Dream Crushed (already)

I don't know what I was looking at earlier today, but I just went to search for the best prices on this resort and the BEST price I can get is $1003/night and that doesn't even include the food and drink!!!!! And the menus are expensive- was like $16 for a hamburger and then 18% tax on that and still need to tip-- so probably like $25 for the cheapest thing! So, not so sure we'll be able to do this now...booooooo. Why didn't I research this better before getting so excited?!?! There is a resort next to this that is part of the same thing, but not as cool as these and can get those for around $300/night...but now doesn't even seem worth it. bleh

Dream Honeymoon

So today I've got in my mind that I really think St. Lucia is the best place for us to go on the honeymoon, since it will end up being more expensive than we'd usually spend on a vacation. We want to do an all-inclusive and there doesn't really seem to be any AI that really sticks out to me as being perfect and there aren't many to choose from. There are 3 Sandals Resorts so i have a feeling we'll end up going with 1 of those, even though I feel ike they are overpriced and paying for the name. However, now I'm in LOVE with this place which is pretty expensive, but we can still make it work...so I'm trying to convince Dustin we just need to stay here for like 2 nights of the trip. It's similar to a place called Ladera I posted about a long time ago, but this one is a little less rugged and more upscale. These are real pictures below that other travellers took. It's called Jade Mountain and the architecture is really incredible (and the walk down to the beach is supposedly quite the workout!): There are separate planks or walkways to each room:

There are some cool restaurants and bars on the beach and at the resort. There is a restaurant at the top along with an infinity pool:The rooms all are unique and vary-- the most expensive ones have an infinity pool in your room. However, I think even the cheapest ones are still nice and you have a private pool, just not infinity. You get your own butler too! They all have the 4th wall missing so you have a great view. Here's some pics people posted of their rooms:

This is a pic of the cheapest room they have:
TAKE ME THERE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Memorial Weekend Update

So we didn't really do anything super exciting for memorial day weekend, but it was fun. The weather forecast was supposed to be nice, so I suggested we try to go to a Cardinal game and they were playing the Royals. I looked online and was able to get tickets for like $10-15 each, but Dustin didn't like how crappy the seats were and thought we should try for the First Pitch tickets. For these First Pitch tix, you go to the box office when it opens at 9am and get a voucher, then bring the voucher to a certain gate 15 minutes before game time and they hand you an envelope with 2 tickets in it. It's only $11 total and you have a chance to get really great seats. So Saturday morning it is raining out and we think there won't be anybody in line, so get there at 9:00 and the line looked HUGE! They hand out at least 275 vouchers, so we probably would have got one, but just drove back home cause it didn't seem worth it to stand in such a huge line. So we decide to try again Sunday morning, but get there at like 8:30 so the line will be shorter. We were still there until around 9:30, so still an hour of waiting around. So we come back at 1:00 and get our envelope. The couple in front of us opens theirs and is like- "awesome- infield box seats" (or something good)! I open ours and just say- "let's go back home." dustin's like- "what? did we get bleachers" I inform him- "WORSE- STANDING ROOM ONLY!!!!!!" Dustin seriously has the worst luck of anyone and now that has rubbed off on me. We'd spent all this time, had our cooler packed, was all excited to sit down and watch a game and now i have to find a place to stand for 3 hours. Lesson learned- we should have just bought the cheap tickets online so we at least had a seat! it worked out well though cause we ran into other people we knew there so we just went to the casino queen party area and sat at a table there and watched most of it on tv.



Friday night we headed over to Breese for my cousin's high school graduation. So hard to believe that he is going to be going to college! I hope when I have kids the time does not fly by this fast! Unfortunately, we had some goober with horrid B.O. in front of us that had to be one of the worst smelling people I've ever been around. Since there was no A/C and we were crammed into bleachers I could only imagine how worse it was going to get as the ceremony went on. Luckily some poor saps came along and sat next to them, so Stinky had to scoot down, away from us. I'm just amazed that no one in the family would tell this grown man that he needs to shower or how they could stand the smell! We had issues getting any good pics turn out, but this is the best one:

Adios chubby

Man oh man-- So I've been reading from all these other bride-to-be's that they have been doing workout videos by Jillian Michaels-- the trainer on the biggest loser. I don't really like going to the gym, but I don't really like just exercising at home either, but figured I'd just try one of the videos on youtube to see what it was all about. I started with Level 1 of the 30 Day Shred and is a 20 minute workout. I'm thinking- how bad can this be if only 20 minutes?!?! First, it definitely felt like at least 30 minutes, so I'll have to clock it next time and I thought it was a great workout for such a short amount of time and made it through more than I thought I would. I need to go buy some weights tonight though-- had to use beer bottles as my weights today...haha! Maybe that gave me some needed inspiration though! I also measure my body fat on the scale and took measurements of my thighs, hips, and waist. I think lately I may not be losing any weight, but hopefully I am gaining muscle cause I've been having some good workouts. So hopefully I'll start to see some results soon. Now I'm off to missy's to watch So You Think You Can Dance!

Wedding Ideas/Inspiration

So I wish I would have thought of this at the start, but lately whenever I see wedding pictures online that I like I save them to my hard drive so that way I can reference them later. I'm still torn if I go with just a black/white or black/ivory type theme or work in a fucshia and/or purple scheme. I went to garden ridge this week and just bought all sorts of stuff to practice making some cool centerpieces at home. I think I came up with one that is pretty simple and elegant, so I'll have to post some pics later. Here's some of the photos I've found that I really like:

This photo alone has basically convinced me we gotta do black tablecloths. I just love the look of this:


More proof I like the darker cloths accented with lots of candles and white:

This makes me wanna have paper lanterns everywhere! I saw one where they did it with all shades of the pink and purple family and looked really cool-- I think just white would be nice too:
For the centerpieces I keep coming back to these submarine vases where flowers are submerged in water and then put a candle on top. This is what I practiced making...and ended up with water all over the floor cause forgot about that thing called displacement when I shoved my arm in the full vase!