Sometimes you CAN choose your family

We have friends that are just like family. I am realizing it more and more as we go through the wedding preparations, even just the guest list.

Our immediate family is on there, then some folks that we have been asked by family to invite (extended family) - but we find it mostly populated with friends who we consider just like family.

Friends who know more about us than our family (with the exception of my little brother, we share far too much). People we have grown up with and who have been with us through good and bad - times when, perhaps, biological family would have bailed. People who have been like family when family hasn't.

It is a good mix, and a wonderful feeling to know that these people are out there and that they have been around for so long and mean so much.

200!!

200 days until thewedding!

I know it sounds like a long time but I am pretty sure that it will fly right by.

Final Weigh In

Oh I didn't win. I didn't even get third. But I didn't gain weight (down 5ish overall)

Maybe I can convince them to do it again now that I will be fully motivated in the new year to get into my wedding dress.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Happy happy birthday to my mom (who doesn't know what a blog is and won't be reading this).

Don't know what I would ever do without you.

A very very...