Save the dates!

On Monday night I ordered the save the date cards!! Back in December Brent took a few very quick pictures of us all dressed up before we went to Kevin's mom's wedding. We seriously could not find the time to take engagement pictures and Kevin's work schedule (and lack of interest in doing them) made it very difficult to find a time so since we were already dressed up we honestly spent maybe 10 minutes at the most smiling for the camera and Brent did his magic and made us look good. I haven't posted or used any of the pictures here on the blog or on facebook because I want the first time everyone sees the pictures is to be when you open your save the date card, in fact I'm not even going to give you a sneak peek. I had thought about posting one of the photos I didn't use but you'll just have to wait. The ups tracking says they should be delivered on Tuesday so I am hoping to have them mailed out no later than one week after I receive them but Kevin has a lot of addresses to collect and the weather people say we are supposed to get a big snow storm tonight so we'll see how it goes. The other day the accent flowers were delivered so now I can cross those off my list. Why were fake flowers delivered to my house when I am paying a florist for real ones? I watched the movie Melancholia and fell in love with the bouquet Kirsten Dunst had in the movie (if you have never seen this movie I suggest you watch it).  It was a big bouquet of nothing but lily of the valley, this was what I pictured carrying down the aisle. Turns out lily of the valley is a pretty pricey flower and even more expensive when out of season and it is way out of season in November. I decided to use silk lily of the valley as an accent flower in my bouquet and in the boutonnieres because over $7 a flower is ridiculous and as a sane person I couldn't spend that amount on flowers. What else is new? I am now an official member of the yoga studio instead of a trial member. Since we get up so early we go to bed pretty early. By the time I get home from yoga Kevin is either already in bed or getting ready for bed so when I get in bed I turn on the tv and usually watch a show or a documentary on Netflix but recently I have found a new interest in film noir. Netflix has few I have found that I liked and if I don't have a show that night and I'm not feeling like a documentary I'll watch one, well part of one because I usually fall asleep.

Its been a while, oops

I always mean to sit down and right a post and every time I never manage to actually do it. So I will try and catch you up on what has been gong on this month.
For those of you who haven't heard Kevin's dad passed away last Saturday. We have known for a while that he wouldn't have a lot of time with us left but even still that doesn't ease the pain and sorrow Kevin and his family have. The funeral was very nice ad had a decent turn out. This was the first funeral I was involved in the planning process and Kevin's first real funeral. My heart broke for him and his family as I sat with them during this whole process. (side note: I told Kevin that we can not force the people we love to have to fully pay for and plan our funerals. I'm not saying we need to buy caskets and grave plots right now today but once we are better established and for sure once we have kids we need to be at least making payments on these things) Kevin and his family are doing alright but if you feel the need to say a prayer or think happy thoughts for them I'm sure it would still be appreciated.
Yoga! Let me just tell you how much I absolutely love yoga. For Christmas Kevin got me a 40 day membership to a local yoga studio and it is possibly the best gift I have ever gotten. I hate going to the gym and working out by myself, I really don't know what I am doing and don't have enough motivation and drive to really get a good workout in at the gym. With my yoga membership I attend an hour long group class each day and leave feeling like I have actually had a decent workout (some days I leave sweatier and more sore than others, it really depends on the instructor and type of class). I really have gone almost every day I have maybe missed one or two days a week since starting. The owner of the studio believes that all levels and abilities should practice together in the same room. At first this seemed a bit intimidating, I was like what if I am next to someone really good and I am wobbling and falling. The first few times I went I kept looking and seeing what everyone else was doing but now I find that I am so in my zone I really don't notice anyone else unless I feel uncomfortable and need to check to see if I am close to doing the position correctly.
The dogs are starting to get a bit stir crazy and under exercised. They (mostly Stan but Silas too) have been destroying things left and right. Rugs, shoes, the mail, newspaper, really anything they can reach and tear to pieces is fair game in their minds. Yesterday I woke up around 3 am because Stan was standing next to the bed crying, I thought he was just upset because he wanted in bed with us so I told him to go lay down. Two minutes later I heard what sounded like a fart and then a splat, doggie diarrhea from one end of the bedroom to the other. Did I mention he managed to get it in right in front of and on the bedroom door? Yeah, try getting out of the room with that there. I let the dogs out and then spent around 45 minutes cleaning it up. While cleaning it up I told Kevin, who was laying in bed with his head under the covers, that this was it we are never having kids and he goes "Nichole kids won't get diarrhea all over the floor." I had to laugh at him because he has no idea what he is really in for when we have kids. Stan is now on the rice and chicken diet for the week and hopefully that will get his system back on track because I can not clean something like that up again.

Goodbye 2014 Hello 2015

2014 treated us pretty well. I don't think there is really too much to complain about. Are there things I would change? Sure, I mean come on winning the lottery could really make the year great, but there are also over a million things I wouldn't change. Kevin has to go to work tonight for mandatory inventory which stinks because I wanted him to hangout with me but on the bright side he is making money and it also means the dogs and I will be going to bed early to start on the list of shows and documentaries I want to watch in January. Towards the end of 2014 I started watching documentaries and I really got into them. I find them extremely fascinating now of course I'm not watching documentaries about wars or rocks or things that don't interest me. I stumbled upon one documentary that I found interesting and once I realized how much I enjoyed the video I found about one hundred more. (Let me start off by saying I am not pregnant and Kevin and I do not plan on adding any children to our family for at least 3 or so years) About two weeks ago I couldn't sleep and was searching through the recently added folder on Netflix and came across a documentary on breast feeding, I figured it would either put me to sleep or I would turn it off and find something else after about 5 minutes. Instead I watched the whole thing and half of another about natural home births. Right now I am fascinated with / amazed by what the female body (potentially someday my body) can do. In fact that's what about half of my list of documentaries to watch this month are about. I think I would like to possibly become a part time doula, we'll see. The other half are still about organic lifestyles and gmo food and a few random ones that peaked my interest while scrolling through the list of movie titles.