In search of the perfect shoes

Sorry things have been crazy and I haven't been much in touch. There's just been so much going on...

• Tim getting a job back here at home :)
• found a house we really like, still working on the financing portion, hopefully can get that rolling swiftly (it's in Kirkwood, more to come when we firm things up)
• been working a lot!
• Hurling season started this past weekend -this keeps me busy w/ practices a few times a week and games Saturday! You're more than welcome to come by and see the fun, we play at St. Vincent's Park from noon to essentially 4 pm

these are just a few of the things keeping me busy lately. I'd also like to comment that this weekend Tim and I were able to attend my friend Laura's engagement party which was a blast at Balducci's Winery in Augusta which was just wonderful!

Anyways, I've been in the search of the perfect shoe to wear on my wedding day. I've been checking out the internet and have yet to find the perfect shoe yet. However Runnels did send me an exhaustive list of adorable shoes which had many options. I've seen many pics on the various wedding blogs I follow and some pics have had shoes with hearts on the bottom which just makes the neatest pic and guess what, there's a company that sells these for the bottom of your shoes. You may find these below my heels on the wedding day. Here's a pic...

My baby's coming home!

Exciting news Tim has found a new job and will be relocating back to St. Louis shortly! We're so excited! It seems like things are finally falling into place. There has been so much going on lately, we've been house hunting and found a few with potential and one we really love... he's moving back, wow, its just so amazing how much can happen in so little time. I feel like a lot of stress is melting away. Just wanted to let you what's been going on. More to come soon!

the crazy time we call life...

Wow, its been awhile! Things have been crazy. Work is busy and I had to 2 late nights at work, plus of course St Pat's day this week, making it 3 later eves. Happy belated St Pat's to all by the way! One of my fav holidays, one of my Mom's fav holidays actually as well... I march in both the Saturday parade as well as the real parade on 3/17/10 :)

Anyways, so Tim and I have been on the house hunt... found a few we've liked and our real estate agent has been incredibly wonderful and patient. I hope she doesn't think I'm crazy wanting to look around. This whole thing is a learning experience, I keep trying to find the best deal w/ the cutest most ideal place. Part of me is coming to the realization of course there is no place is the perfect but often something that is close. It might be slightly easier if my sweetie and I could land on the location. Hopefully we're getting closer. City vs county, the debate continues...

Also most of my girls have ordered their dresses, woo hoo! We have our tasting tomorrow which I'm quite thrilled about! Hopefully I'll have some great reports tomorrow about it. I will try to take a little more time for adding some blog post for my away people!

Love to all!

BLOG FIXED

Just wanted to apologize and thank Brett... didn't realize that my blog was having issues with that constant pop up. This was fixed. Apparently the counter was making it messed up.

SORRY!

Fish frying in the Lou

For those not that familiar with St. Louis, we're a big Catholic town and well during lent they sure like to fry up some fish. Unfortunately for me, my Dad is severely allergic to fish, so as a child we were not exposed to it much, with the exception of fish sticks (ewww!) So I really don't like to eat fish. Part of me wishes I did because I can't really go out for sushi and often feel awkward at a seafood restaurant. (side note, my fiance and his family adore seafood...) Anyways an aunt is in from out of town and wanted to get together for a bite to eat this evening. Knowing we would also be taking out Grandma I suggested we check out this fish fry I had heard about... St. Celia's is a church with a large Hispanic population and they do a "Mexican fish fry," which of course appealed to me because of the other options besides fish, including quesadillas and beef toastadas. Here's the menu
Let me start out by saying, I was told by quite a few to arrive there early, but wow they are right. When I got there the line was out the door (which of course was no shock), as we got in the door they informed us it would be an hour wait from there. While we waited in line they have some younger girls come out and do traditional dancing, a mariachi band. There's quite the entertainment while you wait. When we finally go up to place our order it was about an hour from the time I got there, luckily my family was line before because I'm sure I would've had quite the wait. I got the quesadilla and chili relleno, both pretty tasty. It was just a fun and different experience. There have been quite a few articles and even news stories done about this. I will leave you with a link from CNN's story.

Wedding Maps...

Wow, the amount of stuff available online free for wedding stuff is quite amazing. Today in one of my emails from a daily wedding site I get emails from I found out about personalized wedding maps. Of course everyone needs a personalized wedding map, right?? Well probably not but I now can include a link connected to a google map with each location. This way anyone could get directions as needed. Kinda neat.

To see all of the important locations of our wedding on one interactive map check out our Wedding Mapper map!

There's an app for that??

Wow, who would've thought it... In checking out a few questions on The Knot today, I found out they have a wedding app. Quite amazing eh? I downloaded it today and will see what the features are. More to come on this soon.

Got my official bid from St. Louis Blooms and have accepted. I know I said florist was done, but its totally official now. I am also working on this whole dress issue. Town and Country Bridal has decided to not match the dress price of the DC Georgetown shop. Very disappointing really. Ultimately they lose ~$90, but are walking away from about $1,000 worth of business. Not the smartest move really. I may take back some of the nice stuff I said about them earlier. I'm just shocked/surprised/disappointed about this. Overall I know it will all work out. Night night!

Add house hunting to the mix??

Wow, can I say that things are in a whirlwind. With the amazing 8k house credit going on plus a little additional from the state of MO, purchasing a house is quite enticing at the moment. As if I thought that I could add another spinning plate in the mix, Tim and I are house hunting right now as well. We're kind all over the map, trying to find a good starter house. This is super exciting however slightly overwhelming all the at the same time. We've narrowed it down to a few neighborhoods and will go out to look at a few on Wed after work. We shall see how it all plays out. We'd have to have a contract placed on a house by April 30th in order to get the credit. Keep your fingers crossed for happy house hunting!