Mike’s birthday celebration

Mike’s birthday was waaay back in September, but I just realized we never wrote about it. Well, Mike told you about how I bought him a corndog maker, but we also did some fun stuff to celebrate. We got all dressed up and went to dinner at a nice place that offers free lobster to [...]

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He’s so good to me, even in my old age

Recently I turned 30, an age I feel pretty good about. And to celebrate, Mike spoiled me rotten. He surprised me with flowers and candy, then took me out to dinner where we had an amazing three course meal. He even asked the wait staff to put a birthday candle on my dessert! They next [...]

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The Bachelor Party

First, my apologies for my serious lack of posting. I wish I had an excuse involving a plane crash on a deserted island (apparently people like those), but I’m afraid I can only blame it on personal business, exhaustion, and writer’s block. That said, my bachelor party was Saturday. I don’t have a lot of [...]

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The Bachelorette Party!

My bachelorette party was on Saturday. I got ready for the night with my sisters. Then we met everyone at the restaurant. Including me, we were a table of 20! I was so thrilled to have so many awesome people there, people from the many different walks of my life – high school friends, past [...]

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Bachelorette party invitations

Before I show off our awesome wedding invitations, let me show off the bachelorette party (sort of) invitations that Robin of Plume Creations made (same designer (and friend) that did the wedding invitations). Aren’t they so cute? These were printed and pasted on nice black cardstock, and of course didn’t have giant ugly black blocks [...]

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Friends and Grownups

Growing up is hard. There’s bills, work, continuing education, schedules, housework, family obligations. You have to keep a routine, or life’ll get you every time. Traffic will be totally different at 6:30 if you’re used to driving in at 5:30. If you try to navigate the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon you will contemplate [...]

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Planning the bachelorette party

It’s not really a bachelorette party. Not in the buy-her-crazy-shots-make-her-wear-a-tiara-and-carry-lots-of-penis-paraphernalia sense. I wanted to have a celebratory get together with the gals in my life, and so I asked my friend Robin to help me plan something. She made a reservation at a restaurant where we’ll have a nice dinner and some drinks. I requested [...]

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Party people

As Mike mentioned, our Family Meet and Greet Slash Shower was this past Saturday. I think it went really well. We had about 30 people there, and we heard a lot of compliments by the end. “This was a great idea.” “We had a good time, great job!” Mike’s mom, aunt and dad helped us set [...]

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A Shower of Love

“If I’m not mistaken, we gave you your wedding shower here. We all came into this room and gave you a golden shower.” Michael Scott–regional manager, Dunder Mifflin. Yesterday was our family meet-n-greet and wedding shower. Being a man, I have very little experience in the proceedings of a wedding shower. Men don’t go to [...]

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Getting to know you

Saturday is our self-hosted Family Meet and Greet Slash Shower. I’m a little bit nervous because not only are we the hosts, but we’re the guests of honor, too. That’s a lot of pressure! Make sure all the little details are taken care of AND be social the whole time. What if people are bored? [...]

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