I can't believe in just a few short weeks I get to marry the man of my dreams!!! :) Not everyone finds the depth of love I have for and from J.R. We have the kind of relationship that people dream of.
Even though my family is not able to be there in person, I know they all wish us well and wish they could be here to share our special day. With airfare as expensive as it is, and the fact that we decided just 6 short weeks ago to embark on a wedding this year instead of next all factor into why they can't come. I understand, doesn't make it less sad that I don't get to show him off and strut like a peacock about how proud I am to be marrying him, or for how proud I am of my kids.
I have been asked if I am nervous. I am not nervous about spending my life loving this wonderful person, or raising my kids together with him. I am nervous about all my plans going as I think they should. I am trying to not have huge expectations and relying on the "pros", to help me with the things I know I won't be able to do. I plan to be very laid back, relaxed and enjoy ever second of my first day as Mrs. Fikuart!!!
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I Corinthians 13:4-7
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Planning
It's been awhile since I blogged.
To catch anyone who reads this up, summer vacation is over. Kids have been back to school for a week already. J.R and I have set a wedding date and together we have it all planned and ready to go. Our date is October 16th, 2011. Yes, you read that correctly, in just 40 days we will become man and wife. :) I am so excited to be committing my life to such a wonderful person. He makes me happy through and through!!
The kids are excited about the whole thing. I think it really cements for them that we are a "family".
I am blessed to have someone who not only "knows" me but who loves me for being me. (if that makes any sense...LOL)
As for the anti anxiety meds I was taking to help me lose weight.....that didn't work. I actually had gained like 5 more lbs!!! I was freaking out more over that than anything. So I went off them and I am trying something else...which is working quite nicely. I am down 5-6 lbs and I am not even trying. Gotta love that right? :) I can't lose too much more before the wedding because I would have to pay to have my dress altered at the last minute and right now it fits great. We are trying to have the wedding we want to have on a budget. So far I have planned everything and we have everything arranged and we have spent a little less than $2,500. I think that is pretty darn good. We will get married in our church, and then having a cocktail type reception after in a really awesome location just outside of town. So it's close and we have only invited about 35 people so it will be intimate and romantic. I only hope that some of my family can make it. I know it is a lot to ask of them, but I would do it for them. So....here's hoping it turns out as nice as I think it will. The planning wasn't too hard either. I had most of it done and set up within the first week. Everyone keeps saying I should be a wedding planner...LOL I even made the invitations and the programs for the church (with J.R's help of course.) He has been so supportive and helpful with all the wedding stuff. He picked out most of the music for the church part. He knows his classical organ music!! :)
We just make a good team, our strengths enhance the others. We compliment one another....we are like peanut butter and jelly, we just work!!! :)
Okay enough for now....I could babble on all day about our upcoming special day.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I Corinthians 13:4-7
To catch anyone who reads this up, summer vacation is over. Kids have been back to school for a week already. J.R and I have set a wedding date and together we have it all planned and ready to go. Our date is October 16th, 2011. Yes, you read that correctly, in just 40 days we will become man and wife. :) I am so excited to be committing my life to such a wonderful person. He makes me happy through and through!!
The kids are excited about the whole thing. I think it really cements for them that we are a "family".
I am blessed to have someone who not only "knows" me but who loves me for being me. (if that makes any sense...LOL)
As for the anti anxiety meds I was taking to help me lose weight.....that didn't work. I actually had gained like 5 more lbs!!! I was freaking out more over that than anything. So I went off them and I am trying something else...which is working quite nicely. I am down 5-6 lbs and I am not even trying. Gotta love that right? :) I can't lose too much more before the wedding because I would have to pay to have my dress altered at the last minute and right now it fits great. We are trying to have the wedding we want to have on a budget. So far I have planned everything and we have everything arranged and we have spent a little less than $2,500. I think that is pretty darn good. We will get married in our church, and then having a cocktail type reception after in a really awesome location just outside of town. So it's close and we have only invited about 35 people so it will be intimate and romantic. I only hope that some of my family can make it. I know it is a lot to ask of them, but I would do it for them. So....here's hoping it turns out as nice as I think it will. The planning wasn't too hard either. I had most of it done and set up within the first week. Everyone keeps saying I should be a wedding planner...LOL I even made the invitations and the programs for the church (with J.R's help of course.) He has been so supportive and helpful with all the wedding stuff. He picked out most of the music for the church part. He knows his classical organ music!! :)
We just make a good team, our strengths enhance the others. We compliment one another....we are like peanut butter and jelly, we just work!!! :)
Okay enough for now....I could babble on all day about our upcoming special day.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I Corinthians 13:4-7
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