Slide Show song ideas!

We are putting together a slide show for the wedding reception. I would love everyone to vote of which song you would pick for, Sam's pictures, My pictures, and the pictures of us together!

 Just so you know, all the song titles have been linked to recordings.

For Sam's childhood pictures:
Way Down South (Favorite) 
O Lord have mercy on a country boy 
Backwoods Boy

For my childhood pictures: 
My little girl 
Cinderella - (favorite)
Butterfly kisses


For both of us together: 
God gave me you
I wanna love somebody like you (favorite)
only you can love me this way
two is better then 1
Lucky
When did you fall in love with me 

Also, do you think we should add another group of us either together or alone with friends? So, if would be Sam's pic, my pic's. with friends, and then together? Or should we put the friends and us with together pictures?

Our Little House

About a month ago we stumbled on this little country house for rent. It was just what Sam and I were looking for! We got everything worked out and signed the papers last week. It's about 10mins from my family and 45mins from the Taylor's. It's a great location and I'm looking forward to living there in two months!:) Every time I go in my little house, I can't stop thinking how much God has blessed Sam and I!

 Here's some pictures of our little home!:)

 master bedroom

 bathroom

 the view from the guest room windows.

 our really cool doorknobs!

 the front view of the house

 office/living room

 another view of the front

 side porch

 laundry room

 back view of the house

 back porch

 the back of the house

 guest bedroom

 another view of the master bedroom

 view of the house

 side of the house

 the kitchen

 living room

living room

Some wedding ideas:

It's been 7 long months since my last post and WOW so much has happened! For the most part planing my wedding has been easy and I've enjoyed it SO much!  I'm looking so forward to the many post and advice I can share after the wedding. The one thing I would say now is, the knot and wedding bee are two of the most helpful sites! I've been able to get so many wedding items for more then half off! And for the post part, everything has just been used once. I'm looking forward to selling stuff from my wedding.

Anyway, I wanted to share some inspiration for my wedding:

 We are only serving cake at the wedding, but we will have some tables set up for the elderly people. This is what I'm thinking for the table arrangements.

 Guest book table will look something like this, but not so many picture frames.

 This is an idea for the aisle, but I'm not sure it's something we will do.

 This is not the invitation, but it's the same format. Fold and seal. Easy to do and cheap to send!:)

 Thinking of having something like this on the Church doors.

 the cake topper<3

 We are guest walk through the Church doors, they will come upon an something like this. But with a picture instead.

 We will have this Greek arch set up on stage. I'm not sure how we will decorate it.

 These wooden flowers in, ivory, navy, and yellow will be on the cake table.

 for cards!: )

 flower idea

 We will have 60 props for our guest to use. I'm so excited about this idea!

I saw this idea and thought it was adorable!!

Well that's it! Hopefully it won't be 7 months before I post again. Once I get married, I'm going to try and post at least once a week, that's my goal!:)

Wedding Planning

I'm so sorry for not posting in such a long, long, long time!! I have got to be the worst blogger EVER!;(

Something really excited has happened since my last blog post,

I've got one of these......

I'm so excited to be marring Samuel Joseph Taylor! 

I've decided every Monday to post some wedding details.

Since I got engaged two weeks ago, we have checked many things off our list:

~Set a time and date for the wedding - May 12, 2012 at 2:00

~ Contact wedding a officiate - Walt Briley

~Develop a budget - $5,000

~Begin compiling your guest list - around 350 people

~ Decide on a color scheme - cotton candy pink and chocolate brown. 

~Decide on honeymoon plans - A cabin in the mountains  

~Decide on and order attendants gowns - either this one or this one

 Things we will be working to check off our list in the next 4 weeks: 

~Decide style of ceremony - inside or outside wedding

 ~Choose our wedding party

~Go wedding dress shopping 

~ Register for wedding gifts

I'm going to *try* to get around to posting our courtship story this week, but don't hold me too it!;)

3 Horses

My brother's girlfriend, Helen has brought three of her four horses over to our house for the summer. I love having animals in our barn again! I'm missed having our barn and pasture filled with animals!

Here's a few pictures of these beautiful animals!:)

NEXT 2011 part 1

Yesterday afternoon I finally arrived back home after being gone six days! It was such a wonderful time, spent with two of my favorite people, worshiping and learning about God!:)

Instead of driving down with people from our church, we decided to fly.
(Instead of a 10 hour drive, it only took 1 hr and 45min!:) This was my 1st time flying and I was SO nervous that we weren't going to make it! I'm really positive, I know. ;) Even thought I would never want to fly again, you have a beautiful view of God's creation!!

 In the air! :)

Once we arrived in Orlando, we tracked down out logdge, found our driver and headed to the Shingle Creek!

 The front view of Shingle Creek

 The view from our hotel room!

 I'm really excited about NEXT!:)

After we arrived we checked in at NEXT and then decided since we had 3 hours to go swimming. After changing into our swim suits and walking outside to the pool area, we found out that they had 3 pools! 1 family pool, 1 old peoples pool and 1 quite pool (which really should have been named the LOUD pool!;)  We ended up in the quite pool, where Joshua Harris and his son where swimming.

The quite pool:)

At around 6:15 we headed down to wait for the doors to open. The doors always open 30min from starting time and people line up a whole hour before it's scheduled to start. When they open the doors open go crazy and run for the front seats! The 1st night I got squashed by some guy when the doors opened. ;(

(Just a side note, there were between 2,000-3,000 people at NEXT.)

Rebekah and I caught Joshua Harris walking by while we were waiting and decided to get a picture!:)

 People waiting for the doors to open!:) 

More people waiting for the doors to open!:)

Rebekah and I waiting

After they opened the doors, people finding their seats.

 Worship!:)

After an hour of worship they have an hour of preaching. We had a wonderful group of preachers:
Jeff Purswell, Scott Oliphint, D.A. Carson, R.C. Sproul, and Kevin DeYoung. After the preaching which would end around 10:00, we would have a concert. We heard from, Reilly, Shane & Shane, and Generation Letters. I really enjoyed Shane&Shane and Generation Letters. Reilly was a little too loud and  crazy for me, but they had an amazing violinist!;)
When we got to our hotel room to finally get some sleep, I pulled back the sheets to get in bed and there were black sticky stains! GROSS! We called the front desk and soon I had clean sheets and could finally get some sleep.:) 

Abigail and I on Sunday morning!:)

Eating breakfast outside in the wonderful sunshine!

Once again waiting inline and waiting for the doors to open.

Sunday afternoon Abigail and I went swimming once again. I did not have a lot of fun this time. People just sat in the pool and worked on there tan and I wanted to swim!

After we went swimming we got dressed and once again waited for the doors to open!:)

One of the concerts from NEXT

It's getting late, so I will post part two tomorrow. :)