Day 2 Cont.

Hi Everyone!!
Just wanted to update on what we did today after the last post! :)
We went to the art auction, we looked around at the paintings, but decided not to stay and we went to go get food instead. There were so many pretty pictures! WAY expensive! One picture of Bugs Bunny was going for $40, and this was just a picture/drawing. Nothing special! lol
After we ate we went to a show called “The Marriage Show”. It was like the newly wed game. There was 3 different couples – a newly wed couple, a middle-aged couple, and an older couple. It was really funny!
Tonight we went to the Motown show. The guy sung really well! He even got some of the crowd to sing! lol
We went to dinner after that. I had Chicken Quesadilla, some type of Spring Chicken, and for dessert strawberry cheesecake! It was really yummy!
I am excited about being in Jamaica tomorrow! I love the boat things, but it will be nice to be on land :) Joey and I signed up to take a tour of the Appleton Rum Factory. We have already reserved the excursion for Grand Caymans. There we are going to a turtle farm, the going to see Hell…there is a town called hell…weird, and then we are going to swim with stingrays!!
For those of you that are wondering…neither of us has gotten sick so far. The rocking of the ship is not bad at all. Tonight at dinner it was a little more than usual, but we were also near the back of the ship too. We are getting closer to Jamaica so maybe they have a little storm…who knows!
It is still sinking in that we are married! lol I love waking up and having Joey next to me! It will sink in more once we get back home I know. We had the bus lady/waitress ask us how long we have been married tonight :) She told us congratulations once we told her 3 days! The first night we went to dinner and they sat us by ourselves, instead of our assigned table w/ others. The hostess saw us and said “Oh Honeymooners”…not sure how she knew by just looking at us but it was neat!
Alright I think that is all right now so…picture time!!
This is as of 4:05pm

This poor bug was on the outside of the window in the back of the boat…HANG ON BUG!!

One of my favorite pieces of art that were auctioned off

“The Marriage Show” (from left to right) older couple married 40-something years, middle-aged couple married twenty-something years, and the newlyweds

--Around the ship--
This is the piano bar, we haven’t gone in there for anything but it is a neat room.

There is a disco, we haven’t been in there either. They have a lot of private parties in there.

This is the Sunflower Atrium. This is hanging from the ceiling in the room that we have to walk through to get to our dinning room.
And I like sunflowers so I thought this was really pretty!

Our balcony!

Beautiful sun setting!

The sunset tonight

We had another creation waiting for us when we got back from dinner. This time a lil person!

That is all for tonight! I will try to get more pictures of us!
Have a great night! :D

Day 2

Hi :)
Well this post will have a little of day 1 night, since I made the blog earlier yesterday!
Last night went to a show. It was a unique show. lol There was singing and dancing, it was fun to watch though! It was about a guy and a girl meeting over the internet. Like You’ve Got Mail sort of thing. The singing was really good!
After we left the show, we were walking around and there was a band in the casino playing swing music! There was also people swing dancing!! It was so cool to watch!! :D After watching them, I really wanted to learn how to swing dance!! Sadly I didn’t get any pictures. But it was dark and I would have had to use a flash on my camera…probably would have blinded one of the dancers! lol
Last night was formal night for dinner, however we decided not to go; we looked at the menu and it wasn’t really worth dressing up for we thought. So we decided to go to the buffet, it had some of the same food! So we had good food w/o the dressing up part! lol
OH! Yesterday they had a Hairy Chest Contest! We didn’t attend it, but luckily they replayed it on TV…YUCK! There were some really big guys without shirts lol
Day 2 (so far as of 12:05)
We are now an hour ahead on the ship…the ship changed its time last night.
So far today we have gone to breakfast, which was really yummy, and that’s about it! We plan on going to an Art Auction about 1pm (12pm normally). They are going to be showing the art they have on board, and a “FREE ART GIVEAWAY!” lol
Tonight is “The Deck Party”…there is to be music and dancing.  Tonight’s show is Motown Sounds of Ron Joseph too. Just thought I would throw that info in there :)
One thing that is popular on board is BINGO! We went to the show early and it was still going on…those people were getting really into it!! I’m not sure what the prizes were, but it definitely wasn’t like the old people bingo!
Alright some more pictures!!
This was the sun going down last night.

Here is the sunset!

When we got back from dinner this lil guy was on our bed!

They have a board that tells us where we are…this is the where we are today…as of 11:10.
(If you look really close you can see orange dots, those are our destinations!) We went by Cuba early this morning!

This is the deck where most of the entertainment is. The light fixtures are flowers! It looks so pretty!!

A close up of one flower fixture

This is the ceiling in the same place with all the flower fixtures. There are different pictures painted on the ceiling :)

This was about 40 minutes ago…the sun is SO beautiful hitting that blue water!

I will try to post a lil later more pictures of what we go and do :) We are to be in Jamaica tomorrow morning!
Have a great day!!

Cruise day 1

Hi Everyone!
So we are on our cruise right now, which is fantastic! The food is AMAZING!! I can tell how people can gain weight while being on a cruise!
We didn’t leave Galveston until about 7:30 (we were supposed to leave at 4:00) hours after we were supposed to; there was major fog that delayed the ships arrival and the disembarking of the previous passengers. So we got to the terminal about 1pm. Then got through the check-in and everything about 2:30pm, then we waited until 6pm. Carnival attempted to pass out McAlister’s and Jason’s Deli to everyone, but it was a lil difficult bc of all the people that were there. As the girl we sat next to in the terminal said, “ I feel like I am homeless, we are sitting on the floor and they are passing out boxes of food” lol
We boarded and everything has been fine since then! The staff is great and friendly! Most of them have accents, and a lot of them are not from the US. I thought that was neat!
I was worried about the rocking of the ship, but it really isn’t that bad! You can barely feel it and when you do it is a really slow rock. One thing that is a lil scary are the toilets on board! lol They make a really loud noise when they flush! Just takes getting used to.
Oh the water is SO blue!! I have never ever seen blue water! It is gorgeous!! I have some pictures :) I will have more each day!
This is our room, through the curtains is the balcony :)
This is the view from our balcony

Beautiful blue water!! (Waves from the ship)

Us on the balcony this morning

We had a life boat drill this morning…the life jacket had all different gadgets on it!

Top deck

Cool waterslide, there is also a pool and two hot tubs, amongst other things!

The back of the boat

That’s all the photos of the cruise right now!
Have a great day!

Thank you!

As you can tell by the date, today was our wedding day! :D

It went SO well!! I got a little nervous about walking down the aisle and having everyone looking at me, but other than that I was fine! :) I am just so happy and even though I smiled all day, my cheeks only hurt once, during pictures!

I did not cry as much as I thought I would! I was really surprised!

I am just so thankful for everyone who did things! The table decorations and the flowers were SO beautiful which Cat made, the cupcakes were delicious, sadly I only had one bite (which Joey's mom made...or now my Mother-in-Law, My father-in-law, Joe brought the unity candle table (it was so beautiful!) John did record the wedding and reception and I was so grateful he did! I am doing this fast so I will make a general thank you!!

I just mainly want to express my gratitude to the parents, both Joey's and mine! Thank you so much for everything you all have done!

Joey's parents- Thank you so much for raising such a wonderful man! I am so grateful for everything you have done to make him the man he is today!

To my parents- I love both of you SO much!! Thank you for raising me the way you did and always loving me and supporting me! I love you so much! You mean so much to me and I will never can say thank you enough!

Ok so wipe your tears away :) lol

Thank you everyone!


I will be trying to post honeymoon pics here, try being the main word lol!

Have a great day!

4 Days!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you had a great Christmas! I did all 6 of them! lol I had one w/ Joey's mom, my mom, my grandma, Joey's step family, Joey's dad side in Austin, then I will have one on the 1st with my dad!! :)

I had a nice Christmas! Got nice things and had fun with the people we were with :) My mom has already taken down the Christmas tree! She did that before we got back this past Sunday!!

I think I might buy a Wii...I know a random message, but after playing one twice with a few days of each other, I have realized how much I like playing it! Rachel (Joey's sister) got the Wii Fit for Christmas. It was so much fun to play!! Then when we went to Austin we played Wii Sports, that was fun too! It is great when you have people over! I don't know, I will think about it a lil more and wait for a while...dropping $250 right now is a lil crazy, so I think I'm going to wait for a while :)

So... we are 4 days away!!! I can't believe it! lol Tonight when Joey got off of work we went to go exchange his ring...yes his ring has already come in!! :D So he will have the real one for the ceremony!! :) That makes me really happy! Then we went to Men's Warehouse to get Joey some black pants, a white shirt and to find ties. We found some ties, but we had to go to Macy's to get Joey's tie. He is going to wear a dark purple tie while the others wear silver :)

We have picked out the songs for the rest of the ceremony :) I cried but that's not surprising :)

I have been packing and trying to move more stuff over to Joey's, but it is kinda hard since I haven't unpacked the other stuff I have already brought over! It will all get done in time though!

Well I haven't gotten nervous about the getting married part; the only thing that makes me nervous is the people...having to go around and talk to people afterwards. And the stuff getting done before is making me a lil nervous, other than that I am fine!

Honestly it still seems surreal! lol I know that must sound crazy, but that's how it is! I have my dress in my room and yet it still feels that way! I always wanted this and now it is here and it is so exciting and just so awesome! I think it might seem that way since I just don't have time to just think about it, I am always thinking about what needs to be done and such. But every-time I heard the song that I am going to walk to I cried...when we listened to the songs for the rest of the ceremony I cried! So when I do just stop I get very emotional! :) Just some random stuff about my feelings, since I am sure people wonder how the bride feels a few days before!

Well I'm sure this is a long post, so...

Have a great day!

Busy Bee

Hi Everyone! :)

Since my last post I have been a busy little bee! I have been cleaning and organizing Joey's apartment so I can move in more of my stuff! I finished putting up the gifts we have already received. I did make a cake, and frosted it and everything! :) Just because I felt like it! lol The organizing is a slow process and I find other things to do a lot instead of doing that, so it's taking a little longer.

Wedding Preparations:

(what we have completed since the last post)

- Bought wedding rings

Joey's is taking 2 months to come in since the store didn't have his size, so we just got a regular band for the ceremony and we will trade them when his comes in. We did that Sunday.

- Got our marriage license

That was really exciting! We got that today!

- I went to go get my dress

However, it was still too long and too big on the side...so I am picking it up tomorrow at 1pm. I was disappointed that I didn't get to take it home this past Friday, but I do not want to trip over my dress either! When I tried it on I could see myself just eating the floor in front of everyone! lol

- Bought unity candle, candle holder, guest book, pen, hanky for me (since I know I will cry!), and  a garter.

We are not doing the throwing of the garter or bouquet. The last weddings we went to no one was excited about it and so I feel that it is silly to do so. So I am just wearing a garter just because...I guess to show it to my daughter one day...well it makes since to me :)

- Found the song for coming down the aisle

Joey found the song...it was one that was used in a short film someone had made. It is really beautiful. Joey was awesome and edited it (it had words- not English- and was a lil long).  Every time he played it I started to cry! :) I would have an "emotional moment" as Jeff would call it :) lol (Just in case you do not know who Jeff is, he is our pastor and is doing the ceremony)

The only things we have left to do is groomsmen ties, get Joey some black pants, find a lace table runner for the unity candle table, and pick out the rest of the songs for the wedding.

It is crazy how close it is! I have been wanting this for so long and now it is here! It sometimes seems surreal, then I realize that this is real :D I am so happy and excited! We received our cruise info. We also looked at the day excursions to do on the cruise! It is going to be fun!

I know I talk a lot about the wedding and the details, but I figure it is interesting for others to read or read later, and I want to be able to look back and read everything that went on!

It is insane that Christmas is already here! It is this Thursday! I want to enjoy it, I do not want it to be like getting through it to the wedding! Sometimes I just need to slow down. I have already bought presents...I did that with the money I had from Carter's. It is not much this year, but I don't have a job and that is not the real meaning of Christmas anyways!

Well for all the hundreds of ppl that read my blog...

Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! :D

I hope you have a great day!

The Semester is OVER!!

Hi :)
I had my last final on Thursday...my scariest one, an oral final! I am SOO happy that finals and this semester is over with! It was so hard to try and concentrate with the upcoming wedding and everything. I am just so happy that its over! I will never have to plan a wedding and do school at the same time ever again! lol

Here is the list of stuff I still need to do...just in case anyone cares :)

Wedding Update:
- go make sure the alterations are good Dec. 19th
- get marriage license!
- get wedding rings
- get unity candle
- try and finalize the count of ppl, but most haven't RSVPed yet
- move in in the 2 weeks I have!
- pick out songs for the ceremony
- check on flower status
- check on bridesmaids dress status
-remind Joey to get gifts for the groomsmen
- etc.

I know there are prob. more things to do, I just can't remember right now :) Joey's mom was great and checked into the rehearsal dinner stuff for me and she is going to send out invitations, which I am so happy that she took that on herself!

Sadly we weren't able to do engagement pictures, but we will have ones from the wedding, and when we go and visit married ppl's houses that is all the pictures they have up of the both of them. So it won't be that big of a deal.

It is getting closer and closer! Which is exciting but I feel like there is a lot of little details to work out. But I know everything will be worked out :) The count for the wedding is about 82 right now. I thought I would include that, so when I am reading this later it would amuse me lol

Well not much else is going on. I cleaned and organized Joey's apartment a little today...getting it ready for all my stuff lol I really don't mind cleaning. Which I know years later I will see that statement and think something was wrong with me lol

Well that is all right now :) Have a great day!