Wedding Wednesday - Some details & stuff ...

How gorgeous is today?! It is my favorite type of weather. Not too hot or too cold, just perfect. I seriously wanted to just sit outside that I actually watered the lawn and our flowers today. I never want to do that, lol.

Anywho, since today is Wednesday, I will share some wedding pictures. These were all taken before the ceremony and really do not have much relevance but I'll share them anyway. At the rate I am going with sharing these pictures, I will still be sharing them until our 10 year anniversary, hehe.





isn't she the cutest. yes, it wasn't a question.



my beautiful bouquet. wish it still looked like that. actually, wish i still had it.



my gorgeous sister


brushing my teeth to ensure i didn't have funky breath when it was time to kiss my new hubby ;)


all my bridesmaids had their first initial pinned on their bouquet. they loved it!






Goodness, I just realized I didn't do a getting ready post! I mean, how in the world did I get this far if I never did a getting ready post?! Ahhh, I suck at this. Next Wednesday, I promise!

.my pathetic, lame, whatever you want to call it, weekend.

Yeah, so my better half was gone this weekend. To my dismay, I was miserable! I thought it was going to be "so much fun" to just do what I wanted. I was going to cook myself this insane seafood meal (the hubs hates seafood) but I couldn't make it because the thought of just cooking for myself did not appeal to me at all. What a loser.

Friday night wasn't so bad. I hung out with my little sisters and my nephew. It was fun! Saturday afternoon, I went to the Cheesecake Factory with a friend and bought a few items for the house and that was fun!

When I got home that is when the fun stopped. I had NO idea what to do. It was kinda pathetic to be honest. I unpacked so much stuff and watched tons of HGTV to make me happy. Didn't work, HGTV always works! The worst part was because the hubs was in Montreal we didn't call each other because of long distance, crap, crap, blah, blah.

At points, I began to actually feel bad for myself. Had I become so dependent on my hubs that I just could not have fun without him? I began to tell myself that it was because for the last 8 months we have been together every single day. Slept in the same bed, together for the last 8 months, of course I am going to be feeling quite sucky.

I have decided that in order to be normal & in a healthy relationship again, I am going to have to start doing everything without him. Making plans without him. Hanging with only my girlfriends on the weekend.

OK, who am I kidding? I am happy that I found someone that I want to see every single day and sleep with every single night. I am not pathetic. I am just crazy in love with my best friend. When he got home Sunday evening, I hugged him like I was never going to let him go. I probably won't let him go anywhere again. I am going to chain him to the house. He is allowed to go no where.

Besides, I am sure you agree, we look a lot better together than apart! :)


Hope everyone had a better weekend than I did!

An award? For me?! :)

OK, I really had no idea about awards. Being new to the blog world, I saw that it was mentioned in the blog world but I really had no idea what it meant. NYC Island Gal was kind enough to explain and to actually give me an award!


It is an award for "A Blog With Substance". Me? Really? My lil ole blog has substance! That really made me smile.

The rule with accepting the award is that I must write about my blog philosophy. OK, to be honest, I do not really have a blog philosophy. I hope I can still keep the award, pretty please? My blog is about my life that I share with my stud muffin of a husband. I started this blog with the intention of just writing & documenting life after getting married and was very surprised when people began to follow me. To be honest, I never thought people I didn't know would be interested in following me. Because of this, I have actually become more dedicated to writing on this blog more and I am truly enjoying it. Such an outlet.

I must also give this award to several lovely blogs that I seriously stalk on a daily basis that I believe are great reads with substance!

Ruthy Ann
Jess
Melissa
My Dream Ring
Sara
Joanna B
Kathy
Amy
Michelle

I could go on and on so I should just stop.

Thanks so much Island Gal for the award! :)

Happy Birthday Mommy! :)

Happy Birthday to the most amazing woman in the world. I am so incredibly blessed that God chose you to be my mother. Thank you for teaching me all that I know and always being the shoulder to lean on from the day I was born. I love you and hope you have the most amazing day!

p.s. I told dad to spoil you rotten! :)



My mom getting her dance on at my wedding. It's where I get my moves! ;)

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And it's my Fella's birthday today too! I knew that cat was special! Hehehe. Happy Birthday Fella. Mommy is going to spoil you with tons of treats and wet food today! :)


Happy Birthday to my loves. Praying that God blesses you both with many more healthy years!

.What's going on with you Faith?.

***(Since I never gave a weekend recap, I figured I could do it now since I am watching the hubs pack and honestly, I am pretty bored)***

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We are almost settled in. I still have some a lot of clothes hanging in our old apartment's closet and we have to clean it before we hand in our keys. It is a bit of a sad feeling because that apartment holds many memories for us but that sadness is nothing compared to how satisfying it is to have our own house to call home now.

We are still living out of boxes but I am hoping that this weekend I will be able to get a lot unpacked and organized. The hubs will be in Montreal for a bachelor party so I'll get to do things the way we I want. Yup, it will be Faithy time all weekend! :)

Sunday morning, Sean cooked for the first time in our house. It was actually kinda exciting. It was only eggs and turkey sausage but there was something different about it. Maybe it was because we used our fine china for the first time. Don't judge us, everything else was in boxes. Either way it was exciting and we haven't cooked since. I might change that this weekend and make myself a killer seafood meal since the hubs hates seafood.



I was also so excited to go out and buy a bunch of flowers to put into our vase. It's kinda corny the things I look forward to lately! :)


My little sister came to visit us and she and the hubs fought over the big chair. She won.


She loves to pretend she doesn't like the camera. Hmmm, maybe I wouldn't either if someone kept snapping pictures of me when I wasn't ready. Oh well. She has her pose right.


Yup, you're seeing things right. Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That's our wheelchair accessible ramp that my little sista is standing on. This is going to be a big project soon. I can't wait to bring out cold lemonade for the hubs while he takes it down. It is going to turn our tiny backyard into a small backyard. Hey! Small is better than tiny!


Oh and we bought a brand new spanking car.


That was last weekend in a nutshell.

Wedding Wednesday - Me and Him

I think I've kept my fabulous friends waiting long enough. Time to suck it up and pull out my disc full of wedding pictures. I had to go through a lot of boxes to find them. I hope you appreciate the stress I went through. I keeeeed, I mean, I kiiiiiiiiid.

Now the part you are waiting for, at least I hope you've been anticipating this post, hehe ;)








And since it can get a bit mushy watching two people hopelessly in love, I've decided to add a picture that I still wonder about and a picture with our lil party members. That always add a little bit of something to make it a little less mushy! ;)

My bestie is getting married!

I've known Jihae ever since I was a sophomore and she was a freshman. We were friends right away. We had so much in common and had such a great time together. After college, you sometimes have this fear that things will change but no matter the distance or the months we can go without a phone call, we just pick up right where we left off.

I am writing this post and have a smile on my face because I am just thinking of the many times Jihae told me she would never marry. Never say never. Now one of my gorgeous, gorgeous best friends will be tying the knot with an incredibly amazing person. I am so happy for her and cannot wait to share her special day with her as well as planning. I will be the best bridesmaid that's for sure, lol.

I was looking through pictures and it made me so happy to realize that so many years later (9 years to be exact) she is still such an important part of my life.


I can't get over how young we were here.




Look at her absolutely fabulous ring and just how completely gorgeous she is!



Paul and Jihae I wish you both nothing but happiness in your future lives together! Congrats!



p.s. can't wait for your bach party in the Caribbean!!! ;)

My poor Kitty had a rough wknd.

This post isn't about my eventful weekend. It isn't about the shambles my house is in. I would post pictures but they are slightly embarrassing. I should be packing things away but I feel the need to blog about my cat, Fella.

I've had Fella since he was 6 weeks ago. He will turn 3 on the 26th ... just a few more days! Each year that Fella has been alive he has moved. So I figure he should be use to it by now.

Fella started noticing that something was happening on Friday. When everything was being moved to one corner he just stared. My poor baby's heart was probably breaking. If only hiding would make things stop.



When he was put in his pet taxi and the car started to move him to his new home he began to cry hysterically. I tried to distract him but he just got louder. We had to just let him cry his poor heart out. When he got to the house and we let him out it didn't get any better. He actually got worse.

The hubs went back to the apt to get the Uhaul packed with his friends and I stayed at the house waiting for the cable guy and some furniture to be delivered. I was just unpacking a few things until I realized that I didn't hear a thing. Nothing. Uhm, did Fella decide he loved the house already? I started to search for him. Our house is not so big so he couldn't have gone far but imagine how much I began to panic when I realized I could not find him. I actually started freaking out because how was I going to tell the hubs that I lost our cat in our house? Yeah, not gonna happen.

I finally decided to check the closet in our guestroom when I realized that there was actually a hole that covered our plumbing and was nailed shut but my smart cat figured out how to get inside this hole. I knew he had to be in there but I couldn't see him. Finally, I saw his eyes. You know how kitty eyes just glow in the dark. I started telling him to get out but he paid me no mind. I got treats, tuna, brought out ties he loves but nada. He had found a spot he felt safe in and he was not coming out. I started to pace. I called hubs and told him everything and kept on asking him if the cat was going to die. He said, "The cat is not going to die, just get him out". He just couldn't understand that I couldn't get him out.

I had to wait for the hubs to get back home before I could get him out. Poor kitty was in that hole for about 2 hours. Not sure if he minded though. When the hubs got home he had to wrestle Fella to get him out. Fella did not want to leave. Finally, the hubs pulled him out with all the strength in the world (slight exaggeration). Those small animals pry out so easily. It was very interesting to watch, lol. I mean, Fella weighs like nothing & Sean was having a hard time getting him out!

When Sean finally got him out we had to put him back in the pet taxi to avoid anything else happening. Fella was very content with that and stayed quiet for the rest of the day, just watching us move things in. He would not eat anything we brought to him and he refused to use the bathroom.

At 6pm, we unlocked the taxi but he refused to move. At 7:30, Fella decided it was safe and quietly walked around the house. Stopping to sniff things. He recognized our old bed and stayed with it for one hour. Around 9pm, Fella finally went to the bathroom and had the longest pee ever. I'm serious. He must have had to go for so long but because of his nerves he held it in. Good cat.

He finally went to his bowl to eat and drink water. And today when I got home, I caught this.



I have a feeling he is going to be just fine! :)

.Packing.

I've lived in 4 different apartments ever since I graduated college in 2005. It felt like every year I was ending an apt lease and moving to a new apt. Each time I just could not wait to get out of these apartments. Packing sucked but at least I didn't have to deal with my horrible landlord any longer. It became normal for me to pack up everything I owned come June. When I leased the apt I am living in now (for a few more days at least) I really believed that I was going to be here for a while. I really love loved my apartment complex. It had everything we could want. A pool, a tennis court, pool tables, gym ... you name it we had it. But once we got married the hubs kept on talking about how much he wanted to find a house. I was worried about money and responsibility but he was able to find a home we could afford that did not require so much work.

For the first time ever packing is not so bad. I am not wanting to cry and throw everything away because I just want it to end. I am packing with a smile on my face because I know this will be the last time for a verrrrrry long time. God Willing.

Tomorrow is going to be the hottest day of the week and I know that I am going to be sweating up a storm and complaining about how heavy things are and how much I wish we had more help, but I also know that come tomorrow night we will sleep in our house for the first time and I will sleep like a baby. For the first time in my life, I am content. Truly content.

Lovelies, hope you all have perfect weekends!

Wordless Wednesday

I know this is suppose to be wordless but I thought I should let you know that I am in love with my nephew! ♥