Happy St. Patty's Day!

Last Sat Matt and I did our first "running" 5k.  We dashed down greenville and while I did quite a bit of running, it was hard.  I know 3 miles doesn't seem like a lot but it seemed like FOREVER to me!  We did capture a cute photo of us though.

Be sure to wear your green tomorrow!
 

Forward March

Well now it's March and then comes April and May then JUNE!

Today there are only 100 more days until Matt and I say I do.  Hard to believe we started counting down at 285 and tomorrow we will be in the double digits.  I know it's still a ways off but then again it's not! 

Feb was a busy month and March will be a busy one as well.  And I guess I'll throw in April and May too, to boot.  I'm so excited about all the fun things that are coming our way.  There's still qutie a bit of planning to do but it's mainly the small details which drive me crazy!  I'm way too ADD for details HELLO! 

Our spring break starts next Friday, meaning I have that Friday off which is so exciting!  I'm ready to get some things done and do some spring cleaning.  Lots of things that will not be traveling with me to my ahem our new home......weird.

Matt is planning on helping me move at the end of April to our new apt, and no we don't know where yet.  More then likely we will still be in the village until we buy a house in the future.  So I'll live in the new place all of May then move home for 2 weeks in June while we move his stuff in.  Fun stuff!

So much is happening so fast, I'm excited and nervous for all the changes.

So glad tomorrow is Friday!

It's Feb?!

I can't believe it's already Feb, partly because the first week of the month I was stuck inside my apt for 4 days with no internet, or cable!  As I told my sister as we played many games of Words with Friends, I was begining to go crazy.  But I did catch up on some much needed rest which is always a plus!

I've been so behind on my blogging, but there isn't enough space I feel to explain everything that's going on!

Last week Matt lost his job, they brought him and 10 others in to their meeting office and said bye, pack up your stuff and leave now.  Needless to say I got a very ANGRY phone call from Matt right after that.  He and I both know that God does things for a reason, and I'm hoping that something great will come along closer to Dallas so his move will be complete to here.  So keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Wedding planning is coming along very nicely, I honestly could not do it without my mother's help. If it weren't for her constant emails, and phone calls, and talking to vendors, Matt and I would be eloping!  No joke :)  She has made this process very enjoyable and has never once told me what to do.  I feel like I have a pretty good hand of what I want at the wedding and things I want to incoporate and she's helped me figure out ways to do so.  Who needs a wedding planner with your Mom can do it for you?!

So thank you mom!

One of my oldest and dearest friends, Julia Lemmon is getting married next month in Charlottesville and I'm sad I can't see her walk down the aisle, but she is having a shower and Bachelorette party here in Dallas next weekend so I'm glad I get to partake it some of her wedding festivities!

I'll end on a high note, this past Monday I got to go babysit Camp and Ellis and I usually don't go over there until right before bed time.  When Emily opened the door for me Camp came running to me with such excitement.  I felt so happy to see how excited he was to see me since I can't get over there as much as I'd like.  Then he says this to me, "Let's watch tv aunt Indsey"  Apparantly ever time he sees me he associates me with tv watching, because Em lets us watch curious george like 1 time before he went to bed!!  Too funny, but that's ok I'll take what I can get ;)

Happy Friday!

This one? How about this one?

Lots of wedding planning going on and I admit, I am starting to love it a little.  I think now that it's getting closer to all the fun stuff I'm enjoying the process much more.  This week's topic has been shoes!  Who knew there were so many shoes in the world.  I am NOT a shoe person, if you'll go back to like March of last year on my blog, I threw out my coach shoes I had for 4 years.  I don't like shopping for shoes because to have cute shoes you must have the cute clothes to go with them and lets just say my wardrobe is quite sad right now.  Since I'm still in the process of losing weight I don't buy new clothes unless I must and it's usually for a shower or party etc. 

Anyway, each night this week I have had a different dream incoporating whatever my last email topic was with my mom.  Let's just say there have been a lot of shoe dreams this week.  Last night I had a dream about Matt forgetting to book our flight for our honeymoon!  Ha.  So crazy.

I am excited about all the different decisions that need to be made right now, even though at times it's a little overwhelming I know it will get done.  My mom and sister have been very helpful and polite with certain decision makings which I'm truly grateful for.  I know once June is over my mom will be a little sad because I know she loves all this planning as well!

June 11th, I can't wait until you're here, but then again I can ;)

Progress

So this was week 2 of Matt and I's couch to 5k.  This week you run for 1.30 and walk a minute.  We have been running on treadmills since it's way too cold to run outside obviously!  But it's really fun to run next to Matt because we both have the same pained look on our faces when we run!  My endurance is good it's just my shins are KILLING me!  But I grin and bear it:)  Last night we ran and I ended up walking only a total of 5 minutes and ran for 15 which put me at a 1.17 mile which is super SLOW!  But hey I ran and felt really good about it.  Next week you do 2.00 run and 1.00 of walking.  I cheated a little and went ahead and ran 2 minutes at a time last night just to see if I could do it and I can.  I'm not trying to run as fast as possible I just want to say, yea I can run 3 miles no problem!  Slow and steady wins the race right?

In other news, I found out on Monday that a sweet friend of mine I had the pleasure of getting to know this summer at my SMU course was killed along with her husband in a head on collision Sunday evening.  They were on their way back home from church and a truck lost control and ran right in to them.  I'm very sad for this loss because she was such a wonderful person.  I tried to sit next to her every day of class because she was hilarious and always had a smile on her face.  She will most definitely be missed and I pray for her and his families as they are going through what I can't even imagine with losing two wonderful people, and they were both music teachers.  So very sad.  It's amazing how in two weeks of intimate classes you share so much with someone and now they're gone.  I've never really had a close friend die and we did stay in touch after our course so she's been on my mind all week.  Laci you will be so missed!

Even though my heart is heavy I love knowing she was a woman of God and she's dancing and singing with the angels :) 

Couch to 5k

Over the break one of our usher's asked Matt if he would like to race him in a the 5k dash on St. Patty's day down by my apt.  Matt and I have talked about picking up a healthy habit to do together and this gave us a perfect reason to start!  There is a website called couchto5k.com it is a 9 week program teaching you how to build up your endurance to learn how to run a 5k.  Matt and I have finished week 1 which wasn't horrible.  I of course am a little slow but I did run when I was supposed to for as long as I was supposed to.  I heard about this program through my friend lyndsay who said I was helping motivate HER with my blog posts about my toning up which I thought was really neat.  She said she did it and lost 15 pounds doing it (even though she was already little )  So Matt and I are starting week 2 which is 1.30 mins of running alternating between 1 minute of walking, so we will see how we do!  I will try and track my progress each week, I just want to say I accomplished something I haven't EVER been able to do.  I've never run a 5k so I'm pushing myself to do this for me.  We will see!!!  The winner between Matt and Justin has to pay for a nice steak dinner so I'm hoping Matt wins!

Christmas and New Year's

I got quite a lot accomplished over my Christmas break which I feel really good about!  My family from California was here and I had so much fun getting to spend some time with my niece and nephew whom I don't get to see enough.  Here are just a few fun photos I took from our week together!

Christmas Morning

Ellis in her Christmas jammies

Camp's Cowboys get up

Matt and I

All the photos I took of Graham and Paige were blurry but it was so fun to watch them open their presents Christmas morning.  Paige kept wanting to pass out every present and would ask "is that for me?"  It was funy getting to play "Santa" another year now that Camp and Paige are more aware of who he is.  All in all it was a great Christmas Day!

That Monday after Christmas I took Emily, Hilary and my mom to look at bridal gowns and we ended up buying one and also getting their bridesmaids dresses too which they helped convince me to change my colors from purple to grey so grey it is!  We will still use purple in other things :)

New year's eve Matt and I went to a friends house where she and her boyfriend hosted a nice sit down dinner, it was a lot of fun!

Happy New year!  I'm so blessed with so much!