New Addition

So Matt and I have been married almost 10 months now. It's been exciting, fun, and full of learning experiences. About two months ago we welcomed a new addition into our family. The first boy, Rocky Fillmore. He is a black lab and absolutely fun to have around. Our friends had puppies and they were at the end of the litter and wanted to be done with have puppies around all the time. So they offered to give us Rocky! (We re-named him Rocky....I think they had named him Beethoven, because he was the biggest puppy in the litter)

This picture is a picture of him the first day we got him.





and oh how he has grown! Here is a picture of Rocky at Matt's favorite fishing spot


He still looks like a puppy....but he's definitely a little more than 25 lbs now!!!!

He sleeps through the night and makes me go on walks every morning, so it really is a great deal! He loves to just hang out outside so I can just sit and read and he'll romp around for an hour or so and then come in and take a nap. Matt loves him too! When those two wrestle ....well you could just say, cheap entertainment :)

We are also expecting our first human addition to the family at the end of January. It's a boy! I'm pretty sure Matt has our son's football schedule planned out already.....so my bet is that he's going to be a musician :)

We don't have a scanner to put any ultra sound pictures up...but that's ok, as my dad put it "those are only pictures that mothers can look at and truly love".

So you'll just have to wait a few more months for those!

At Last!!!

We did it!!!!! Hallelujah! The crops are saved! a.k.a. We're finnally married! Talk about a whirl wind. I really wasn't feeling any pressures of wedding plans until the week before the event, in which I was truly grateful, because if people are that stressed out like that during their whole engagement....well let's just say, I can see why people go the Vegas route. I cried a little, and then a lot. I got sick, and then better (thankfully). But all in all I have no complaints...which I have to say, as the bride, is very impressive.

The wedding was perfect! The reception was perfect! I really couldn't have asked for more.

Now that it is all over I'm getting used to married life, which I have to say is much more fun than dating. It's much more relaxed. Not to mention Matt and I are both goof balls at times, so if you get both of us hyper, watch out! We've already had multiple dance parties in our kitchen (thankfully we have no downstairs neighbors...we're the bottom level apartment).

I'm also getting used to a new city. To be honest, the most frustrating thing to me is not knowing exactly where everything is in the city and not knowing things well enough to be able to give a hitch hiker directions. But other than that I am enjoying myself quite a lot. I'm meeting a lot of great people who live conviently close to us. So I'm sure our apartment will turn into the entertainment villa I so fervently decorated it to be :)

Beyond that, I'm enjoying getting used to the new life and enjoying the adventure!

Exactly 10 days (to the minute)

The last days are finally here!

Though it's been a quick engagement, I'm glad to see the last of the days are finally here. I've come to see that being engaged is WONDERFUL....for the first two weeks. Once I'd described my center pieces, the shades of colors for our wedding (to make sure people understand that the red and green I chose are NOT "Christmasy" looking), if I'm having a bridal shower, what my dress looks like, where we're going on a Honey Moon (which has changed about every week), and that, no, I'm not having real flowers...mostly orimami, etc. about 1,000 times, it gets very mundane. Not the fact that I'm getting married, just having to talk about it all the time.

So to the world of questioners--
YES, I'm getting married next week
YES, I'm so excited
NO, I don't have everything ready
&
NO, I'm not stressed about it

as for the rest of the details, come to the reception to find out because let's be honest, can anyone get a true picture of what my dress really looks like with my very technical terms? ("ummmm....it's ivory...and it has short sleeves....)

So, we're down to the wire. Getting the last things in order. Matt needs his suit, I need a bouquet. But when it all comes down to it, we are getting married, we have a place to live as soon as we're hitched, and we are both so excited to start this new adventure together!