Reason's why I love Christmas

This is one of the many reason's why I love Christmas. I'm always on the look out for funny things like this for Daniel's grandma Nonnie.

Picnic

Daniel surprised me this weekend by taking me on a picnic to a historical site over in Mandarin. It was really nice. It was a old farm house from the late 1800's. I never even knew that there was anything like this place. I've lived here since I was in the 4th grade. It's a little farm house and barn and they have a walk way that leads to the St. Johns River. It was a nice little trip and it was relaxing. I didn't have to worry about wedding stuff. We went to Native Sun on San Jose. They have great fresh food. Most are organic and just over all good quality. We had fun and watched a few moments of the Air Show from NAS.

The only downside is that it was SOOOOO cold. We not looking at the weather before we left didn't grab a jacket and we got cold.

But I was really glad we went. Daniel is so good a surprises.


Wanna check this place out?
Mandarin Museum & Historical Society

22 day until I'm married...

 It's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that in 22 days I'm going to be getting married. It seemed so far off in the distance when we first got engaged. It was like 8 months ago. Since then we've done so much work. Weddings are work.


Every day our relationship gets better. We still have a few bumps but overal everything is amazing.

I'm not nervous yet. Not nervous about the wedding just that I'll forget something or something wont get done. I'm stressed that our guest list is growing. I'm afraid to tell my parents how many people that are invited. My new daily stress is the RSVP's. I'm down to 8 days and I still am missing 80% of them. People are telling me they are in the mail. I'm hoping to goodness nothing gets lost in the mail.

My mother and I got my mother her dress for the wedding. This will be the first time I've ever seen my mom in a semi-formal dress. She's going to look fab. FMIL got her dress and I must say the mom's are going to look classy.

I got two options for my RD dress. I'm getting them via Old Navy. I want to get them and then try them on and see which I look better in.

Next stop is the wedding programs. We are DIY'er and I found this really nice paper.


More tomorrow.

Vote NO on #2

I'm not really the one to voice my opinion on politics but something got me about this amendment. It's a amendment to make marriage between a man and a woman with "no  other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent  thereof shall be valid or recognized."

Now looking at that you'd think well that makes sense until you dig deeper. What about that couple that has been living together for  years while she's in school waiting to save up for the big dream wedding. What about the engaged couple who legal are two single people. They would be forced to give up their rights as a Domestic Partnership. 

Domestic Partnership protects people and gives them rights. It allows them to visit their love one's in the hospital. Right now if something happened to Daniel I could claim he is my Domestic Partner and visit him in the hospital, BUT if that law is passed I would have no legal rights. With this law I am a legal stranger. I would have to wait until someone in his family came, I would be alone and he would be alone waiting. Like so many other unmarried couples.


That hits home. Daniel and I aren't a gay couple. but this amendment would hurt people who aren't married. That means regardless of sex or sexual orientation.

There are other states that have passed similar laws and they found out it has far reaching effects. From hospital rights to domestic violence. For example Ohio's amendment was used as a defense against a domestic violence charge. The defendant used the amendment's strict definition of "marriage" to argue that his relationship with his longtime live-in girlfriend didn't meet the standard, and therefore no domestic violence charge was valid.

Not to mention we already have FOUR statute's on the books that ban same sex marriages.

People don't be fooled by a title that makes you feel good about a law. Learn what they are really about.




http://sayno2.com

Fish.....

So Daniel got me a game for his Wii. It's an aquarium game. Not really a game but an aquarium you can set up and watch fish swim around. It's very relaxing. Every time I come over I make him put it on in the background. It has classical music playing and then if you don't touch it for about 10 minutes it goes into this screen saver mode where it gives you close up shots of the fish. We haven't named them yet. I think Daniel's real fish gets a kick out of it. If not he thinks it's real and is mad that the tv fish have a larger tank. =).

Wedding planning is coming along. I've got like 95% of the invites out. The rest need to be printed. Then we buy the center pieces and then that's it. I'm tired of wedding planning.

Right now is a really hard part in my life. I'm thinking about leaving my current job sometime this month. It's for personal reasons. I love what I do, I love my co-workers. But there is where the love ends. I'm just really worried about starting my marriage without a job. Daniel supports me 100% and has told me that I can leave whenever I want. I know in his heart that he wishes I would finish this month out at least. I just want to leave now. I know if I just leave it up to God that he will make everything work out. I'm just really scared. Daniel has such a stronger faith than I do. He is my greatest friend and I know I can get through anything as long as Daniel is there to support me.

My mother has already started with the baby talk. She is ready to be a grandmother. I'm ready to be a mother and I know Daniel is ready to be a father. I'm just worried that I wont be able to have any. My mother (I'm adopted) couldn't have children. In the end they adopted me, but I know that it must have hurt a little to know you couldn't have children on their own. So that is another fear running around in my head. Again it's in Gods hands.

******freak out moment ahead*******

I'm getting married. I'm getting married. I'm getting married in like a month. Next month I'm getting married. Wow that's a powerful statement to make. We got our marriage license the other day. It was so funny. I was like this is it. Nothing else. Maybe we should make those harder to get. You know I had to pass a test to drive a car and all I had to do was show id and say I wasn't related to Daniel or currently married. But it doesn't matter. I'm getting married. I'm getting married. I'm not nervous just excited. We were trying to make loose plans for our honeymoon. A friend of the family is loaning us their cabin in NC for the week. It's going to be so nice. To wake up knowing that I've got nothing that needs to be done. No plans other than have a relaxing week. Hike, and cuddle and walk into town and get some food in the towns store on Main St. I'm taking my painting set with me and you better expect plenty of photo's.


I'm really blessed right now. I know Daniel feels the same. We are very lucky!!!