3 months, 26 days, 13 hours and counting

Hurray, spring has finally arrived! And, along with that the countdown to our big day is getting shorter. Before I know it, I will be Mrs. Finnegan! Well, Mrs. De Rosa-Finnegan. I am working at the Soup Kitchen, and having a blast with my OCD in full swing, scrubbing stoves etc. . . hands hurt like heck, but as Scott said, "whatcha gonna do when we are homesteading and you get a cut, cry?" Nope, bandage it up and get back to work! I have been day dreaming about the house I want to build, but first and foremost in my mind is working to save the money so we can actually do this to begin with. I want Chickens, and a garden to start out with, so that means a lot of working on the land and building a chicken house (Scott will do that) and getting our house started and hopefully be in it before a chill starts to set in, even if it's just a shell with the kitchen and a compost toilet! After all, I will have my Pioneer Princess to cook and heat water with and with winter months there may be less to do on the homestead, not sure about the weather in Texas. In order to prepare myself, I plan on getting my tiny garden started this weekend, digging in the dirt will be fun! I just hope I have some good dirt and I don't have to go BUY compost to turn into the soil to make this work. Ok, so back to the countdown! The date went back to the original date so I am in the process of getting out my Save the Dates, and my guest list is growing too. I think I found a place to have the reception, Alfred's Victorian Restaurant in Middletown. I was originally planning on doing everything myself, but realized that although I have done that in the past, this is not something I want to tackle when I don't know where I can have the reception. So, I work on planning the decorations, ordering linnens, ordered the yummy cake we will have, got a special Willow Tree figurine for our table, and saving for the few things I want to decorate with. Oh, and saving for the actual reception too, I am so excited, I already planned the menu. Picked out some silk flowers, planning the decorations is lots of fun since I get to be creative, and working on loosing the weight to fit into my gown (THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF ALL!). Was surprised when Scott said he wasn't going to wear a shirt with "groom" printed on it! He wants a dress shirt and a new pr of jeans! HURRAY!! almosts "Court Clothes" as he likes to call them, LOL. Well, off to get more STD's in the mail and revamp my guest list, I love to see it growing! Now if I could only figure out the one thing that is a nightmare for me, the MUSIC!