Remodeling

This weekend has been spent remodeling our new home in Falls Church. We will be renting for two years (hopefully more, God willing) and the conditions of us moving in (expressed by muah) were that we paint the whole house and redo the floors in the kitchen. This has been no easy feat.

My Dad came over yesterday afternoon and we began the work - well Thomas, my Dad and his guy friends began on the floors while I took care of some wedding to-do's and grocery shopping for having more people come over to help me paint. It was an intense, hot, tiring day of painting, laying floors, cleaning, pealing wall paper... THE WORKS.

Today I woke up so aching and exhausted that I didn't attempt to even go to our little house to continue helping. Yes, I left the boys there to do all the work, and attempted to get MORE wedding things checked off since we are only 18 months away. Sufficient to say I am sprinting at the end of this race... 18 days till we say "I do", and I have so much "TO DO" and not enough time to do it.

Tomorrow we will be laying the grout in the floors, and finishing any painting we can. Tuesday I am going to Jacksonville for a work trip through Friday! Then I get back and it is crunch time for the wedding. I only have a couple "little" tasks to take care of, but they are time consuming and I must be organized. Thank God I have such a wonderful, loving, godly future husband who is supportive of my needs and, yes, even my wants (like wanting to get the floors re-done). He sure treats me like a Princess.

Can't wait to move in after the wedding, and nest and do MY part of the remodeling in making us a cozy home that is welcoming and warm.

Thomas you are simply amazing, and to everyone that has come over to help us (Lauren, Sery, Paul "Wallpaper- Master" Obreezy, Shua Tao, Dad, Jordan, Tommy, and Keith) Yall are the BEST! Thank you a million times over for helping us get our home ready! You are true friends.

xoxo
A

"You don't need to change a thing about you babe... from where I sit you're one of a kind."

Well we are less than one month away.

Two weeks ago we had a weekend of moving, bridal showers thrown by friends who love us and support us, and now we are in the chaos of all the last minute to-dos of now having a home to get ready, and a wedding to finish planning.

God is faithful and good (no doubt), but I am on edge most of the time, especially with the new job and uncertainty of little details about the wedding. It's amazing how the true control freak inside a person really comes out before a wedding... and when I say person I mean ME.

The latest accomplishment? I finalized flowers, finished the guest gift boxes, and I made the flower girl baskets. Thomas has been working day and night to get the house we are renting ready.

According to theknot.com I have 102 more things on my to-do list.
102 things to do in 29 days.
I'd post it here but it would make any sane person go mad, and any happy person cry.

Needless to say I am excited, but sometimes it is hard to ENJOY the present moment when most of your day is focused on getting things ready for the wedding. I am just ready to be Mrs. Ali Wear, to live together, enjoy one another, and not have to do wedding planning on top of my 9-5.

Time will fly. I know this... but I wish it would fly faster.

xo
A