Now

After all of the pain and all of the heartache...the insecurities and tears on my pillow, I've finally found happiness. No more uncertainty, no more trying to be what people want me to be. I'm finally free to be me & be loved unconditionally. I always knew he was the one. It was this feeling deep within that I didn't even understand exactly. It wasn't a fairytale beginning, but it's all worth it in the end. I longed for him and waited for him until he finally listened to his heart. I don't know if two people could belong to one another more. He's everything that I could ask for in another human being and more. I'm finally the person that I need to be to love successfully. Now it's time to start a new phase and face the fact that I'm an adult. At 28 life is just beginning again and I couldn't hope for anything more.

Wedding update

Well the destination wedding is off. It was really complicated to plan, first of all, and not too much fun. Secondly, too many important people weren't going to be able to make it. Mike's mom asked if we could just have a small wedding here. We've decided to go ahead & do it & will be having it where his mom & stepdad live at Hideaway-Lake in Mississippi. It's a really cool place. They have a 200 acre man-made lake. We'll have it at the Lodge. It's really inexpensive compared to most places. It'll only be 50 people or so...mostly family and a few close friends. It' so much more fun to plan it now! I've had to reorder my wedding dress since I've gotten so much bigger being pregnant! Thank GOD for The Bridal Party in Denham Springs for not making me pay for two dresses! They are lifesavers! I originally had my wedding website with www.weddingsolutions.com but have decided to switch to www.theknot.com because they are so much better technically, visually and in every other way possible!

Good weekend

I had fun this weekend. Mike wanted to get out so we went to the levy in BR for a while then decided to go to New Orleans to FINALLY spend his gift cards from the last few Christmases. I rode my first trolley in NO & we saw Kelly Ripa and her kids of Live with Regis & Kelly. We were trying to find a place to eat in the French Quarter & they told us we'd have to go back the way we came because they were filming or we could run really fast down the road. We cut through an art gallery & went down the road & I of course lost my shoe (maybe you'll see it on the show!) I also finally got to see the inside of St. Joseph's cathedral too. Oh, and oddly enough, on the drive home, Mike spotted a black Jaguar & said "hey that's my sister". I told him it wasn't, that it was two old ladies...turns out it WAS his sister & her husband. It was weird because we were both leaving NO at the same time & ended up at the same exact spot on the interstate at the same time!

It was nice to spend time with Mike. When we came home I had the weird urge to get creative in the kitchen...guess NO has that affect!