Bridal Pictures

I opted to take my pictures after our wedding. I was terrified that I would destroy my dress before the big day, and I did not want to be stressed out about it. So about 2 weeks after the wedding, Matthew and I went back home and met with our photographer to take pictures.

I had seen her take several pictures at this old house, and when I asked her about it, she said it was an abandoned house near her house. It turned out to be the perfect backdrop for my pictures:

I promise that my eyeliner was not that thick :)

Had to have this "Pinteresting" picture

Loved the red door and that lamp...I wouldn't mind having it installed right in my house!

I love the vines everywhere and my blue shoes peeking out!

Love this!

This was my favorite picture because not only is it gorgeous, it has a lot of meaning.

Matthew and I got engaged on the dock by Lake Norman.

And we got married by a lake, which has always been my dream :)

I think I will be printing this one on a large canvas to frame and display in our home!

Wedding Pictures Upload

I am finally uploading our wedding pictures! I have been working for TWO hours to do this, ha! They were in a jumbled up mess on the CD, and of course I had to have them in just the right order :)

Between my computer crashing and Matthew's computer being replaced by Toshiba, we have been relying on my iPad for everything and have barely even looked at our pictures until tonight. We are so thankful to still have our wedding video! When my computer crashed, the only copy was saved to it. We thought we had lost it forever, but luckily Matthew was able to pull it off of my computer....and that computer has not been able to turn on since :)

Be on the lookout for pictures!

....and maybe I will um get around to finishing our Thank You cards :)

Only Holly

Every morning, I am always running "right on time" to work and don't have time for not good things to happen (Bad habit, I know).

Today, one of those not good things happened.

Apparently, this morning, Matthew pulled a tree branch off my car parked in the driveway on his way to work (but neglected to tell me). This was Branch #1 of the day.

While driving on the way to work, during a heavy rainstorm, I heard something hit my car. When I looked in the back window, all I could see was branches. I pulled over and literally another branch (Branch #2) was lying on the back of my car.

I pulled it off, but a long, thickish piece got stuck in my spoiler and I Could NOT get it off my car. So I rode the rest of the way to work with part of a branch in my spoiler. And then, it was still there after work, so I rode home with it still in my spoiler. IT IS STILL THERE.

Who has a branch get stuck in their spoiler all day??? Who has TWO branches fall on their car in one day? I have strange luck.

Anyways, another blog I read is giving away a t-shirt from The Frat Collection, so if you like their shirts you should check it out! 

Registry Adventures

The last time Matthew and I register, I could not hang for more than 30 minutes (low blood sugar) and ended up registering online at home. That was at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and I was determined to register at Belks today and to go to town inside their store with the scanner. So today after school, I went straight to Belks and set up a registry.

The girl there was super helpful, and I gave her ideas for our house/decorations, and she pulled lots of things for me. I went around scanning for about an hour and a half. I went a little crazy with the scanner-it was like I was buying stuff, but not paying for it :) ha.

Well, the great things about Belks is the "fine china/serve ware" section. I got a little too excited there. I knew that I wanted to pick a china pattern (because I'm old-fashioned), and I had picked one that was from Lenox...and accidently scanned 720 china place settings at $80 each. I also scanned 72 spoon rests and 72 casserole dishes (I must have kept hitting 72 with my thumb or something). After all that Lenox scanning, I ended up picking the Mikasa French Countryside pattern for "fine china" and then for more casual dining, I went with the Kate Spade Fair Harbor sets in Bayberry. Who knows if I will get any of those place settings, but it is nice to picture my pretty table set with pretty china :)

Well at the end of my scanning spree, the lady who helped me printed out my registry list....it prints on one sheet there, and the sheet was taller then the both of us, ha! She pointed out my errors and said that I was not the first person to register multiples...but because my registry list valued over $10,000 I got a free gift...that ended up being a super nice, long strand of pearls!

Don't worry, after I got home I removed all of the ridiculous items (like the $150 silver egg tray I thought I NEEDED). We went from having like 980 gifts on our registry down to 85....kind of funny!

Embarrassing Classroom Moment

So this past Wednesday, I had a super embarrassing moment in my classroom. I had a minor accident that resulted in Matthew coming to get me and taking me to Urgent Care.

This is not the first time Matthew has had to come get me from school for an accident. Last time, an intercom fell off my classroom wall and landed on my head (like a heavy wooden box intercom form the 1970s). That time, no one was in my classroom to witness the accident. This was not the case on Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, I went to file some copies in my filing cabinet. I opened up the drawer, stepped back when I slid it open, and fell completely over on my face. A child had come up behind me and laid down on the ground (he said he was sleepy and wanted to lay down). I did not know that he was there, and my entire class saw all of this go down. I expected the kids to go "OMG are you okay??" however, they all laughed! (5 year old me would have laughed too though). It was a sad, terrible moment for me, ha.

The nurse checked it out and I cried to my AP. He asked if my foot hurt that bad and my exact response was "My pride hurts Mr. P, my pride hurts."

I ended up having a sprain and had to be on crutches for a few days. Teaching Kindergarten on crutches is no fun! Next time I need to be on crutches I'm calling in for a sub, ha.

Relaxing Saturday Night

After spraining my ankle this week in my classroom and being on crutches, I did not want to do anything this weekend other then lay around and be really, really lazy.

Last night, I came home from work pretty late (end-of-year formative preparations, woooo!) and passed ohhh around 9:30 and slept soundly until 10:30 this morning. Then Matthew forced me to go eat Cracker Barrel with him. Do you ever want to decorate your house with the things they have in the dining rooms? I kept looking around thinking about how cute something would be in my kitchen/living room, ha.

After Cracker Barrel, I did MULTIPLE loads of laundry. I have enough clothes that I can not wash any for weeks and be perfectly fine, so basically it's been a while since I have done laundry. I have done 3 loads of clothes/towels/sheets and still have about oh 3 more to go.

I probably would have gotten the rest done, but Matthew wanted to go to Bass Pro Shop together so he could potentially apply for a part-time job. We forgot that there are two car events going on in Concord and that traffic/the mall would be packed. We walked into BPS for literally 10 minutes and got out of the mall as fast as we could.

We knew we wanted to eat out for dinner, but we were avoiding Concord at all costs. We ended up going to Plate in Harrisburg. It's a newer place (it replaced something else). It's kind of funny because the kitchen for Plate is also the kitchen for 2 other restaurants (Winedown and Main Street Deli). We are not sure if they just mutually share or if they are all owned by the same person. While we were at our table, we kept seeing plates of fruit and cheese going to Winedown, ha. Our food was actually pretty amazing-we both had the specials. Mine was asparagus, smashed potatoes, scallops, and filet medallions. Matt had mushrooms, a ribeye, and smashed potatoes. I am pretty sure that we'll be going back there a LOT before we move up to Hendersonville when we are married.

After dinner, we went to Jos. A. Banks to pick out groomsmen outfits. We were done in ohhh about 8 minutes. WAY easier then picking out bridesmaid dresses (Matthew got out lucky).

Now Matthew and I are watching Family Guy and laying on his couch. I am designing worksheets for literacy centers this week.

Sight word roll and color, which you can buy {here}.

We have been such cool kids tonight!

Engagement Picture Failure

So Matthew and I got engaged in ohhh November, and we have planned to take our engagement pictures with this amazing photographer in Hendersonville since January. It is really hard to take pictures, because we have to travel up to Hendersonville from Charlotte to do it. And it doesn't help that every time we schedule a session, something happens.

The first 3 times, both of us were sick. Once Matthew had like Strep Throat, and then his ear drum burst. Another time we had scheduled, I caught Pnuemonia. Then our photographer was about to have her baby, and I did not want to make her take outdoor pictures in cold weather when she was about to have a baby (because that is not healthy). Then her baby came, and he was very ill and in the hospital for the first month of his life. And I DID NOT want to ask her to take our pictures during that time, because I just felt like she needed to be taking care of her children and worrying over the new little one.

Well, it finally came down to taking pictures today. I had my teeth cleaned this morning, had my eyebrows waxed, packed my bags, and headed up the mountain.

On the way up, I thought I was about to have a meltdown because a State Trooper came up behind me really fast, so I thought I was being pulled over and started having a panic attack. I slowed and went to pull over on the side of the road, and he honked his horn at me. Then I moved out of his way, and he blew by me. A little further up the road, there was a car on the side of the road with emergency flashers on and it looked like the trooper was giving someone CPR or something on the side of the road.

I finally started going up the mountain, and the sky opened up and it poured rain. Matthew and I reached the conclusion we would not be taking pictures today because of the rain.

Well, it turned out the rain was a blessing because it prevented me from having a crying tantrum while getting ready for pictures. It turns out I brought 4 pairs of shoes for my pictures....but left all of my dresses hanging up in Charlotte....Oooops.

Pray that we can get them done again this weekend!