I'm thinkin' I'm beyond bratty.....

Sooo I know my last blog was a little bit whiny, but no worries - i'm over it!

Because..........

WE BOOKED OUR HONEYMOON!

After tons of research, mind changes, and endless amounts of doubting our ideas & choices - we came back to the little place we decided on the very beginning of this crazy honeymoon finding journey. So, where is it?!

ANTIGUA!

Here are few pictures:

 here is a little hint on where it is located....i had no idea until we started booking flights ;)

 Cocobay Beach Resort

That is a representation of me & James. lol of course, we look a little bit better ;) can't wait for that to be us!

So anyway - this little place Cocobay is not fancy by any means. Which kind of threw me off a bit at first. I was thinking ok on my honeymoon i want to be waited on hand and foot not have to do one thing and for everything to be perfect! who doesn't want that?! well - the more we looked for that the more we were seeing all of the huge resorts with thousands of people, reviews saying you cant ever find chairs by the pool, crowded beach - you get my point. not exactly my idea of romantic...so we were like ok smaller but with all of that. can you we say like $800-1000 a night?! not for 5 nights sisters! James would die. So that got nixed. Moving on. we found this little place online through trip advisor. It only has around 30-40 little cabins on the hillside and beach. So its very private and not crazy busy and loud. The resort isnt super modern and chic - it kinda said basic shabby chic. whatever give me a drink and im money ;) Anyway we book a beach front little cottage hut thing with its own plunge pool. So neat! I am so looking forward to james and i sitting on the porch (like the above picture exactly but with a  beer) and just breathe and say This is our HONEYMOON! Hurry up October 2?! Please?!

So in spite of my long list of  gripes in the past post - I have thought about it and talked to a few friends. One said she and her husband have some days where they just need to be alone to do what they want - like read a book, watch a movie...I guess J and I don't have to be on top of each other all of the time..life will go on. I did talk to him though about how I felt and he said he felt so bad and that yes, life is sooo busy right now that we do need to make time of US. Love him. So we will see if I can kick this obsessive wedding behavior and he can give up sports center. Not likely but hopefully we can make a conscience effort ;)

So yesterday my parents came over for lunch! It was such a great day..another reminder of how great I have it. Someone slap me for being so moody and ungrateful ;) Anyway - mom went on a shopping spree for her wedding outfit last Thursday so she brought it all over to have a little fashion show for us.

Let me just say. My mom is trying to show everyone up at the wedding....and I love it. She looked so beautiful and honestly her smiling from ear to ear almost made me cry. Eeek! about to cry writing this! Honestly in the beginning mom wasn't too into this whole wedding thing - but I am so excited that she is putting so much thought and time into making our day special. Even if she is trying to look better than everyone there! LOL! Anyway we chose a pretty green dress from her choices and she looks great. Dad ws floored! So dang cute! He said, "Wow! Well that's impressive!" I think coming from dad that is a killer awesome compliment! So mom is set. Dad is our next project. That should be interesting...eh. 

Anyway - just rambling so I will quit boring everyone and go to my Jillian Michaels DVD. That damn dvd set needs a blog on its own. It is abuse. Straight abuse. But it hurts so good ;)

Everyone have a fabulous Monday!!!

xoxo

Lauren  

Resolutions?

Ok - I am back from my blogging haitus....it's been over a month, i know - Stephanie tells me almost every other day. On top of that i have clients telling me i'm lame for not blogging now too! Here is a shout out & thank you to Stacey for getting my blogging butt in gear ;)

Soooo to catch up from Christmas (wow) I have to post a pic of our tree project first...it was a big deal!

 so this is how dad dropped off the tree

one gift painted & a little bit of texture

(see how into this i got?! i was really lecturing James about texture - like i know anything!)

 after only two little fights between us we completed our tree! we didn't take a professional pic this year bc well, we didn't have time..next year the tradition starts! So excited!

had to add this picture of Heidi bc she looks possessed 

what a freaky little one we have...

 and of course, my handsome man who put his blood, sweat, and tears into making sure i got my tree finished in time for Christmas. You can tell how excited he was ;)

isn't it so super cute?!

Thanks!

Moving on.

I guess I need to give a reason for my lack of blogging....

I have nothing to really blog about! Is that so sad?! I mean things happen day to day - but I can't imagine anyone really wanting to read about them...then again, I love reading other people's random blogs so I digress.

My life has been so crazy (not blog crazy) but busy crazy that really I wake up work out work (trying to keep the w's going - not working) anyway you get the picture. I started boot camp a few weeks ago to get in shape for my wedding dress (gorgeous). It really has taken a lot out of me. I am exhausted. I miss my boyfriend. I miss my friends. I come to work and manage to chit chat here and there but i feel like im missing out on spending time and hanging out with my salon girls bc im too tired to keep up :( Lame! At home is even worse. Since we have to two TV areas it seems he goes to one side and I go to the other just long enough to catch 30 minutes of relax unwind tv till its time to wake up at 4:30 to do bootcamp and start my day cycle all over again. Like I said - I miss my man. We went out to dinner tonight. It felt sooo good to have him all to myself. I just wanted to hug him and squeeze him and tell him how much i love him - i didn't don't worry. I promise I waited until we got home. Here is the not happily ever after part....he is in the living room watching sports center right now and i am pouring my heart out to a computer. I think all of this wedding planning/ cpa testing aftermath/ life is ALWAYS busy kinda stuff is kind of overwhelming us right now. I miss when we had nothing to do but be together and have fun.  I guess to get to where you want to be, meet goals you want to reach, make life what you want of it you have to sacrifice a tiny bit..but im a little over it. Don't get me wrong. I consider myself a super lucky girl with an awesome guy, career i love, friends i love even more - i just miss SIMPLE.

and i know- i am ocd about wedding planning. i need to stop. when i could be spending time with James im looking up aisle runners or bridesmaid dresses. ugh! can we be in Antigua already?! so excited for our wedding its going to be the bomb.com but can september kinda get here soon? I might drive myself (and others) crazy by then! oooooh wedddddings.....so pretty & special but so so much mentally, physically, and spendilly ;)

so i guess what i can is to make a resolution or two.

1) keep life simple & keep my relationship with my super handsome super wonderful best friend i call my fiance - top priority.

2) blog a little bit more so i quit making people mad ;)

Hope everyone is having an awesome 2011 so far!

I am soooo excited to see where it takes us all here at the 4911!

xoxo-

Lauren

 my favorite New Years Eve picture. Silly guy ;)

Love him!