House, Interviews, Flowers

First and foremost, we are closing on our house Friday!! Pretty crazy that we will officially be homeowners. An entire house to clean. Utility bills. A mortgage payment. But, of most importance, it means the wedding is coming up soooooon! :)

Lately my life has been busy with worrying about the Nurse Practitioner job situation. Silly, yes. I have a great RN position that I am lucky to have, but I am very eager to begin my practice as an NP. I have been interviewing at a couple of different places lately, so we will see what happens. Tonight I sat down and wrote pros/cons for some of the different places, and the results were pretty surprising. I think that I am missing some key things, though.. it will not be an easy decision should some options become job offers.

Back to wedding things.. today we (Mom, me, and Aunt Neezy) met with the florist for the first time! We are going with Maureen's Buffalo Wholesale; she is supposed to be one of the best. She was extremely helpful when we went in, and of course it probably went smoother because I had a good idea of what I want. I'm very happy that the flowers I wanted most will look good together.. Gerber daisies, calla lillies, and roses.. a mix of burgundy, ivory, and burnt orange.. very fall like! My girls will have fall colored gerber daisies, and the flower girl will have an ivory satin basket with mini-gerbers (so cute!). The florist also gave us some fantastic ideas for centerpieces, which is something that I have been having a lot of trouble deciding on. I think we're going to go with a floral arrangement with fall leaves tied in and burgundy & orange votives. It seems as though fall leaves are becoming the theme of this wedding, which I think will look very classy compared to some of the tackier ideas with pumpkins and gourds that I had before, lol. Tonight ended very nicely with a dinner at Chef's with the ladies. Of course I had my usual.. gnocchi parmed with mushrooms.. mmm! Now this whole weight loss motivation thing needs to start, ha! ...

Graduation

I'M DONE!!!!!

More time ... finally!

Sorry about the lack of updates.. things have been busy with finishing up school and house hunting. I am graduating Saturday and as of June 1st will officially be a Family Nurse Practitioner! :) Still no job.. I interviewed for a Lymphoma NP position at Roswell and there will be a Bone Marrow Transplant NP position (I do this now as an RN) being posted soon.

So... some big news... RJ and I are buying a house! Everything is in order so far, and after many frustrations and issues, we are scheduled to close May 28th. It's a cute house, a perfect starter home. It's a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, full basement, walk up attic, and has a nice yard for being in the city of Lockport.

Wedding wise, we ordered the invitations. The theme is pretty much turning into a fall themed wedding with burgundy as the main color; the invite is burgundy and has fall leaves on it, they're cute! We are actually picking them up this week, they're already done. Save the Dates were sent a couple of months ago. My mom and I picked truffles as the favor from a chocolate shop in Clarence, they are very yummy! The chocolate shop also has a fall monogram to put on the box, with burgundy writing, so I was pretty excited about that minor detail. What else ... my dress is in, the girls' dresses are ordered. RJ and I completed Pre Cana with the Catholic Church. Pre Cana wasn't too bad, it was basically learning how to communicate and deal with fighting etc, and they talked a lot about natural childbirth and fertility methods.. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but whatever. We have also started planning the honeymoon. We're definitely going to San Francisco and Napa Valley, so now it's just deciding when we want to fly out and exactly which hotels we want to stay at (and which B&B's in Napa)! I think that's really it, plans are coming along nicely. Next is to meet with a potential, and probable, florist in a couple of weeks and then to meet with Muscoreil's to design our wedding cake in June (which is going to be fall themed). PS the main flower is going to be the Gerber Daisy. :-)