Busy Weekend

We have a really busy weekend coming up! Ryan is leaving tomorrow morning for his bachelor party! He is so excited! He is going to be able to meet up with a bunch of his buddies that he grew up with and they are going down to Myrtle Beach for a fun weekend of golf, hanging out, and BOY stuff. =) I am really excited for him! he doesn't get a chance to see his friends as much as he would like since they all live in different areas. They are all a really great group of guys who have been so so nice to me and welcomed me into their "mob" (Joe's word, not mine!). I feel so privileged that they have been so welcoming to me, I have a feeling they don't do that for just anyone. I am glad they think I am worthy of Ryan!

I was supposed to be in Fayetteville, NC Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a Fire Inspector Level III course but it unfortunately got canceled and the makeup time is... May 1, 2, and 3rd! I couldn't believe the luck! I, of course, am not going to the makeup class so unless I can find another class at a different location I am not going to be able to sit for my Level III test until December of this year. Since I am not going to Fayetteville this weekend my mom wanted to get a chance to spend some time with me before the wedding so she and I are going to drive down to her place in Emerald Isle (don't worry guys... its no where near Myrtle Beach!). We are going to be working on the wedding stuff. We have a bunch of projects that we are going to try and get done and just have a relaxing weekend. My sweet sister has agreed to watch the dogs for me this weekend. Thanks Kim! Tucker requires a little extra attention since his leg has been gone, well really the only thing you have to do is yell at him to slow down! He chases Hoyt around the yard and gets along great. When it rains or is a little damp he slides and has fallen a couple of times on the concrete under the porch. He hasn't shown any other symptoms of being in pain or uncomfortable. He is really doing wonderful. It has been so great to see him out at the lake swimming and doing all these things we didn't know if he would ever be able to do again.

We hope you all have a wonderful and safe weekend!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Whew! I knew that planning this wedding would be time consuming but I don't think I realized exactly HOW time consuming it would be! Ryan teased me at the beginning that if I kept up that speed of planning that I would be done with the wedding planning way before the wedding! This is one time that I get to say... he was WRONG! However, I am so glad that I have such great helpers! My mom and Nancy have been SUCH a big help! Along with our friends, my family, his family and all our wedding vendors its really coming along together great! I am so thankful for everyone putting their time and effort into helping us out with these wedding plans! Ryan and I are in the middle of our wedding counseling classes and we are constantly learning new things about each other, even when we think we know everything about one another! I have to say that I am so lucky to have Ryan as a fiance and future husband. All of you that know Ryan know how particular he is about his house. Well since we got engaged his house has been the storage place for all the wedding stuff. Not only that I have now started to move some of my furniture and things to his house a little at a time and so its been a bit of a mess. He has been really understanding about it (instead of dying like I thought he would!). Also, he has been so helpful with the wedding stuff. He gets very bored with the wedding talk but when he sees me working hard on something (and its cutting into his relaxing on the couch time with me!) he jumps right in to help! All joking aside, he has really been a lot more understanding and helpful than I ever though he would be. I am very impressed with how he is handling it and it just reminds me every day how lucky I am. I love him very much! I can't believe its less than 7 weeks to go!

I fixed the pictures!

I know, I know... the pictures I posted a while back were REALLY small... Im still not sure what I did wrong but I finally managed to figure out how to make them the right size, I really don't know what I did to fix the problem!

Just a few updates....

Ryan has been a little under the weather with a sinus infection lately. Everytime one of us gets a cold we ALWAYS get a sinus infection afterwards! (Very normal the doctors tell me) About a month ago I got a really bad cold and then I got better, right after I started feeling better he got my cold, then I got a sinus infection after he got better from his cold and then he got the sinus infection. Hopefully we are done with all this craziness!!!

We have been busy trying to get all the invitations together to get them mailed out. Still trying to nail down a videographer but other than that most everything is done except for the minor things!

We are so excited and we can't wait!

Updates

As I promised a LONG time ago I am finally getting some pictures up from some of the wedding things we have been doing...



Cake tasting with Nancy and Kim (my sister). My mom was out of town and hated to miss it but she got to go to the other cake tasting with me!



Ryan and I opening our first wedding present!



Ryan and I went last week and picked out our wedding bands!



Last night Nancy and Tommy took Ryan, my mom and I out to dinner to celebrate our engagement! We went to dinner at Diamondback who is also catering our reception! It is going to be delicious!




All of us at dinner.



Nancy, Ryan, Casey and Tommy



Ryan, Me and my Mom



Ryan and I



Ryan and I



How sweet!



Kiss on the cheek!

Busy weekend!

This weekend was so much fun! Ryan, Nancy, Tommy and I all went to the bull riding on Friday night. We had a blast as usual! It was so much fun. Ryan and I go every year! Saturday Ryan had to work but I went with my Mom and Nancy and we met for lunch and went to pick out invitations! We always have so much fun! I came home and took care of Tucker, poor thing fell again on Saturday and has a big bruise! He doesn't know he has to slow down! Ryan had a good day Saturday too, his best friend Joe was in town from Charlotte and came by to visit him at the fire station with his dad. Ryan was really excited that he got to see him! We had to miss April and Charlies party on Saturday which we were really bummed about! Ryan had to work and I needed to watch Tucker after his fall to make sure he was doing OK. Sunday I woke up with a little cough and wasn't feeling so great but we went had to go to church anyways! Sunday was the first day of our marriage class at church! It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be! There was three other couples in the class with us and we got to interact with them and get a bunch of opinions! It was nice to be with a lot of people that are going through the same things we are right now. One of Ryan's good friends (and groomsman!) Tyler Talton, is in that class too! (His dad is going to marry us!) We are so excited for Tyler, his fiance Jen was really nice and I can't wait to get to know her more!
This week is going to be pretty busy! We have a bunch of things to get done. We are going to try and go out to eat at Diamond back one night this week with my mom and Nancy and Tommy. I can't wait!
We hope that every ones first month of the new year was a good one! We are counting down the days, hard to believe that tomorrow it will only be THREE more MONTHS until the BIG DAY!!!!!!!!

Tucker is home!

Tucker had surgery on Tuesday and I brought him home on Wednesday! His wound looks terrible but he doesn't know it! He has been dragging us everywhere! He doesn't know what SLOW DOWN means! He is so funny, still the same old Tucker! He follows us around everywhere and won't use the ramp I got him so he doesn't have to hop down the steps! I follow him around everywhere to make sure he doesn't fall and bust open the wound but so far he has been doing great, even on the hardwood floor which he slides on a little!
I am so happy that we did this, the first night was TOUGH! He whined and panted all night and didn't get any sleep... neither did I! We talked to his vet and we changed his meds around a little and gave it to him right before bed and from what I hear he slept all night! He is showing off for his dad... the first night he was home Ryan was at work and I slept on the floor beside him and he whined all night! However when his dad is home he behaves like an angel and I wasn't there to see it!





Tonight Ryan and I are going to see Bull Riding! SO excited! Its my favorite thing to watch!
We can't wait for the wedding, we have just about everything figured out for the wedding. The only thing we are lacking is a videographer. My mom, Nancy and I are going Saturday to pick out invitations! We just finished addressing all the save the dates and they are going out in the mail tomorrow! I can't wait for everyone to see it! We are so excited for everyone to come to this wedding... its going to be a blast! Nancy and Tommy's farm is so beautiful and we are going to have a great band and good food and lots of fun! We are so excited to see everyone! I have some pictures of us registering I am going to post on here this weekend... it was so funny! Ryan wouldn't turn over the scanner... I think he thought I may get too much girly stuff!

News on Tucker

Well, the biopsy came back positive for osteosarcoma, one of the most common bone cancers in dogs. Tomorrow Tucker is going to have his leg amputated and then he is going to recover a few days at the vet and if they feel like it has not spread to his lungs he will get started on some Chemo. If it has spread to his lungs he will just get to come home and enjoy the rest of his time with us! This is not going to cure him. He will still have cancer. Unfortunately osteosarcoma is a very fast spreading cancer. We would never allow Tucker to suffer but as of right now he is the same old Tucker, when I went to visit he was running around his kennel and jumping up on me (balancing on his only good back leg!)It was a hard decision to make but as the vet told us, "he is doing really well on three legs now!" It helps a lot that our vet is so supportive. They are coming in early tomorrow to do Tuckers surgery! No one can tell us how long he will last with this but they can tell us that amputating his leg will help him live a better quality life and will take away the pain he is experiencing now. All I know is that me and Ryan together can do a lot of spoiling in that time!

We will keep you updated!