Monday, March 30, 2009

Engagement Photo Session Scheduled!

Hooray! We scheduled our engagement photo session for May 15! It will give me a little time to figure out what I am going to wear and maybe lay out and get some sun in our backyard!

I can’t believe there are only 21 more weeks until the big day! I think wedding planning shenanigans are going to start picking up again. I am going to be ordering my cake in the next few weeks, but really other than that I don’t have much to do until May. I think in April I have to schedule hair and make-up appointments and plan the welcome baskets. Oh yea and we have to go and order Erik’s wedding band!

ANNND my wedding dress is coming in the second week of April, eeek, I have to start hitting the gym harder and no more sweets. I am going to try and schedule my dress fitting for May 1st. Then have to buy some shoes. My veil is arriving at the end of April and my tiara comes in around May 20th. After I get those I will go in for my mock wedding hair appointment (once I figure out where we are going to get our hair done! Eeek)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Domestication!

On Sunday Erik and I bought a lawn mower! I know a bit of a dorky thing to get excited about but hey, it is our first lawn mower. This lawn mower has a little blue garden hose attachment thingy so we can attach our hose to it and clean out the bottom of the mower. It is also a self-propelling lawn mower which I told Erik would be a good idea to buy so I can mow the lawn too (I have much to learn about this lawn mowing task).


This weekend was spent doing some much needed spring cleaning. Saturday we started out by breaking down the rest of the cabinets outside organizing the pieces (All Erik’s idea, I am so lucky to have a very tidy and organized Fiancé; he makes all of this mess easier to deal with).

The weather was so wonderful this weekend neither of us wanted to be inside. So we decided to empty out the pond because it was literally beginning to smell like sewage. At first we started to pump the water into a bucket and carried it out to the street but after two trips we decided it was going to take about six days to complete. So, being the brilliant engineers we are, we decided to set up a series of tubes trying to lead the water out of the pond and into the street. We got as far as our fence. We tried to attach the garden hose but that sprayed water everywhere. Then Erik realized we could use the sliver clampy things (I know not very scientific description) to attach the larger tube to the smaller garden hose. Long story short here are some pictures of our creation.












Monday, March 16, 2009

Demo-weekend!

This past weekend was probably out most productive weekend in weeks! Let’s see… we finalized our lighting contract with Ross (a family friend of Erik) and he said he will begin work on either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. To make his job a bit easier Erik and I did a lot of demo work in the house.

Saturday we took down the wall that was separating the kitchen from the living room. I wanted to take a hammer to the wall but Erik suggested we should take a slightly more organized approach to the demolition.


We did however have a little fun smashing a few parts of the drywall in with hammers. It took us about 5-6 hours to complete the wall demo-ing but it was well worth it. Don’t you think…?


Sunday we got a late start but went over to our house around 11 am to take the bottom cabinets out of the “kitchen”. It look us about and hour and fifteen minutes (but who is counting) to figure out how to remove the garbage disposal. Once that was out, we call Bethany’s dad, Tom, and asked if he could come over and help us take out the stovetop. It took him literally five minutes to take the stovetop off (it would have taken us hours haha). I really don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have such wonderful and generous family and friends!

After they moved the countertop Erik’s mom came over and helped us take out the rest of the bottom cabinets. Four hours later….


We cleaned up the dust and debris, which took FOREVER, then we measured and taped off where everything in our kitchen was going to go. I totally forgot to take a picture of that, but we now have a visual sense of where everything is going to go. Oh yea and we ordered our island hood and should be getting that in the mail sometime this week.

That’s all for now. When Ross begins the electrical work I will bloggy again! Have a great week everyone!



Friday, March 6, 2009

Crown Molding and Invitations!

This past weekend we put up some of the crown molding in the bedrooms and Erik re-grouted the bathroom.  Putting up crown molding is a LOT harder than it looks; the angles do not make any logical sense. After a great deal of frustration we finally got the hang of it and managed to put up crown molding in 2 of the rooms.  Hopefully we can finish that up this coming weekend, but we have to wait and see if the tools are available for us to use.

 

Our mom’s came over and helped clean off the haze on the bathroom tiles, which was left over after the re-grouting.



 

Six months to go until the Big Day!  I order the invitations last week and approved the proofs, which means the invitations are set to arrive at my house this Friday!  I have Friday off so I will take that time to figure out how I am going to go about addressing the envelopes.  I have 3 months to address them (or have someone address them) before I mail them out at the end of May.

 

Also a quick reminder: Please book your hotel rooms ASAP.  The contact information for the hotel can be found on the left hand side of this page.