Coincidence?

So as many of you may know 2 weeks before my sister's wedding my car got broken into and some tried to steal it. Bad news bears especially since Josh was still in school and we don't work well as a one car family. I luckily got it back the day I left for Chattanooga. The jeep turned out to be clutch at the wedding with all the stuff we had to bring back.

So now here we are 2 weeks before my wedding and Friday night I get into a car accident. My car is once again out of commission and I have no details on if it's fixable or not. I had already planned how my car would once again be used to bring things home from the wedding and put my sister in charge of driving it. Obviously I am just happy no one is hurt and I'm going to St.Lucia in 2 weeks so I am happy!

I just can't help but wonder does my car hate Hoffman's getting married? It was after all Katherine's car first.

In other news we are 12 days away from the wedding I am so excited!!! More things have of course popped up out of nowhere but I find the closer we get the less I care.

Still haven't written my vows..maybe I can wing it?!

Music

So I've decided on some songs for the wedding. I will walk down to 'Here comes the sun' - I can't decide if I want to an instrumental version or the one with the words as well. The bridesmaids will walk down to 'Love and some other verses' by Iron and Wine and then Josh and I will walk back down to 'All you need is love', then Josh and I will dance to 'Something' - Beatles for the first song I can see if perfectly in my head and I'm so excited!!!

We have had the DJ booked for while and he has a website where you can pick out your play list and make a list of must play songs and DO NOT play songs. As most of you know music is super important to me so I feel like there is a lot pressure. However I have seen our DJ do another wedding (Kelly and Adam's) and I am confident that he will do a really good job.

What are your favorite wedding songs??

Mason Jars and Purple

Whats on my mind today.....















Decided on Purple (lavendar and dark) and White for the wedding colors. And mason jars are just awesome....

Happy Thursday

(some of) My Favorite Boys

Last weekend Josh and I registered. It was an interesting experience. Originally we were both super excited; 'We get to pick out anything we want and people will buy it for us?!'. We started at Crate & Barrel and I instantly got overwhelmed there are so many things and options I had no clue what I wanted. Plus I have to decide right now what I will want in 6 months and use for years..pressure! It took us about 3 hours we gave up and went to lunch. After lunch we headed to Macy's where I was clearly over it and we left quickly. Josh has said that I am free to go by myself or with Kristin he even offered to watch the boys.

After registering Kristin brought Sawyer over for his sleepover at our house. We took him to the park and spent most of the rest of the day there. We had so much fun; the playground, kickball games, dogs and bicycles. He slept for 12 hours which was awesome and then waited patiently at the table for Josh to make his pancakes. It was for sure a nice glimpse of 'family life' but I'm still good. Josh however...


Discovering Josh's belly button it was apparently the most fun






Josh is his favorite person ever :)

I now pronounce you..

So like I said in the last post Josh and I finally found someone to marry us! It's funny it wasn't really that important to me who marries us, it was almost an after thought. Alot of weddings I have been to recently are officiated by a mentor or close friend who gets ordained online (for only $200 you can get the platinum business card - ohhh!!). Josh and I ideally would have loved that but we don't have any mentors or older people (who people would have taken seriously as an officiant) in our lives besides our siblings or parents.

As anyone who knows us knows Josh grew up in a world of grey and I on the other hand grew up in a world of black and white; or the 'cult' as Josh so lovingly calls it. So I thought it was going to be complicated or more of a battle to finally settle on someone. Shockingly it was more trouble finding someone then it was deciding on them. We went to the wedding minister.com who married Kelly & Adam and did great! Mostly because Adam wrote the whole ceremony, but I digress. He wasn't available but offered up his first back-up, who then turned out to be unavailable. He then offered his 2nd back-up who was available (woo hoo) so we made our way to Norcross to meet him.

He asked us all kinds of questions about our faith background, how we wanted our wedding to feel and about our family. He was extremely easy to talk and had no problems with us writing our own vows. He left us with a bunch of ceremonies to look through. At first I didn't like the idea of choosing from a several ceremonies that tons of other people had used before us, it didn't seem very 'different'. But since we are writing our own vows I figured it's fine to have the same ceremony as someone else. So we've picked one and I'm really happy with it.

I'm happy to check one more thing off the list (possibly one of the most important things!) and glad it wasn't an argument.

2 more things to add to the list:

1. Write Maid of Honor Speech for Kat's wedding
2. Write my vows - I'm hoping they just magically come to me.

Honeymoon in.....

So Josh's job over spring break is to plan and book our honeymoon. I have just a few requests. A boat chauffeur, clear water, nice white beaches, hammocks and a hut with a hole in it so I can see the fishies. You know the simple things in life. Ideally this is where we would go...



Kat however is nervous given recent events that if I stay in a hut on the water a tsunami will sweep me away - valid concern.

So it will probably be St.Lucia which is fine with me! All inclusive resorts YAY!! Apparently its a short plane trip but 1/2 of it is in a very tiny plane..so hopefully I will have drinks and my cute helicopter dress to keep me safe (new use for the dress - going away dress!!)




I need it to come quick...rough day at work trying to breathe.


***disclaimer this will not become a wedding blog - just what's going on today******