Save The ......Date?!?!

This week has been a busy one and it seems to be flying by in the blink of an eye. Monday started off terribly. I had the worst headache I have had in about 7 years. I couldn't do anything to make myself feel better.

Tonite, Caleb and I invited Will and Carmen over for supper and it went well. I cooked cube steak, mashed potatoes, and we had salad.

So my mom is all over me about my save the date cards. I know that we are about 5 months away and I need to get going but I am having changes of heart. I have already taken some pictures of Caleb and I in the last big snow that fell in Dahlonega. I changed them from color to black and white because I didn't really want to send out pictures of us in the snow when it is 80 degrees outside!! But, on the other hand most people will keep them until the wedding in October so it would be appropriate. I know that I really need to make a decision its just not an easy one.

Also, I am getting very anxious about my wedding band. As I mentioned before, I am going to have to have a band custom made. But before it can be custom, I have to find someone who is willing to at least give me a quote on the band. There are some jewelers that do not even wanna tackle custom stuff.

Last week at work and on into this week at work, I have taken a page out of Nancy Drew's book. Ya know when something just doesn't seem right to you. You are supposed to go with your gut people. The truth of the matter is that in this world there are people who abuse prescription drugs as well as illegal drugs. It is a sad thing and I just can't understand why people do not just follow the law? Is it really that hard?

This past weekend was a sad one. It rained all day on Saturday so I cleaned and packed up some of my things to get ready for my big move to nowhere for now. I will be moving at the end of May and I am not sure just yet where I will be moving to. I would love to rent something in town I will only need it for 5 months. It just makes sense. I work in town and I really honestly do not know how to live out of town. Sunday we went to a wonderful church service at Yellow Creek Baptist (caleb and my home church) Then we went to a friend's grandfather's funeral. This man was a stand up citizen of our community. Please say a prayer for the Smith family. I do not know what it is like to lose a grandfather because I have never had one in my life.

This blog is all over the place. Kinda like my life for right now!! Continue to keep Caleb and I in your thoughts and prayers as we will be learning a lot more about each other in the near future as we look to make our separate lives together as one. O and Save the Date October 23rd !!!

"O When The Saints Go Marching In"

In the spirit and song of Melanie Davenport, "O When The Saints Go Marching In, O When the Saints go Marching In....." well you know the rest. Congrats to the North Georgia Softball Team! They are 45-0! Melanie sent a mass text out to everyone on Sunday nite to welcome the softball team home from winning the conference championship and their amazing record! No other team in the country has that record! They sure do have ALOT to be proud of. They are doing BIG things in this small town. Caleb and I went and watched the games on Senior nite and the girls are all amazing. They are always so consistent, like clockwork. I look forward to catching some regional action at North Georgia and hope to watch those girls well into the summer! Go Saints!!

More action from this weekend. Saturday morning, Josh killed the first turkey of the season for the Copeland boys. Caleb got it all on film and he was excited. Caleb is overdue for a turkey because he has put alot of early morning hours and belly crawling. I just know that it wont be long now and he will have his own. If you haven't seen a turkey up close make sure you get around to that. In fact, add that to your bucket list. They are so beautifully colored and everything on them has a function. They are a pretty animal created by our AMAZING God.

Today, Monday April 19th, 2010 my drivers' side window in my car got off of the track spontaneously. So, of course it hasn't rained in about 8 days and it is due to rain tomorrow. I hope I can get it fixed before all of the weather!

Connie, Caleb's mom, and I had a great hour long walk today. I really enjoyed walking Ridge and making him stay right with me. He is still a work in progress with that but he is learning quickly.

Connie booked cabins for all of her family and the boys for the wedding. She also booked the place for the rehearsal dinner. One of the hardest things is trying to keep my mouth shut about that because the rehearsal is about the groom. It does not matter where it is and what it looks like. It's kinda like a wedding but instead its for the guy. I know the food will be delicious, everyone will be happy, and satisfied and that's really all that matters.

On more of a random note, ask yourself this: Have you ever been truly let down? Ya know when your parents say, "I am not mad at you but you just let me down." Well, I can honestly say that today I feel let down. I have let myself down. Sometimes I wonder what it was like to be a 20-something year old about 25 years ago. It seems that you could almost do whatever it is that you wanted and do it all with ease. Nowadays it seems that everything is twice as hard and takes twice as long. I have a really hard time understanding where I am supposed to be in my life right now. I have been out of college for a year now. I just can't even believe that!! I thought that I would already have almost a year of PA school over with which would be close to halfway done. But look at me now, I haven't even gotten in anywhere. I know it's that dreaded Organic Chemistry that is holding me up. I just know that I cannot sit through that again. That class altered my mental state a little too much. I mean, I can't help that I take things seriously and I want to always do my best and strive for the best. Rite now, I feel like I am second best or even second to last.

I have decided that in order to not be so let down by myself I think I will make a bucket list, as I spoke about above. I think that if I can write down things I wanna do before I die, I will begin to check them off and put more things in perspective. I will update my blog as to how I am doing with that. Also, I realized that I can add pictures to my blog and I will definitely do that soon.

That's it for tonight! Go Saints Softball!!

A Lil Bit of This & A Lil Bit of That

I promised myself when I started blogging that I would try to write once a week. With this post, I have obvisously let myself down and the whole purpose of this blog.

Alot has happened since my last post. Okay, I will just start with a week's worth of recap. Caleb's travel baseball team that he coaches is on spring break (with everyone else and we are stuck here in Georgia, working!). Needless to say it has been a nice week without Caleb "the coach".

On Thursday, my mom, dad, nana, caleb and connie and I went to Brasstown Valley Resort for my first tasting of the food for my wedding and rehearsal supper. Brasstown Valley is a really nice resort and it was Caleb's first time there in a long time. I think he was impressed and even got a little bit excited.
I thought the tasting went great. We had a ton of food and my mom and I had a ton of questions. I think by the end my wedding coordinator, Renee, was exhausted after answering all of our questions and entertaining all of us. We can be a hard crowd to please at times. And I think I will need to set a meeting with only renee and myself so that I can make sure that my wedding will be all of my expectations and more.

My mom is hounding me about the bridesmaid dresses currently. I think I have a style and a color picked out but I want to go back to the store and bring the pictures of what my flowers will more than likely look like so that I can get that nailed down. I was informed that currently I have alot hinging on the bridemaids dresses and colors. I am very nervous to actually get it all nailed down. I will make the decisions in due time.