Condo for sale!

If ANYONE out there is reading this and wanting a new home in St. Louis, I'm thinking of a perfect little townhome near westport that you should buy! So I'm officially trying to sell my condo....finally. I'm trying to do it myself and if that doesn't work out, then resort to using a realtor or looking into leasing it. I made up some fliers that we are displaying outside since the 2 next door to me are for sale, so hopefully they'll bring some traffic over my way. And then I posted an ad to Craigslist last night. Please please please just someone buy this so I can be done with it! The good news is that I had signed up for a 5-yr ARM when I bought the place and that expires with my next payment...well I got a letter yesterday and my rate goes lower to 4.125 after next month! So I was at least excited to see that I'll be paying less on it after this month. Here's my flyer if by chance my awesome blog has inspired you to want to now live where I once lived...haha!

Save-the-Dates 99% done

So this last week we were very very very busy with wedding items (in addition to all the birthdays and doing some things for my condo)!


We got a website put together: www.mywedding.com/amyanddustin. We have a few pages that aren't published yet, but are in progress and I just ran out of time this week.


We got the hotel block reserved for the out of town guests.


And we got our save-the-date cards and magnets sent out to almost all people we had tagged to send them to.

Magnet:















Finished Product:

From Little Miss Bossy to Ms Sneeze

So we have FINALLY got some nice weather....but unfortunately yesterday it was almost too hot! It reached the upper 80s! After work we went over to mike shannon's for a few drinks before the cards/cubs game and to enjoy the outdoors. Unfortunately I guess it was my first time outdoors for a period of time and my stupid allergies started really kicking in. I've started taking my medicine, so usually that helps a bunch. After that we went to SideBar and ate dinner and watched the game indoors. Hopefully today they won't be so bad so I can do something outdoors if I want! It's my last day before turning 30 so I gotta make the most of it! Dustin has made dinner reservations for tonight...so will be interesting to see what he has planned.

Busy Busy Bee

Well I've just been swamped lately with all sorts of things- wedding planning, getting the condo for sale, etc. Tonight I'm off to the Jive and Wail for my 2nd bday party there this month! This time it's for Crystal who will hopefully have more fun than my mom did. Not sure what exactly we are doing this weekend, but just want to spend lots of time outside if my allergies aren't horrendous. Sticking to the diet these next few days is going to be tough....but I'll try to make some smart choices! Well I should have some postings soon with some new info!

I'm a cheater

Ok, so this diet thing sucks! For the record, my starting weight is 133.4 and I just want to get to 125 by the wedding, so at least I have a realistic amount of time to do this. I started trying to eat healthier and exercise on Monday. I've made it to the gym both days and had decent workouts. I've eaten at least one meal each day that was a healthy choice or smart ones frozen entree. For snacks, I've limited myself to a 100 calorie bag of popcorn, fruit cup, or yogurt as my choices. So this all sounds like I'd be right on track, right??? WRONG! Monday I did SO good and then as I was watching 24 I decided the DQ ice cream cake in the freezer was calling my name and since I had been so good (on Day 1) I could have a few bites. Well after a few bites it was just getting soft enough that it was easier to eat, so I decided I'd eat half a piece. Well then I decided that wasn't enough to put back in the freezer, so just eat the whole thing. I didn't even bother to look up the calories, but that was just a bad decision! I have no control cause this was a huge piece! I just love good food way too much! Yesterday I did better, so hopefully I can keep on track!

SO SAD

Ok, my third post tonight, but I'm just distraught! OMG times 1 million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so upset because I just learned one of my good friends is getting a divorce. My heart just goes out to her because has to be one of the hardest things to deal with. Her wedding was probably the best one I'd been too-- I just loved everything about it-- so it's hard to imagine going from a day that is so perfect to people changing and it all falling apart. It sounds like she is better off without him anyways ad at least she is just a youngin, so has plenty of time to still find that perfect someone. I had been telling dustin for the last few months that we are going to have friends that go through a divorce because it just happens too often...and it will probably be those you least expect. Sure enough, this was not a couple I expected! Oh well, you pick up the pieces and go on and just have to realize someday things will all have a happy ending and work out. For now... Sniffle, sniffle :(

Bring on the bling!

First, Adam totally rocked it on AI tonight-- just feels like you are at a concert instead of watching some amateur. BUT I do NOT like how only 2 judges review each person...can't the let all 4 talk but just only give them each like 15 sec to spit out what they want to say? I want all the judges to comment!


Ok, so Missy tells me if I use the word "bling" one more time, she can't stand the embarrassment! We went shopping this weekend cause I needed a wedding shower gift for dustin's cousin in Canada who I have only met once. They were only registered at a Canadian store, so I decided to try to come up with my own idea....which normally I hate doing. So I went to Hobby Lobby and Michaels...and a few other stores...and bought some things to do some projects and put together like a Wedding Day Survival kit. So hopefully she'll at least like some of things and not think it's all a bunch of crap! Missy had to hold me back from buying too many blingy things...but there were so many cute things you could do with rhinestone decorations!

Everything, which will go in the monogrammed tote:

DIY Projects (Ironed on some BLING to the underwear and shirt; just used stickers to put on the flippies):
All of these items are more like toiletries or things you may need the day of that I'll put in this Bride makeup/travel bag:

Since I'm so in love with this bag, here's another shot with the wine bottle we loved too!

Save the Dates gone wrong

So I had this idea to send out save-the-dates that were going to simulate 4 black-and-white shots of Dustin and I like how we'll have the StudioB photos at the reception. So we just set the timer on the camera to take candid shots of us and in some we were holding up a sign that I was going to Photoshop different words on like "Save the Date" and "09.26.2009." However, it just looked homemade and stupid. I don't know if I can't work my camera or what, but I'm not impressed at all with the quality and feel bad cause dustin supposedly researched this and got a good one. Here is one of the shots of us which I had to post because we loved these shirts some relatives got us when we got engaged and was so excited to use them for something.

What's chubby been up to?

Well our save-the-dates are done printing and in the mail back to us....so cross your fingers big time that they look good and don't have some glitch I didn't catch! Last night we met with a guy who will hopefully be the officiant at our wedding and he was awesome- just exactly what I think we were looking for! It's still not final yet, but hopefully will work out. Last night missy really wanted to go to the pageant to see All-American Rejects cause she had never seen them, so we went over there at like 6:30 fighting the horrible traffic on a cold, rainy night....walk up to the box office and sign is posted- "Tonight's show sold out. No tickets available." Just our luck. But we went across the street and ate at Pi since missy hadn't been there. What a bummer-- and the show was no smoking which was a plus.

I've been eating A LOT lately I think just splurging on everything cause I know I won't be able to do this before the wedding. It's been pretty ridiculous what I've been eating lately. Put on about 7-8 pounds since the summer. So I've decided starting Monday I'm eating super healthy and making an effort to work out hard. I just feel so chubby cause all my pants are tighter, so I just gotta do this to feel healthier and better. Speaking of being chubby, we are having a lazy friday night so that is not burning any calories and dustin is trying to convince me to go out to dinner somewhere!

Tomorrow is the sizzle's birthday (that's slang for missy), but I don't know we are doing anything too excited. I want to go shopping in the morning/afternoon so I think she might come along to do that. Hopefully I'll find some good buys! (Like a chair for my desk!)

I'm alive

I know some of you may have thought I dropped off the Earth, but I've just been pretty busy lately. I'm busy at work and then in the evenings I've been trying to work on wedding stuff. The union contracts expired last weekend for AT&T, so we are on standby for our strike assignments...which is another reason I'm trying to get stuff done now.

Recent wedding accomplishments are that we've asked our wedding party and everyone accepted! I took my girls that were in town out to dinner at Kemoll's and then gave them a bottle of wine that had a poem on it and asked them to be my bridesmaid. Unfortunately that project turned into a MAJOR headache and I just never should have attempted it. But it was one of those that you put so much time into that you are going to finish hell or high water! So I bought wine bottles and soaked them and peeled off the labels- not too bad. Then I spent a lot of time photoshopping labels together and such. I went to Kinko's to just see if they could print them-- was going to be like $60 for some crappy labels! No thank you. So I bought some photopaper and used my home printer to print them. I did the color side first and turned out pretty good. Then, I procrastinated and the night before dinner just had to print out the backside label that was in black and white-- well as I'm sticking it to the bottle I noticed I had to be pretty careful because the ink was smearing. But there wasn't major harm, so just let them sit out overnight. Put them in bags the next day and bring them to dinner and missy pulls hers out and is staring at the back and is like-- "Is this supposed to say something? Mine is all smudged up!" I guess going in and out of the bag it smeared them even worse, so I was so upset! Anyways, I think she was a little critical and they were still readable, but just not perfect. So unfortunately Stefanie and Alexa did not get a gift cause I figured it wasn't worth finishing theirs, but maybe in the end they are lucky they didn't get this and just got a phone call!

Front of bottles

Back of bottles with minimal smudging (this was missy's)

Mandi, Crystal, me, and Missy at dinner

We also got the DJ booked last week. And I've booked hair and makeup for myself and any of the girls that want stuff done. We are meeting the officiant on Thursday, so I'm assuming we'll like him and book him. I started putting together the layout of our ceremony...until Dustin probably shoots the whole thing down! We've done a lot of research on transportation for the wedding, but was bummed cause the best place was booked already...but our plan is to figure that out this week too. And last night I sent the save-the-dates off to print! And Missy and I had 2 outings last week to scope out bridesmaid dresses and she has found a ton of options. So I think we'll get a lot of things pulled together in the next few weeks hopefully.