Anatomy and Wedding Season

So it seems lately that I cannot for the life of my avoid wedding talk to and from everyone! Everywhere I turn, someone’s getting engaged, or finding THE DRESS, or sending save-the-dates. It’s like someone flipped a switch and decided that now’s the time to distract me with tales of tulle and love and something blue…

So just for grins and giggles, I looked at my facebook friends to see what percentage are actually engaged or have gotten married. Here are my findings:

Friends Engaged = 18 (11 of them since I got engaged)

Friends Married = 48 (20 under the age of 25, and 3 of them since I got engaged)

Friends Getting Asked Any Minute = 30 (28 of them under the age of 25)

Misc = 1 was married and 2 were engaged

So you can imagine how hectic my life gets when everyone starts asking me questions or bragging about their upcoming nuptuals (not a complaint…they DO have every right to). I find myself overcome with all over-the-top emotions. I start planning a little here and there, but then get thrown into a vat of unanswered questions and frustration with the fact that we do not know our official “date” yet. And then there’s the whole over-a-year-away thing. I’m so happy for those around me that get to have those short engagements when compared to mine but then I get antsy and a little jealous. I have to remind myself that the hardcore planning and excitement hasn’t even started yet. And to top all of this off, I have school to worry about and am reminded that I need to put this all on the backburner to concentrate on graduating in December.

Basically, I’ve got wedding on the brain and am desperately trying to expunge it. I wish everyone (me included) would just hold off on all of the talk for now so I can focus on Anatomy and at least get through the end of this hard semester. I need to relax and concentrate my thinking on Anatomy – not wedding plans that won’t be utilized for at least another 6 months or so.

Tonight I had an Anatomy exam, and tomorrow I have an Anatomy lab quiz. This is such a hard class and I’m trying harder than I ever have to achieve the grade I want. When I study, I pretty much lock myself inside my room with absolute quiet. This is what I need to be doing – not looking at magazine clippings or anxiously checking my calendar to see if another month has gone by yet.

The beauty of having a long engagement is being able to take a sabbatical from wedding ideas and thinking. When things get to be too crazy, I get to step back and relax. No issue is too pressing and the details will be able to come together at a slow and easy pace. Yes, a longer engagement is the way to go.

I’m going to take it easy for the next couple of months and try to enjoy learning everything I can, spending as much time as possible with the love of my life, and taking in my last spring semester at Texas A&M. :)

P.S. We found THE church! We looked at it over Spring Break, and I’ve completely fallen in love! It’ll be at the First United Methodist Church of Irving. See you there. ;)

P.P.S. One of those previously mentioned engaged friends was my first new friend at A&M. She recently got engaged and they are getting married June 11, 2011!! That’s Phillip and I’s first-choice date! I could possibly have the same anniversary as someone I know. Isn’t that kind of cool!?

Goodnight everyone!!

Good Morning!

Is Spring Break already almost over? It seems like it JUST started. I’m not finished doing all of the things I planned on doing. There’s so much to do in such little time.

I’m currently laying in bed, wondering when I’ll get up enough motivation to go get a cup of coffee – maybe someone will just happen to bring it to me??? Wishful thinking. So eventually I’m going to shower [p.s. Heather just brought me in a cup of coffee!!!] and get ready for the day. What’s on the agenda you ask? Well, nothing pressing at the moment. I want to spend some time outside today, but I don’t know what.

I bet you all are wondering what that fiance of mine is doing this week (afterall, this is a blog about US). He is doing a whole lot of nothing. UTA’s athletic team is still having games this week, so he’s done some work. Oh and a video game came out one night, so he played that one evening – anyone actually surprised about that one? And he and I have spent quite a bit of time together. I like that last part.

Well, enough of my boring life and a boring update… I guess I’ll go back to relaxing and laying around. My stomach kind of feels unsettled now, but I’m probably just hungry. Sorry for the absolutely boring and pointless entry!

Engagement Party Craziness

Yesterday I finally got the engagement party invitations in the mail. So for those of you wondering – they should be in your mailboxes soon. I must address a concern that I know is going to be brought up over the next month – the guestlist. Since deciding to hold an engagement party, Phillip and I have decided (along with our families) to make this an intimate family affair. Therefore, we are now going to have two separate parties – one in about a month for our close family and family friends, and the other sometime in May for our friends from high school. [P.S. If anyone is compelled to host the said friend party, please let me know.]

Saturday my parents, Heather, and me joined Cameron at the lake house for a walkthrough. We got to take in the layout (it’s even bigger than I remembered) and make plans for where everything is going to be set up. I’m excited.

Yesterday Heather and I were thrifty and purchased VERY REASONABLE centerpieces for the tables and today, Heather is diligently working on nametags. We have decided to go with nametags so that everyone can have “cheat sheets” when trying to remember everyone’s names and it’ll hopefully start some conversations. Tomorrow we’re going to finish the nametags and make some playlists.

Basically, we’re getting ready for the engagement party this week so we can just show up that weekend and set everything up. It’ll be fun and Heather’s done such an INCREDIBLE job planning this event. I’m excited!!!

Home Sweet Home

Well I’m back home for Spring Break this week. We got in about 4:00 yesterday and I’m so happy to be back.

Yesterday: As soon as I got back from dropping Phillip off in Arlington, I rushed home to go with my dad and Heather to look at a potential car for her, which was so cute. After that, Samantha took Heather and I to get sister pedicures and then it was cicis for dinner and and an early night to bed.

Today. We woke up pretty early to go test drive the car we looked at yesterday and get it checked over by our nextdoor neighbor mechanic (who has done some work on all of my family’s cars in the past – including my Jimmy). Then it was driving to Saginaw to go check out the lakehouse Phillip and I are having our engagement party at. It was even more perfect than I had remembered it and I can’t wait to see it all come together! After that was meeting Samantha’s boyfriend, Gary's, kids. We went to the mall, ate fajitas, played tons of games, and had some ice cream sundaes. In there somewhere, Heather got her car too!!! I would have to say it was a VERY successful night.

Tomorrow. First of all, I’m going to be sleeping in. I haven’t gotten to really do that since last weekend (unless you count yesterday morning when I strangely woke up before my alarm wide awake). Then it’s hanging around the house a bit and going to walmart with my mom for some necessity shopping. Dinner with Phillip’s parents tomorrow night and spending the night in Arlington will round out my second full day of Spring Break.

Now for the rest of the week, I don’t really have set-in-stone plans. I have some things I’d like to do but for the most part, I’m just going to relax and enjoy being home with my old friends, family, and love of my life. Yay!

P.S. On another note, Ben and Amanda (Phillip’s cousins) found out Friday that they are having a boy! I’m so excited for them! I just love babies!! :D

P.P.S. Heather just saw that they’re building a BABES in ARLINGTON!!!!

Update!

So it’s been quite some time since the last time I updated this blog – so sorry! I’ve been swamped with a crazy amount of midterm stuff. I had four exams, a project, and a paper this week. I’ve been studying harder than I ever have in college and so far the grades show that. :)

Yesterday after my final test, I came home to clean our apartment (which was beyond disgusting due to both my roommate and me having a crazy week – I think we ate 10 bowls of cereal for legitimate meals in the past week), and started laundry and packing. Oh and Phillip came in to see me! It happened to work out where the tournament in Katy finished up right as my tests ended so Josh dropped of my love to me last night.

And today, I’m going home – with Phillip as a bonus passenger. I have to facilitate my weekly class (aka work) and then I’m heading home!! Tonight I get to meet some new people that I’ll hopefully be seeing more of in the coming years. But before that is a sister pedicure party. Yay! What an exciting start to my relaxing and way overdue Spring Break!

I love life!