WOW! Where is time slipping away to?! In less than one month my "Becoming Bailey" days will be over and I will have Become Bailey :-) Crazy to think how fast the time is going!!! As I look at the days I also look at how much I still have to do - lol! It's enough to drive a woman crazy ! I'm sure it will all get completed in time with the grace of God and the help of family and friends.
While I've been busy as a bee and up to my knees in wedding planning, my fiance has been in the basement...I didn't send him there, he went willingly lol. He's been taking lessons from my dad on how to be a handy man. Together the two spent two weekenda hauling out 5 trucks of garbage! Currently Patrick is painting one of the storage areas with a waterproof paint. Before he started painting he had to use a wire brush to sand the wall down...
I have to share: the more Patrick and my dad are around each other the more I realize the old saying "You'll marry a man like your father" is true. Gosh! It's something else! Even my mother noticed it lol!!!
So we've both been busy for sure, but we of course took some time off from our tasks to celebrate Valentines Day :-) After boot camp I made my love breakfast...domesticated right?!?!
Haha! In my defense I only had 10 minutes to get the goods on the table as Patrick had an early morning PT appointment.
Later Patrick surprised me with a dozen rolls of paper towels lol but behind it were a dozen orange roses. I asked why the orange and he said "Because you're my pumpkin" Awww!
WOW! Cleaning with roses!!! Now that is a Valentine's Day treat! Don't be fooled though...he most certainly did not clean!!!
Patrick was on dinner duty and cooked up some delicious scallops and steak...my man can cook!!! It was so good! We capped it off with some vino and burnt almond torte cake.
Wedding wise we are doing pretty good. The returns are so much fun to get! 154 guests have returned yes and 21 have declined...we're waiting on 123 more...so if you're one of the 123 snap at it ;-) haha!
We met with our sweet photographer and she showered us with a sweet sweet gift...you're going to have to wait for the wedding pictures to see it though :-D We also met with our baker and got to sample out our exact cake...it's pretty scrumptious! (If "anonymous" is reading, we decided on the raspberry filling so eat your heart out!!!) We also have been getting lots of packages sent our way from sweet friends - all holding wonderful generous gifts! When registering for things at the store it's so much fun to imagine having all the greatest gadgets and most beautiful serve ware (and Patrick had fun shooting the gun lol) but I tried not to get my hopes up when doing so because who is to say we'd get any of it?! When I open the boxes and see these gifts that I wanted so badly...gosh, you can't even imagine my excitement!! So a big thank you to everyone who has been so generous to us, we are so appreciative! Patrick was especially excited to get the Vita-Mix Blender he "had" to have, an early wedding present from one of his friends traveling in from Texas!
Speaking of gifts...we recently got to shower our niece Lulu with her own gifts :-) Lulu is so into the wedding - at times I think she might steal my fiance away as she has a little crush on her Uncle Patrick - haha! So we got her her very own wedding gown, veil, bouquet and ring...Happy Birthday Lulu!!
Up next is the bridal shower blog so stay tuned as it will go up shortly after this one :-) I was a bit delayed in getting this one up...
I can't get over how helpful your neices were at the shower! Katie is doing such an excellent job with them. The pumpkin flowers/paper towels were so cute! Can't wait til the bachelorette get together :)
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