Pictures and Presents!!!

So this morning started early with my re-cap of the grand wedding of Princess Kate (whom I love!) and Prince William...I looooove looove loved her dress!!!! (Although I love mine more hehe)

Then I met up with my girls around 7:30am for some healthy boiled eggs and turkey bacon followed by a great workout at Curves ;)

After a nice little girl time and fat burning session; I met up with Derek to meet our photographer and sign the final contract. We ended up going with Wallflower Photography which we are very excited about!!!! Bellow is one of my favorite pictures they took.

They have a cool option of a gift registry for anyone who is interested in donating towards our print cost ;)

Below are directions if interested:

1. Go to www.wallflowerphoto.com.

2. Click on the Client Login link in the menu.

3. Click on the View Gift Registry link.

4. Enter a last name and first initial, and click the Search button.

5. Click on the gift recipient's name.

6. Type in a gift amount and a message.

7. Select whether you want the gift notification email to go to the gift recipient

8.  Click the Add to Cart button.

9.  Review your cart. When you're ready, click the Place Order button.

10. Fill out the required fields. You can pay for the gift by credit card or by mailing in a check. The gift credit won't be activated until your payment has been confirmed.

Then the GOOD part!!!! REGISTRY!!!!

I know our wedding is still a few months out but I wanted to get everything I could planned and out of the way as soon as possible! If things should be out of season or stock; there is always gift cards hallelujah! Derek hates shopping and today was no exception haha.  I on the other hand was in heaven with the scan gun! We headed on to Target and spend so much time and scanned the gun so many times!!!! Our list started getting a bit outta control so Derek made the scanning stop so our list didn't scare people lol!!!

Below find our registry should you want to help us furnish our future home! :)

http://www.target.com/registry/wedding/1HXFEKNAI2Q26

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

So it has finally happened...we picked our wedding date and picked a wedding/reception venue within 48 hours LOL! Friday August 26th, 2011 I shall finally marry my man after 5 years of dating!! While he has been nice about letting me pick all the wedding colors and decorations his only request(though a big one), was that our wedding location be Thornewood Castle which thankfully was gorgeous!!!!

I have been frantically running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get all the major details lined up.  We currently have book the DELISSSHHH Branks BBQ for catering and could not be more excited!! Though it is technically not actually going to be BBQ that we are serving lol.

My wedding colors are green and different shades of purple which I have always wanted; thank the LORD Derek is OK with it ;) Even though he didn't have much say in the matter anyways haha!

We are still trying to nail down our photographer; however I think we are very close to picking one! I should have one picked within a day or two then our extremely delayed engagement pictures can be taken for invitations.

I have also secured my BEAUTIFUL bridesmaids!!!! My maid of honor is my best friend and beautiful sister who has put up with me longer than she probably cares to admit:
Stephanie Zapata-Crider

My bridesmaids are:

Miss Amber Hughes and Miss Sarah Cooper

Miss Chelsea Cooper

Miss Nadia Scardino

Miss Chanelle Bresina

And Miss Rachel Mercado

My LOVELY flower girls will be:

Miss Summer Lynn

(with her mama also my bridesmaid)

And Miss Aliyah Elizabeth :)

Additional progress and details to be announced as they happen!!!

Now to loose some pre-wedding weight!!!

Working out with bridesmaid Chanelle tomorrow :)

Nesting for the single ladies

I've been nesting....and my baby is my future house! Yes yes to all you mamma's out there I may not know the joy of expecting a child but while my womb stays filled with cobwebs I'll enjoy my single lady nesting!

Derek and I have been looking for a second property to call all mine until the day I become MRS.Lind then I guess he can move his stuff in ;) While he enjoys his bachelor days in his current house which will eventually be our rental home, I have been dreaming of the day we find the perfect little place for me....to decorate! I even dream of buying my own toilet paper! haha, can you tell I've never owned a home when the though of buying toilet paper for my own home seems exciting?? It's fun to smile at the little things though, smiling never hurt anyone. I am hoping we are able to find the perfect little place in the next several months so by then I will hopefully have my few little house hold items ready to go!

So I have trading shopping for clothes out for shopping for household items.  I just began this fun journey and find myself wanting to buy everything.  I have yet to find a common theme among the many things I find beautiful but I though I would share the glee I was feeling over my small purchases!

I found these beautiful pillows at Ross for only $4 a piece! I was very excited, however its too much brown for my taste so I am blog browsing to find ways to add some color to the pillows.

I love these white pillows with the pink sewn flowers on them, they would brighten any room up!

I am obsessed with this color green, I found these little crystallized apples for either a kitchen or living room accessory, I am not sure just yet!

And my final and most FAVORITE little treasure...my little Olive Oil lime green jar for the kitchen! In case you couldn't tell; I am all about thrifting...this baby only cost $2 at TJMax! Gotta love a good deal!

This house is not our home

Alright so Derek and I have been scouting houses trying to find the perfect "this house just happens to be $3.99 because you deserve it" house so we don't have to live in his bachelor house when we get married...needless to say we are still looking.  So Derek happens to come across a beautiful home in an amazingly low price range...it was a 4 bedroom, 2 story, in a flood area which we didn't think much of...check out the picture that the website shows:

Very cute right?! Derek and I were so excited to get on this and steal it while it was available! Also our friends lived about 5 miles away so I was already planning scrap book/xbox parties in my head for the next 2 years.  Our poor friends.  So then we decide to stop by the house unofficially...mind you it had been lightly raining for about 3 days now.  And this is the condition we find the house in:

Front "lawn" aka welcome to the marsh lands.

Derek checking out the mini ocean going on in the yard.

Yah I can see where the "flood area" note came from!

The backyard was like a stagnate river...very scary!

So then upon Derek's great idea of checking the house out on Zillow.com we came across these pictures of the damage done to the inside that the other site didn't feel the need to post:

Nice huh?

So it goes on and on, the sad pictures of the damage the high floods caused this house.  Thankfully we came to see the house while it was raining to see the minor damage in the yard on a small scale of how high the water can come.  Some poor soul is going to buy this house in the dead of summer and not know the floods they will face when the rain comes...and in Washington state...oh the rain, how it comes!

So the search for our home continues...

First posting....eeeehhh...

So this little Texan is in love with North Bend Washington! Derek and I came out to spend time with his gramma Betty at her home for a few days and it has been nothing short of relaxing. Oh I am a happy girl.  May make this a regular mini vaca! ...Well if Derek foots the gas bill that is hehe.  Enjoy the pictures!

This is the gorgeous view of Mt. Si from grammys porch :)  Apparently according to Grammy Betty, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were interested in a house just down the river from her...of course this was back in their happier days.  How crazy would that have been... "Oh yah Brad Pitt's my neighbor...no biggie."

I never get tired of going to Snoqualmie Falls! Trust me you can ask Derek...he was mubling and grumbling how we've already been there a billion times haha!

Beauty-beauty-beautyful to me!

Yes I wore flip flops in 40 degree raining weather ha! I think it's a Texan thing! And I had to wear my Dainty Button headband....thats a fashion thing ;)

Visited the old abandoned Preston Logging Mills...

As I entered the creepy hole on the right, Derek was kind enough to scare me from the left side! I ran out screaming, soaking my feet in cold rain water to find him laughing his head off.... by the way anyone wanna buy defected boyfriend? Going once, going twice...

Made friends with a lovely robin at the mills...

He felt the need to hide as Derek came closer lol.