Wedding Day...Down....Honeymoon underway

With my bridesmaids
My nieces and nephew

Josh and I

The kiss

Josh and I have been officially married now for 4 days. Currently I am sitting at a desk watching the new 90210 in our hotel room in Macon, GA on our way to our honeymoon spot in Safety Harbor, FL. The wedding came together pretty wonderfully. It is nice to see all my hard work come together in the end. It has been exciting to see everyones pictures from the wedding and I will be really excited to see the photographer's pictures as well. The ceremony went well, which is good because our rehersal was a bit of a mess. While walking down the aisle I was so excited to see all the guests who I haven't seen in a while, that halfway down the aisle I was like....OMG Josh is standing in the front waiting for me. My good friend Lindsay did an AMAZING job singing as did Christina who was reading a poem from William Shakespeare (such an English teacher).

We took pictures in the beautiful area outside after the ceremony. Since I grew up in the area, when it was an active base and my dad was in the military, I always wanted to get married in the gazebo nearby. I was glad to not get married there, but it was really nice to get some pictures in the gazebo and in front of the bridge. While we were taking pictures, our photographer wanted us to get underneath the willow tree. It was a little muddy so Josh carried me piggy back in my huge dress. While carrying me his foot fell into this HUGE mud hole, and his pants and shoe were soaked in mud! Luckily he didn't drop me, and the picture was well worth it because the shot was beautiful.

The reception was great, the food was wonderful. I wish I hadn't been so nervous because I didn't eat as much as I wanted to. My back was killing me at the end of the night, probably due to the weight of my dress and my shoes. But overall the night was wonderful!!!

The day after the wedding, we held a brunch at the house. We got some really cool gifts and I use my new Magic Bullet to make everyone salsa. Later Josh and I made our first public married couple outing at the Hendricks County Rib Fest. It was pretty awesome. The day after we went and saw Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen at the IMAX in Noblesville. I do like the first movie a little more than the second, but it was still entertaining.

Today, Tuesday, we embarked on our honeymoon journey. Our final destination is the Clearwater/ St. Petersburg area of Florida. I'm pretty excited. We will be getting some free spa treatments with our package and free breakfast and dinner every day. Today we were able to see some awesome landscape on our drive and the only stressful part of our trip was driving through Atlanta traffic, where we some someone driving and drinking from a flask (probably not a good idea).

10 days......

My wedding is so close, I can't even believe it! Josh and I will be Mr. and Mrs. Petrie in 10 days. Time really sneaks up on you. I was a little stressed over money yesterday, due to a security deposit that I forgot about, but things have settled down since my little freak out. Last weekend my sister hosted my Bridal Shower at Brookside park. It was outside on the terrace and lucky for us the weather was beautiful and hot. We played Bridal Bingo and everyone got to scrapbook a page for me so I could scrapbook the shower. I got a lot of neat presents like: a sandwich maker, a toaster, a griddle, a steamer (which I will really need on the day of the wedding), some games and some kitchen accessories.

This past weekend I had my Bachelorette Party. It was loads of fun. We first started the evening in our hotel room playing a game where they had to answer questions about me and we played a round of family fued. We then hiked like 2 miles in heels to the restaurant forty-five degrees. It was worth the walk though. Everyone was in love with the food and sushi and atmosphere there was great. Afterwards, we decided to hike to the bars and took a break at Barcelona Tapas to split a neverending pitcher of Sangria. After that we lost three members of the party and were left with only four people to go clubbing with. We went to Subterra downtown but only stayed out for like an hour dancing. It was fun though other then the CRAZY drunk bachelorette at Subterra who was grinding on the nastiest men I had ever seen!!!!

Year Two....Down

My last block class was super proud of their awards
This is how I feel on most days with this class :)

With my English partner and BFF at school Christina Scarsella

Watching the last bus drive away

Bye everyone....

Well I have finally completed my second year of teaching. This year went much more smoothly than the last year. I feel that when the last week came....it really didn't feel like the year needed to be over. Like every year though, all the teachers got to walk their kids out to the buses and send them off the right way. I haven't done a whole lot this break yet. I got some lunch with my friend Lori and kind of caught up with her. Then my good friend Lindsay and her adorable daughter Molly came over for swimming and shopping this weekend. Yesterday I had my trial run for my wedding hair. It looks super cute, but my curl didn't hold for very long, so I need to make sure that my hairdresser works on that a little bit.

Since the summer is now among us...I have been changing my focus to all things wedding. I don't have a whole lot left to do. Josh and I just have to pay the rest of our vendors and our reception hall, order wedding gifts, make the programs, and order flower petals and floating candles for the centerpieces. I will try to go to the flower factory soon and if I can find some good deals I may change some things around. I also will be working on a seating chart (most of which is done, just waiting for the last of the RSVP cards to come back) and I will be scrapbooking place cards, which I may do today. This upcoming weekend is my bridal shower and then next week is the bachelorette party. But that is all so far! Hope everyone else is having a good summer and I hope to see you all at the wedding.