I'm MARRIED!!!

Yes, just so you know.....

I'M MARRIED!!!!!!!!! And have been for the past 28 hours! :D I love my husband!!!!!

Change

It's hard to imagine, until you're actually at a major turning point in your life, how much things can change.

For the past few months, I've known I was getting married, but getting married and just thinking about what it will be like are two totally different things. My room is kind of packed up. I've got all the pictures off my wall, and it's kind of bare in here, besides the floor which is extremely messy, but yesterday I realized that I'm really going to be leaving. It's weird to think about.

Location is not the only thing that's changing. When you're getting married, apparently people forget about you and what you've done for them for the past while. How much you tried as hard as you could to help them as best you could. When you're getting married, friendships change. I think people who used to be your friends are afraid to talk to you. Why, I have no idea. And I'm not going to dwell on it beyond this, either. Everyone has their agency, and if people want to shut you out of their life because you're in a different stage, that's their choice.

I don't care if others forget me, start to hate me, or choose to remain friends. I've got my (currently "future") husband that is all I ever really need. He treats me with so much love and respect, always wanting to help me, and I want to do all I can to help him. He is amazing, and I'm so lucky to be able to be marrying him.

Did I ever imagine this would happen like it has?

No!

Would I have it any other way?

Definitely not!!

Staying caught up

For me, staying caught up is the hardest part of blogging! (And coming up with new and unique titles. XD That's a whole different story, though!)

Yesterday, I went through the temple for the first time (to do something besides baptisms)! It was an amazing experience and super unique. Not something to talk about, but I wanted to mention it, because some of my favorite people in the whole wide world were able to be there!!!! :D Of course, my wonder husband-to-be (in 4 ish days) was there! And so was my family! But I was very happy to see that the Chesleys could make it to the session! It made me so happy! :D They're amazing people, and I'm so glad they are a part of my life!

Today, I was supposed to go shopping and get everything all set up (I'm going to need a new wardrobe, I think). I was planning on it, and we said prayer and my mom and I were getting ready to go when I had my "aura" thing happening. That means, I get a nasty headache. Headaches that hurt enough to expel all food and things from my stomach. Yeah.... spending a perfectly nice Friday on the bathroom floor, shivering from all my muscles being weird and getting sick.... not my idea of a fun start to the last weekend of me being single! Oh well.

I did get to see Mr. Ellis Jason Lee. He came over to see me, since I couldn't make it to take a couple of boxes over to the house. And my house happens to be on the way to where he was going for the bachelor party that was being held for him. So we cuddled for a bit before he had to leave.

And my headache finally went away, I was able to get a little bit of food in my tummy, I made my mom a birthday cake after driving to Jason's house to drop a couple of boxes and my printer off and giving Kristen a tour of the house, finished the cake, watched my mom open presents, lit the candles and sang happy birthday to her, then when the short festivities were over, I came back to check my grades from summer school. A+ and B+!!!!!! :D SOOOOO happy!!!! I was terrified I would do poorly. But I passed both!!! :D YAY!!!!!!!!!

So, all-in-all, everything worked out okay. And tomorrow, I'm mom-napping my mom and we're going to take Alana and go shopping for things, and just spend quality time together, and I'm looking forward to it!!! :D

Update

So, pictures are done!!!

Go to forgetmenotbyjana.blogspot.com to see the photographer's favorite couple pictures! (They look pretty darn good, if I say so, myself!!! :D

Besides pictures, we have one week as of TOMORROW!!!! :D SOOOOOO excited!!!! And yes, soon there will be an hour countdown. ;D So exciting!!!!!! :D

Adventure

Alright, so the past week or so has been quite the adventure. And not a very fun one at that, for the most part.

When getting married, stress is pretty natural. I've been a little stressed. Not necessarily debilitating, but I've felt it. But we've got almost everything done! I shouldn't be stressed very much anymore, right?

Mmhmm..... Not stressed..... That would be nice. I've still got summer school to complete (this is my last week of it! YAY). Besides that, though, I am slightly stressed about one more thing.

This week, I got sick. Not a little cold, which can be a nuisance, but I can deal with colds. Not a flu, because once you get rid of the fever, you're usually good-to-go. No, this is much more unpleasant. What is it? I have NO idea. But it hurts really bad! I woke up one day, and my throat just started killing me! Burning and stabbing pain every time I swallowed (not fun). For a few days, the only activity that hasn't hurt me is breathing. Eating food, swallowing anything and talking have been NO fun. At all. But I'm surviving, and I'm doing what I can to get well.

My soon-to-be husband has been amazing to me. It's times like I've had lately that I feel like I really don't deserve him. I love him! And I am so glad we're getting married in under 2 weeks!!!! :D 12 days to be exact!!! :D

We've got pictures taken care of, we're getting a marriage license today, and things are just moving forward. It's amazing! :D I love it!!! :D

Little successes

So many things have gone right lately, it's amazing!

I got to spend time again with the MoH and we (AGAIN) went shopping for bridesmaid dresses.

Success #1: We found bridesmaid dresses!!! YAY!!!!!

Success #2: I got jewelry to wear with my dress!!!

After Jason got off of work, he came over (which was good, because I was stressing a little bit). We relaxed for a bit, I got some homework done and continued with the project that's due Monday afternoon, ate dinner with the fam (YAY for my mom coming home today!!!!!), and then watched a movie. Well, he found out that he lost his pedometer (we don't know where), so we went to look for it outside by the horses..... Yeah.... I would rather not go out there at night. =/ There were black widow spiders out there!!! YIKES!!!! I hate spiders. If there is one creature that I cannot deal with, it's spiders.

Anyways.... random update. The projects for this week:

- Get announcements from Jordan G.

- Put address labels on envelopes

- Mail envelopes to people

- Talk to flower lady, get flowers tues/wed

- Ride horses

- Have dinner with 2 more of Jason's siblings

- Finalize food plan for reception

-Finalize tent decision

Here's to more little successes!!!!

A new post

So, I decided that you all need a new post to read. It's been a while.

It's been so busy! We're finalizing decisions on food and everything, and it's all just coming together!!!

What's been completed lately:

-Time spent with Maid of Honor looking for dresses

- Buying dress for above MoH

- Deciding on Food

- Choosing cake

- Bridal Shower

-Picking the flowers and center pieces

- Getting addresses for people that announcements.

- Summer school week 1 (almost 2)

To be completed this week:

- Get announcement pictures

-Take to person putting them together

-Have dinner with various family members

-Finalize list

-Get finished announcements

-Send out announcements

-Get dress fitted so that it fits (tomorrow!!!)

-Bridal pics

-Spend more time with MoH and BMs looking for bridesmaid dresses

-Pack up most of the rest of my room

-Talk to recommended jeweler for Wedding band for mi amor

-Try not to go crazy

-Keep up with Summer school work

Let's see how this week goes!!!!