More pictures!!!!

More pictures!!!!

My accomplished life....

SO I've been really accomplished as a "newly married woman". Of course this isn't going to last forever, I LOVE IT!!! I wrote out an entire meal plan for 2 weeks, and went grocery shopping Sunday night. And oh yes, I based my meals off of what was on sale in the circular!!! (So smart so smart!)

ANYWAY, this is day 3 of this exciting endeavor! The way I work it is We do a big meal one day, and leftovers the next, so I make 3 meals during the week. The weekend is a little more felxible, we eat out probably two times and I honestly don't feel like cooking that much! (That's when Mac n cheese comes in! HA HA!) Anyway, so far I made bbq pork chops and today my sweet and tangy chicken is currently cooking, all of which come from allrecipes.com I LOVE THIS SITE! I only look for the EASIEST recipes (Minimal ingredients) and haven't been dissappointed yet! Today's recipe is
8 breasts of chicken,
2 bottles of bbq sauce (I used a spicy one!),
one bell pepper chopped
one onion chopped
two teaspoons of minced garlic

All in the slow cooker for 8 hours on low!

It's great, I prep everything the night before, throw it in in the morning before I go to work, and Brian (MY HUSBAND!) puts the slow cooker on before he goes to work (a little later than me!). It's ridiculously domestic. The kitchen is spotless, every time I cook I do the dishes immediately. I also prep my coffee the night before, still working on figuring out the timer though! We keep changing the setting and hope it'll work on that one, two settings left to try!!! I even prepped scrambled eggs last night and cooked them this morning! (I wake up at 6:15 not so bad.)

Waking up is the best thing. I wake up and see Manhattan. I'll try to take a picture and post what I see. It's still dark so most of the lights are still on. It's fabulous. I going to sleep looking at it and waking up to it. But wait, more importantly, with Brian! :-) It's the best feeling in the world.

Ok enough domestic talk, BACK TO WORK! Any New Years Resolutions I should know about? I think I'm going to try to run a half marathon in April. We'll see. TELL ME YOURS!

MARRIED!

Only 1 of our friends braved the snow to snap a pic with our fearless photographer!

Wedding party - (L-R) Lauren (Niece), Sarah (Sis-In-Law), Meg (Niece), Deb (sis-in-law), ME!, Kate (Sis), Melissa (Sis), Jen (Sis), Moriah (Niece)

Ringbearers, Andrew and Chris (Nephews), Meghan (Niece)

My ornament inspired cake!

First dance! "Kingdom Come" by Coldplay

SO it's been FOREVER since I've written!!! I've been married for 2 weeks now. It's GREAT! We went to Puerto Rico on our honeymoon, so as you can tell, getting out of the snow was great!!! We had a HUGE snow storm the day before, the town we got married in, Glastonbury, got the most snow out of all New England (9 1/2 inches in just 6 hours!). I kept saying all day, "I knew it was going to snow, I've been praying for this since July!" And my pastor, during the ceremony said that we should pray big prayers and he said, "We have evidence of this today. Kristin has been praying for snow since July. Maybe you should've prayed a little less Kristin." Everyone died it was so great and funny! The reception was also tons of fun, lots of dancing!!!

IF you're on my facebook you saw all the hundreds of pics, so I won't load tons, below are some of our honeymoon pics too, I'll load more as I see fit! Thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, and gifts! You're all wonderful friends and I'm lucky to have you!

Our first shot in Puerto Rico...I got artsy with our rings!
My favorite shot! A timer nonetheless! Looks like an Abercrombie ad!

I don't care if you can't see us, the sunset was incredible!

I'm getting married tomorrow

Goodbye to blogland for a couple of weeks! I'M MOVING IN WITH A BOYYYYYYYY! (For those of you who don't know, that's friends....)

The song that keeps playing in my head is "Today I met the boy I'm gonna marry..." from Father of the Bride.

Sigh.

11 days...LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!

So I had my mini-bachelorette dinner Friday night and it was SO fun!!! We kept it classy no worries. The girls and I (6 total) had so much fun! It was great because all my friends didn't know each other, so it was all different people coming together, and everyone meshed really well!!! Brian was gone for the weekend so I revamped the apartment...soon to be OUR apartment! IT was so strange, I moved my stuff there...and it isn't coming back with me...it's staying...anyone seen the Friends episode where Rachel moves out and Chandler moves in with Monica? Monica cries, "I'M MOVING IN WITH A BOYYYYYYYYYYYY." AH ahaha that's how I feel. Bittersweet but totally exciting!

Thank you for all your advice fellow bloggers! It was great! Off to get a banana on what remains of my lunch...which is 15 minutes :-(

Going to the chapel.....in 15 days!

I can't believe, tomorrow is TWO WEEKS TILL I'M MARRIED! This has been a crazy but exciting time, I'm trying not to let the stress get to me (which is easier said than done!) All the last minute things are getting accomplished, such as guest counts, meal counts, ordering chair covers, hair appointments, nail appointments, everything! Soon I will be writing placement cards and tying bows onto my wedding programs...it's SO SURREAL!

UPDATE: The race went really well! For those of you who don't know, I run a "turky trot" every Thanksgiving called The Manchester Road Race, it's huge, like 12,000 people, and is just under 5 miles long. I trained really well this year, and my goal was under 50 minutes....and I did it in 49:52!!! MY BEST EVER! (Nothing like 8 seconds below your goal!!!) But I stopped twice to hug people and get my picture taken by Brian and my Daddy, who waited and hoped they would see me, and I'm the one who spotted them! It was a Thanksgiving "miracle" that I found them ;-)

So, over Thanksgiving we watched Father of the Bride. Since I had watched it a week earlier and cried like a baby, I was more prepared to watch it and control my emotions. It was then that I started to notice similarities between my wedding and the one in the movie:

- It's in the winter

- Brian is my fiance and the fiance in the movie

- My middle name is Ann, the bride's name is Annie....and we have a dog named Annie!

- Both my dad and the dad in the movie own their own businesses

- My wedding planner is named Frank, in the movie it's Franc (Pronounced Fr-o-nk)

Things I hope will happen that happened in the movie are:

- Snow for our wedding day!

- Everyone has a great time dancing

- My parents look back at it with fondness

- And no bad weather for the flight out for our honeymoon!!! :-)

Ok so seriously, all you ladies out there, I'm a wreck. This weekend Brian is away and I'm moving some of my stuff into his apartment that I don't need, such as books, pictures and summer clothes. AH. It's so weird. I'm a disaster simply because I have so much to do and not a lot of time to do it in, so I took work off on Saturday and I'm dedicating the day to cleaning up my life and getting organized! Sigh. Any words of advice???

Off to go teach my 1st graders about graphic organizers...it's the special ed group. They're a trip.

12 more days till I leave for CT! Then no work till January 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!