Ok, so it’s been a week since I last had a chance to blog and I really don’t have much time now but I figure I just need to take a few minutes to blog and then it will be done. Soooo, I left off last Monday when we were still packing. On Tuesday afternoon we closed on the house which was such a great feeling! We met Karen and David at our house and unloaded the first load of the U-Haul then we went back to the apartment and loaded up the U-haul again and finished at about 12:30am. We got some sleep and we were up at 6:00am on Wednesday morning to drive out to the house, unload the U-haul, and then Ryan had to go return the U-haul that morning. While he was gone Dish Network came to hook up our tv’s. They were there for about two and a half hours so once Ryan got back I took my shower and got ready and as soon as they left Ryan took his shower and got ready and then we headed over to his parent’s house to get married!!!!!!
We wanted the ceremony part to be very small and personal so it was just Ryan, me, Libby, Ryan’s mom, Ryan’s dad, Ryan’s niece (who was spending the night with his parents keeping Libby company since she was spending the night there, too), and the person who performed our ceremony. We got there and I took Libby back to get her ready and then it was time for our ceremony. Ryan LOVES bagpipes. Absolutely loves them. So, his parents played a cd that had the wedding march played on bagpipes for Libby and I to walk in to that music. Ryan loved it and it was a very nice surprise for him. We went through the ceremony and then the vows. After we said our vows to each other Ryan got down on his knee and he and Libby said vows to each other and then he presented Libby with a necklace that had a ring charm on it so she got a ring that day, too! :-) She was very surprised and loved her necklace with her ring charm on it. She had been saying all along that WE were getting married so he wanted to make sure to give her a ring during the ceremony and we thought that was the best way to present her a ring because then you don’t have to worry about her outgrowing it. :-) Then we exchanged rings and that was it – we were married!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His dad did take some pictures but I don’t know if it was the angle he was at or what but neither Ryan nor I liked any of the pictures that came from our ceremony. :-( That really stinks…but we are looking forward to getting some nice pictures from our reception in two weeks so maybe I’ll have pictures to post in a couple of weeks. After the ceremony we had lunch and then had “wedding cake” that his mom made and decorated with our monogram on top. How sweet! :-) After that Libby stayed with his parents because she was spending the night again and we left to go enjoy our day.
Wednesday was our first night in our new house and I loved waking up there on Thursday morning. Unfortunately, we had to wake up to get ready for work…we both had to work Thursday and Friday. Over the weekend we moved “odds and ends” from the apartment over to the house and made a complete disaster area of the house because of all the boxes everywhere. I have two more nights to make it through all of our boxes that are completely covering our dining room floor because our furniture is being delivered on Thursday morning and I have to have the space cleared out so that they can put the dining room table in the dining room. I still have LOTS of work left but we are making it there. Both bathrooms are done, I finished Libby’s room last night, I finished the majority of the guest room last night, and the kitchen is pretty much done. Now we are just waiting for our couches and dining room table to be delivered on Thursday and I can get those rooms finished and then the only thing that will be left will be our bedroom. Our bedroom furniture won’t arrive for about two more weeks so until then we don’t have a headboard, footboard or dresser but as soon as those are delivered in a few weeks it will really start to feel like a home. There are lots of things we want/need but Ryan’s mom keeps telling me to wait to see what we receive as presents at our reception…it’s easy to wait because we don’t have extra money to spend on things like curtains right now but at the same time it’s hard to not be able to finish everything, you know?? I CAN’T WAIT to have everything settled, everything in the right spot, curtains hung, pictures hung, nothing else to do but sit back, relax , and admire my new house!
I know this was a long post, but lots has been going on the last week and I keep getting asked for updates so there you go! :-)
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