Wedding and Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was awesome! My family came in town to visit for my late birthday and my friends wedding. I took off two days of work and paled around with my mom and dad and had a normal (hang out with your family) weekend. We played on the floor with Maddie and took naps, and watched stupid SNL video's on hulu.com and just chilled. It was so great. Melissa's wedding was so great b/c we got to meet the family she's joining into and hear about how much they just love her like she was their own daughter. It was amazing to hear the gratitude and love come from a whole family about one person. I only wish to be spoken about out loud like that when its time for me to get married. It was all wonderful.

Stayed the night at a hotel with the other bridesmaids b/c we had a 6am hair appointment. The lady doing hair was coming to our hotel to do hair and make up so we were up bright and early. It felt like i was getting ready for a cheerleading competition. We had our matching "bridesmaid" tanks on and it felt like we were a team! :o) I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. The bride was beautiful and the groom was adorable.

Inspiration Boards

Ok, so i got bored and saw that people make "inspiration boards" for weddings or birthday parties or other events, to gather thoughts and create a color palette and schemes for design. I decided i could totally make one, even without photoshop. i used extreme talent in power point presentation design to create a few of my own Inspiration Boards for weddings... Here they are...
these are a few of my favorite things...

Finally Busy at Work.

So the past few weeks/month have been quite stressful and really just down right frustrating. The economy has (almost) been succesful at destroying my drive to do my profession. We have slowed down significantly. even though theres been such effort to market the job force, its just been slow. We just recently started picking up speed, where i'm not cleaning up the office, i'm actually putting my hard earned profession to work. Its amazing the feeling you get when you get to put your brain to work. Where you get to think hard about solving a problem and strategizing the best way to arrange an office to make it work in the least amount of space possible. I love what i do. I realized that after being really bored by doing nothing for so long... that once you get busy again, and other people are paying you a lot of money to put together a 200 person office in 5 weeks... thats some awesome pressure.

Even still i have to check my favorite website, http://www.stylemepretty.com/ to see if anything has changed since the morning. Its a break in my day (even for 30 seconds) to check that website. Its like it re-charges my batteries and gets me going again. Seeing photos of wedding flowers, design and happy faces, its like the best refresher for me to get back to focusing again if i get too bogged down with what i was working on. Now if only we can get back to 40 hours and spread out all the new work rather than cramming it into a 35 hour week. Here is a new awesome photo from that website that i just fell in love with.... Pure, beautiful love.

Another Monday...

Ok, so its Monday again... I wonder if i'll ever get out of that feeling when monday rolls around, that "i want to call in sick" feeling. But i have to remember the best part of monday is that the week is already started and slowly making its way to Friday... plus, the Bachelorette comes on TV on mondays. I love that show b/c i think this bachelorette is a really normal person. And theres an Austin and Dallas guy on the show. Texas is really well represented on this show. But i hate how they make Texas people sound crazy hick-ish and super country. Like why did the one texas guy have to be a country singer... there are plenty of austin people who dont play country music. Why couldnt they pick and engineer or a business man, or commercial realestate appraiser. When you think of Texas you automatically think of country and country music. So what did Bachelorette do...they pick a guy from texas who plays country music, completely unoriginal. Thats just what i think.

So other than it being Monday, i got my car back and the head lights were pointing in crazy directions so i had to take it back and wait an hour and a half to get it fixed... i mean, a $500 deductible and 9 days should get you head lights that face the right direction, right? Oh and i found out like 3 of my friends got engaged over the weekend. I think this age is a total phenomenon. Its amazing how many people can make so many or actually only one really big decision all at the same time. Its amazing. Maybe when my time comes (haha, sounds like a sentencing) i'll get it. But for now, its time to chill with the one you love (b/c life couldnt be that different after you get a ring on your finger). Who knows..

I'm psyched we're about to get rain... 2nd time in 40 days. wow.
The most successful church at marrying people and not getting divorced (Fourth Presby Church in Chicago Illinois)