Thursday, May 13, 2010

Good and Bad

So today when I woke up it was a very good morning and a horribly bad morning as well! I woke up with 3 new zits and a swollen eye. Not sure how my eye became this way, last night when I was almost out my eye starting itching and it felt really dry, I figured it would just go away but when I got to the bathroom this morning it was super swollen and tender, I'm assuming its something to do with stress since I haven't started taking any new meds or using new cosmetics. I'm hoping it just goes away in a couple of days! The good news however was when I got on the scale I'd dropped 2 lbs! I wish you could tell by looking at me though lol, I'm hoping to be down 15 more by the wedding which if i really put my mind to it will be a piece of cake. Speaking of cake, I'm super excited to meet with my cake lady and look at pictures of things she's made and make my final decision! (FINALLY) it really shouldn't be this hard! We are also doing getting the invites done this weekend, then all that's left is the little stuff oh and the flowers, just waiting to hear back from my florist! I only need to order them 4 weeks in advance to be sure we can get any flowers I want ( I know this from working at the flower patch for 3 1/2 years! ) anyway, I'm almost done with my jars, I've only got 13 sticks to glue on fans, still need to plan the bbq, find some shoes, make a playlist, oh ya and get my tax credit so i can book my honeymoon!!! Ah that is the major stress in my life! I will be going to Hawaii even if I have to stowaway in the cargo area in a snow suit! I will be there! The house is coming along, we got the kitchen floor ripped out, or should I say floors! There ended up being 3 subfloors and 5 different layers of tile and laminate, not including the main layer which is hard wood :) Kasey's uncle has a sander so we can get started on sanding and refinishing that and hopefully it will look AWESOME! I am planning to finish painting the cupboards this weekend and having Kasey change the hardware, we need to put the trim on the windows in the front room and then just clean it up! The blinds are SO gross, I was  thinking of taking them in the yard and hosing them down but I think I'll just buy new ones. The office and the master are done, and as soon as we are done with the kitchen floor and I can move the stove back in there I'll finish cleaning and painting the guest room! Its kind of frustrating thinking of everything that we've done and still knowing how much is left! And we haven't even started in the yard really!! Ugh we had someone come and airate and spray the weeds, i've mowed twice and we sprayed again but then a couple days later it rained for 3 days so I'm really hoping it had time to kill them off first! I'm sure we'll have to spray weeds about 10 more times and then do spot treatments, but we are going to lay our seed first so we might just have alot of weeds for the next month or two lol, oh well. One day it will be fantastically beautiful! Its weird to think I'm going to actually live there one day (pretty soon too) instead of just working on it all the time and then going back to my parents! I'll take some pictures of the kitchen floor either today or tomorrow and post them!
-me

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The House

REALLY BIG POST....
I'm going to be kind of like the people that take pictures of their house every week while its being built (cus if I was building I would TOTALLY do that) but since I'm not building I'm going to show updated pictures of repairs, new paint jobs, new flooring, stuff like that! 
Here is the first round of pictures: (beware, VERY dirty!)

This is my house :) Soon to be painted white with a red door and navy blue shutters!


(something like this... even though this is my REALLY bad photoshop upgrade lol)

Here is the front room (we've already added the base boards, vent covers and all of the door casings! Now to take down those AWFUL black wanna be drapes!!) 


Moving into the office/den: Yes that is the EXACT color of pepto! SICK!!!!!!





Up the stairs into the master bedroom/bath:


I'll get better pictures of these!



Back down and into the kitchen:


Don't worry, that water heater is the first thing to go! Next is the stove :) Its going to be like a brand new house when I'm done with it!!


the cute little kid is my nephew, he is an awesome helper! No matter the project he always wants to help, whether its working with papa in the yard, on the house, or helping me make sugar cookies!!

This is the guest bedroom, it's getting new carpet! (so is the master, oh and the carpet in the master is coming out this week and being replaced with a nice wood floor!)


neither of these pictures show that there are two windows in this room... how did I miss that? Anyway the 'closet' on the right is going to be made into a built in book shelf!


This is the main bathroom, it actually was just redone and I love it, it just needs a little bleach and a rug!


this is our OUTSTANDING backyard! I LOVE IT, and will be spending most of my time in it, I love to garden, and just lay in the grass! It needs some fill dirt and grass seed, and the fruit trees have already been trimmed by my wonderful dad! now I just need to rake, weed, and get that fantastic garden going!! 






so there you have it, my new house. I absolutely LOVE it!! I've always (well since I was like 16 lol) dreamed of having a really old house that I could fix up, and now I have it! 

Monday, March 29, 2010

Wedding Stuff...

I think I'm starting to fall behind in life! Planning a wedding without a groom gets old, (even though they don't do much, its nice to have someone to cry to when your stressed and you need a hug, yes I do the pouting but with out the hugs) I just bought a house, and the stress of that has probably put me pretty close to my limit, I feel on the verge of tears A LOT!!! Its a good thing that Kasey gets home in 2 WEEKS! I had to laugh the other day when my friend was helping me with cakes and she commented 'I'm so glad I'm not high maintenance with this stuff' at that point it clicked in my head right then, I don't need to find a cake that everyone else thinks is pretty, I need to find a cake that I love, and has Kasey and Ashlee written all over it! Most everything is decided for the wedding, now its just that awful part of paying for it all!
Here are some of the awesome things to look for at my wedding :) 
Not so much these flowers but these colors!!! Everything is going to be in hot pink, orange, yellow and green!


these awesome details... however my candy buffet will not be this awesome, my paper lanterns will be in different colors, and my center pieces will be WAY hotter than that!


And one of these beauties will be displayed proudly under a tree covered with twinkle lights! 


-Me

Monday, March 22, 2010

Opps...

So, I'm not going to lie.. I've been so busy the last little while I almost completely forgot that I even had a personal blog! The sad thing is that I've just been busy with the same things so I don't even really have any updates.. Kasey comes home in 17 days!!! (but if you has him he's off by two days so he'll tell you 15 and when I try to correct him he just gets mad lol) Most of my wedding plans are done and I'm just waiting around for it to be closer for things to actually happen... bridal shower, ordering candy, stuff like that. Anyways I'll write a real post about something exciting later this week! 
- me