I Ate Pork on Saturday.. Do I Have The Swine Flu? :-p

First - pictures of our house now that we have grass!

Front yard with Sod

Back Yard with Sod (could only get half of yard with camera)


It's much greener now that it's been raining the last few days, it looks like a home now :)

Sorry it's been so long since we've posted - it's been a busy couple of weeks! We had Easter at The Schaul's on Easter Sunday which was some GREAT food.. Marcia was up at 4 in the morning to cook the 20 lb ham! It was excellent though and now I'm craving mashed potatoes and gravy... The weekend after that we had Carey's wedding (a friend of mine from work) and had a blast! The wedding was a lot of fun and everything went pretty smoothly. The sweetest part was that Carey's daughter, Michaela, walked Carey down the aisle and I think everyone teared up then :)The neat part is that Carey's theme was also very damasky so we've been sharing ideas for my wedding which as you know, also incorporates damask. It's a very popular theme right now which is great because I'm getting so many ideas!

We finally picked our honeymoon destination - Punta Cana, Dominican Republic!! We are sooo excited because we've heard great things about the resort we picked and about the beaches, food, etc.. I wish we were there now! We're leaving Monday, September 28 and will be back on Tuesday, October 6... a perfect vacation :) And in other wedding related news we added someone to our wedding party! I had talked to my mom about how I felt like something was missing from our wedding party and decided that I wanted to ask Haileigh (my friend from college) to be in our wedding. So I asked her to be a bridesmaid and she said yes!! I feel so much better, now I feel like it's complete :)

Ryan and I went back to Osky this past weekend to celebrate my birthday and my brother Tim's birthday. We're only 10 days apart.. well, actually 5 years and 10 days. His bday is on April 20, I'm on April 30 :) All the kids were there (Alex, Jake and Syd) and we had so much fun. My dad brought out their 20 lb video camera and was capturing the kids being silly.. we kept joking with him because he looked like a news cameraman since the camera was so big.. lol.. We were up late playing this music trivia game and Chase the Ace.. it was just a really great weekend :)

What else.. well I'm freaking out about this swine flu pandemic. This morning I grabbed a large orange juice, took my vitamin and have washed my hands 4 times in the last 2 hours. I found this article to ease my fears about it but I'm still freaking out. Ryan thinks I'm overreacting :-0 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30423369/ They EU recommends no travel to Mexico, mainly from Mexico City and north to the border. They've shut down public events, schools and have handed out thousands of air masks to people on the subway.. it's just scary to see. (See, this is me freaking out!) Stupid swines.