And so it begings

In light of my sisters wedding (now past) my husband and I decided to postpone trying to plan are wedding till the craziness of hers had passed. Now with hers come and gone we have begun the process of wedding planning.

First up is the wedding party:

Best man: Grover Madison
Best man: Dominic Snowdon
Grooms men: Joshua Cameron
Grooms men: Rick Gray

Maid of Honor: Sarah Montoya
Maid of Honor: Marry
Bridesmaid: Kelly Gray
Bridesmaid: Morgan Stein
Jr. Bridesmaid: Mackenzie Llewellyn

Now that the wedding party is assembled its Church hunting time!! I have come across several absolutely beautiful churches in the Baltimore area, only problem is since most of them are old catholic churches they have old fashion rules about if you are not catholic you cannot use them for a wedding!! How silly is that!? So we are slowly whittling out old churches and moving to more modern churches…ugh.

Only GOOD news, I found my wedding dress!!! 2 hours and 5 dresses later we had a winner!!!

 It was that moment they always told you about, how you have that WOW factor. I walked out of that dressing room, stepped up onto that little pedestal and just went....wow..... this is it!

 Adjusting a little..

 The gal that was helping me find my dress had originally told me that this dress wouldn't look good with that sash but i insisted we try, it looked absolutely amazing...just stunning.

I am in love with this train...absolutely love the bead work and embroidery.

The veil is trimmed in red and has some red embroidery in it, so so beautiful.

The 3 layers on the bottom of the dress were more girly then i had originally thought id want to go, but with all the bead work it looked stunning.

The big day!!!

So i recently got married to my friend Mike who I've known for 9 years. He and I used to go to karate together way back in the day, so we basically grew up together. After a very short time of dating and talking things over we decided the hell with it all and got married. We already knew we were a good fit for each other and with him moving to Texas in just under a month it was the best solution to all the problems. After making sure my school was arranged, my work and finances we threw together a small but nice wedding! Besides a couple very nasty last minute changes to the days events and decor it went off without a hitch!

Here are the pictures:

Update: Way over due!

I promised months ago to post NEW pictures of my apartment so here they are. (NOTE: These are NOT the most recent seeing as i took these about two months ago).

This is my new sofa! Isn't it nice?! It's sooo comfortable... though Patches doesn't think so, she likes my bed better lol

Top of my closet, kinda a low ceiling but hey *shrugs* it works lol

Closet...

Corner of my room, new TV!

Other corner, refurbished glass table and antique mirror that i salvaged, new home for snow globes.

Like the posters?? I do!

Full view of the back half of my room

middle of my room, lots of books^_^ <3 them

Sofa and other new poster

Front half of my room, does that blue tape remind you of anything...hmmm (thinks back to first posts of apartment renovations) Yes folks those walls are STILL not painted. Soon as school is out for the semester and it warms up you had better believe we will have some serious painting going on lol

Bed!!! I have new pillows now (those are the old ones) and i have new bed sheets, they are aqua blue and the pillows are king size!

And finally my work space, old antique desk that i refurbished and fixed up. New brass, new paint, and a fresh sealant.

Patches is found!

Okay so I FINALLY found Patches last night... I kept feeling like she HAD to be under the sofa? So on a hunch I gave looking for her one more look, I flipped the sofa completely on its back and checked closer.... I didn't see anything so i went to lay the sofa back down when i heard a sliding noise followed but a very weak meow... She had crawled up into the arm of the sofa and got herself stuck... she had to have been there for at least 12 hours...pore thing. Kitty is now under room-detention and close watch... she's slightly upset...

Slightly troublesome kitty...hide-and-seek-continues...

Okay, so woke up this morning and went to check and see it Patches had eaten, (she's been slightly home sick so Ive been bribing her with wet cat food and some kitty treats my Aunt game me) looks like she ate a little kibble and she went to the bathroom last night, good to know she found her litter box again (Ive moved it twice now, silly mommy i know.) So after the normal morning check i went to say my good morning, however when i checked under the sofa, she was nowhere to be found...

Okay, and so starts are regular morning of hide-and-go-seek. Check the litter box and food first, all's good as said. Checked under all chairs, sofas, bathrooms everything.... not there either... starting to get a little baffled.

Okay, seeing as i just got back from Florida there are TONS of open bags to hide in and cloths to hide under. So i clean the room and start pushing things around... still no Patches. I gave up after an hour of search and decided to let her be.

Bout an hour later Robbie and i left to go see the new Sherlock Holmes movie (BTW that movie was AMAZING! I advise everyone to go see it). After the movie we stopped so i could pick up my snow pants and then headed back to the dorms.

Once back we preceded to do a more thorough search. Moving boxes, trunks, tables, dressers, opening, cupboards ANYTHING she might have been able to get into. We even went so far as to check behind the fridge and stove... no cat.

Okay, onto faze 3: Operation check roommates rooms. So we checked the roommates rooms. Room 1: A neat freak to no end, it wasn't hard to tell she wasn't in there, there is NOWHERE for her to hide in that room. Room 2: This roommate is in the process of moving out for the second semester, so again there isn't much in the room. It was easy to tell she wasn't in here either. Moving on to Room 3:... doors locked, crap.

Thing you do need to know about this Room number 3... the door to this room sits about an inch and a half off the floor and this roommate left the window open (yes here are screens before everyone freaks out) so theres a nice cold daft coming under the door. What i forgot to mention was that the apartment heat has been broken for 2 days so its been very cold here, hence the snuggling down in the bed yesterday. The guy comes and fixes the heat today so while we were at the movie the heat was left ALL the day UP so the apartment would heat up quickly. We come back and its a freaking sauna in there! I figure Patches got to hot where ever she was hiding and squeezed under the door into the cooler room...that of course is locked.

The rest of the apartment is now cooling off and seeing as we can't find her anywhere are hoping and assuming she is in there and will come out when hungry or needs to use the bathroom. Said roommate moves back in on Saturday sooo if we haven't seen her by then...we got problems.

I smoothed out her litter and piled her food so that if she touches either I'll know... keep your fingers crossed guys. After i find her i think she and i will be having a trip to the vet for a microchip implant...

As of the moment...,

~Bry~

A breakthrough in the hide-and-go-seek game

Day three of the kitty comes home! I wake up and we head to Towson to spend the day with Robbie, we get there and set her loose to hide in one of her fav places. Now thing you should know about the Towson dorms is there aren't to many places a cat can hide. She was staying with me here for the day seeing as i couldn't get back to my apartment right away and Bobby (my roommate) was working, (didn't think it was a good idea to leave her completely alone in her new home for that long unattended.

So a short while later i was feeling slightly under the weather but i bit the bullet and ran my errands and finished my belated Christmas shopping. Once i got back to Towson Robbie had to go to work, i was exhausted and feeling completely drained due to my migraine. So after Robbie left for work i went in search of Patches, soooooo i found her in her now normal hiding spot... under the sofa... go figure. I lift the sofa and scoop her up, she fussed a little but begrudgingly let me.

We went into his room and i put her at the foot of the bed and gently pulled the covers over her head, I then climbed into bed after her and lay down for a short nap. I had turned on the TV to make some whitewash noise so i could sleep, so when i half woke to the sound of a soft motor i shrugged it off to the TV, that is till i felt something soft rubbing on my shoulder. I slowly rolled towards the wall to find Patches had crawled all the way up from the foot of the bed to rub on my shoulder! OMG a break through! She wasn't even flinching when i reached out to pet her, yes! So i pulled her a little closer to me (she didn't like that to much, sunk her claws into the sheets till she realized i wasn't picking her up... she's not a fan of that) and pulled the covers back over top of both of us.

We napped on and off for like 4 or 5 hours, i was so ecstatic that she wasn't trying to run away, leave or even attempt to crawl over me as to have a getaway! Needless to say she stayed in the bed till i went to sleep for the night, at which point she let herself out of the room and i drifted off to sleep.

What a wonderful breakthrough!

~Bry + Patches~

Day 2, Wheres that Cat?!?

Okay so after sleeping like a rock last night i wake up EARLY, way earlier then I'm used to. I'm guessing it was because i remembered i had a new roommates to look out for.

I get out of bed and notice she found her litter box, good, she went to the bathroom. I knew she had two, i had had her for 2 and a half days and she HADN'T gone to the bathroom at all. Pore thing was ready to explode before she went. I also noticed she ate some of the food i laid out and drank a lot of water.

After cleaning her box i then went in search of my new roommate. I checker her usual spots from yesterday and where i last saw her, under the bed, nope not there. Closet maybe? Wrong again...45 minutes later and no Patches, i was starting to get worried.

I text one of my friends that was over yesterday to help me brain storm for places she might be hiding. Cats are pretty notorious for getting themselves stuck in small places so in a panic i start moving boxes and looking in closet.

Of course last room i check is the one under renovation, the bathroom. No...she wouldn't go in there to sleep... its all concrete, cold walls and floor as well as full of wood and boxes...*sighs* i move the unhinged closet door, some 2x4's some electrical equipment and sure enough... in the box wayyyyyy in the pack there she is... sound asleep, that is until i scolded her for worrying me. She stretches and yawns and gives me the "yes, and what do you want?" look....ohhhh your trying my nervous cat lol. Needless to say this morning started bright and early and on a very frantic note.