Girl's only!!

Saturday I had bridal shower #2. woohoo!! Girl power! This time it was only girls. NO BOYS ALLOWED!! >:l hehe. Two of the ladies from my mom's work threw me the shower. I was so excited because I did not expect another shower at all! They are so sweet! :) We had a brunch type of shower. It was very laid back and relaxing. Except for they made me sit in this HUGE chair and everyone was staring at me. That can be a little awkward especially for me. But that chair was HUGE!! haha. We ate lunch/brunch, opened up presents, and sat around and talked. It was perfect! Nice...relaxing...just what I needed at this point! whew! We talked about all that good girl stuff. Another...well I'M not one just yet...but another newlywed was there. :) I really enjoyed that. They got married in April. (We have a couple pics from their wedding in an older post) She was telling us alot of the funny stories that had happened with her and Bryan. LOL! They were so funny!! I just kept thinking that if Seth did even half that stuff to me that the wooden spoons that I had just gotten would be put to good use! ;p lol. jk!! hehehe. But we had a good time.


Happy Father's Day!! Sunday was Father's Day! Of course I am a huge Daddy's girl! I admit it :) can't help it! I took him out to dinner late Saturday night to a local mexican restaurant that he likes. And then on Sunday he was craving Sweet Tomatoes. yum yum! That place is so good! They have such fresh ingredients! I don't know what it is but it just tastes so fresh to me! They have a HUGE salad bar, lots of different soups, baked potatoes, muffins, a little pasta, and then dessert! Yum! It is more of a healthy restaurant. A buffet type of thing. Me and my dad enjoy eating there :) I got my dad an 8 foot ladder that he has been wanting to get forever! And my fan went kapooie so he had to put up a new one. So no better excuse to get him one of those! haha. And then I got him some dishes that he has been looking at alot recently. hehe. The story behind my dad is that with EVERY single new big thing that we get...like a sofa, carpet, wood flooring, tile...all that good stuff. Things to remodel a home. I mean obviously we don't buy this stuff everyday/ every week. But we have been trying to do more things to remodel and help make our house look nice (which it does very much so...I love my house!) But my dad likes to go and look at these things with a span over one year. And let me tell you we don't go and look at it once. I mean we go ALL the time. Everytime we are near that store we drop by to look at it over and over and over. hehe. I tease him all the time about it! lol. So I thought that I really enjoyed the plates. And instead of going to go and look at it for a year everytime we were at that store. I just bought them! Plus it was about time we got some new dishes. I think we have had the same dishes for like over 20 years. Yep they lasted that long! ...and they are still going. It's amazing how all the things that are really old are built so much better then the things that are new. It's weird how it works. But it just seems to me that all the old stuff last so much longer (unlike my fan for example that gave out after 2 years!) As most older people would say...and my dad says all the time...its... An oldie but goodie

Sorry so blurry. It's hard when you are getting attacked by 3 dogs!

Couple's Shower

Saturday I had my first shower! Or should I say WE.... It was suppose to be a couple's shower but no couples showed up. :( The only couples that were there were me and Seth and my mom and Mike. Seth was so happy that my dad came because he didn't want to be the only boy. haha. And yes I did invite my family. Family is so important to me and Seth. Right now is such a big time in our lives and my parents are VERY happy to be sharing it with us. :) We had the shower at a park in Arlington. It's actually a beautiful park. I was really impressed. It was sssoooo hot!! But besides the heat we had alot of fun!! The shower was hosted by my bridesmaids, Dee and Betty (Chryssa lives in Cali so that's kind of hard to be involved with). They did an excellent job! The games...food...the way everything was set up....beautiful! Me and Seth even brought Abby. :) I love bringing Abby to the park. She's so cute! My beautiful baby! We ate tons of food, had cake, played games, opened presents, and had lots of laughs. Here's some pics....


I was scared cause I just smeared icing on his face. I thought I was gonna get it!

The alchy Seth opening up his wine! lol. It was pear sparkling cider.




Perverts!


Opening up presents!! MMMM!! :D

Can't catch my breath

I know it's been a little while since I have been on here but me and Seth have been dealing with alot of different things lately. I feel like I have been on a rollercoaster going up and down everyday. So let me catch you up. Last weekend (I think last weekend...lately it has been running together) me and Seth went to my cousins house so he could help us with some wedding things. It was so exciting and we had so much fun! Me and Seth loved ALL of it! I meant to take pictures and I am super bummed that I wasn't able to because we have been taking pictures through the whole wedding planning process (hence the photoalbum on our website). I went to put batteries in our somewhat new camera and guess what! No place for batteries! So I am a little late on technology these days. Lol. That's what Seth's for...to keep me updated. My other camera that my dad had bought me for my birthday just 2 years ago had batteries! What is going on with the world!? haha. Sometimes I am slow but I do catch up! :D I know...I'm a nerd! So the cord to charge the battery for the camera was at my moms house. So we didn't get to take any pictures. Bummer. Then at some point last week we had ZERO groomsmen! They all had different issues... which we understood. But as you can imagine we had a little stress on our shoulders with a little more than one month before the wedding. As always the Lord pulled us through and help up out tremendously!! Fortunately and unfortunately we ended up only loosing 1 guy. I think that the Lord has always helped us out. The whole time Seth was in Cuba we had alot of problems making plans traveling and visiting eachother. Especially with him being in the military we can never plan anything. They military plans us. We make plans...make travel dates and buy tickets and then for some reason something always came up. But the Lord has always taken good care of us and things work out perfectly. Just gotta have faith! As far as other wedding planning things are coming along great! I am very excited! ONLY 38 more days!!! We are finishing up all the little details and will be doing so for the next month. We met with our DJ this past Friday and went over our itinerary. It was a very exciting! Both me and Seth enjoyed it alot!! So exciting!!!! EKS!! We also went to IKEA to do a little shopping for our apartment. To look around at furniture but only ended up buying a few items. I love that store! It's humongous!! :D Then on Sunday night as I was getting ready for work I got a phone call. It was Seth. He had gotten in an accident. Yep! I said a car accident. And yes I had gotten in one about a week or two ago. I was so scared. I think you always dread those phone calls. But Seth was ok. He is still ok. But the car is totaled. It was not our fault (I guess I should say Seth). The guy ran into Seth. He actually hit 3 cars total including Seth's car but Seth's car got hit the worst of all. Seth was stopped on the highway do to traffic because of construction. I guess the guy had spillled his drink and went down to pick it up. By the time he came back up he saw all the cars were stopped...tried to swerve but still clipped the car in front of him. He hit Seth on the back driver's side and tore off half the bumper. Then slid up with Seth's car and hit again in front. Seth was VERY lucky! When you look at the car the whole back drivers side is banged in and then their is nothing the whole length of door and then hit on the front side. I was so scared but I definately know that the Lord was watching out over Seth! So as you can see we have had alot of ups and downs lately. I wanted to write them this way so that you can go UH...OOOO...UH...OOO NO...with me. ;p hehe. Now you know how we felt! haha!


Our shopping trip to IKEA

2nd class

Congrats to my Setho! He is officially 2nd class! So what does that mean to most of us? Pretty much nothing. All I know is the military is based off rank. And all the ranks and different uniforms confuse me. I can compare that to the 'civilian' world like their are always the small little workers, then you have the ones that have seniority, then the supervisors, managers, CEOs, and so on. That is how it basically works for them also. Each time you get a little more money (not much) and a little more responsibility. I am super excited for him! He has been doing fantastic at work! This was our first military encounter together. It was fun! Kind of intimidating because I didn't know what I was suppose to do. They have all these rules and I didn't know if I was suppose to follow them or not and I didn't have Seth standing next to me to coach me or tell me what to do. The room was filled with military. Only 3 of us were civilians! But I did have alot of fun! I was so proud of him!


So proud!

Getting ready

Getting his official letter

10,000 miles and a car wreck

This week would mark one of the top scares of my life. I was in a car accident on my way to work. Luckily it was a VERY minor accident. More like a scratch here and there. All I can say is that it scared me to death! I was shaking like no other and it really didn't help that they couldn't speak english. It was the first car accident that I have ever been in so it shook me up pretty good. When I got in my car last night to go to work I looked at my odometer and my mileage was 9999. So little mileage and already an accident :( Atleast I was able to walk away from it unharmed. I know someone was watching over me. Thank you :)


My pretty car

The following day

Of course I wanted to write about my picture taking experience! But I have to say both me and Seth had a GREAT day yesterday! Yesterday was the first day that since Seth has been here and we were both off together that we did not spend yesterday together. Seth had planned a man day with his buddy from work. They were going to go to breakfast at IHOP and then off to see two movies...Terminator Salvation and Star Trek. (I've already see Star Trek with out him! hehe). I had appointments all day long. 11 o'clock was hair, 1 o'clock was makeup, and 6:30 was picture time!! We had no idea how everything was going to work out so we wanted plenty of time to be able to get ready for the pictures. But before Seth left for his man day he got a call from his chief. He thought they were trying to call him to come in on his day off BUT instead they called to tell him he made next rank!! I am SO SO SO SO SO SUPER EXCITED for him! I am so proud of him!! Honestly neither of us thought this would happen. I had prayed for him that day but when he got home he said their were alot of questions that he didn't know. Mainly about the boat of which I know he's in the navy but he's never been on a ship! But the Lord works in great ways! And he made next rank!!!! YEA!! He's been doing so good at work it's really awesome! The other awesome thing that Seth was recently selected for is called SRT, Security Reaction Team. He was asked to be in the primary team where if any disasters like Hurricane Katrina happen again then he will be shipped off to go and help. I am so proud of him! :D eks!!!! After the chief had called and talked to Seth I was like jumping around all over the house. Jumping on him! It was so exciting. Seth was the only one to advance to his new rank in all of security at his base. The only other one to advance in security with Seth was a guy who made 3rd class. Seth is now SECOND CLASS!! WOOHOOOO!! Out of the WHOLE ENTIRE Navy the number of people to advance to 2nd class (That'd be Seth now ;P) was only 8%. That is so awesome! So our day started out great! After that he left and me and my mom started getting things together for our big day. At 11 we went and got my hair done which turned out BEAUTIFUL!!! Then I went and got my makeup done by airbrush! Thats so cool! But it tickles me. hehe. Then me and my mom went and ate lunch at Jason's Deli and I had me a big ol' salad with some ice cream. :) Hey! I can't be ALL healthy. I have to add a little fat somewhere. Then since we had a little time to spare we hit up a couple stores to look for a little miscellanous wedding stuff. Which we found but were more expensive then what we wanted to pay for them. So we headed off to Las Colinas where we were going to meet up with the photographer. The photographer took about 2 hours shooting pictures! whew! And afterwards I was exhausted!!! I had ssssooo much fun! I was a little tense at first but then I started to loosen up. The photographer was so informative and made me feel so comfortable. He was telling us what he was looking for in the pictures not only with me but also explaining to us how he takes the pictures and what he looks for. We had alot of fun! Afterwards he gave us a few tips on the wedding and then we scurried off to get home. I really wanted to celebrate Seth's success but it was way to late! So me and my mom stopped by the grocery store and picked up Seth an oreo cookie cake and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream (our favorite). We had fun! Celebrated! WOW! WHAT A DAY! It was an awesome and blessed day for both me and Seth!



Getting my hair done for bridal portraits

My handsome man in his uniform :)

Bridal Portraits!

Today is such an exciting day for me! I'm off work and going to get my bridal portraits done! EKS!!! I'M SO EXCITED! We are going to Las Colinas to shoot for the pictures. Last night me and Seth had a good night. We ate some good dinner prepared from my mom and Albertsons. Then we FINALLY watched Marley & Me. I've been wanting to see this movie forever and we bought it a long time ago. Last night was the the first night we actually had a chance to watch it. That dog was bad! My goodness! I loved the part when Marley attacked the dog trainer because her hair reminded him of a poodle. LOL! That was hilarious. It was a good movie and of course I was sobbing at the end :( It was very sad. And after 22 hours of being up I hit the sack quickly after the movie was over. Allllrrriiiggghhhtttyyyyyyy well I'm off to getting ready for the bridal portraits! Wish me luck!