help, please?

yep, we're asking you for your help ...

we'd like to incorporate pictures of us, our family, our friends and our lives (before and after we've found each other) into our party (aka "wedding") day!

please send e-copies of pictures to us at apls.ohana@gmail.com or you can mail us hardcopy pictures to our home address (please email me if you need the addy).

if you can, please include the names of the peeps in the picture, date, event/significance and any or all little notes you'd like!

we super appreciate it! if you have questions, let me know!

14-ish weeks and counting!

yep! you read that right! 14 weeks (give or take one - remember, i'm not so good at counting!) until the wedding of the century ... well, at least for our little family! =)

planning is well underway (thank you reech and company!). we know where and when; invites are going out soon; wedding playlists are starting to get assembled (yep! country music WILL be played - loud and proud!); food is being figured out (that being said, alcohol and dessert are already taken care of! anyone who knows us totally understands why! umm, wait a minute ... if you're reading this, then y'all are really the reason the alcohol and dessert are figured out!). we know there are a bunch of other details to figure out, but that's why we have wedding-planner extraordinaire. the way we look at it is if there are enough tables, chairs, beverages and knoshes, we'll all be good.

so, with 14-ish weeks left, we've got lots to do but i'm not freaking out yet ... so, manda is not yet tasked with panic management (she should be counting that blessing every night!).

we'll be asking for help from you peeps for a variety of things, but most of all, we want you to be there to celebrate and support our little family on our wedding day!

time crunch!!

oh lord!! we're getting married in 4 months and 6 days ... ummm ... where did the time go???!?!??!?!?!?! ARGHHHH!!! yep, that's me screaming because the reality check just came and slapped me upside the head!

i know that we're supposed to have decisions made, details ironed out, notifications dispersed ... or something of the sort ... but what i have is a vague sense of what we want to happen and COMPLETE trust in our wedding-planner-extraordinaire!!

and so we hurl ourselves towards our "BIG DAY" ... with the craziness of daily life ... work, school, home, family, emotions, goals, expectations and desires for lazy time .... we're totally looking forward to it and, at the same time, hoping that when it comes it won't be a complete chaotic mess.

thank god y'all know us as well as you do ...