Thank You Cards

My thank you cards for the wedding arrived in the mail! I was shocked to see the package on my front door when I came home from work today... I only ordered them on Tuesday!! I only order 25 at first because I wanted to see how they turned out before I order 100+! I absolutely LOVE them!! Now I just need to get to work on writing all of my thank you notes...

Home Alone

Ryne flew back to SD last night to spend two weeks with his dad. This is the first time since the middle of June that we have been apart. It is kind of strange to think that we are back to living apart for a few weeks. But it will be good for him to spend some time with his dad and help out around the house. I am just bummed that I was unable to go on this trip. I told him that he has to take lots of pictures of the buffalo for me so that I can make sure they are all doing well! And while he is out of town I plan to catch up on my TV shows, have dinner with friends, and do some organizing around the house.

The countdown to his return has already begun!

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Getting Back in the Swing of Things

Slowly but surely I am getting back into the swing of things. This past summer was the best summer of my life! Our wedding and the the entire wedding weekend was fabulous. Post about those events to come soon! I just got my pictures from the photographer so I am in the process of picking out pictures!! So exciting!

Ryne has now moved in with me and we are slowly settling into married life. So far the biggest challenge has been figuring out where to put all of our stuff. I sure do wish we had a basement!! I am in the process of cleaning out closets and going through cabinets trying to see what I can donate or get rid of. It's amazing how much stuff you can collect over the course of 6 years!

Stay tuned for wedding recaps and all of our other summer adventures... including our cross country drive!

Blogger = FAIL!

I guess my break from blogging has resulted in me missing out on some updates and changes to blogger. Needless to say I am very frustrated as I have not been able to figure out all of the changes!! What is the most frustrating is the fact that I cannot find a way to edit the font/color of my entire blog. It used to be so simple and easy... and I'd really rather stay away from dealing with html code!! But what is the most frustrating thing is that blogger refuses to keep me logged in. No matter what I do, I have to keep logging back in to my account. GRRR!!!

Holiday Recap

Now that Christmas has come and gone I finally have some free time to get back to blogging. The month of December was absolutely nutty for me. I only spent about 7 days in Raleigh!! I flew out and spent about 10 days with Ryne the week before Christmas. It was great being able to celebrate Christmas together. I am so excited and happy that this was our last holiday being apart!! Next year we will be married and we will be doing our holidays together!!

While I was out with Ryne we put up and decorated our Christmas tree together. The past few years we have picked out smaller trees that tended to have that Charlie Brown feel to them. But this year we decided to go big and ended up with a beautiful 8' tree!!

The tree was so much bigger than what we had that we barely had enough lights and we also ran short on ornaments! In fact, we had to go out and pick up a few more ornaments to add to the tree so that we could fill out the tree!! We ended up with a beautiful tree that was overflowing with presents!!



After a quick pit stop in Raleigh (I had to go back for graduation) I flew home to the Cape for Christmas with my family! I thankfully arrived a day ahead of a snow storm. Despite the fact that they were only calling for a dusting of snow, the Cape got 13" of a very HEAVY, wet snow!! It was very beautiful!!

Rob & Margaux spent with Christmas with us this year. We also had my cousins and some family friends join us on Christmas day for dinner so we had a full house. It was a wonderful day filled with lots of happy memories!!

Christmas Shopping

I do not know what it is about this year but for once I am ahead of the game. My Christmas cards arrived in the mail yesterday. All I have to do now is address them and throw them in the mail. And lucky me already has the address labels printed and ready to go (one perk about planning a wedding is that it forces you be organized!!). I am not only ahead of the game with my cards this year but I am almost done with my Christmas shopping!! Yes... you read that correctly. My Christmas shopping is more or less done!! I only have two gifts left to buy and I know exactly what they are. It's just a matter of me getting to the right store and making the purchase. And what a good feeling that is!! Of course wrapping presents is all different ball game since I will be doing Christmas in Nebraska and on the Cape. I will just have to wait to wrap the gifts at each location.

After work today, I am going to put up the garland on my front porch, hang from wreath, and put my Christmas flag out. Not very many homes in my neighborhood are decorated yet but I would like to get the outside of my house looking festive early so that I can enjoy it!!

Now that I am falling back into my blogging routine, I will start posting more regularly on my wedding plans. I was able to finalize so many of my plans over Thanksgiving so it will be fun to share and document all of our decisions and plans. Stay tuned for all of that!