I Love You

I meant every word "they" said!

You know… the trouble with a good country song is most times
they say how I feel… they just say it first.

So? Does it make me sound like an idiot when I quote lyrics?

I’ll love you till I die, you are the love of my life… and I’m
so glad you found me you are the love of my life… so put your arms around me..
I guess this is how it feels… when you finally found something real… my angel
in the night you are my love… the love of my life, everything I do I do it for
you, tell that someone that you love just what you’re thinking of if tomorrow
never comes, I’ll take you for a ride on my big green tractor ;), oh love oh
love oh the many colors that you’re made of… you heal… you bleed… you’re the
simple truth and you’re the biggest mystery, I love you more than you’ll ever
know, I don’t wanna be loved by anybody but you.

There is no end to the love I have for my wife. This next
set of lyrics pretty much sums her up.

(She’s Everything) “Brad Paisley”
She’s a yellow pair of running shoes
A holey pair of jeans
She looks great in cheap sunglasses
She looks great in ANYTHING
She’s I want a piece of chocolate
Take me to a movie
She’s I can’t find a thing to wear
Now and then she’s moody
She’s a Saturn “Elantra” with a sunroof
With her brown hair a-blowing
She’s a soft place to land
And a good feeling knowing
She’s a warm conversation
That I wouldn’t miss for nothing
She’s a fighter when she’s mad
And she’s a lover when she’s loving
And she’s everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
I talk about her, I go on and on and on
‘Cause she’s everything to me
She’s a Saturday out on the town
And a church girl on Sunday
She’s a cross around her neck
And a cuss word ’cause its Monday
She’s a bubble bath and candles
Baby come and kiss me
She’s a one glass of wine
And she’s feeling kinda tipsy
She’s the giver I wish I could be
And the stealer of the covers
She’s a picture in my wallet
and my unborn children’s mother
She’s the hand that I’m holding
When I’m on my knees and praying
She’s the answer to my prayer
And she’s the song that I’m playing
And she’s everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
I talk about her, I go on and on and on
‘Cause she’s everything to me
She’s the voice I love to hear
Someday when I’m ninety
She’s that wooden rocking chair
I want rocking right beside me
Everyday that passes
I only love her more
Yeah, she’s the one
That I’d lay down my own life for
And she’s everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
She’s everything to me
Yeah she’s everything to me
Everything I ever wanted
And everything I need
She’s everything to me

Baby I love you with all my heart, when I screw up just
remember that. My love for you grows with each passing day and I just wanted to
take this opportunity to tell you that that’s what I’m thinking of, if tomorrow
never comes.

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So You Think You Can Sleep

So first off, I must tell you this because to me it is funny… I actually had people saying to me…. me of all people… don’t forget to take pictures.  Um… if you’ve followed my blog any at all, you’ll notice, I LOVE photos :).  Ok, just sayin :).

So to start things off we went and stayed at my parent’s house Friday night, September the 2nd so we could just leave from there.  It was my mom, dad, grandma, hubs, and me going to Hawaii.

Some background details: Back in January my mom was talking to me one morning and this is the way the story goes:

Mom: So your grandma wanted to go to Hawaii.  Apparently your grandpa wouldn’t take her because he was stationed there back during WWII and never felt he needed to go back.  She’s been asking everyone in the family to go with her.  Your Aunt Ellen (actually Great Aunt Ellen) said she’d go with her so then Floyd (AE’s boyfriend) said he’d take her (as in AE) so your grandma backed out not wanting to be a 3rd wheel.  So then AE & Floyd backed out.  So your grandma has been asking other people to take her.  When your dad found out, he volunteered us to take her so I guess this summer your dad and I are taking your grandma to Hawaii.

Me: Well you know, PC and I are going on our 1-year anniversary this year and we’ve been contemplating where to go.  I’ll bet it wouldn’t take much convincing and he’d be willing to go, but only if you guys could wait until our 1-year anniversary since that’s when we’re saving our vacation for……

So needless to say, they agreed, we sat on this all winter and summer long, waiting for September 3rd to come around! And then…………..

WE WENT TO HAWAII!!!!!

We went to the Island of Oahu and stayed right on Waikiki beach, but I won’t jump the gun just yet… back to Friday night the 2nd.

 

Since our Anniversary was actually Sunday the 4th, we really couldn’t take the cake with us to Hawaii…. so we cut into our wedding cake top on Friday night.

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Wedding ABC’s

The count down is on… I’m officially 5 days away from being married for 1 year.  Oh. Holy. Cow.  Someone pinch me, make sure I’m not dreaming because seriously, where has this year gone?!?!

Attending:
I would guess we had between 100 and 150 attendees
I’m not really sure, that day was a whirlwind!

Bridesmaids
2 of my favorite gals!

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Engagement Photo Re-do

I kind of got away from multiple posts a day (I did that a lot last summer).  Then I was reading Tiffany’s Blog, The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far and she was doing a post on engagement photos because of a blog link up party at Chasers of Kaysers who is getting close to getting her own engagement photos taken.  She said we could use old posts so I went digging for my engagement photos that were taken last April and I realized I put straight out of the camera photos… but none from after the photographer did some touch-ups.  I liked our engagement photos and had a blast doing them, but at the same time, I’m not 100% sure they were the photos of my dreams, but there were some excellent photos taken non-the-less so… I’m going to share them again.

I’m sure she’d love if you’d like yours up as well if you had an engagement photo session.  And if you link up, please let me know… I’d love to look at them as well 🙂
Hope you enjoy 🙂

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She Said Yes – Repost

One year ago, February 12, the man of my dreams proposed to me.  Here’s the story.  Happy One Year Bling-a-versary baby!!!

This had started out as a pretty crappy day, I surely didn’t know that it would eventually get better! I started doing the mail and got a phone call from Nancy at the front office that I had flowers at the front desk so I headed to the front of the building to go retrieve my flowers. (I work all the way at the back.) I passed Becky grumbling that “Prince Charming’s so in trouble.” although seriously what girl doesn’t like flowers, especially when they look like this!!

 

 

Meanwhile back at my desk my mom brought Prince Charming into the building. Tracy got her camera out and Nicole got another camera that had a recorder out. Becky was standing guard in the hallway to announce to them when I got back. Then they all dove into different hiding places.

So when I came back Becky announces really loud that I had beautiful flowers. My desk has frosted glass around it and when I walked around the corner and I could see someone on the far side of my desk but I figured it was a coworker had dropped something or since I was having such a bad day, they were going to jump out and scare me (things like that happen to me from time to time) so I didn’t really think to much of it. So I came up on my mystery guest and Prince Charming is down on one knee. (more…)

The Finale of the Shindig

Finally, we’ve made it to the Reception.  Again it’s picture heavy, I’m not breaking them up into different posts :).  That’s my prerogative 🙂  I think there are 27 photos here 🙂  All taken by the main photographer.

The week of the wedding my mom’s friend Cynthia devoted her whole week to helping my mom.  They made these cream cheese mints and then put the flowers on top of them.  I never did get to try one… LOL

Here is our cake.  The only bite that PC and I got of the entire thing (the top is in the freezer) was the bite we fed to each other.  I had our cake lady do something surprising… she made a funfetti cake.  Not the traditional white.  I think the middle layer might have been chocolate but I don’t remember, all I remember was I chose funfetti just for the WHAT?! factor… LOL

They didn’t let our guests eat until the wedding party showed up, which kind of made me feel bad.  I didn’t know that… so we made them wait forever or I’m sure they thought 🙁

I love to see my mom & dad dancing here!

My grandma made PC’s groom’s cake.  It was a chocolate cake.  Now can you tell it’s supposed to be an Apple Laptop?? 🙂  Neither of us got to try this either….

Cynthia was great, she had these cool refreshment jugs that she let us borrow.

I got on Amazon and found the cake knife/server and fell in love.

My great find for the toasting flutes too.  I paid $8.  Yeah that sounds like I was being cheap, but at the same time… I want to keep them forever but if something happened to them, I didn’t want super expensive ones either.  You can’t see here (I’m not sure anyone got pics of it) but I made special toasting flutes for my wedding party too.  I bought some cheap white wine glasses and some cute designed teal stickers from Michael’s and made them each a special toasting flute.

Wow this is difficult!

We made each other a deal… Don’t cram in each other’s face.
Boy I look like I have a big mouth there… LOL

I got a little in his whiskers but that wasn’t intentional…. I didn’t cram it.

Our first dance was to our song, Blues Man by none other than Hank Williams Jr.(not the Alan Jackson version, nope, the original!)

And while we danced, we sang it to each other… 🙂

Then while we were trying to find my dad for the Father Daughter Dance, we had another Father Daughter dance going on.

My dad and I danced to George Strait, “You Look So Good In Love.”  Yeah it is technically about a guy loosing his girlfriend, but I wanted to waltz with my dad.  Note: Don’t try to waltz in a wedding dress… it’s difficult 🙂

Then the Mother Son Dance

Then the in-law dance. 

The garter toss.  Our best man got the garter 🙂  I love the look on PC’s face.

The bouquet was so headed for PC’s cousin when Shantel (the Best Man’s girlfriend) swooped in from nowhere and about knocked PC’s cousin down.

There were a few more fun shots.

Finally got to get off my feet 😉

My husband!!

This is typical Nicole PC fashion right here people!

wow, doing a dip is hard work now! 🙂

Then we finally got to leave.  I was pooped!  Too bad Mindy didn’t catch me at one point, my feet hurt so I was walking around in this dress and my cowboy boots, but this particular picture (even though you can’t see) I have on my dress shoes 🙂

I told PC not to bring his truck to the reception because I knew it would get creamed.  Sure enough it got it good.  The sucky part is I stuck my hand in either KY Jelly or Vasoline twice.  You think’d I’d have learned.  And there were Condom’s (don’t sue me b/c I said that.. LOL) all over the truck, windshield wipers, they got finger ones and they were all over the inside of the truck on the door locks, the shifter, sprinkled all over, there was something tied on to the receiver hitch, a C-word (LOL) was tied to the antenna (it was funny watching that flying down the road in the wind at 65 mph) writing all over the windows, and even bubbles put into the windshield wiper fluid (thanks to my Dad & Uncle on that one).  See this is why I told him don’t allow your truck to the wedding, PERIOD.  but he let his dad drive it and the minute everyone saw it they were on it like vultures.  My car stayed at our house locked up.

I would have loved to have a few more fun pictures with the whole wedding party.  Most of the photos of the wedding party were just at the church with more formal photos.  But I can’t get a re-do so I guess I’ll just live with it and survive 🙂

I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.  Thought I’d throw that out there now in case you don’t get on tomorrow or whatever.  Have a safe and happy weekend with family!  This is the best time of year!

Peace, Love & receptions 🙂
Again, all photos Greene Photography

Nicole

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