Wedding Photo Booth

This is the last of the wedding photos! There are so many that it took me forever to condense them down to the few that I have posted on here over that last couple weeks. I leave you with pictures involving the photo booth that we used as the favor to all our guests! We got in on the hilarity too! The funny part is the CD we received from the photo booth company that had all the photos taken that night on it! Oh my, people are funny! I will save them by not posting those pictures on here! haha

Phil & I take a turn, with Hulk of course...


Let the funny begin... This last photo is of me & Phil, and is off that CD the company gave us! hahahaWell, I hope you all have enjoyed seeing our wedding photos! Maybe there will be some honeymoon pictures next week!

Photos by the wild & wonderful Melissa Perella!

Wedding Fun

Our wedding reception was a lot of fun! There was a lot of dancing going on there and I even got Phil out on the dance floor a couple times! Here are a some pictures that make me smile and laugh alot too!

Father-Daughter Dance...
Dancing...

My RDH girls...

Soul Train...

Me and Adam being sneaky, who knows what we were up to!

Our nephew, Cooper...Train time, as in follow the leader/conga line dance, and Phil holding onto my train!

Such a great feeling being surrounded by our family and friends...

The funny continues next week...

Photos by the clever and witty Melissa Perella!

Wedding Party

Party time! Wedding party pictures that is!

Me and my girls...
Phil and the guys (notice, Phil wore the the pocket watch I got him as a suprise to me!)...

The whole party, including 3 bridesmaids, 2 groomsman, 2 ushers, minister, guestbook attendant, and violinist!

Our nephew, Alec, the ringbearer...

Me and Phil with our parents...

Party's over til next week! Have a good one!

Photos by the sensational Melissa Perella!

Wedding Details

Today's wedding pics are all about the details! I tried to be very creative and crafty in the choices I made for our wedding and I know they made our wedding personal to me and Phil, and left a lasting impression on our guests!

Looking down on the ceremony site...
The sign my dad made for us to direct the guests which way to go. He made the sign out of a bookshelf he and I made when I was younger...

This is part of the guest book tree that our friend Lee drew for us. Lee also was the one who married us...

A doily that mom and I shaped into a cone and filled with leaves for the guests to throw as Phil & I came down the aisle after we were married...

Seating chart I made out of a canvas, with black cloth and leaves...

Our cocktail napkins...

Black birdcage I got for guests to place cards in...

Do you think I did a good job?

Beautiful photos by the excellent Melissa Perella!

Sad :(

One of my longtime friends from high school lost his house, everything he owns, and his doggy in a fire last night. He was very fortunate that he got out of the house and that his dad wasn't home at the time. I saw him today and my heart just ached for him. I gave him a big hug and hoped that could help just a little. My stomach has just been in knots all day thinking about it. My thoughts are with him and I hope he recovers from this shock soon.

Just to let you know...

• Tomorrow is my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday Momma!




• I am going to attempt to make some scrumptious garlic mashed potatoes to bring to mom's birthday dinner and I need a recipe! Anyone know a good one?




• I am going to be decorating a Valentine's Day wreath for our door, and I think I will take some pictures to show you all!




• I am hoping I wake up to some snow in the morning, but that the roads are okay cause I don't wanna worry about my hubbo driving to work!




• I got woke up to work this morning and I get to work Monday too!




• I love you friends! Have a happy day!

12 Goals for 2012

Happy New Year!!!

Hope everyone had a fantastic time last night! Phil and I decided to go out to eat then stay home for our first New Year's Eve as husband and wife! It was pretty great to be able to stay home and be an old married couple! haha

This year I am hoping to complete 12 Goals for 2012 instead of making any resolutions at all... I'm not too good at those!

12 Goals for 2012

1. Learn to quilt!

- one I didn't accomplish last year that I made sound more realistic as an overall just "Learn to quilt" instead of forcing myself to make 3!

2. Continue eating healthy and working out!

- this one may sound familiar too, but it is an important one to keep up with!

3. Make dinner and eat at home as much as possible!

- this is a new one for me & Phil since we have started living together, and we have done pretty good so far, but I would like to make it a goal.

4. Make tooth fairy pillows for my cousins/nephews!

- yes, another repeat but Alec is bound to lose his first tooth this year and I need to be a good dental hygienist aunt!

5. Read more books than I did in 2011!

- I changed last year's goal up a little bit this year! I only read 18 books in my busy 2011, and I just bought 3 new books a few nights ago, so I am bound to complete this goal!

6. Wish all my friends and family a "Happy Birthday" on their special day with either a card or a phone call.

- I am pretty bad about keeping in touch with everyone, and relying on Facebook and texting to convey my message just seems so impersonal.

7. Hang out with my friends more!

- they are special people in my life, and they showed up to the most important day in my life, so I need to be able to let them know I will be there for them!

8. To become full-time with my current job (or possibly another).

- It is hard to work only a few days a month, even though I understand our program is just starting out in my state. I just hope I will be thought of as an important member of the team enough to where they will pick me to work and rely on me!

9. Keep up with housework.

- now that we have our own place to take care of, I wanna make sure that I/we keep our house clean and organized!

10. Be a good wife!

- I want to be the best wife to Phil as I possibly can! I want to be understanding, listen to him, and make our first year of marriage go by as smoothly as possible! (they do say that the first year is the hardest!)

11. Pick back up some of my old blog followers and acquire more!

- during my absence from blogging last year, I feel like I've lost many followers and feel terrible I let them down.

12. Continue to blog!

- I know, another repeat, but I love blogging and hope to continue throughout this new year!

Well, there they are!

What do ya think?

What are your goals for 2012?

Christmas Wish

I hope everyone has a very warm and merry Christmas

surrounded by family and friends!

Week #36, #37, #38, #39, #40

Hello! Long time, no blog! This long weekend inspired me to finally update with my Pic-A-Day Challenge (which, I guess I have failed now, but I keep going!). I am not presenting it like I usually do cause I have more pictures for certain days, and no pictures for other days. Here goes...

This last week in April I have no pictures! I can tell you that I had an orientation, for the temporary job I am currently working, the Monday & Tuesday of this week. The last 3 days of the work week, I was working for a hygienist in another office in the area.

Day 253

The Mole (aka my car) turned 100,000 miles this Sunday! I had planned to take these pictures all week and was happy I remembered to do so! I took the 99999 mile photo cause my lucky number is 9.

The other picture is of my loaner phone from Ntelos. My old flip phone was breaking at its hinges, so I needed this one to get by until Phil and I decided which phone company to stay with/go to together on one plan. We had decided on staying with Ntelos cause we figured it would be cheaper, but they messed up our paperwork and it was going to take forever for our phone numbers (we wanted to keep) to move to one family plan. My service was ending soon, and they made us mad so we went to Sprint. It ended up being slightly cheaper for us anyway. And it somehow was easier for our phone numbers to switch over to another provider than to keep our old provider and switch the phone numbers over to another plan. Go figure.

Day 254

I worked for yet another hygienist in the area 5 days this week! This is a picture of their old pop machine in the lunch room.

Day 257

A perk of working is that I actually was up to see the sunrise! It was a beautiful, foggy Spring morning without any rain!


This Wednesday, I also met up with the place who is making the cupcakes for our wedding! They are actually going to make us a brownie "cake" for the top of our cupcake tower that Phil & I can cut into at the reception! This relieves me that the place I wanted from the beginning will actually do this for us!


The Friday of this week, I took my local anesthesia exam so I could give anesthetic injections. It was a crazy week for me cause I hadn't studied in a year, but also cause I put this exam off til the last minute (some things never change!) and this was a week out from the deadline in taking it! I got it done though and still I'm waiting for results.

This was my first week working for the hygienist who is out on maternity leave for the next 3 months. They have a crazy computer system, that the chief dentist praises that I have learned how to use faster than anyone else that has worked there. I don't think it is necessarily hard, there are just lots of steps to go through to complete a patient note. The whole office is paperless and the x-rays are digital.

Day 267

Today, Phil & I went to his sister's pinning ceremony for nursing school! So proud of his sister for achieving her goal after so many obstacles! The downside of this ceremony was that it lasted 2 1/2 hours... not fun!

Day 269

How could I have not bought nail polish during these past 5 weeks!? Well, I couldn't pass up the sale stickers of 75% off of course! I need to try them out soon!

Day 279

My parent's anniversary was this past Thursday and they took a mini-vacay! So Phil & I decided to do their grocery shopping for them this Friday and went to the Kroger. I had to go to the little girl's room and when I came out I saw Phil pushing around this buggy full of pork rinds! I thought he'd filled up our buggy, but found out it was one that just had them all in there to sell like that. It was funny anyway, so I got this pic and it has that guy's hilarious face on the sign in it too! I think he wants some pork rinds!

I also used some of those Real Nail Polish Strips by Sally Hansen this evening! They were fairly easy to apply and turned out pretty good! I got the Laced Up strips to go with my current lace obsession!

Day 280

This Saturday evening, Phil & I met up with his parents to go out to eat at the mall. After our meal, his mom and I went to Charming Charlies where I got this watch! It is one with the rubber band that I have been eyeing lately!

Earlier this day, I went with two of my bridesmaids and my friend Lee, who will be marrying us, to order their bridesmaid dresses. We had a great time and went to eat lunch together as well!

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Also during these past 5 weeks, I have been running every Monday, Zumba-ing 2 days a week, and for the last 2 weeks, I have been kick boxing! I'm feeling pretty good exercise-wise, but just have to get my eating on track, especially on the weekends!

Well, that's all I have for you for now! I hope everyone has had a great holiday weekend and will have an even better short work week!