It's been awhile...

...so I've decided to give an update on life.

This past weekend, we took a whirlwind trip back to MI for a dear friends wedding and to do some wedding planning of our own.

We rolled into MI about 3am Friday morning and we up and at them at 8am for an appointment with the florist. I'm so excited about our florist, she is amazing! I didn't want to get all crazy with the flowers, because they are just going to die anyway, but I'm excited to see the creations that Helen is going to create for my special day!

Next, we visited the photographer. I had a little bit of bridezilla in me that morning...which Matt pointed out later. I didn't mean to, but I don't want a photographer to tell me what I am going to do, which, she didn't, but I wanted to make it clear that I will be calling the shots! Is that bad? No...b/c a photographer can make or break the wedding and my sisters had photographers that were so obnoxious!

During the whole wedding planning process Friday AM, I was a) hungry, b) tired, c) getting a migraine. Stupid me, didn't take anything for my migraine when I started it coming on. And jumping ahead to Saturday night...I took a trip to the ER to make it go away!:( I will tell you the ER story in a bit.

So, after wedding planning, we went back to Matt's parents house and got ready and played with Brennan and then heading to Saline for Katie's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding, hot, but very nice! My head continued to hurt, so I finally took some meds, but it didn't even touch it. So we left the wedding before we got to dance, but we were both exhausted and decided to head to my mom's for the night.

Saturday, we got up and around and headed to Lansing for August/September b'day celebration and family get together! It was great fun, expect the fact that my head was still killing me! But it was great to see the kids and my sisters. I tried my dress on for my family and they loved it! So I was really excited. My sisters were trying to figure out a dress for them to wear. I have decided to go with a light blue for my color and a very light yellow.

Then we opened presents. It was funny...my mom totally forgot about my b'day, yet bought Matt a present and my sister's got me presents (a very cool blue bracelet from Pam and a Kate Spade purse from Cynth) and totally forgot about Matt's b'day...or didn't realize when it was. And everyone remembered Bob's and Madison's b'day.

We ended the festivities with a delicious dinner and ice cream cake!:)

Then has we traveled home, my head felt every worse and I was concerned I would still have it for our trip back to MD, so I decided to go to the ER. I got in right away, but waited for over an hour in a noisy hallway, right under a bright light for someone to see me. Then, I got an IV put in and it hurt like a ----------------! OMG! I was in so much pain you'd like I would have forgotten about my head. I told the chic it hurt really bad and she was like, "oh yeah, they usually do!" and I replied, "not this bad, I have had a lot in my day!" and Matt followed with, "she knows how an IV should feel!" And she didn't do anything! Later Matt said he almost passed out from watching her put the needle in and said he felt my pain and today I have a bruise to prove how painful it was! Fastforwarding, I got my meds, and the dr asked if I was OK to go home and I wasn't but didn't want to lay in the hallway anymore, so I said I'd go home and get some better rest, plus I wanted that IV out of my arm! So, he released me. And I felt like a new person on Sunday morning!

Well, we are back in Maryland! A quick Happy Birthday to BOB!:) Hope you have a great day and a fun trip with my mom out West!

Description of my dress....

The sculptured strapless bodice with dropped waistline is elaborately decorated with embroidery and crystals, and features a peaked empire, inset band. Inverted pleats surround the skirt with a wide hemline band onto the chapel length train. color: ivory/ice blue


Here is a link to the flower girl dress that sort of matches mine....the beading is similar....
http://www.morilee.com/DressDetail.aspx?C=6&D=984&P=2

I bought my wedding dress and all by myself!

Yup! I went to "Running of the Brides" all by myself after work on Friday and I bought my wedding dress! :) YEAH!

When I first walked in, I saw girls stripping down to their underwear and throwing on these dresses. My first reaction was...you've got to be kidding me! But then I started to look through the racks and racks of dresses, found a couple, found a mirror and set up camp! A couple, I had a hard time zipping up, so I asked people walking by and they were more than happy to help! This one girl goes, "You are brave to be here by yourself!"

I tried on this one, that I thought was the one, I called my mom for her advice, b/c originally I was going to wear her dress. She told me to do what I wanted to do. So I looked around some more and I found another dress! It was very pretty and I thought it was the one. I called my mom again and she told me again to do what I wanted to do. Then I called Matt b/c he was waiting for me to go to the movies and he told me to look around some more. So I did! AND I FOUND IT!!!!

I tired it on and I was struggling greatly with the zipper and this girl saw me and helped me zip it up! When I finally had it on, the people around me were telling me how beautiful it looked! So I walked to where there was more room and it was in a main isle and I gathered a crowd around me! This one girl I was talking with before when on had the 2nd dress on, she saw me and said she loved the dress and it looked a lot better than the other one. And then another woman asked me where my people were and I told her I just moved to the area and I was alone and she said "girl, you better buy that dress b/c it is perfect! Don't take your hand off of it b/c these girls are eying you for it!" So I went back to where my stuff was and people were still coming up to me and I knew it was the one. It fits perfectly! and the length is perfect!!!! I felt like a princess!

I'm very excited! And the best part of the whole thing is the price! It was only $250 and I looked online and it sells for $800!!!! Such a deal!

So it paid off for me to go to "Running of the Brides" after work, by myself!