cascading wedding bouquet I chose. perfect for a princess wedding.

I gave up on my cricut idea after talking to friends and family with the machine.  They told me it was hopeless, so I found a website where you can custom make your own invitations!  Most of them you can input a custom RGB color code, I am so excited… I think I would be spending just as much money on making them myself anyway! 

I wish my hair was long again. 

candy bar, just for my husband…since he doesn’t eat cake and cookies. 

I really suggest p90x or an beachbody workouts for any bride who has 1 hour a day to work out.  I finished my first round of p90x in November 2010.  I lost 25 lbs!  I went from a size 10 wedding dress to a 6 when I ordered it back in August…but now I am a size 0-2 dress.  (Obviously my mother is unhappy about how many alterations need to be done now, oops!)  I feel great though, I gained some weight back when my husband came home for 15 days form afghanistan in late December.  Needless to say we only hit the gym 3 times while he was home, and ate so much bad food.  But I am back at it for round 2, and I also use hip hob abs, and 10 minute trainer.  I am currently waiting to receive RevAbs, which my husband said he bought for me :)  so excited.  Since my lack of working out I am obviously sore and have amp’ed my work outs to 2 hours a day, just to get back into the swing of things.  But these work outs are legit, and if you eat right you can do some serious damage in 3 months time.  I “eat clean”  and use a lot of Tosca Reno’s recipes.  It was the THE best decision I made when I started p90x, its so worth the 1 hour a day… and the food isn’t that bad…plus you can have cheat days!  Don’t forget your protein though!  I started taking my husband’s left over muscle milk from his R&R only because I ran out of my whey.  I use amp and only use 1 1/2 scoops, which is about 30 g of protein.  I was getting really sick when I took all 3 scoops which is 60 g, because my body can not process that amount of protein at one time.  AMP is whey protein isolate and it has so much less fat than muscle milk… but around the same amount of calories.  I started drinking it right after my work outs after I burn off all the calories I ate that day.  If you are looking for fast results, burn more calories than you eat.  I lost the weight in a month.. and I still look okay even though I gained a lazy 5lbs over R&R with Doug. 

Get on the p90x wagon, it really works! 

my engagement ring. I suggest not purchasing it to future women getting engaged.  My diamond chipped and has been off my finger and is in a kay warehouse being replaced.  I am getting a whole new main diamond, its like its not going to be my ring anymore :( Thank god for protection plans though!  At least I still have my wedding band.

(Source: kay.com)

of course Alfred Anglo’s new 2011 collection is fabulous.. after I already have my dress in a bag sitting in a closet waiting to be altered.

some days I wish I would have spent the money and bought this wedding dress instead.