Thursday, November 07, 2013

gift shopping



My maid of honor's birthday is coming up, and I always like to buy her adorable gifts from Etsy. She is a super creative and artsy person, and she loves when I buy her handmade gifts. She loves supporting the local people! She is also wanting to go to small, local restaurant over a huge chain every time we have dinner together. She is such a sweetie.

Jena Earrings - Champagne
Picture from the Etsy shop of Elisabeth Ashlie

Anywho, I purchased her gift from the Etsy shop of Elisabeth Ashlie. Their earrings are super duper cute. The pair I bought for her are pictured above (found here) (and don't worry! She doesn't read my blog!).

A good friend of mine and I are hosting a Christmas party for our high school friends in December. We are playing the White Elephant gift giving game, so I bought another pair of earrings for that event. I always love to bring gifts I know the girls will love, so people will fight over it! (if you have no idea what gift game I am talking about, google White Elephant). My personal rule is to bring a gift I would want for myself because if no one else wants it or gets excited about it, I could end up with it and be so happy!! :) The earrings I chose for the party are these.

Please go check out their shop! It's so so adorable and great service!
The owner of the shop also has an awesome blog here.

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

wedding thoughts

This morning I had enough time to grab some coffee from the Starbucks in town before heading to work. I love when I get ready early and have time to do that! It always makes my day that much better. I am not a huge coffee drinker, and I do not drink soda, so when I do have coffee, it is a great pick me up (as they say).

It is now less than a year to our wedding. That is super crazy to me! Most of the vendors are booked now, so I am not super stressed right now. I have started the process of creating our wedding website though. Ricky and I are very creative together, so I did not want a website from theknot.com like everyone else has. I am not saying they are not great; we just want to design something ourselves! Ricky creates websites for companies around town, and so I am making him create an awesome one for our wedding with all the details. The guests won't see the website until March of next year because that is when the Save the Dates will go out. The website link will be on those, so we have a while to customize the way we (meaning me HAHA!) want.

Every once in a while, I wish we would have had gotten married within six months (or less) of getting engaged because I feel like this engagement is sooooo long. I love having the time to plan everything I want for it, and being able to save for it too, but sometimes I wish we would have just eloped and have started our lives already! I cannot wait to start our lives together, and right now, I feel like we are in limbo. Waiting for the big day until we actually move in together and love on one another forever & ever. I cannot change anything now (tons of money has already been spent), but sometimes that thought comes into my crazy mind. 

Side note: there is this blog post swirling around on Facebook about how marriage isn't for you. Click here if you want to see the original post. I skimmed through it fairly quickly, and it made sense to me that marriage is for the other person in the relationship. I love to take care of Ricky and make sure he is happy. I love to spoil him, and I love to make him smile & laugh. He is who I am constantly thinking about. I cannot wait to be his wife and take his last name. I cannot wait to live with him and be newlyweds with him. I am very blessed to have found him! BUT another one of my friends posted another blog post that was responding to the original Marriage Isn't For You post. Here is the response. I loved the response as well! God is a huge part of our marriage, and Ricky's love for God is one of the main things I love about him. Ricky is the reason why I am so comfortable with my relationship with God now. I will forever be thankful to him for that!

P.S. - Happy Hump Day! :)