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!;)

favorite pictures

 I've taken this year.

Look back on 2010

Hey everyone! I've not posted the small things that happened during this year, as in concerts, birthdays and so on. Just the important stuff!:)



January  
9th, I opened orientation for our orchestra. I played Beethoven's Romance. 
 16,  I started courting Samuel Taylor, Abigail's big brother. :) It's hard to believe it's almost been a year!:)

24th David (my nephew)'s baby shower

February 
1st time giving a valentines card to a guy! It took forever to find a card!!!;) 
My Dad and I started our wedding website

March
12th, Katie and Justin tied the knot 14th, my nephew David M. Garner was born

April 
6th,  Duke NCAA camps

May 
NEXT conference in Baltimore, Maryland
violin competition
Helped sell hot dogs and drinks for the Inez volunteer fire department

June
assisted the Duke's music camp

July 
assisted Duke's music camp 



August 
Abby's bridal shower
Abigail's recital
photographing my 1st wedding

September 
family Beach trip
photography trip with my Dad to Wilmington for Crystal's bridal pictures. 

October
Got a job teaching violin
Photographing Abby's and JohnPaul's wedding
Taking Meredith's bridal pictures 

November
Thanksgiving

December 
photographing Meredith's wedding
a couples engagment picgtures in the snow
Getty's concert

 Tomorrow to start the new year, we will be photographing a wedding, 1-1-11

Books Read In 2010

Total books read this year -60, but I forgot to write down a few ;(
Favorite Subject of this year- anything to do about the Amish lifestyle
Most books read in one month - 13

My 15 favorite books from 2010 
(All titles are linked)


Fiction
The Princess - Lori Wick
The Rescue - Lori Wick
Mr. Darcy's Diary - Amanda Grange 

An Amish Gathering(3 stories) - Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, and Barbara Cameron


Christian
Worship Matters - Bob Kauflin
Doing things right in the matter of the heart - John Ensor
 Passion and Purity - Elizabeth Elliot
Womanly Dominion - Mark Chanski
Worldliness - C.J. Mahaney
Power of a Praying Wife - Stormie Omartian
Dug Down Deep - Joshua Harris
What is the Gospel - Greg Gilbert
Fearlessly Feminine - Jani Ortlund

Biographys
I am a soldier too - Rick Bragg
If God should Choose - Kristen Stagg


What were your favorite books from this year? Any book you would recommend? 


Check out my favorite books from 2009, here. :)

Family pic.

Mike, Sarah and baby David, Molly, Matthew, Samuel, Dad, Mom, William, Jenn, baby Henderson, Helen(Nick's girl-friend), Nick, Me, and Samuel(my boy-friend)

Wedding Pictures

My Dad and I did the wedding photography for John Paul and Abby's wedding. :)

Abby arrived at the Church with a pie. 

And no key for the building.

Every wedding party should have frappes!:) 

awwwwwwwwww!!:) 

 the dress...so pretty! :)

beautiful!

Taylor family

favorite picture!!! :) 

They are married!!:):) 

;)

Leaving!!:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!:):)

To Evil One.....

I do so love it when you make me  bacon....

I love all the drinks we've shared together!

Thank you for always being there for me and protection me...

Thanks for making me laugh until I can't breath!

You are such a beautiful person inside and out

And I'm SO blessed to have you as my friend and -Sister! ;) 

 And we need to have a girls night soon!:)

So I feel like it's been a long time since I posted something other then a video or a short post!

I have been really busy the last month! 

Here is a update on what's been going on. 

1. It turned out that Grandmother did break a bone in her back when she fell at the end on May. We have had a  really rough two months with her, but thankfully she is getting back to normal. She is still unstable and we have to be with her whenever she moves. We have started Physical Therapy and that seems to be helping her. She has started wetting the bed every night. So she needs a sponge bath every morning. (We are not able to get her in and out of the tub.) I have gotten that I can get her out of bed, bathed and dressed in 10min.(unless she is having a bad day, then getting her dressed may take more time.) It use to be really hard in the morning having to wake up and help her. But after thinking about it, I decided that it's good training for when I get married and have a baby. That Baby will wake me up in the morning wanting food and will probably be wet. It's defiantly really hard sometimes taking care of her, but I am thankful God has me and my family taking care of her! I have learned so many helpful things from her and am thankful for the time with her.

2. Since we started school late because me the planing for my brother's wedding in September and then having to take some time off to help Grandmother, I am still finishing this years school. I am planing on doing school all through the summer. I am still praying and thinking about whether to start college in the fall. I am really interested in CNA, but I would also be interested in doing something with kids.(Early Childhood Education.) I also LOVE teaching violin and would love to have more students!!Why is it so hard to know what God's plan is?

 Random things I've been up too:

 Since my Mom has been working a lot, I have taken over a lot of the cooking. I'm really enjoying being in charge of the house when Mom's gone!:) I am also trying to plan my day better and get more stuff done. Next week I have a music camp. I get to be the teacher's slave for a week.;)  We are trying to get the Word out about my Dad's photography wedding website. Spending lots of time on my Church's music. I am in charge of the music and picking the songs out and all that wonderful stuff!;) I'm trying to stay a month ahead so that I have plenty of time to think about the songs. I'm also trying to send the song lyrics out each week so the families can go over the songs together. This past Sunday we had a little kid who knew one of the songs we sang really well, so he yelled it out! It was super cute!!!!

Well I'm going to end this post and go talk to my best friend! =)

The Sterling Family

The Sterling family

We have a family in our Church (Trinity Baptist Church.) that the husband and wife sing and write songs together! They write their songs from scripture passages and put them word-for-word, to music! Anyway, I LOVE their music and the idea that it's all scripture! It's so easy for me and my family to memorize something if it's too music. So, I'm hoping that listening to their music will help me memorize scripture better!:) 

Here is the link to their music and here is the link to their blog.

Random :)

Happy 9th Birthday!!!!:)

NEXT - Part 3

Here is the last post from NEXT!:)

At the start of our trip, 7:00 in the morning.

We got to Maryland around 12:00.
The right view from our hotel window

If you walked into the room and the curtains were open, this is what you first saw:

We had a wonderful view!:) 

William with a hamburger phone:)

Abigail and I

There are crazy people in Maryland!;)

Walking up Federal Hill

;)

the view from the hill

Nick and I

:D

Abigail and I

Abby, John Paul, Samuel, and me

Abby, Jenn and me

Maryland is SO pretty at night!!!:)

Who knew there were deer on the streets of Baltimore!;)

 Our whole group!!:)