thank you.

I'm glad the favors are all done and ready for Saturday! Kailee & Shannon came over on Monday and helped me with so many things on my to-do list - thanks guys!! :) I felt so much better after they left, knowing how quickly we would be able to get things done. I didn't realize how much easier things would be with 2 extra sets of hands! If you want to see more pictures of the favors, check out my flickr. I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. I wasn't too sure how it would all work out, but I'm glad I went through with it.

We've gotten the sparklers in the mail, the programs printed (and 10-15 assembled)... everything's falling into place. Kailee & Shannon will be here in the morning to help finish assembling the programs - I'll post pictures of them when we're all done! I have the best friends a girl could ask for! I know this week would have been a lot more stressful if not for their help and words of wisdom on the phone when I'm about to meltdown :)

Only 4 more days and I will be a "Mrs.". It's been stressful the past few weeks and our relationship's been a little strained - so I'm looking forward to being done with the wedding so we can just relax and get into some family routines. :) I'm really worried about the expected rain this weekend, so please pray that it doesn't rain on Saturday! It's not an outdoor wedding, but I'll still be really disappointed - I'm looking forward to some good outdoor pictures and we have sparklers planned for our send off... I'll try to post at least one more time before Saturday - pray that I make it until then! :)

The Countdown...

According to our wedding website, Sam and I are getting hitched in 15 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes and some seconds... It's really hard for me to believe. I remember thinking it would never come and now I'm wishing I had some more time - where did it go??

I'm glad I was able to have fun on the 4th of July, as I was looking forward to the 5th of July (my lingerie shower). We had a nice, relaxing day with family...first having lunch at Sam's parent's house so they could see Adriana and then a cook out with my parents for dinner, followed by snow cones and fireworks at Lake Monkey Business here in the neighborhood. Adriana wasn't sure about the loud fireworks, but she did pretty good (especially since she was out until 10pm!). Here are a few pictures from the day:

Playing with candles at her Mimi's house

Not sure.

Hanging out by the pool.

Waiting for it to get dark!

Cheesin' - she loves her wagon!

She was pretty worn out...rubbing her Ellie's tail.

My lingerie shower snuck up on me... It was a small get together with my closest friends (minus a few that couldn't make it... maybe July 4th weekend was a mistake? haha). My matron of honor, Kailee, was the perfect hostess, of course... We all met at Bella Bella (also catering for the reception) for an early dinner and then ended the night at Kailee's house with drinks, yummy dessert and opening gifts. The only blog-appropriate one from the evening:

Kailee, Shannon, me, Lauriel and Sonia

After having such a fun night, it hit me that the wedding will be here before I know it! Kailee and Shannon came to the house today so that we could start drawing up some lists of things left to do and create an itinerary of the wedding day. It's so helpful to see it written out and they were able to think of things that I probably would have forgotten about until the last minute. There are so many things to think about. Just to name a few:

• calling the Thomasville police to block off parking
• getting the marriage license for Georgia
• lunch the day of the wedding
• toasting glasses & "champagne"
• cake cutter
• cake storage/tupperware
• clean up after reception
• finding out about a rental car

Hopefully Kailee and Shannon will be able to help me knock out the favors next Wednesday and then the programs one day the week after that... I'll probably be ordering sparklers in the next couple of days (for our send off). I'm still contemplating what to do for numbering the tables. I saw this idea today and LOVED it, but it might be too expensive... I'll have to look into it some more.

I'll try to keep this updated as much as possible in the next few weeks!