made it through

1. The first week back to school.

2. Getting back into the swing of juggling work and school.

3. The 1.5 mile run that we had to complete as part of a fitness assessment in my Kickboxing class. 

There were some crunches and push ups in there too. 

I wanted to have Chris take a First Day of School picture of me just for fun but I completely forgot. I had a case of the Mondays in a big way. I had to go straight to school on Monday after work and wait in line for an hour and a half longer than expected to see a counselor so I had to rush home, eat some dinner, and pick up my school supplies then rush back to class.  

My Intro to Education (my first teaching class [yay]!) teacher is awesome. We have to complete a 16 hour internship for the class which I am pretty excited about. I am going to observe a friend from elementary school (also one of my bridesmaids, Casey) teach her junior high math class for a few hours which should be pretty fun. She warned me it could get interesting though. She teaches some rough kids and at I have heard the stories. I think it will be helpful for me to see how she handles those situations though.

I love my kickboxing instructor. She is a little asian lady with enough energy to keep up with the energizer bunny. It is going to be a fun semester. When she was demonstrating how NOT to do a push up she had her hands behind her neck and was lifting her neck only instead of pulling her whole body up with her abs and she said "if you do it this way you will have a skinny neck, not a flat stomach." It was pretty funny.

I am going to track my weight and measurements to see how much I lose during the semester. I am excited to see the progress! 

I'm taking a pretty light semester since we are trying to plan a wedding at the same time. I don't want to turn into a bridezilla...

no. 4 sweet as sugar

• I LOVE this owl picture. I wish I had somewhere to hang it in our house. I tried to get Chris to let me buy it and hang it in our room but I guess we are a little too grown up for it. Boooo!

(hoot hoot!)

• My new favorite thing to do on Friday night. GRILL on my little Blue Rhino that Chris bought me for Christmas. Ask Macy or Chris about my delicious ribs! Or Denny and Landon about my Ranch Burgers. YUM! 

• There is nothing better than a Lazy Day. Max agrees.

• I'm thinking of using this headband as inspiration to make something similar for the big day. I have tried on eleventy billion birdcage veils now and nothing really calls out to me. I do however love me some headbands so this would be a perfect alternative, especially since there is piece of birdcage tulle in it. 

(could this work?)

• I spotted these at Macy's at the beginning of the summer and figured I would just wait until they went on sale to buy me a pair. Well Chris and I decided to brave the crazy crowds of Tax Free Weekend so I figured I would just break down and buy them then. Macys SOLD OUT! Why do I torture myself?! No worries, Zappos came through. 

Mom: Do these look just like me?!

(don't cage me in)

• What a great invention! I hate buying water bottles but hate drinking out of those metal containers that are sold on every corner. I know that's not a great excuse but whatever. I need this water station. If they start selling at Bed, Bath, & Beyond I'm definitely going to add it to our registry. 

(water bottles)

we got the boot from the sofa...

we've created a m.o.n.s.t.e.r.

no. 3 sweet as sugar

I know, I know I am a slacker. I have missed two fridays in a row! In my defense, the friday before last I didn't really have anything to show you and this past friday I was on vay-cay so blogging was unfortunately not on my list of things to do.

Without further ado...

• What a fun picture to take with my ring...I like bananagrams better though (although Chris ALWAYS beats me) so maybe I'll try it with those tiles instead.

scrabble love

• I love these cupcakes more than PB loves Chocolate...I made them last Sunday and they were scrumptious!  

tastes like a reese's cup

• This is a fun font...I don't have a use for it though so I will just have to visit it at myfonts.com...

what can I use this for?

• How can I justify this purchase? I would like to have it as my wedding band but can't see myself liking it forever because it is kind of a little unpractical. Oh well, a girl can dream.

ring dreams

• Chris and I have been sort of talking about getting another doggy so Max has someone to play with because he has loads of energy! We want a miniature dachshund and I was browsing through etsy and came across this...pretty much sealed the deal.

ahoy matey!

wedding inspiration

So I promised myself I wouldn't blog a lot about the wedding because I don't want to give away too much...but I just have to give you a little peek...

so handsome

Isn't he so cute without those silly old bandages on his ear?

Chris has just picked him up from Dr. Wood's office and snapped this picture for me.

Unfortunately I had to take him back to the vet on Tuesday to get them re-banaged because they wouldn't stand up. His left ear fell down on Saturday while I had him at my office. He was SO GOOD!

I pretty much couldn't believe it since he is a crazy wild man at home. 

Well anyway, I will leave you with a few baby Max pictures that I downloaded from Chris' phone...

P.S. Sorry this is turning into a doggy blog. I can't help it. He is just so cute!

No. 2 sweet as sugar

I bet you thought I forgot... not gonna lie, I almost did. Anyway, let's get down to business.

• Now that I have mad cake skillz I have to try and make this rainbow layer cake!

where is the gold?

• I love the design on this "upcycled" dresser. I'm always too nervous to refinish furniture.  

new life

• I HAVE to figure out how to fit these owls in our wedding budget. We NEED them as our cake topper! So adorable.

I'm in love

• I wish I didn't have to go to real school so I could enroll in this e-Home Ec class.

sew cool!

• I love purple nail polish. Her ring isn't so bad either...

rumple's wiggin