Wow, it has been a LONG LONG day! We found out on Thursday that the night we wanted to do a practice run of decorations was no longer an option. So, after looking at our calendars, we decided to just go ahead and do it today. SIX HOURS later, we are pretty satisified with the lights. John's dad, bless his heart, offered to help us (John's mom is out of town so his dad came alone) and I am SO thankful he was there!! It was such a great bonding experience to spend some time with him. What other man do you know would be willing to give up 6 hours of his weekend to help with decorations for a wedding?! It just meant so much to me! He's such a great guy, I see where John gets it from now!!!

Anyway, below are a couple of pictures....but they sure don't do it justice! I was unable to get a picture with all the lights lit before we blew the circuit. BUT, we figured out how to prevent that in the future...so that is GOOD NEWS!!!! But, you get the idea...it has a VERY romantic look to the room, we were all very pleased with the way it turned out!!

Not much else going on around here. Just counting down...only 49 more days and I'll be a married woman! :)

Have a fabulous day! :)

Ok here comes the next part where I need some help....I am NOT doing well with making all of these decisions about the wedding. SO, I went shopping with my dad this weekend for a dress to wear to the BM Lunch/Rehearsal Dinner. Below are the pictures of what I came home with. My dad is very adament that I should wear a dress or skirt to the BM Lunch. SO, we came to the conclusion that outfit number 1 for the BM Lunch and the Red Jacket (the same one with the skirt) with the White Pants for the RD. (They think I should get some red boots too, whatcha think of that??). ANYWAY, tell me, do they look ok, or should I keep looking for something to wear??

Thanks for your help! :)

Hey guys! Not much to say on here today, when you're home sick not much happens. I am feeling a little better. The tests at the hospital came back "normal" but my doctor is sending them to a specialist just to make sure. SO, they don't know what is causing me to get sick so often, cause every test they run comes back normal. Oh well.

Anyway, if you're bored, check out my bio on the knot...I got bored and added a few pictures and did some rearranging. Let me know what you think.

http://talk.theknot.com/BOARDS/User/Profile.aspx?UserID=11281

Hope you have a fabulous day! :)

Yay, I can finally sit up long enough to type something on here!! Sorry I haven't updated this thing much, but I have been sick this week...AGAIN! ARGH! The exciting part about this week is that John picked up my wedding band from the jewelry and it FINALLY fits!! I know I know it looks a little tight in the blurry picture I showed, but when you've been running a fever for a few days, you body tends to swell. It actually fits quite nicely! I LOVE the way it looks. JUST ENOUGH sparkle! :) I can't wait until I can wear it all the time! :)

Not much else going on. The doctor sent me back over to the hospital today to have a CT scan done. They're trying to figure out what is causing me to be so sick all the time. Hopefully they'll be able to figure something out soon, cause I am SICK and TIRED of feeling this way! But, at least the fever this time is starting to come down and I am able to eat again. Start praying that they'll figure out whats causing all of this, and it won't involve surgery to fix. I should hopefully hear something tomorrow.

I hope all is well your way. I'm going to go lay back down now. Hope you have a fabulous day! :)

So, I went home for lunch today...checked the mail...and there were like 8 RSVP cards sitting there waiting on me. Some people are on the BALL!!! Only 2 of them were "No" and all the others were Yes. SO, as of right now we officially have 18 people coming to the wedding! Well, 18 that have RSVPed, I know we actually have more then that because of Family and Bridal Party that I'm pretty sure I could go ahead and count them in, BUT since I don't know if their significant others are coming or not, I will wait til I receive their RSVPs to be sure.

Other then that, not too much going on around here. This is employee appreciation week at NCSU, so this morning I participated in the 1 mile fitness walk. It really has me pretty pumped up, maybe I'll be motivated to get up tomorrow morning and walk or exercise or something. I guess it will depend on how late I'm up tonight. Its just SO hard to drag myself out of bed at 5:30 to work out when I know I could sleep til 7:15 and still be at work by 8. (Sometimes I'm REALLY lazy and lay in bed til 7:30, and yet I'm always at work by 8:05....which is earlier then everyone else in my office).

Ok, thats all I have to say for now. Maybe I'll post something more later, maybe not. We'll see how this afternoon goes. I hope all is well with you!

Have a fabulous day! :)

Good Morning (afternoon, whichever). I'm just sitting here feeling VERY unmotivated to work and just killing time until John gets out of class so that we can go to lunch. I am hungry!! I am sooo tired. I haven't slept well this week. Theres been a lot of stuff going on that I wish would just stop. Don't people realize we have too much going on with wedding stuff that we don't have time to deal with stupid stuff. Unfortunately most of the stupid stuff involves wedding stuff and that makes it even more stressful. I won't bore you with all the details, but there were several things that happened in the last few days that if people were smart and considerate of our feelings then they wouldn't have caused them to happen and saved John and I both some stress. But, its all good. What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger! ;) I never really believed it when people said that the big moments in your life are when you learn who your true friends are, but as we keep going with the wedding stuff I'm beginning to see that there is a LOT of truth in that. But, its all good. In 67 days it will all be over, and regardless of all the stress leading up to it the end result will still be the same...I will still be married to the most amazing man I have ever met!! We just need to remember to keep our focus on that and not all the little details or annoyances that come up.

On another note, we had a couples shower on Sunday and it was fabulous!! As soon as I get some pictures from it I will post them. The theme was "date night" but most of you already know that, I was the only one surprised by it. We got a lot of fun date nights ahead of us! They also had shirts made for us and I just LOVE mine! It says "JONES in training" on the front and then the back has our wedding date. It is TOOOO cute!! John's said "SHRUB no training required" with the wedding date on the back. To make a long story short...John is 6'4" and to most people he is considered TALL. Well, Briana's husband is 6'7" so to him John is short. One day Scott referred to John as Shrub and it just kind of stuck. He loves his shirt too!! We played a version of the newly wed game where John and I had to answer questions and if we got it wrong then we had to put a piece of gum in our mouth (and I'm talking the BIG PINK bubble gum!). I only had 4 pieces by the end of the game...John had 9. LOL! But, to give him some credit they did ask us some questions about FRIENDS and he hasn't been watching them quite as long as I have been. Plus, some of those questions were HARD.....Do you know how old your significant other was when they started riding a bike? and poor John he had to guess how many college roommates I had...sadly enough there were 8. BUT, 3 of those were in the same apartment and I was told to count each of them. Oh and they also had a memory blanket for everyone to sign that we can use when we go on picnics. John and I decided that each time we use it we're going to record on it where we went and what we did and anything special that happened. That way it truly is a "memory" blanket. We are VERY excited about that!!

Ok, well I have probably bored you enough and I should probably actually do a LITTLE bit of work before lunch!

Have a fabulous day! :)