Quick! Catch Up!

Well folks, we have less than 3 months to go and it's starting to feel like this might actually happen! Hooray! I am so nervous busy excited I can hardly stand it. If you haven't noticed, I have been very a little absent from the blogosphere lately and let me just say I plan to hop back on that train. It has been a very exciting time for both of our families. Here's what you've missed: school, school, school...some school, oh and school. Andy's mom, Jennifer, was in town (Little Rock) for Mother's Day and we got to spend the weekend with her. I graduated from Harding this past Saturday (yay!). My degree is in communication sciences and disorders...whatever that means. My siblings surprised me by showing up from Nashville on Friday night. I had no idea Ryan and Kelly were going to make it so I freaked out. It was a really fun time with the whole family. On the Sunday after graduation, Andy and I were honored with a wedding shower from Crosswalk, our church in Little Rock. Andy was so much fun at the shower; he looked like a little kid on Christmas morning opening all of his presents. We were truly blessed by our friends' generosity and got a ton of wonderful starter things for our new life together. Which catches us up to.... now!

Currently, it is 7:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in Angleton, Texas. Why am I awake? What is this bright glow outside? Answer: I have no idea. But I don't like it.

letterpress invitation giveaway

Need letterpress invitations? There is a contest where they're giving away a full letterpress invitation suite. Cool, right? It's on The Knotty Bride here.

Sancho

I want to tell you about the man in my life. He's kind of short, really hairy, and smells like the outdoors. He loves to cuddle and his favorite activities are taking walks and playing ball. Sometimes he can be really loud though. However, he has a bad habit of getting excited and peeing in the house...

Okay, okay. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm talking about Andy's dog, Sancho. Also known as Sanch Brother, Bubba, Snacho, Sanch bro, Sanch, and quite often yelled as SANCHO!!! Andy got Sancho when he lived in Searcy during the semester I was overseas in Chile. I still remember calling collect from an internet cafe in the Atacama Desert and hearing, "I got a puppy today!" Turns out, Sancho is ONE of the best things to ever happen to Andy. not THE best. Let's just make that clear ;)

Sanch brother is part Chocolate Lab, part Weimaraner (we think), and part pogo stick. Seriously, he can jump like 5 feet in the air. It's unreal. Enough jib jab, let's just look at him!

And now I love this dog to pieces. We keep telling him that he's getting a new mommy in a few months. I'm not sure he understands, but he wags his tail so I'll take that as a "You're OK because Dad says your OK", which is good enough for me. Snacho told us he really wants to be in the wedding. So I did some searching and found these precious photos.

Look at his little tuxedo!! So cute.

So pretty! Except Sancho would never be OK with that. He would not rest until he had destroyed every inch of it. Plus, he would probably be a little embarrassed.

This one reminds me of my puppies back home. Rylee is a cripple dachshund who could hop like a rabbit down the aisle. Or Pre could pee on every pew. On second thought, maybe that's a not a good idea...

How precious.

If Sancho hated the flower necklace, he would probably die if he ever had to wear this. He would refuse to walk out of extreme shame.

Now THIS is a trick that Sancho can do. The only down side...we do this with little treats, not very expensive wedding bands. I can only imagine the panic that would ensue when Sancho decided he'd had enough and was ready to eat his treat. "I hope you washed those rings before you wore them...."

Worst Blogger Ever

Well the votes are in. I am officially the worst blogger ever. It has been many weeks since I last tended to this little guy and he was starting to feel awfully lonely. Quite a bit has happened in the past few weeks! First I would like to announce the bridal party. These are best friends and family members who we couldn't be without on that special day. Thankfully, they feel the same way too and everyone said yes. Alright so I have 4 girls and Andy has 5 guys.

Gabby Marcellini- Maid of Honor- Gabby and I met my freshmen year at Harding. She was my suite mate for a semester and then became my room mate. We have been inseparable ever since :) We have lived together for the last 4 years of school and she is without a doubt my best friend (not counting Andy, of course). Gabby and I also went to Chile together the Fall semester of our sophomore year. Best semester ever? Yeah, i think so.

Rebecca Miller- Bridesmaid- My cousin of the same name. The family refers to us as Becca Me and Becca Lynn because she couldn't say my middle name, Marie. "Me" was the closest she could get and it sort of just stuck. Side note: Rebecca is completely capable of saying Marie now. I don't want anyone thinking she has a speech impediment. Anyway, Becca Lynn is 3 months younger than me and gets married in May, 3 months before me, so I guess it's kind of perfect.

Sarah Pence- Bridesmaid- Sarah is an awesome girl I met when we were both pledging our club, Delta Nu. We were the only two juniors who were pledging and bonded right away. Sarah graduated from Harding this past December and lives in Searcy where she takes beautiful pictures of people :) Her photography business is really starting to take off and I'm so proud of her. Check out her pictures at Sarah E Pence.

Brooke Bolin- Bridesmaid- Brookie Cookie is also a club sister who I met while pledging. This girl is so much fun to be around, which is why I love her. She is a junior at Harding and her parents live in Searcy, so her house is naturally the place we go to hang out. Brooke is going to London this summer and is cutting her trip short by a week just so she can come back to Arkansas for my wedding. Talk about a serious friend!

Kelly Carter- Bridesmaid at heart- Sweet Kelly is my beautiful sister (in-law). She married my brother Clint in June 2009 and has been the sweetest sister ever. Kelly is from Deluth, Georgia and went to school at Lipscomb University where she met my brother and found it in her heart to marry him ;) She's an angel and I love her. There's a good chance that Kelly will be absent on the big day though. She is carrying my nephew right now and is due just a week before the wedding!We all wish she could be there though so everyone pray this kid comes out a little early!

E-Pics, part 1

Despite the snow, sleet, and freezing temperatures, Andy and I were able to take some pretty sweet engagement pictures last weekend. They were originally planned for Saturday, which turned out to be bitterly cold and full of snow. So we crossed our fingers and ventured out on Sunday. I can't say we had high hopes that they would turn out good; it was pretty overcast and only in the 40's. But Sarah Pence worked her magic and gave us a great set of pictures. First off, let me just say how much fun we had taking these. Neither of us know what to do when a camera is pointed at us which is where Sarah's expertise came in. I love how a lot of the pictures are candid moments of us just laughing and being ourselves. I think Sarah really did a good job of getting our personalities in the shots too. Sanchbro made a guest appearance as well! We let him sprint laps in the field for 5 minutes straight before trying to grab him for a picture. He's so purty :) The little white church you see in the first half of the pictures is about 5 minutes outside of Searcy in Smyrna. Sarah suggested we take some shots out there and we loved it. Unfortunately it was too cold and cloudy to do a lot of the other ideas we wanted so we're going to wait for a beautiful Spring day and take a 2nd photo shoot! A little excessive? NEVER! You're only married once! Go big or go home, right? So go to Sarah's FB page SarahElizabethPhotography, "like" her business, and stalk all of our pictures! We're going to use one of them for our Save the Dates so be on the lookout for those (sometimes in the near-ish future). Also, leave a comment if you like and tell us which picture is your favorite!

E-Pics!

SATURDAY!
"What happens on Saturday?" you ask yourself.
A beautiful engagement picture session!
My beautiful, talented, awesome friend Sarah Pence is going to take the pictures for us here in Searcy. This is her blog. Do yourself a favor and check it out because she's fantastic :) Sarah Elizabeth Photography . We have been doing a lot of brainstorming and have some really cute ideas for props and locales and stuff. Here is some inspiration....

Weird how both of these couples are Asian, right? They make pretty couples though! Well, We have a couple of other cute ideas that we're going to experiment with and I can't wait to see how they turn out. Be looking for the pictures soon!

So on Saturday and Sunday, Andy and I attacked his local Target, Kohl's, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Other than finding a dress, it was the most fun we've had so far! I felt like a kid in a candy store; anything and everything was fair game. "You're pretty", scan, "I like you", scan, "You cost $200", scan. I think we both got exactly what we wanted, with a fair amount of compromising along the way. And if you thought that Andy would be bored and miserable, you are wrong. I've never seen a guy get more excited about juicers than this kid. If you didn't know this, Andy is pretty nifty in the kitchen. So naturally he nearly cried when he saw the KitchenAid 7 cup food processor of his dreams. Now, I know that all brides are supposed to have their future house designed in their mind, with a central theme and color for each room, and matching everything picked out....well, I guess I didn't get that memo. Our selections are kind of all over the board. Especially in the kitchen. We looked at 10 different colors of FiestaWare, couldn't decide on a single or even two-color combo, so we decided to get all of them! They were just all so pretty! Now I've talked to several girls who have said that registering with their fiance was when they had their first real fight. Luckily for us, everything went so smoothly and we had a great time. I think we learned a lot about the other person's taste and how to compromise to find something we both like. Andy is more naturally attracted to things that are darker, sleeker, clean lines, more modern, etc. I like things that are colorful, floral, fun, and so on. So naturally we were drawn to different styles. But it worked out great in the end because he would pick out something and then I would pick out something, or we just kept looking til we found something we agreed on. But we didn't just register for kitchen/bathroom/housewares. No no no, we picked out some fun stuff too. For example

• a 2 ft. long bone for Sancho (Andy's dog)
• the board game Quelf
• Mexican Train Dominoes
• Little Big Planet 2 for the PS3
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii
• an HP photosmart printer/scanner/copier
• a tent, lantern, ice chest, and propane grill
• His and Hers Shakeweights (if you don't know what it is.....look it up)
• LOST - season 6

So again, we're registered at Target, Kohl's, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. You can look up our registry under Rebecca Carter or Andy Sawyer.
******Also: Gift cards are gladly accepted!!