Wedding's

My favorite picture from our wedding, doing the stomp song!

So we attended a wedding this weekend, we'll be attending another next weekend. I also got to thinking about how many weddings were last year at this time and are being planned for in the up coming year.

A Wedding: Dreamed about as a little girl, planned in our heads with each crush as a young adults, months spend planning, and then the big day.

But what about after the big day. I don't know about everyone else but I can't go to a wedding without thinking, did they do this, I wish I did that, ect ect.

So here are my tips:

1. IT IS YOUR DAY! Don't let your parents, your friends or anyone else make you do something that you don't want to do. But also make sure that if there is something you've dreamed about since you were little it is included!
2. Go with the flow. Not everything will go the way you want it to but there is nothing you can do about it on that day, so don't let it ruin the whole thing.
3. Pay your photographer to come to reception. These are the pictures I wish I had. I remember what the church looked like along with everyone in the wedding. I still look back and wonder something about my reception. Make room in you budget for a good photographer and extra time for them to be there.
4. Remember why you are getting married! Weddings are stressful, there are no if and's or but about it. So in the mean time remember why you are getting married.
5. Write it down. The stuff you think you'll never forget at some point you will. So my advice is to write it down. Really you will, I've been marred for less than three years and have to ask about some of the details I thought I'd never forget.

That is it for now, I guess. Maybe I'll add more as they come to me.

Backwards

I feel like I did all of this backwards! I will be 24 in a week, I have two kids and have been married for almost three years now. I am also a freshman college student. Meanwhile I have had many friends get married in the last year and feel like in the past week I have heard so and so is pregnant so many times, I'm thinking I better check to see if I am.

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't trade my kids for the world but I would do things differently if I could go back. Why did I quit school? Where would we be if I hadn't quit school? I even find myself wondering if Kevin and I would still be together. But maybe thats why I did quit, because he is who I'll spend the rest of my life with. I've lost touch with so many people, so many people that I didn't want to lose touch with. I try not to think about it much, but I really don't have any good girl friends any more. I'm working on changing that though.

I hope that my kids don't have kids so early in life. They are wonderfull, but never again will I be someone who doesn't worry about her kids. Life will never be that care free again. For anybody with kids you know what I'm talking about, but you won't understand fully untill you've had a child.

I feel like I'm juggling lately, we start ECFE tomorrow, I've got papers due monday and chapters to read, meanwhile keeping up on the laundry, dishes, cooking, cleaning and keeping the smile on my face. Most days its not to hard to do, but then once in a while I think about how diffrent life could be. I wonder what it might be like down a diffrent road, where will we be in five years, ten years, a year.........

My First Blog

Okay so this is my first blog ever! I got the idea to start one from my English witting class I'm taking. I recently started back to school, just doing generals at the moment but plan to be an English teacher some day. I am love love loving going back to school, it has been the best thing I've done for myself in a long time! I'm hoping this will help my creative side develop and I'm already addicted to this, hopefully I'll keep up with it.

I am also a mom of two wonderful boys, 2 years and 2 months. Needless to say I have my hands full. I am blessed with a wonderful husband, while marriage has been an adjustment I think we are doing pretty well for the most part. We are a very busy bunch, always on the run and never home on the weekends.

Okay so I'm looking for tips, are there things I should do when I start this thing? Thanks for any input e-mail me at mrsthull@yahoo.com

Enjoy Shawn