Wedding Invitations

This weekend we were trying to figure out the wording for our wedding announcements. Yes, I know, we are late on this. We're hoping to get them printed and out by mid-December. So please don't let it get lost in all the Christmas cards. :)

Anyway, I was reading sample wording on line and writing out various versions. Then Rick wrote one and handed it to me. It really captures my feelings exactly, but may not be appropriate. What do you think?

Betsy & Rick are getting married.
Betsy is super excited!
Please come and make her feel like she has
lots and lots of friends.
(Rick is excited too!)

Meet my boys

Since I'm about to have a new family and will be blogging about all of us frequently, I decided I should give you a little better introduction to the new boys in my life. Originally, I wanted them to each do their 100, but we settled on 100 total = 50 from Rick, 25 from Zane, and 25 from Isaac. Enjoy.

Rick's 50 (some of these are my submissions)
1. Likes Boysenberry pie
2. Teaches Elders Quorum
3. Likes Battlestar Galactica
4. Majored in Italian
5. Likes all kinds of music, except country
6. Favorite color is blue
7. Stays up late to watch Formula 1 racing
8. Loves black licorice
9. Is a total roadie when it comes to biking
10. Enjoys dressing well
11. Likes to cook
12. Likes to drive around and look at Christmas lights
13. He is 15 days younger than I am
14. Enjoys snowshoeing
15. Gets into birdwatching with me
16. Likes to look at clouds
17. Eats everything with a knife and fork
18. After all these years, still loves Souxie and the Banshees
19. Often falls asleep on the couch
20. Produces videos
21. Doesn't like to take any kind of medicine
22. Enjoys a big breakfast
23. Claustrophobic
24. Can talk with a variety of foreign accents
25. Has gold glitter toes
26. Catches up with Andy during Sunday School
27. Likes to shop
28. Likes his hot chocolate warm
29. Is into all things European

(He submitted the rest of these as a list of his favorite things)
30. Betsy (aw, thanks)
31. Nice hand-made shoes
32. Foreign music
33. Movies with good scripts
34. Alfred Hitchcock movies
35. Zombie movies
36. Halloween
37. Christmas
38. Christmas music
39. Traveling
40. Traveling to Italy
41. Italy (& France)
42. Basketball
43. Skiing
44. Working from home
45. Being a dad
46. Winter
47. Snow
48. Roaring fire in the fireplace
49. Foggy mornings
50. Walking in freshly fallen snow

Zane's 25

1. Favorite video game is World of Warcraft

2. Plays the guitar

3. Hates mac & cheese

4. Can moonwalk

5. Panic at the Disco is his favorite band

6. Is in 7th grade

7. Favorite color is pink

8. Was Emo for Halloween

9. X-Play is his fav TV show

10. Hates school (but gets good grades)

11. French is his favorite class

12. Likes smoothies

13. Twix is favorite candy bar

14. Has to be home by 9:00 (self-imposed) to shower and get ready for bed

15. Goes to bed early so he can get up early and play video games before school

16. Has red and gold glitter toes

17. Good at saving/managing his money

18. Getting braces this month

19. His birthday is 149 days before mine

20. Likes to skate board

21. Takes a shower in 3 minutes

22. Loves waffles

23. Afraid of bugs that are indoors

24. Loves Take 5 candy bars

25. Good at drama

.

Isaac's 25

1. Likes to make his own video games

2. Enjoys playing Scratch

3. Loves mac & cheese

4. In 4th grade

5. Thinks he's smart enough for 5th grade

6. Knows how to moonwalk

7. AFI is his favorite band

8. Favorite color is orange

9. Was a Ninja for Halloween

10. I Carly is his favorite TV show

11. Good at math

12. Likes white rice

13. Loves pumpkin pie

14. Likes to play laser tag with his friends

15. Plays on the bars at recess

16. Likes Runescape

17. Has pink glitter toes

18. His birthday is one day before mine

19. Is really good on his heelys

20. Picky eater

21. Has gotten over the fear of having lots of girls like him (he still doesn't like them back though)

22. Likes Take 5 candy bar

23. Wants to be an Electrical Engineer

24. Good to take shopping

25. Loves magic

More Decisions

OK, the next thing that is causing me unnecessary stress is my hair for the wedding. I went and had someone do a test run last night and did not like it. Too traditional and made me feel like a little girl. I'm looking for elegant, now, but nothing too out there. Please send me your ideas....

In response to Afton's comment- I don't have my veil yet. That's why I was going for a test run on the hair to decide on the veil. I have my final dress fitting next week and will get my veil then. Unless some perfect hairstyle dictates otherwise between now and then, I'm getting just a single layer veil about fingertip length and with a comb, no embellishments.

Living Downtown

Friday, while I was driving home, there was a man dressed in a pink track suit with a pointy bra and a big blonde wig. He was drilling some kind of platform to the back of his bike. I thought, "Halloween or just a local???" I love this thought.

I love living downtown. There actually was a guy who I used to see often downtown who would dress in pink outift (often a mini-skirt) and wear a blonde wig. He hasn't been around for a while though. I'm feeling nostalgic about moving from here. I'll miss the crazy diversity, the homeless guy who yells at a trees, wacky ladies who ask if it's ok if they eat the fruit of the flowering plumb growing on the public corner, etc. etc. Although moving to Orem, it has it own version of crazy which may be a little more subtle but, given the right perspective, could be just as entertaining.

Update

Happy my favorite holiday everyone! How I love Halloween. Even though I'm stuck here at work all day, I just can't help being giddy. Maybe the stash of holiday M&M's in my drawer helps. :) Unfortuneately, Rick is working all weekend so I'm heading off to party hop tonight with other friends. I think we'll get a chance to sport the zombie bride and groom costumes again tomorrow night for his work party. Yeehaw or... I mean uuuuuuuuugh (that's a zombie moan).

Speaking of being giddy- here's an update on the wedding plans. The big day is January 16. We will be doing our reception the evening before. Please send me your addresses and relieve my stress level somewhat of all the things I have to do. :) I did decide on a dress which I get it back from the alterations person next week. You can probably drop by my house anytime between then and the wedding and I'll just be wearing it around. :) Now we just need a photographer and invitations. Any suggestions? Oh and fun honeymoon location ideas. Nothing too extravagent or expensive.

I was laughing last night when I was complaining to Rick that my head hurts from all these decisions. I'm just tired of making decisions. He offered to make them, then I realized that I really want exactly what I want, it's just that I don't know what I want. Being a girl can be hard. :) I can't even decide on colors. Really, in the end, not much of these decisions matter. We'll be married regardless of what we wear for our engagement photos. But really that is point. You do all of this craziness for good photos. The decision to get married is made so that's not so stressful anymore (well sometimes it's still a bit stressful), but the details which really shouldn't matter too much are just to have nice photos to remember the day. So, I ask again.... good photographer recommendations? Tell me some fun things you did at your wedding that you loved, or things you wished you did differently?



I figured this was appropriate for both Halloween and the wedding update (I stole this from Pinky's blog- thanks girl!)