happenings

I haven't written lately! I know. I'm horrible! And so much has happened!
We booked the venue AND a photographer!
His name is John Shim, and this is his website: http://www.johnshim.com/
He's very talented and we are so happy that he is going to be shooting our wedding!

I have been super falling more and more in love with my fiance! It still feels amazing and awesome to say that! We have had crazy days lately. Just a lot of going and going and not much time for relaxing! We went crafting and got supplies to make bunting and went antiquing some more and he found some real cool suspenders this weekend that he is going to wear to the wedding!

We went to North Carolina to see his Poppy (mine too now I guess!) this weekend. Friday we went and finalized some stuff with our venue, which we were pleasantly surprised that it had been expanded for the same price that we paid for when it was smaller, then Saturday we drove up and spent the day walking and holding hands and spending time with family and eating way too much food. We went antiquing in Greensboro and got some delicious chai tea at a cool coffee shop where Santa was drawing pictures, found some cool stuff for Nathan, but not so much for me, but it's ok :) Today we went to church and ate more tons of good food and I am stuffed! We stopped at another antique store in Lavonia that was incredible, but we didn't have enough time to look at everything in there! It was humongous! Then we went and ate pizza and talked about married life and what we want and got some scratch off lotto tickets (I won 2 free tickets!) and laughed a lot :) We also locked my keys in the car this morning after church... but all ended up well with only a few bad words said. (Just kidding)

I started a new job at the school! It doesn't pay awesome, but the schedule is great and anything is better than nothing! Most of that money is going to go towards the wedding! I just want to get married right now. I love Nathan so much. He's the sweetest! The other day I was having a bad day (it happens...I'm a girl) and he kept calling me his cinnanom bun. Yes, cinnanom. So when he came over to see me he brought me some cinnamon doughnuts from Krispy Kreme :) He's wonderful! And I need to snatch him up quick and for forever!

I need to start working on my nursing stuff since I go back in less than a month... Oh man. Am I looking forward to it? Yes... and no. It was stressful and wonderful and I learned a lot, but it strained a lot. I lost social time, free time, fiance (then boyfriend!) time, and sleep. I lost a lot of sleep. But, I am looking forward to learning more and edging closer and closer to my degree. I need prayers!

G'night!

pretty walk at Poppy's house

venue!

suspenders!

expanded venue!

antiques are love

I used to hate antiques. I'd always bug my mom and tell her all that "old crap" was ugly. I mean, why would you want that when you can get something new instead?! I swore I would never like any of that. The clothes were ugly, the jewelry was ugly, the furniture was way too "old" looking... and now, I love it. I have become my mother.

I am all over Etsy all the time just looking at everything. Lately I find myself looking at everything vintage or vintage-inspired, and it just appeals to my heart. If it is an "antique" and belonged to someone else, somehow that appeals more to me. That item had a life way before mine, and I think about all of the things that it has "seen". That's someone else's old wedding ring that has seen tons of years of marriage, and someone else's chair that has been through many family dinners, etc. I just LOVE that. I wish I had things of my own that have been in my family for a long time. When we went up to New York this year, my grandma gave me a yellow gold ring with two little opals in it and two itty-bitty diamonds on the side. My grandpa had it made for my grandma when they first got married. That meant so much to me! I hope to pass it on to my daughter or daughter-in-law one day.