Random-ness!

So I've been taking pics on my phone lately.. cause my camera died and I can't find its charger.. but I have SOOO much to fill you guys in on!!! Remind me :) But for now.. Here's some random items from me to you :)

Oh, and when I get to 50 followers, I think I may do a random prize drawing, how does that sound?
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So this is part of our centerpieces, we have ten of these (and the ones below) total. Then on the other 10 or 11 tables, we are going to do flowers and the typical centerpieces, I think? Not too sure yet. But they are totally cute and have scriptures on them. This one is Joshua 24:15.

This is the second one. The scripture is Romans 15:13. I'm excited to get creative with these bad boys. They come on glass mirrors that reflects the light perfectly. How long do those little candles last though?? Any ideas to make them last longer?!

Yes, once again I am starting over on the diet thing. Mainly for my health, but I also want me dress to fit on me better, and for my arms to look great in them! This is a salad, water, strawberries, and NutriSystem pizza. The pizza was actually really good lol. So wish me luck on my new journey again!!! Starting in at my heaviest EVER!

So of course with the new diet, comes new groceries! This is only $50 for all this food :) Fantastic!! I got enough to last me this whole week without anything spoiling, and if worse comes to worse I will go back and pick something else up!

God is amazing. This picture is the sunset from outside my house, on my driveway. It is beautiful. It just reminds me of how amazing He really is. Even though we don't always understand His ways or why he does things the way He does, but I have complete Faith in His ways. Also, a bonus is we baptized 17 people yesterday at our annual church picnic!! YES 17 PEOPLE! He is SO GREAT! This month is going to be a hard month, with Tanya & Erik's anniversary vastly approaching (speaking of which, what're we going to do for it? Hmm. I'll have to ask the rents) and things getting crazy with everything, But I Trust Him completely, which isn't an easy thing to do! :) He's also gonna help me get through this diet crapola too :)

My cousin Tracy! She was in the hospital.. and supposed to be in until she delivered. But now they are going to moniter her at home because her blood sugar level has been okay. I don't think I mentioned this previously, but she has Gestational Diabetes, and has had it for a month or two. So we're all praying for her to last full term with this baby! With her history (preclampsia, high BP, gestational diabetes, etc) she needs all the prayers she can get :)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE These flowers. They are simply gorgeous. If I could afford them, they would be my main flower in the wedding. But since I can't they will be in my bouqet and I'm trying to find a fake but good looking flower to go in my hair exactly like this one. Any ideas???


Alright that's all for now folks. I'll check back soon!

Tweet-Tweet!

Does anyone on here Twitter? So two of my best friends, Rosa and Tanya do it, and my man Matt does it... and they all enjoy it. So I'm just checking to see if any of you fine people do it.
If so, (what's the term?) 'Follow Me?" lol.

http://twitter.com/samiam4eva06

What is the point of it? I don't get it yet. Ive just stuck with the old fashioned myspace and facebook accounts. So we'll see how this works..

Any famous celebs your following?

Let me know :) I want in the loop :)

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Another Statistic..

I lost my job. Fired. The End! Lol. It's only funny because I hated my boss.. not her as a person but the things I went through with her. It was unbearable. I'll give you the full scoop later, but we'll just say I'm Lawyering up!! But in all of this I can def say I LOVE my supporting family. They were pissed and I had my cousins calling me, friends, family lol. They all wanted to help me :) I'm special :) Lol Plus, I know an amazing Heavenly Father who loves me and I trust that it is all in His hands! :) <3>

Reception!

Ok, So last week sometime, my mother, friend Terry, and myself went to our reception venue. We actually went because I thought we had a planning meeting, but turned out we didn't :) So we went to ask a few questions and go over some details with Carrie.. the wedding planner.

I was able to snap some pics of the venue. So I'm going to show you pics of the place how it looks plain and then ideas from other weddings on what we're hoping for. I NEED ideas.. so feel free to chirp in :)

**This is what is: This is the ceremony site with the gazebo and no chairs (obviously lol). I love this site. It's gorgeous, green, and lots of lush trees. Hopefully it'll stay that way for a few months.

**This is what I want: There will be about 200+ chairs sharing both sides of the aisle. I want the aisle to be covered in flower petals lining the aisle. They petals have to be real.. so I'm not sure how expensive or inexpensive that will be.

I also want the chairs nearest to the aisle to be draped in tulle with every other row having a flower or some sort of color. Sort of like this but outside..

What can we use aside from flowers to make it cheaper?
Do you think I'll need an Aisle runner? Or just leave as is?
How do we decorate the gazebo for cheap?!? and cute ;)


** This is what it is: As soon as you come in from the ceremony site, you are greeted with this gorgeous massive bar. Which would be great EXCEPT there will be no alcohol served at the actual reception site. My dad is a pastor and we have too many church people and higher ministers coming to attempt to sell alcohol.. not to mention the mr and i can do without!

**This is what I want: So I spoke to Carrie about the bar/alcohol thing. She said that it's fine.. we can cover it. So I am going to buy some tulle to cover everything aside from the mirror. She will have all the alcohol bottles taken down from the bar, and we'll cover the back of the bar wtih the tulle. I'm really trying not to be mean adn showcase all these bottles.. and then not allow anyone to touch! lol. On the actual bar, I was thinking of putting pictures of the mr and I with some candles.
Any ideas on that?

**This is what it is: Directly facing the bar are these tables with barstools.

**This is what I want: I don't really know what to do with these exactly. I was just thinking putting pictures up of mr and i with candles and/or flowers. Also, mayve a possible site for our guestbook?? Ideas? Maybe put the place cards there?
The reason I say possible site for guestbook is because there is a hallway to enter the reception area.. which looks like this:

I can always take the tables out. But I was thinking that round table may be a good place for a guestbook as well. These rectangle tables on the side will be used for buffet IF we do a buffet, if not then they will be where place cards are put or removed.

**This is what it is: The reception area! Sorry it is a dark picture but basicall it is a large room with a dance floor in middle of it and round tables on outside. We are doing a "sweetheart" table as our head table that will go right behind dance floor. We chose to do sweetheart vs bridal table because we want our bridal party to join the rest of their family..and we wont be sitting long anyway!

These sconce things are hanging on the wall and look GREAT with my decor. They match perfectly!

**This is what it is: This a simple set up of the tables. Note: we went on Memorial Day weekend, so of course these are not the colors of my wedding.. but what were already set up.

The green and damask, however, are our table runners. They will be on every table and alternating between the green on top or damask on top. It is going to look GORGEOUS! I'm excited! We are not to sure on what to do as centerpieces though.. any ideas? My mom really likes the fresia flower bunches because they are so full. I'm not sure what we will do yet.. ill post on that later, all I know is some kind of flower, arranged some kind of way, in some kind of container, with candles!!! And I have about 21-22 tables and I want like to designs on each one. So I need a few centerpiece ideas :)

**This is what it is: Our cake :) One of our great family friends has offered to bake my wedding cake and I def took her up on it. Seriously, she's better than Rachel Ray more like a Paula Deen. I love her cooking and her cake will be amazing.

**This is what we want: Bling, Bling! lol It'll look similar to this with green ribbon, square, and no broaches. Also, we upgraded to the lighting package which will include a Gobo on the dance floor with out monogram, 8 uplights along the wall, and a spotlight on the cake :) So it'll def shine! So it'll look very similar to the pic.. except our colors and monogram lol.

**This is what it is: A Candy buffet :) we aren't going to do it in our color scheme.. we're just going to have our colors on the table. Also, we will buy stickers with our monogram on them to place on the bags or chinese boxes. We don't like green or black candy :) lol.

That's all for now folks! Ideas greatly appreciated :)

*The Kids*

*Warning LOTS of Pics :) *
To see original post of the story behind these lovely kids.. look here!

We really had a lot of fun that day. The Kaida's came up with us. I miss them so much, so it is really a treat to see them. They are all getting so big and they're parents would have been SO proud. I love my babies!