Priceless Pictures: March 2007

For our 2 year anniversary Josh and I made homemade gifts for each other!

Our Wedding: The Colors

For the past few years I was convinced that my wedding colors would be pink, pink, and pink! But as the planning started occurring my color ideas completely changed!!! Here are some inspirations for the colors we will be using:

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Ouch

On Saturday Josh and I were planning on finishing up our registries but before we wanted to go out to grab some lunch. We had just sat down and I grabbed the seat of my chair to move it closer to the table. Unfortunately the seat of the chair wasn't connected to the base of the chair so my fingers slipped perfectly in between the two and in that split second and I sat back down crushing my middle and pointer fingers. My first reaction was to pull my fingers out and I was greeted by blood and the majority of my finger nail hanging loosely off my middle finger and luckily my pointer finger looked fine. Right away I think I was just in shock. I showed it to Josh and he of course asked me if I was okay. I then started sobbing, so he gave me the keys and I went to his car. He grabbed the food and came to the car to take me back to his apartment. Just as Josh was shifting the car into drive I realized I didn't have my purse (so thankful I remembered before we left!) so Josh ran in to grab it and then we were off to his apartment. Realizing he only had bandaids, Josh called my sister to see if he could bring me there to bandage it up. Still crying, I got back in the car and Josh drove me to CC and Chris'.  CC was able to put some infection protection on my finger, bandage it up, and give me some medicine for the pain. I'm so thankful to be living near family! I love you Josh, CC, and Chris!!!! Despite the pain and ugly finger that I got out of the situation it was neat to see how Josh and I were able to handle the situation together. I was a little irrational shortly after and told Josh I was going to have an ugly finger for our wedding day,  but he was able to give me the advice that I could always put on a fake nail to which I responded, "not if there isn't a nail there to glue it on!!!" Looking back on that conversation now, it's pretty funny. Josh is such an encouraging person and I am so thankful for him! The past few days have been weird adjusting to not using my middle finger, but it's slowly getting better!

I do have a picture of my finger pre-bandage, but for the sake of those who don't like blood this picture will have to do:

200 Days!

 Today starts the 200 day countdown until the wedding!! Is it too early to make one of these?

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Wedding Things!

My mom, sister (and MOH), nana and I took a trip to a wholesale craft store to start getting 'supplies' for the wedding! Here are a few pictures from the day!

After we got home, we organized all of our purchases in the basement!

 

Just so our guests have some element of surprise, I'm not going to say what this will be for, but it will be fun!!

Thanks CC for taking all of the pictures!! Next time I will have to take one WITH you :).

~~Katie

Priceless Pictures: June 2007

Our Christmas! Part 2

Josh & I were able to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my dad's side of the family, my mom's side of the family, my immediate family, and his family! I am realizing more and more what a blessing it is that our families live so close! Both of our families are extremely important to us and we love being able to spend the holidays with both sides.

Here are a few pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas day:

  

~~Katie

Our Christmas! Part 1

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! Josh & I were blessed with a wonderful 2009 and we are looking forward to an even more wonderful 2010 - wedding year!

Going back in time a little, during my exam week I had a night of relaxation as I had no exams the following day. I was lounging around when I got a phone call from Josh who asked me to come to my front door. I opened the door and was greeted by a stack of rubber maid boxes with Josh's face barely peaking over the top with a huge smile on his face complete in his Christmas pajama pants. He came in set everything down and started to explain what we were going to be doing to celebrate Christmas a little early. He had planned the entire night for us and this is what it included:

Watching "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and snuggling with his Long Beach Island Blanket.

Eating Christmas Tree cookies that Josh made himself :).

Drinking hot chocolate.

And lastly painting snowmen and Christmas ornaments for our Christmas next year!

Here is our finished products:

Josh's absolute favorite holiday is Christmas (so much so that he starts listening to Christmas music in October!). We had a great time enjoying spending time with each other and celebrating our own little Christmas in our own little way.