Three measly days until our BIG day!

Man, resting at the coast was beneficial, let me tell you, and I am SO grateful to my sister for taking me away. Now I'm back, but guess what, the chaos hasn't subsided, and I'm sinking ever so slowly back into wedding craziness. Most everything is done, ready to go. Just doing last minute little things, but the biggest thing left to do is to find the Polaroid and decide how to handle that! Oh, and Dad and I are still trying to decide on a father daughter song to dance to. I think Sean and I need to revisit that, too. For some reason, I'm not excited about the Band of Horses song we've chosen. Am I being too picky? Probably.

Speaking of songs, we're off to Christine and Lee's this morning to try to decide on a couple of songs to be played for the ceremony. I have NO idea what to suggest, all I know is I cannot do "here comes the bride" or any of those typical bridal tunes that are normally chosen. I'm sure Lee will come up with something good. 

My dear friend Christian comes in tonight and I'm so excited to see him. We have a lot of catching up to do and I'm looking forward to it. He gets in around 6. Another addition to the wedding crazieness!! yea!

Heading to the coast...

Hallelujah! My sister is kidnapping me for two nights and taking me to the coast for a much needed escape from men. I love them dearly, but am not very nice to them at the moment. It's good that I'll be getting away so I can relax and not obsess about wedding plans. We plan to eat loads of shrimp and craw fish, get our toes done, and watch Sex and the City - perfect girlie weekend!

Grrrr!!!

I am not nice today. I'm grouchy, and irritable, and nasty. I say mean things to hurt people and I don't care. Well, okay, the truth is, I do care, I just don't feel like pretending to be nice. So I'm letting myself be nasty, passive aggressive and mean. So there.

When my wedding day comes, here is what I want to do: wake up, have my coffee and orange juice with my b-12, and maybe a Kashi TLC peanut butter bar. Throw my hair in a pony tail and go get a massage (I had one this afternoon and it was fabulous - well, not fabulous but it felt good). Then I want to head over to the Bake House for a BIG breakfast of pancakes and scrambled eggs, then back home to shower. I can't check into my San Jose Hotel room until 3 (which sucks), so I guess I'll just have to get ready as much as I can here at the house. I guess I could then check into the hotel room and THEN make my way to Wild Basin...and let the fun begin! I vow NOT to try to fix ANYone and let whoever wants to help me, do so. (yeah, right!)

So I've made these little tags to tie to the fans Dad brought over from Spain. I'll try to get an image of the fan if I get a chance! We talked to Jeffery Lynd from Zax today (our caterer). I just LOVE his wife! She has a very calming personality and I needed that. I realized today that I really need more women around me. How can I get that? CHRISTINE!!

Invites...Finally

Yea! I finally got an image of the invitations up. Thanks, Christine!

Irritated...

Oh, man, it seems like I'll lose my mind today. I don't think I can take it right now and all I want to do is RUN!!! I hate that I'm always worried about everyone else! I'm the most overwhelmed ever and I can't get out of this state. Someone told me today to just be with the feelings, even the uncomfortable ones, but they're all uncomfortable!!! I was also told I don't have to do this perfectly. Well thank God for that, because today I'm far from perfect...

Okay so Sam just ran to the house from across the street. That is not good, and I can't handle a dead kitty right now.

Should I rent a hotel for a night????????

9 Days and Counting...

I didn't get to blog yesterday and it hurt! I think I'm getting addicted. Just wait till I have a kid and I stay at home (ha!), I'll be blogging away alllll day...

This wedding thing is turning out to be so fun. There are clear boxes and plastic bags all over the house with stuff for the reception: paper lanterns, napkins, wrapped forks and knives in rafia the color of our invitations (still need to get that up here...). I'm simply appreciating it right now as I know it will be over in a little more than a week, and in two months time I'll be wishing I still had all this to fuss over. Did I already mention that in a blog? Probably...

Mike and Larry leave for Spain today. I so wish I was going to be in Caravia with them! They would be a blast to travel with. I wish I could see Mike's expression when he gets to the sea and sees the house! Mike loves to do many things I like to do, explore caves, take long hikes, eat great food. I have this feeling he'll want to go into business with me and turn the house into a bed and breakfast, or just move there period and live in the house himself!

My wonderful sister was here yesterday calming my nerves and helping me get organized. I was able to show her many of the things I've been working on and I ran by her so many thoughts I've been having that I don't share with Sean or Dad because, well, they're men, and they don't care one way or the other! Having her here was a huge help and we got to visit, etc. She's taking off next week, so I'll have her help me with things like cleaning the house, running errands, getting ready for Christian to show up (so looking forward to that!).

Life just rolls right along and I'm trying hard to roll along with it...:)

10 days till the wedding...

Sean and I went for a lovely bike ride last night through old downtown Austin. We past by the church where I attended kindergarten, Pease Elementary where I attended 1st, half of 3rd, and 4th grade (loved that school), and rode through streets where my mom and dad hung out. It was such a nice night, no cars around, and it felt like it used to feel when I rode my bike growing up. We headed on over to Cheapos to look at cds, then ended the night at the Bakehouse at about 12 AM! 

Today I'm bringing Dad back to Austin, my sister's coming over tomorrow to help me organize the last details of the wedding, and I hope to start some earings at some point in the day! Life is rolling along. I realized today that in a few months I'll be in my new portable at Crockett wishing all I had to do or think about was wedding stuff! I don't want it to end today...

Later I'll publish some images of the invitations. 

Trying to breathe...or at least remember to.

So I'm back from Garden Ridge after buying 3 lanterns for the deck for our wedding. Also had to purchase more "silver"ware. It really looks like silver! Asked my sister to come over tomorrow for moral support and little does she know she'll be helping me wrap the "silver"ware I just purchased. What's so cool about her is that she is more than happy to do it.

I've had two people tell me in the last, no, THREE people, tell me in the last 24 hours to breathe. I think that's a sign I'm needing to slooooowwwww dooooowwwwnnnn. Maybe sushi with Lisa tonight will help. (I'm kinda diggin' this Kashi TLC peanut butter granola bar right now.)

Sam and Lucas have stopped scratchin'! Thanks, Dr. Streid! 

I can tell Sam is feeling better when he lies on his back like he is in the picture. 

I love my kitties!

11 days till our wedding...ugh!

I can't believe it's already here. Dad has arrived, arrangements are made for Christian and Ward, meeting with caterer on Friday, finalizing ceremony script today at 1, Christine here last night rolling up silverware and tying with rafia... I need to make nice table runner for gift table and decide on a photo image from Leah's awesome shoot for the gift table, too. All of a sudden I realize time is now running out! All these months of "manana, manana, manana...?" and now, if I wait till manana it WILL be manana!!! (that probably makes no sense at all...)

Been thinking of Christine and Lee today and last night. I can only imagine what they must have felt and are feeling right now. I hope they're doing alright. This must have changed their lives.

Sean is out helping a friend move this morning and will be back in time to meet with Spike, our wedding officiant. Looking forward to that. She's such a talented and funny person, and I feel so small next to her! I'm glad we chose her - she's very unique and creative, just how I like my people. Dad is over at mom's, probably bored, but none the less I'm glad he's there to keep her company. Aunt Nancy is coming over Thursday for breakfast, brunch, then I'm off to meet Cherie Thursday afternoon for some positive energy injection!! Things are rolling along. 

I'll be in Argentina on my freakin' honeymoon two weeks from today! Guay!

New blog site...

I hate when I type my name wrong. Many times I'll type it "crisitina" and it get's me all lost. I tried to change my password and I couldn't because I had asked for it to be reset, and bla, bla, bla...

I just read a blog by a girl who lives in Seville and it was pretty plain. Nothing fancy and I thought, I should start blogging again. I'm a simpleton and quite happy, why not share that or at least express that through my blogspot? As my friend Christine says, "after I realized how much fun it was being normal, I wonder why I spent so long trying to be different?". Love that...