Life In Color

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Yum, with a side of yummy, seriously some of my favorite ribbons, I mean hello: laser cute velvet! Double picot edged grosgrain! Shimmery taffetas. MUST. GET. OUT. SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES. Will be available here. Enjoy!

"I'll do easter"

So what to do when you're swamped getting back into normal life, work, laundry, and catching up on life in general? Well offer to host easter of course! My main motivation in doing this was basically to use my china. I am so in love with all the wonderful things we got for our wedding and I just couldn't help myself. So I give you a thrown together easter:

Thank goodness for Honey Baked Ham gift certificates! We only got four settings of china, and three of our silverware, so I had to mix and match, but no worries. We also got that funky stripped pitcher, little blue bowls, the wonky bowl, the carafe and cups, the serving platter, water goblets, and the crystal bowl in the center, which was made for colored eggs I think:

I managed not to cook at all and still host easter! Even my brother brought over the decoration:

I love the vase he got us, and the tulips so pretty! Other than a lot of eating we did manage to figure out the clothes/closet situation. Bj added a wood support below the bar to take the weight of his clothes. I pulled the dresser out of the closet to give us more space in there, and re-appropriated a hallway drawer for his big shirts and stuff.

All and all not bad, now just have to get on to the rest of the house, it's a nightmare, ack!

The Night I was Drunk

Okay I have some of my pictures, but still not from the wedding, so let's take a look back to the Thursday before at my bachlorette party. My bridesmaids had arranged it all, and Sciarrino sent out awesome invitations that I didn't get to see until after the event. So I had no idea what we were going to do. The next day I did get to see the invitations and they were so clever. Sciarrino had carefully split open a condom wrapper, taken out the condom and replaced it with dollar coin sized papers, each with a different snippet of information. Very cool, I have to dig it out and take a picture. Anyway back to the party, well Thursday in general. I got to the hotel with my girls and Bj had left a big bunch of flowers at the front desk for me, they were so pretty.

We went to have our nails done, and walked around getting a few last minuet things done before the big night. Which was basically just a bunch of inappropriate goodness. Inappropriate games:

Inappropriate gifts:

And my super fun and funny friends:

Me and Britt: Girl scouts rule!

Julia all the way from the east coast, yeah!

Tex up from Texas (but that's NOT why we call her that), Kristin down from Canada, and Kristen from right here!

Kathy and Tracy my local gals.

And the Katie's. Yes Sciarrino has a first name!

Okay so that was probably really boring if you don't know my friends, so let me paint this picture for you. I had told Ceara and Sciarrino that I did NOT want a stripper, and I did NOT want to get majorly smashed, since I've never been drunk before and I didn't want to get all sick or whatever. Anyway so we're opening presents and talking and listening to music up in the suite and there's this knock on the door. I yelp, "Oh no!" and dash into the bedroom thinking it was hotel security or something. But Ceara drags me and and sits me on a chair facing away from the door, and I start to get this sinking feeling in my stomach. To my right Shannon and Britt (two friends from high school) start to pull the table towards them and get shocked expressions on their face when the mystery guest comes in the door. I still can't see because I'm turned away (and too afraid to look). Then a guy comes around and I can see him take off his shirt.... All of the sudden I realize it's Taro. I almost wet myself laughing. See Shannon and Britt had never met him and really thought he was a stripper. After that scare we headed down to the lobby and the girls surprised me with a big limo that we all hopped into. We headed to a bar called bettie ford. I had my first shot ever (which took me more than one sip to get down so it was a bit painful), and danced the night away. All and all a great night with some of my favorite people.

My other love

Yesterday in between packing and moving my man I stopped to see Michele and little V. I had to show her the photo strips from the photo booth. They are freaking hilarious. Plus it was unseasonably sunny and warm and sitting out in the sun for a while seemed like a good idea to me. Besides I'm sure V really missed me:

Ah ha ha. I swear she loves me.

And this was after I told her I'd take her to Disney Land, which was totally awesome by the way. But the pictures to that adventure are on Bj's computer, and I don't have a hard copy of wedding photos, so we're going to be jumping around this week.

Not as cute is all of Bj's boy stuff in my our cute little cottage. Everything he owns is big: big computer, big clothes, huge shoes, argh.  I am going through a major editing process, we are going to have two huge sales really soon to get rid of all the extra. And we opened all of our presents last night and something went screwy with the registry so we got three of somethings, but not enough of our china, and silverware, so we also have a big pile of returns. It's very exciting to have Bj here all the time. I keep expecting him to go home. We even packed up his cubicle, which I had never seen before. When I was sitting in the lobby a security guard came over to ask me if I needed help. "No," I said, "I'm just waiting for my husband to bring the car around." So weird saying it, my husband. But I love it. And I love that I'll be seeing more of Bj. He's working remote from our house and has a little office space set up downstairs across from mine. I better go clean out the storage room because him and Sciarrino are due back soon with another load of stuff!!!

Mrs. Garrison, that's me!

Hello blog world! I'm back and I'm married! The wedding was so special and the reception was absolutely fabulous. Perfection, Bj and I can't stop talking about it. The honeymoon was so great, and now I'm moving my hubby down to "our" house. I'm up the apartment right now cleaning and packing. I can't wait to get settled into married life. But I wanted to give you a little glimpse of our party courtesy of Angela right here. Angela does professional photography so she put a few of our pics up on her site. Thanks Angela!