My Wedding Dress

Kelly over at Kelly's Korner is hosting Show Us Your Life every Friday and this week's is "Show Us Your Wedding Dress". Head on over to Kelly's Korner to see more beautiful wedding dresses!!

I only went to two different stores to try on wedding dresses. The first store didn't have a single dress in my price range, so I didn't stay there long. The second store was called Bride Beautiful in Atlanta, GA. They had some beautiful dresses. I tried on six or seven dresses, but the first one that I tried on was the one that I purchased. I loved my wedding dress, and I got so many compliments on the dress. I thought that it was very flattering for my shape and size, and it was perfect! As of now, I wouldn't go back and trade it for a different dress, but I'm sure in a few years when styles have changed that I might change my mind. :)

Now for some photos of my dress:

Mrs. Newlywed's Giveaway

Mrs. Newlywed over at Misadventures of a Newlywed is hosting a Giveaway for a super cute pair of shoes! Go on over and check it out!! :) And Good Luck to you all!!

Disappointing Circumstances...Going Private

So, as I mentioned at the end of last week, I went to the Atlanta Braves game with my friends yesterday, and I was SO excited to tell them about my pregnancy! They were all so excited, and they were very happy for me, but I found something out that hurt me and upset me pretty badly.

Upon telling one of my friends yesterday, her response was, "Yes, I had heard that you were pregnant, but I wasn't sure." And I asked her how she heard that, and she said that someone told her that reads my blog. Unbelievable...she mentioned the person's name, so I know who it is, and the crazy thing about it is...I am not even really friends with this person. I would talk with her, and we were in the same sorority, but we aren't really good friends, and I would never call her and tell her the news. I figured that there might be one or two people that I know that read my blog, but I truly thought that these people had enough value and character to not go behind my back and tell a really close friend that I'm pregnant, when I really wanted her to hear it come from me.

It's funny, because I have another friend who does read my blog, and she sent me a Facebook message telling me that she read it, and she saw that I was pregnant. She congratulated me, and she said how excited she was for me, but she knew that I probably wasn't telling anyone yet, so she would keep it quiet. And she kept her word, and I really appreciate that. She didn't go telling some of my other friends that she talks to regularly. She kept it to herself, because she is my friend, and she values our friendship and trust, and I appreciate that!

To me it's kind of like gossip...people hear someone is pregnant or something is going on in their lives, and they immediately, call someone up and say, I heard ___, is it true? What do you think? Anyways, I'm just extremely hurt that someone that I'm not close to would go and tell someone that I am close to when I was waiting to tell my close friends and family, so I could tell them in person. This is my life...why in the world would someone read my blog and feel like it was ok to go around talking about me and trying to find out if it's true...I have one question, "Why do you even care?"

So, on that note...I won't be writing in my blog until I go private or find a new solution. Do I create an entirely new blog account or will they find me there too? I'm thinking about it, so if you have any suggestions for this situation, please let me know. In the meantime, if you want to be able to view my blog once I go private, please send me your email address. I apologize for the inconvenience. I really don't want to do this, as I really like people being able to come and see my blog and meet new people that way. But right now, I just don't see that I have a choice.

Last Single Night Out...Yay!!

I've been meaning to post some of the photos of the events leading up to the wedding, and I kept forgetting. When I posted my earlier post about this weekend, and I added a photo from my Bachelorette Party...it made me start thinking about how much fun I had. I had the BEST Bachelorette Party that a girl could ever ask for. I have the most amazing friends, and they did exactly what I wanted.

We went to one of my favorite restaurants for dinner and afterward, we went back and I opened up gifts and had drinks and ice cream cake! Then we went downtown for a night of fun and finally crashed around 4:00 AM. I can't say it enough, but I have some really awesome friends. Here are some photos from the night!

Sisters!! The best party planner...EVER!!

Some random guys bike that they dared me to get on...I did it!!

My NEW Sisters, Ashley & Anna!

The whole group...I have A LOT of awesome friends!!

What a cute shower gift?! An umbrella with cute panties attached! Great gift idea!!

Me with the Hot Dog that they bought me before getting in the Taxi to go home! I was excited, and I don't even like hot dogs!! Wow!

Friends!!

Me with the BEST sister in law EVER...Grant's younger sister, Anna!

The end of the night...Things were getting crazy!!

Girls Day

I'm so excited, because I'm spending my Saturday with five of my sorority sister's from college, and I can't wait! We are meeting up at one of the girl's house at 12:30 for lunch, and we are going to head over to the Braves game. We don't have anything planned after the game, but I'm sure we'll get into something. I love my friends so much, and I'm SO thrilled to see them! I've actually been keeping the pregnancy from all of them expect my BFF and Sorority Lil Sister, Rachel who I told right away! :) So, I'm going to share the news with them tomorrow. I haven't announced it on Facebook yet, because I wanted to be able to surprise them! Can't wait to see them. It's going to be a great weekend!

My Bachelorette Party...We'll only be missing ONE on Saturday!!

Sorority Sister's Wedding in 2007

It's on SALE!!

So, I called the Baby Gap Home store...the only one in GA yesterday afternoon to see if they had the bedding. They had one set of the bedding, and it was on sale!! I'm so excited, so they are holding it for me, and I plan to go by and pick it up on Saturday. I can't believe my luck!! :)

Bedding...What do you think?!

So, Grant and I have chosen our bedding, and we both love it! It's not anything super fancy, but we think it's perfect, and we are so excited about it. What do you guys think?


We will not be painting the room yellow, but this is the bedding! Can't wait to get more details and begin really decorating and painting! :)

What a Relief?! Whew...

So, I have a semi-strange work set-up in that I live and work in Georgia, but my company is based in Seattle with the IT department being mostly in Montana and having operations in 18 states throughout the country. This makes for a situation where I work with people from all over and from many different time zones. My boss lives in Montana, so I don't talk to him very often. He communicates with me when he needs to, but he doesn't monitor me or micromanage me, so I may talk to him once a week.

He is in Georgia this week visiting and having some meetings with everyone down here, and he requested that we have breakfast at 7:30 this morning. I was nervous, because I knew that it was time to tell him about my pregnancy. I also was a little worried that I might get let go, because of the current climate and the industry that our company resides in. Good news is...he didn't let me go!! :) And he was thrilled with my news! He was excited for me, and he said to let him know if there is anything at all that he can do! It was great, and I showed him the ultrasound photos! It's great to know that I work for such a great company and boss who is so positive and easy going. I travel a lot for work, and he was able to make me feel better about how we are going to deal with that now that I won't be able to travel as much! It's going to work out just fine, and I'm SO excited about it and so relieved that I've told him, and it's over! Yipee!!

What do you guys think?!

So, my dad came through and saved the day, and he was able to scan the photos for me this morning and send them my way! Yay! He is such a great dad! I don't know what I would do without him around. :)

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before but my mom does ultrasounds, so this Saturday we spent an enjoyable day together. I purchased some Christmas presents for Grant's family, as well as, make-up for myself. We stopped by the roadside stand and bought squash, onions and boiled peanuts. We also went to Gap and Old Navy to look around. We had a great time and at the end of the day, as we were driving past my mom's office, she said, "So...do you want to have a look?" I didn't want to ask, because I didn't want to bug her or make her do too many ultrasounds. But I couldn't resist, so I immediately said "Yes". We took tons of photos, and we spent at least a half hour looking at Baby Harvey.

Here are his photos:






So...take a look at that last photo!! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? I know it's early, but I totally think that it's a boy! My mom has been doing this for 25 years, and she is 95% sure that it's a boy, as well. She says that we'll have to wait and see in a few weeks, but he definitely looks like a little boy! :) And it was definitely repeatable, so I have three or four photos where he looks like a boy! I'm trying not to get too excited, just in case she is wrong, but I'm still definitely very excited at the possibility of having a boy! By the way, I'm 12 weeks, and BH is measuring 12 weeks, 5 days, so he is measuring head of schedule! Yay!! :)

Post Coming Soon...

I have a great post that I will be posting as soon as I can; however, I need to include some photos with the post, and I have to scan the photos before I can put them online (And yes, I do have a digital camera). I am going to try to get a chance to scan the photos today; however, if I don't have time, it may have to wait until tomorrow. In that case...well, I guess I'll post tomorrow. Until then...have a great Monday, and I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.