John And Francie

I’ve finally finished writing up a description of our fabulous honeymoon in Australia and there are lots of pictures to go along with it!  There are also pictures up from our wedding.  Check them out!

Hello!  I decided to take the week off work to relax and work on wedding stuff.  Been overdue for a vacation for awhile since I asked for one in November but couldn’t take one.  It worked out great, though, because I’ve been getting so much done this week!  Our webpage has a lot of new things, including pages for directions, registries, and showers (see the links up top).

So far this week I have met with Kelly, (my wonderful hair stylist who is doing my hair and is super!), Katie at the Flowerman to talk about all my flowers, Helen the wedding coordinator at St. Charles, and I’ve also talked to a few people about decorations!  It has been a lot of fun and everything is coming together very well.  Tomorrow I’m working on getting together some pictures for a slideshow and getting a list of songs together for the DJ.  Thursday I meet with Anne, who is making our cake, and Friday I’m going to try on my wedding dress with Mom!

Also I would like to add that the countdown over there tells me I’m getting married in 101 days!  How awesome is that!

I have a dress!! It is gorgeous and I love it and I wish I could put some pictures up so you all could see, but alas, John can’t see. If you want to see let me know and I could probably e-mail you pics of the best dress in the world. Here’s a fun pic of my little sister Lucy in a dress, mainly to scare my dad . Everything else is going great, too. We got some wonderful bridesmaid’s dresses for all my girls, they are really pretty! I’ll put up a pic of Christina in that, too.
John and I picked out and ordered our wedding bands a couple weeks ago. They came in and we pick them up soon! We also got a great videographer, Mark King, he should be wonderful. Last Sunday we met with our pre-cana couple and got the results of our focus back. We had almost all of the same answers!
In other news, we were talking this week about honeymoon destinations, and our latest thought is going to Australia! How fun is that?? Also, just last night, my mom and sisters and Taryn got a great makeover by a Mary Kay lady, it was so much fun! I got some great makeup, too, some very fun new stuff .

my little sister in a wedding dress!

a beautiful bridesmaid!

So , I just got back Saturday from the annual family extravaganza to Canada!  It was a great vacation, full of fishing and family and a lot of fun .  I caught some pike, had a great time camping on the island, and of course the required trip up the Temagami water tower after Mass and dinner at Busy Bee.  There was a lot of cards and games, including exciting games of double deck cancellation hearts and settlers, both of which I won!  I went canoeing, relaxed at the cabin and read, and had awesome wild blueberry pie.  I also missed John a lot.  No more long vacations away allowed.

It was kind of nice to get a short break from all the wedding planning, I hardly even thought about it up there.  It’s fun getting excited about it all over again now that I’m back, though.  We stopped and looked at wedding rings while we were on a  bike ride Sunday, that was a lot of fun, we found some very nice ones.  My next project is to find a wedding dress!  woo hoo!  Thats all for now