Time to lose some weight...

So as any other bride on this earth I want to look amazing on my wedding day and while sitting on the beach for the honeymoon after! However for some reason I can not get the motivation to get off my ass and do something about it. In one of my wedding magazines I read that the best motivator for women to lose weight is to get engaged…hmmm maybe for everyone else but I must have missed that memo!!!

I have been engaged for 4 ½ months and have yet to do a workout plan! I keep saying I will then the alarm goes off at 5am and I roll over and fall back asleep UGH! I have been eating better (for the most part) so at least that helps, but I need the motivation to get up and do something about it!



So last night Brad decided to buy me EA Active to go with my Wii, maybe he was tired of hearing me say how cool it looked, or maybe he thought it would help me get motivated. If it was up to him I would stay as is, but he knows I want to lose a little so he is trying to help. I didn’t get a chance to play it last night since the Finale of American Idol was on, but once I get home from work tonight I will pop it in and have a go at it.

I have heard other brides say that it gives you a good workout and it has a 30day challenge on it that I will try first (maybe 3 times!! Haha) I don’t have that much to lose, more just tone up and get fit! I am thinking if I could lose 10 – 15 lbs by October I will be VERY happy!

So here goes nothing… Wish me luck!

Busy Busy Busy...

I don’t think I can even begin to tell you how busy my life has been the last few weeks! Between getting Brad’s house ready for me to move into, planning a wedding, work, softball, and having me time I have NO time!!! Somehow we are down to only 137 more days until the wedding!!! OMG how did that happen? I still have a million things to do on my list… time to get working. Right now I am working on my maps, bouquets, invites, getting ready outfits, and parasols! Whew!

I don’t think you understand how much stuff you actually own until you have to pack it all up to move! Wow I have a TON of stuff! Brad and I are starting to move all of my stuff so that it is not a huge move all at once and it seems as if we haven’t even made a dent! So Brad has decided I must get rid of some of it (AHHHH) I take after my father in that aspect of life and never get rid of anything! I think this 3 day weekend will be a long one for me, but who knows maybe it will be refreshing!

Now its time to go back to work but I promise more later!

Happy Birthday to Me!

This past weekend I celebrated my 25th birthday! Wow I am a quarter century old! Birthday’s always seem to bring up a number of emotions… joy, fear, reflection, sadness, did I say joy? At what age do birthdays stop becoming a party and start to become yet another year older? One great thing about turning 25 is your car insurance goes down!! But other then that this year is just another year older… Then comes 30, 40 and 50, all the years in between are just another day, another year, another birthday.

I believe you make them what you want them to be. So what you are turning another year older, be excited you have that chance to live life for another year. Everyone has the chance to make life what they want it to be. If you want it to be depressing then that is what you surround yourself with, however if you chose to be happy and strive to be happy then that is what your life will be. I have seen people that are the same age (any age, it doesn’t matter) and they have completely different outlooks on life.

I guess what I learned this year is to take life as it comes and it is yours to mold and make what you want. This year I not only turn 25, but I will be getting married! Wow what a great year! I will be moving into my house and become a home owner, I will become a wife and I will be happy no matter what comes my way!

So here’s to me and another great year!

Wedding Planning Reality

Just like the majority of women out there I have been planning my wedding since I was old enough to understand what a wedding was! (and I have to say that was very young!) Now that I am engaged and starting to plan my actual wedding (OMG!!!) I realize that there are a million more aspects to a wedding then I had planned for growing up! I think that some of it I had in my head but didn’t understand that I actually had to pick all that stuff out, who knows maybe I thought that they were just standard wedding stuff that everyone already had…

A few things that I know will be a part of my wedding…

1. My dad will be walking me down the aisle of a church
2. I will have on a big ball gown style dress and a veil
3. We will have traditional wedding vows
4. I will be married with the bible that my parents got married with
5. I will ride from the church to the reception in a white limo
6. My husband and I will have the most perfect first dance of all time!
7. Everyone I love and care about will be there!
8. Then my husband and I will go on a honeymoon to remember

So far all of those will be true! But who would have thought of all the little things! What silverware to use, what color should the napkins be, and don’t get me started on flowers!!! The first thing I did after getting engaged is go to the book store and buy a huge wedding planner, this thing is in a 3 inch (ok maybe bigger) notebook and has just about everything you could ever need and think about in it! I hope it will keep me organized along the way, or at least help keep all the important papers together!

I am glad that we only have 9 months to plan the wedding; sometimes I wish it was only a few months! With a long engagement you have lots of time to change plans, add things that aren’t all that important or needed, and spend more money! Let me tell you the sticker price on some wedding stuff is just crazy! When you are short on time you make decisions off the top of your head, which is what you love and want, and go with it, you don’t have time to second guess yourself and change your colors 10 times! I think my wedding will be better because of it, it will include everything Brad and I find important and it will be all of our first choices! I can’t wait until the big day!

I said YES!

OMG I am engaged!!! 5 months and 10 days after meeting Brad he popped the question! We have been talking about getting married for a while so I guess he figured why not now! He was going to ask my dad over the Christmas holiday when we were at their house but then chickened out (apparently asking my dad if he could marry me is the hardest thing he has ever done) My family had plans to go on a cruise for my dad’s 50th birthday on January 16th, Brad wasn’t going since I met him long after we booked the cruise. So I guess Brad decided he wanted me to have a ring before going on the cruise, that way I could show it off!!! After he called my dad to get the big OK; we went to the mall to look at rings and ended up picking one out!! He said he sat on his bed with my dad’s number in his phone for an hour before he hit send!! (aww how cute)

I couldn’t believe that I was picking out my engagement ring! We went to one store that was going out of business first and I saw a few I liked, but we didn’t think that they would offer financing or a warranty since they were closing… so onto the next store. Wow almost everything in that store was either A out of our price range or B not what I was looking for :( So onward we went to the other store in the mall, which is where I found the perfect ring! It is a Past, Present, and Future ring with diamond flecks on each side! We also picked out my wedding band and his ring! I love his as well; it is tungsten (almost as hard as a diamond) and is 2 tone!


I am SOOOO extremely excited to get married! I don’t think I would have ever imagined finding the right guy this past year! If you would have told me last year that I would be getting married in 2009 I would have laughed at you and said no way! But here I am planning my wedding to my dream guy!

Can you find Mr. Right online?

I must admit that I used to be one of those people that always thought that only the ugly desperate people used online dating… that was until this past summer. In the beginning of 2009 I had a not so fun breakup with the guy I was seeing and needed to get back out on the dating scene. I went out on a few blind dates… all were horrible, or later turned out to be!

After a few months of this a friend of mine suggested I go online and try Match.com, I laughed at her and decided I would continue to try my way. Which was going to Sidelines Friday and Saturday night, and sometimes Sunday, in hopes of finding Mr. Right (what was I thinking?) After about a month of this I was beginning to re-evaluate my strategy, nothing I tried was working. Then I saw on TV where Match.com was having one of their free communication weekends and thought “oh hell why not, it can’t be any worse than I am already doing” After that weekend I decided to go ahead and sign up for a 3 month membership…

I spent several hours setting up my profile, several more hours looking at my matches. I winked at a few guys that I thought were interesting. A few days later I was looking at my matches when I came across this one guy that I found interesting so once again I winked at him. We had several conversations online then decided to meet. As soon as I saw him I thought “OMG I think he is the one” we had a nice dinner at Red Lobster followed by a few movies. We have been inseparable ever since!

So the answer to my question is YES you can find Mr. Right online, I did!

Welcome to Ms 2 Mrs 2 Mommy!

Welcome to the journey of my life! This blog will be a snapshot of how my life evolves throughout the years, starting as a Ms, getting married and becoming a Mrs, then becoming a Mommy!

I suppose you would like to know a little about myself before dive into the craziness I call life. I grew up in Milton Delaware (a small town just outside of Rehoboth Beach). Who wouldn’t love growing up at the beach? I graduated from Cape Henlopen High School in 2002 from there I attended Mount St. Mary’s University. While in college I played Division I golf, I still hold many school records! I graduated with a BS in Business and Sports Management in 2006.


It took me a few jobs (3 to be exact) to find one that was a great fit. I was a stock broker at a fortune 500 company in DC, than an account manager for a music company, and now I am a web designer / social media specialist (you try to fit that on a business card!). I work for PBM Products at their headquarters in Gordonsville VA. For those of you who don’t know (practically anyone reading this) PBM makes generic infant formula and foods.

Currently I reside in Waynesboro VA right across from the High School my father graduated from. I have a cat, Merriweather, and a boxer, Roxy. In January I got engaged to the man of my dreams, but more about that later. We are planning an October wedding back in my hometown.

So I guess you could say life is good… well until the next obstacle comes my way!