Wedding Updates

After a couple of months of some procrastination, I've finally started to put my wedding planning into high gear. I'll admit, I did a lot right away; however I felt like there were a couple of months where I did nothing.  Part of it was that I didn't know where to start so I felt paralyzed. While I'm not a procrastinator by nature, I can be when I have to do something that I've never done before. So while I love to organize and plan, planning a wedding is a whole new ball game. One that, while exciting and amazing, is also daunting and overwhelming. There are so many choices. So many costs. How does one decide? Well having your girlfriends over for food and wine helps.  My friends were great and indulged me in brainstorming and note taking.  Thanks to them, I've gotten a lot done in the past few weeks and have some good plans on the horizon.  This past weekend I went out to the land with Carl and worked on a craft project for the wedding that involved using an electric saw and cutting some of the trees that Carl removed from the land where our reception will be. I don't want to give away all the cute secrets of our wedding but I promise this was a labor of love.

Spring Swap

Jess and I hosted our fifth clothing swap (is that right?) this past weekend. We hosted it at my work, again, b/c it was such a success hosting there last time.  Trying to capture a picture of all the clothes we had was hard but suffice it to say we had a lot.  As always, I walked away with some 'new' things including some adorable large mason jars that I'll use for the wedding.  I always enjoy hosting our swaps and look forward to our next one, which won't be until the new year....when I'll be a married woman!

Veggies

Our Spring and Summer garden is doing so much better than our Winter garden did.  So far, we've had tons of tomatoes, squash, chard, acorn squash, cucumber and jalapenos. Along with our usual herbs, we're also still waiting on beets.  I think both Carl and I are pretty pleased when we eat something from our garden and I swear it tastes better!

Also, the chickens are doing quite well. They are in their coop full time (and over 2 months old now) and have really adapted well.  We still have at least 2 more months until they lay eggs but I have no doubt that will go by quickly.