Freak out!

Yup, it's been a gazillion years since my last post. But I have excuses. Tons of them... First of all, I officially moved into Brian's, errr, 'our' house. Secondly, I've gone on three trips in the past month! We went to Seattle the last weekend of April for Brian's friend's wedding. It was a very quick trip, and both of our first times in Seattle, but we were able to sneak in visits to Pikes Place Market, the original Starbucks location, and the awesome Archie McPhee store. The wedding was really nice- the reception was on the bay or lake or whatever they call the water around Seattle. Weather was decent- not too much drizzle, not too cold. Honestly, at this point (a month later and 2 other trips later), I don't remember many of the details, I apologize. I will not ramble on about the uninteresting memories I do still have!

We came home for just less than a week and then were off to Dallas for a business trip/wedding trip combo. Brian had a meeting in Dallas for the first part of the week and as most of you know, my office is in Dallas, so I went down to work for the week from the office. The wedding we attended that weekend was for coworker of mine. Her wedding was absolutely gorgeous. And hands down, THE most fun I have ever had at a reception. The ceremony took place at a gorgeous church near downtown Dallas (in Highland Park) complete with a nearly 40 person choir. Immediately following was the reception at the Four Seasons in Las Colinas. The cocktail hour was accompanied by delicious passed hors'deourves (give me a break, I don't have time to look up the correct spelling), and was followed by a delicious dinner with wine pairings for each course in the ballroom. The ballroom was decorated spectacularly and Brian said us attending this wedding was 'trouble', as I kept getting more and more ideas and thinking about more stuff we could add to our big day. We danced the night away to the fabulous sounds of the Emerald City Band (who are apparently famous and performed at Bush's inaugeration!) which was followed by a DJ later on in the night. I seriously was a little worried about this wedding, mostly because Brian didn't know ANYONE, and I really only knew my coworkers that were attending, but in the end it was a seriously awesome time.

After being in Dallas for a solid week, we were definitely ready to come home and attempt to attend to the multitude of boxes and furniture strewn about the house... Well, I should be honest and say we're STILL trying to attend to this.... But, we're getting somewhere. Where that is, I don't know. But it is coming along. Also, my birthday was a couple weeks ago, and in my grand tradition of making birth DAYS into birth WEEKENDS, we had a great weekend full of baseball games, dinners out, shopping, and sitting outside enjoying the sun.

Last weekend was the third and final trip of the past month, and that was to Florida (Boca Raton/Fort Lauderdale area) to visit Brian's parents and sister/bro-in-law/new baby! Actually it was more than just a visit, it was me meeting his parents for the first time! The weekend went quite well and we had a great time. Brian's new niece is absolutely precious- all 8 pounds of her... and I couldn't get enough of holding her! Such a cutie. Brian's aunt from New York was also in town and it was great to meet her as well. We ate seafood every day, I got my Dunkin Donuts fix, and stocked up on Dunkin Donuts coffee beans. I couldn't ask for anything more. We also went to the Hard Rock Casino where Anna Nicole Smith died and I doubled my money on some poker slot game that to this day, we still don't know how it worked and how I won. One afternoon we went to the pool for a bit and soaked up some rays. Not too many rays though, since I get pink in like 15 minutes, I was in the shade not too long after we arrived at the pool! On Saturday evening, we went to dinner with everyone, then down to Fort Lauderdale to walk along the beach and enjoy the salt air.

Ok, so that just about brings us up to date... And THIS very date marks the day that we are officially 99 of those days until the wedding. Double digits, baby. And yes, I am freaking out a bit... Just about what's left to do and how little time there is left to do it! This weekend I'm hoping to assemble the invitations so that's out of my hair. Oh, but here's my little vent. With the postage rate hike (no, I'm not going to crab about the extra 2 cents a stamp costs), and apparently the post office not anticipating the rate hike (give me a break), they have 3 choices for 41 cent stamps at the moment. We're talking about that ever-patriotic Flag stamp, the historical Liberty Bell Forever Stamp, and the just released Star Wars stamps. Well, I need to get my stamps to put on the RSVP envelopes and these are my choices. So, when you get your invitation and see Yoda or Chewie on your RSVP envelope, you'll know why and where I'm coming from! It'll add a nice touch of kitsch to our classy invitations. :)