Whimsical September

Wedding dress = Purchased! Me – “We bought the dress! You sort of have to marry me now…”Jamie – “Oh don’t worry. That’s not a problem!” Can’t wait for June 2, 2012! <3 Jenn and I have such an amazing mom! Jennifer has been engaged for 10 months and I’ve been engaged for three months, and with TWO big weddings coming up,… Keep Reading

I’ve been playing on wedding registry sites today, and somehow ended up on anthropologie.com, only to fall in love with a bedding set that I will never justify spending the money on. Who’d guess this duvet cover ALONE is $300? Forget the sheets, pillow shams, bed skirt, etc. The only time in my life to get this bedding would be… Keep Reading

My 8th graders just finished reading the book Ties that Bind Ties that Break, which revolves around the old tradition of Chinese foot binding, and they loved it. It’s a very simple read, and that’s exactly the type of novel I wanted to start the year off reading. Nothing controversial, too difficult, or too expensive to purchase. I assigned them a… Keep Reading

Two-ish weeks until Arizona! I am SO excited about this trip because Jamie and I are taking our ENGAGEMENT PICTURES! Tucson is a beautiful area, and we will be taking them at Arizona Senora Desert Museum. It looks gorgeous! We decided to take them out in Arizona because we have to do them before he deploys and we don’t want to… Keep Reading

I am definitely the world’s worst blogger. I love to blog (mainly because I love going back and reading my posts months and years later), but I never think about it. My apologies to those who read this blog and find my posts incredibly and unnecessarily long. I am sitting at my desk at work right now procrastinating grading childhood narrative essays…. Keep Reading

I feel like this blog, one that I carelessly registered for over two years ago, is going to be a huge compilation of some of the biggest events in my life. I’m thinking I’m really going to enjoy the rest of my 20’s, as nerdy as that sounds! There are SO MANY exciting/dramatic/drastic/overwhelming/fabulous changes that will take place, from first jobs,… Keep Reading

Minor detail from this past Saturday –  Jamie took me to go look at wedding bands! The jeweler he bought my engagement ring from (Diamonds Direct) is only a few miles from where we ate lunch on Saturday, so he suggested that we go and look. I wasn’t too crazy about the idea because I was starting to get really tired from… Keep Reading

wow wow wow wow wow wow WOW! So much has been happening the last few days, and every bit of it has been extremely exciting. Last week was long. We had orientation every morning, and I worked in my classroom all afternoon. I stayed most days until at least 5. One day I strolled in the door about 7:30. I… Keep Reading