we're married... what now?

Hello everyone (that might possibly still read this...!)

We are married now, obviously, and living the life, but not without some bumps (or mountains) in the road.

So much has happened in the 4 1/2 months since we said "I do" that I don't even know where to start. I have a lot to write about, mostly pointless things that no one will really care much about, mundane pieces of my daily life, but I want to get them out without using my Facebook as Twitter, and without ever having to use Twitter at all.

Speaking of social network fads, I have recently become addicted to Pinterest. I am kind of obsessed. Check out my boards here.

Well, duty calls and I have a lot of them right now, but I will be back to update on our Ambrosed life. Right now, the husband is tilling up my garden plot because we are going all the way with the garden this year! Shelby wants to go outside and see what Daddy is doing, so I'm gonna take her out back. Thanks for checking in. ;-)

Sneak peak!

Okay everyone, so we're about 13 days away from THEE day. Craziness! :)

I just wanted to update the blog with our registries and also give a little sneak peak of my brooch bouquet. :) It's not completely finished yet, but soon it will be. I can't decide if I am going to share it now or after the wedding... hmm... decisions decisions! :)

Welp. Let the countdown begin! :)

Charter bus

Oh! I need some advice from people on this.

We were thinking about chartering a bus for our friends so people would not have to risk driving drunk. We figure it will act like a shuttle, doing two trips to bring people from a central location here in Suisun (where people could park their cars and easily take a taxi home that night) to the Arsenal, and then back again. Our logic is that taxis are available for anyone staying in Benicia from the Arsenal, and this bus would be available to take our friends safely back to where they could get a taxi and not have to pay an arm and a leg. We would ask whoever is using it to help pay for it (no more than $25, but probably less).

What do YOU think of this idea? Open bar + charter bus = Good times?

Help me out!!

I swear we aren't dead...

Hello everyone! I know it's been a dreadfully long time since I've updated, but life has been nothing short of crazy these past couple of months. I finally have a minute to sit down and write to you all!

First of all, we bought our house and are finally all moved in. Everything doesn't look fabulous and put together yet, but the house itself looks AMAZING! If you haven't been by yet, you should definitely come check it out. :)

I picked up my dress about a month and a half ago and it fits like a glove. I am absolutely in love with it and I have never looked at myself and liked how I looked in anything as much as I do in this. It is perfect. Makes me feel so perty. ;-)

Invitations were all sent out, so if you thought you were supposed to receive one and didn't, please let me know so I can fix that. :) If you haven't RSVP'd yet, please do so immediately! I've got to get a final count of people so I know what to reserve, how much booze to buy, and how much food to plan for. :)

Tomorrow I make a semi-final payment to the Arsenal.

I've started working on my brooch bouquet and that mofo is going to be ridiculously heavy!! It's also going to beautiful, especially with all of the amazing pieces given to me by family and friends. I am very excited.

I can't believe in a month we will be married! All official and everything! :)

Hmm. What else to update.... We received our rings and they are amazingly beautiful. They even gave us this free fingerprint pendant for Shelby Leigh.

Speaking of Shelby, she is a full-fledged walker now! And quite the chatterbox as well. I wonder who she gets it from...?

Anyway. Here is my dress for anyone who was wondering...

And here is what the final invitations looked like:

This is how they started.

Anywho. I'm gonna get back to checking my guestlist. Hope to see as many of you as possible in October. I can't wait to share all of the memories with you guys!

registry update and all that good stuff

hey everyone! i am a total and complete slacker when it comes to updating this block! sorry, life happened.

we decided to register at myregistry.com. it's pretty cool that we can scan things as we walk through stores and they'll upload directly to our registry!

i have more updates later, but we have to get to our old house and finish moving out of it! catch ya on the flipside, peeps! muahaha. -aliy

Finally an update! :)

Okay, so it hasn't quiiiiiiite been a month since I last updated, but I have definitely been slackin'.

Hmmm. Sooo the save-the-dates were sent out. Here is what they look like, sans the scrapbook cardstock and magnets they're mounted on:

I've received our cake topper. So cute from Colorado Carla. It looks like this:

Her hair is custom painted brown, but I'm going to paint her shoes red and paint on Dustin's rank on the sleeves. :)

I went to Britex fabrics in San Francisco to get started on some surprises for my bridesmaids. I haven't figured out what I'm going to give my bridesman and our officiant. One thing I do know is that Jesh is going to be the most hilarious reverend of EVER. I can't wait.

I need to get started on the invitations because... dun dun dun, we will hopefully be moving at the end of June and with decorating a new home and my new job, I won't have a TON of time to work on putting these invitations together! I ordered some pocket-folds from Cards&Pockets and have a ton of great ideas for how I want to put them together. I will post the finished product.

We're looking into hotel accommodations at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Suisun on the waterfront. We're hoping to get a group rate for our friends and family coming from out of town. Also, we have a rental car connection for people coming out to the wedding. We can get you some sweet discounts there, and we can always pick you up from the airport. :)

Last night we completed our ring kit for our wedding bands. We bought them from Fabuluster. These are examples of the rings we will be receiving. It was a really fun experience to get the prints and I'm going to send them off today!

We celebrated Shelby's first birthday last weekend and it was great to see so many family members and friends come together for the little girl that brought us so much closer together. It made me very excited for the upcoming events. :-)

When we move into our home, hopefully in early July, we'll be having a housewarming, and then obviously our October wedding! We hope that you all don't get tired of celebrating good times with us because we can't wait to return the favor for you guys!

Speaking of our house, you can check out the listing on Zillow; here is a quick picture of the before. Our offer was accepted, so here's to hoping everything works out. :)

Hm. So. What else? We're headed to Hawai'i on Monday for 9 days with Dominique. We are so excited to spend some quality time with her, loungin' in paradise and trying to finagle a way to get her out here for the wedding. Damn the Army for spoiling our plans. Fuckers...

This will be Shelby's second plane ride, as we went to Oklahoma for our twin-family's wedding in Tulsa. We flew into Wichita, stayed the night with Andi & Co. and then went down to Tulsa. Here's a picture of the happy family:

And on that note, I will end my update. I will try to be more on the ball. :) Thanks for reading!

Registered at JC Penney! Here's the registry. Check it out! It's all super expensive! Haha. Gotta love hoping someone loves us enough to contribute to our new home, especially if we don't get the house! Ha! Anyway. Going to Trader Joe's now to get the fixins for pizza! :)