo on Friday, he had me this:




Isn't he the best?! I most certainly think so!

My Checklist is down to.............

95! So yay, I'm out of the 100's for that one as well! Our honeymoon is almost paid for so pretty soon I'll be able to check that off! I've gotten my bridesmaids their gifts so I was able to check that one off! And then of course Brendan picked out his attire and his groomsmens attire so check check!

I'm already getting nervous about our wedding day! I don't want to be an emotional case! I cry over everything and DO NOT want to be a blubbering mess on such an amazing day!

100 days left!

Which means tomorrow I can say "We're getting married in less than 100 days!" WOW! I am thrilled to be in double digits and out of triple digits! SO Not really too much to update on. I did get my trial hair and make up done. So I'll post pictures of that! My bridesmaid and very wonderful friend, Jill did my hair. She likes to do updos and since I found a few updos I liked, I asked her if she would try one of them out on me to see if I liked them and she's so awesome, she said yes! I love you Jillian!

snore snore snooze

Hey Hey! So I am exhausted! We had quite a busy, eventful weekend! I'm almost certain we are ready for all the planning and preparing for the wedding to end and to just get married! haha I'm really tired and the stinkin' checklist still remains at 100 things left to check off! grrrr!

This weekend, Brendan picked out tuxedos and I have to say he did a great job all by himself! We went all over the place looking at tuxedos! We only had a minor frustration but we settled it and it looks like the men are going to be looking mighty sharp come June 20! Speaking of June 20, we are about out of the triple digit countdown. I can't wait! It's exciting to watch the countdown get closer and closer.

Tomorrow I have my trial hair and make up done! That's pretty exciting. It's sad I'm how old and don't know how to put my own make up on?! Well, I hope my skin appreciates it!

We also went to the jewelry shop to look at Brendan's wedding band and to make sure it fits- It does! and it looks great! His finger is going to be the hottest one around! hehee I can be bias! My wedding band is being made in Belgium..how cool is that?! Well, I thought it was tres cool!

Well, I think either that's it or my brain is shutting down. This time change is definitely going to take some getting used to!

Mama's dreamin' too

My mom came in this morning telling me about her "nightmare" which really would be a nightmare if this happened! She dreamed that at the reception, the toilets stopped working! Eww She said someone was sick so the place was just a stinky mess! So yucky! These dreams need to chill out! haha That would be horrible! Anywho, I just thought I'd share since I don't have to be at work until 8 but silly me got up at my usual time because my brain is programmed that way! Have a great day/ weekend!!

This just IN vitations

Soooooooooooooooooooooooo I've got such exciting news that made me squeal like a little girl! Brendan can attest to that! haha Our wedding invitations came in today!! I am so excited!! I can not wait to get to Irmo tomorrow to see them! This distance thing is coming to an end shortly! Wow! It's hitting hard that I'm...excuse me... We're getting married in just a little over 3 months! MAN! I wish I was in Irmo NOW so I could see them and inspect them and take pictures of them..hahaha Who knew one could get so excited over this?

Also, you know how I love to check off my to do list on The Knot.com? Well, I have completed 84 out of the 184 things to get done before "I Do". Which means only 100 things left to do in 3 months. So oh my gracious, I'm stressing! I also made another purchase today for my beautiful ladies. I tell ya, I've got some gorgeous girls in our wedding party. Which I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but I've added pictures of the wedding party to our website. So check it out!

We also have a bridal shower coming up in a few weeks which is super exciting as well! I've got my bridal portait coming up also. I've been trying to get my "tan on" so I'm not so pasty white! My bestest, Jill, is going to play with my hair next week so I can see if I like the hairstyle I chose.

I've been thinking about getting highlights. I'm not sure if I want to or not. I think I do but then I think you know, I don't want to have to keep that stuff up! So I'm undecided. After the wedding/honeymoon, I am chopping my hair off! My mom and Brendan are both going to have a fit but it takes too long to dry and style and when I say style, I mean s'straighten it because that's all I really do to my hair.

Well, I guess that's all for now. I've got to get some sleep. Sleep tight!