INVITATIONS MAILED!

YIPPIE! I mailed most of the invitations out today. There are a few I still have to finalize mailing addresses and print the envelopes out but 95% of them are on their way! Please RSVP as soon as you can! Also when you go to write on the shiny brown paper you can use a black felt tip pen, if you don’t have one of those play around with a few pens to see what works. I hope everyone can find some sort of writing utensil that shows up on the paper, I apologize if you have difficulty.

In other news, our engagement pictures are up! Click here http://www.peredaphotography.com/pickpic/gallery/jump.php and select our album. The password is hassas (all lowercase). Let me know what you guys think! I have to see which ones I want to order. I might end up asking them to make an album of the ones we like.

Enjoy! And don’t forget to RSVP by June 30 (sooner if you can)

FINALLY DONE!

…well most of it is complete. We have a few finishing touches to make but we will do that after we move in. Our kitchen turned out even better than we had ever imagined! I won’t put pictures up here yet, we want everyone to be surprised when they come see it in person, but if you want to see a picture of it I will email them to you.

The granite was installed flawlessly on Friday! Hyojon and Jan also came over on Friday and installed the last cabinet above the fridge as well as the two panels surrounding the fridge. It was a nice birthday present for Erik. Thanks guys!

Erik had to work alllll day Saturday, which really sucked but the appliances and backsplash were installed while he was at work. On Sunday, we painted the ceiling, some door and window trim, and mowed the lawn. During the week, Ross is going to come and install an outlet for the stove and fix our faucet valve. Once he does that we can finish off the back side of the breakfast bar. Then we have to put on the handles for the cabinets.

We are planning on having our housewarming party with our friends on June 13! We are so totally excited for it!

Wedding news, we are starting the invitation assembly process. I plan on mailing the invitations out either tomorrow or Wednesday. YIPPIE!

Engagement picture montage on Facebook!

Quick little note, our photographer has posted a video montage of some of our engagement photos. It is only available on facebook so I apologize if you do not have access but hopefully most of you know someone who does have facebook. You can find the video on my personal profile. We should be able to view the pictures on the photographer’s website soon, I will update with the information when they are posted!

Enjoy!

MAJOR disappointment!

If you haven’t heard already, our granite was scheduled to be installed this past Friday. Well I took a half day at work and got there around noon. They starting bringing in the granite pieces and after about an hour and a half they brought in the longest piece. Everything was going well until I noticed they were installing a 4’’ backsplash. I texted Erik and he immediately called me and said they aren’t supposed to put in a granite backsplash (we had specifically asked not to have one). So I told the installers we didn’t want the backsplash and he told me if they didn’t put it in we would have about a half an inch gap between the wall and the edge of the granite. I knew something was wrong, so again I called Erik and he was luckily able to leave work and come take charge. We called Saeed Joon and he also came over and both he and Erik agreed that they had completely botched the cuts in the granite. Long story short, they had measured it correctly and drawn it out, but when the granite was sent to be cut they had cut it an inch too short (idiots). Saeed Joon yelled at them and told them they had to do it again and do it correctly this time. So we are going to try again this Friday (hopefully, maybe sooner).

Needless to say Erik and I were both very very disappointed. We have to push everything back another weekend. The backsplash also could not be installed because we have to wait for the granite to go in, same deal with the appliances. Ugh!

We had a very nice Memorial Day weekend. We went to three BBQs, very yummy but we ate waaay too much. We attempted to play golf yesterday but as soon as we started it starting pouring down rain and we had to get rainchecks. This worked out to our advantage because we got a free 9 holes of golf!

We didn’t get anything done on the house or with the wedding; it was a weekend of eating. I think I am going to have to bring the wedding invitations to work and fold and stuff them during my lunch all week, I am going to try and mail them out on Friday!! Oh yea and we might be getting a puppy in four months, maybe even two puppies!! Our friends own a boxer and they think she might be pregnant, (keep your fingers crossed)

100 days left!

WHOOOOAAA only 100 DAYS LEFT TILL THE WEDDING!!!!!

So I was totally stalking Diana’s wedding blog and at her 100 day remaining mark she was exactly in the same position as I am. I have yet to assemble the wedding invitations and order my cake. Haha. I suppose great minds think alike? Haha.

My hairdresser called me yesterday to hash out some details, and I think we are pretty much set to start getting our hair done at around 11:30 on the day of the wedding! Liz and her husband (our photographers) will be arriving at the church at 2pm. Liz will take us ladies and her husband will take the men to take the separate bridal party pictures. So I supposed I should work on a “day of” schedule to send out to the bridal party. Hmmm…

Ok breathe… I can do this!

No work, all play… sort of

Last weekend our couch and appliances were delivered, I have yet to take pictures of them haha. Diana came to visit on Wednesday and stayed the weekend, so we put the housework on hold for the weekend. It was definitely a much needed break.

On Friday we went and picked out/ordered our granite for the countertops! They are coming this Friday to install them. I will be leaving work at lunch to watch! After we picked out our granite we rushed to Meadowlark Botanical gardens where we met our photographer for our engagement pictures. We had so much fun and the weather was perfect. Liz (one of our photographers) said they would have the pictures ready for us in two weeks! Believe me; as soon as they are posted I post the link. YAY!

Our grass grows like its on steroids, I am not kidding. We mow the lawn on Sundays and by Tuesday the grass is already looking shabby. So tonight we are going to our house to mow the front lawn. While I mow the lawn Erik and Luke are going to be installing the last cabinet; the one that goes over the fridge. Oh yea and my strawberries are growing!

Diana designed our wedding menus; so that is one less thing we have to worry about, yay Sperbeny! I am almost done addressing the invitations, I am going to try and mail them out next Friday (on Erik’s birthday!). Also if you need a hotel for the weekend please don’t forget to call and reserve your rooms! The information for the hotel can be found on the left hand side of this page.

I took a four day weekend…! Long bloggy.

…but it wasn’t all fun and games. On Thursday my mom stayed home from work with me! We got there really early and I started doing some of the sanding while my mom fixed the area around the old mirror. Then we went to lunch and home depot (I am so tired of home depot!). After lunch we came back to the house and cleaned and taped and painted the living room, and the trim in the bathroom. THANKS MOMMY! After dinner Erik and I went back to our house and he applied a bit more speckle.

I had the day off on Friday (my usual every other Friday off business) so I scheduled to try on my wedding dress! We went and I tried it on and it fit wonderfully, I can’t wait to wear it again. I scheduled an appointment for my fitting for June 12!

Then we (me and Erik’s mom) went back to our house and waited for the AC repair man to come and look at the AC. He told us the coils were leaking!? I have no idea what that means. Long story short they have to call the insurance company to see what they are going to pay for, blah, blah. Hopefully they will come back and just replace the darn thing. After he left we went to home depot (ugh) and bought some 2x4s and sheets of plywood. It was a crazy cramped ride back to the house but we got there. We then started painting my accent wall in the living room, I’ll post pictures when it’s all done; it’s a secret. The cabinets arrived on Friday as well!!! Here is a picture of all the boxes!

So Saturday morning Erik and I went to our house and started installing the cabinets. Luke and Hyojon came over to help. We called Tom like 100 times to ask him questions, and he came over and helped out too! Thanks guys! Here is what the cabinets looked like at the end of the day Saturday.

On Sunday, we installed the two other upper cabinets with Luke’s help, which took most of the morning. There were no studs in the wall we are putting the cabinets against, so we had to get a 6 inch screw and hand screw it to the header of the house! And by we I mean Erik, it looked exhausting. Tom also told us we have to go back and screw the cabinets into the cinderblock.

In the afternoon we started laying out the bottom cabinets. We thought the lazy Susan was an incorrect size, so we couldn’t install that until we got a hold of Tom to ask him about it. He told us lazy Susans are not supposed to be flush with the walls. They are basically held into place by the cabinets next to them.

Here are a few pictures of what the kitchen looks like now!! We still have a little ways to go before it’s done.

Still sooooooooo much work to do!

This past weekend Erik and Luke started putting mud on the drywall around our kitchen. Drywall mud is everyone’s least favorite home improvement activity. It is most likely going to take the rest of this week to finish all the prep work for the cabinet install. Erik and I are planning to go to our house everyday after work to see if we can get all of the prep work completed by Friday. While the boys were working on the mudding, I was gardening. Here is a sneak peak at our vegetable garden.

Later Saturday afternoon Erik and I put up the breakfast bar wall. We still have to put up some drywall on the wall, but at least we roughed in the location of it. We are also thinking that we are going to put some sort of stone work on the surface of the wall to match the stone work of the fireplace, (we still have to pick out the stone).

Yesterday before our kickball game we went to our house and Erik did some more drywall mud work, while I mowed the lawn (It was so hot outside). We also realized our air-conditioning does not work; luckily we have a home owner’s warranty service which will repair or replace the unit. We also ordered our backsplash tile which should be here by the end of the week.

CABINETS ORDERED!

YESSSSSS! We ordered our kitchen cabinets! They are scheduled to arrive at our house on Friday, May 1!!!! AAANND we picked out the tile backsplash we want (I think). We ordered two samples of the tile we really like, and they should be arriving either Friday or early next week. Oh it is going to look so amazing, I cannot wait. This means we are going to be crazy busy at our house for the next week and this weekend This weekend the boys and I are going to put up some drywall mud and hopefully sand. I really want to be able to start painting next weekend, so the living room will be ready when the cabinets arrive!

On another note, my wedding dress arrived at the store yesterday!!!!! YESSSSSSSSS again! I scheduled to go try it on next Friday. Trina is going to go with me :)

That is all… for now :)

A hood, bathroom paint, and a new window!

We were super productive this past weekend at our house. I had this past Friday off, so Erik’s mom and I went to our house and painted the bathroom. And (not to toot our own horns or anything) but we did an amazing job! I love the way the bathroom turned out. It came out a lot nicer than I had thought it would. Here is a before and after picture of the bathroom…

The bathroom isn’t completely finished because we still have to pick out and install a medicine cabinet for over the sink. I did however put in the new bathroom light. Take a lookie…

Also on Friday, Luke and Erik help Ross install the hood in our soon to be kitchen. It was a lot of work but it looks great. It looks a bit awkward right now because it is the only thing in the kitchen.

On Saturday, Erik and Luke installed the new kitchen window. It took all day and about 6 trips to home depot but they got it done. Look at how cute it is!