A few old gems

I just turned 30/ Not like JUST now. Not today or anything.....2 weeks ago, may be 3. On April 14, 2012, I woke up the oldest I've every been in my life.....30. I guess I thought something would happen. Not sure what "that" was going to be but thought for sure there would be something. Women hype turning 30 up so much........but i barely noticed.  That could have been in part to the fact that my bridal shower was the same day. Maybe turning 30 didn't phase me because I'm busy with wedding stuff that I didn't have time to think "Oh shit Hooray I'm 30".  When I turned 25 I thought the world was coming to an end. I had just moved home didn't have a job and was alone. Not where i pictured myself at 25. Maybe I'm a little happier with my life now. 30, getting married, kids not to far down the road pretty good place to be. I found some old pictures at my moms house from back in the day......some as far as 30 years back :)

Easter

I know Easter is over....long over now, but here are a few pics from the Easter egg hunt we had.

Everyone came to Casa de Macneal for a fun Easter egg hunt in moms backyard. I decided Friday night that we were having an Easter egg hunt Saturday afternoon. What can i say. George and Jan brought Kanyon and Sarah, Jeremy brought his son Scott, and Cory and Amy brought Juliet and the twins. I snapped a few pictures of all the kiddos while they looked for eggs.

Juliet looking for eggs

Sarah in her Easter dress

Kanyon

Scott with a basket full

After the Easter egg hunt we got the old Model T go-cart out. Juliet and Sarah LOVED it. but we couldn't get it running..........they loved it regardless.

Moving right along

So with only 5 months.........actually closer to 4 months until the big day (Wedding Day), we are pretty much on our way.  On Friday April 13 myself, my 6 wonderful bridesmaids, my mother and my aunt went to David's Bridal to find bridesmaids dresses. I wont lie. I was concerned. 6 girls, on Friday the 13th, looking for black dresses......what could go wrong! Apparently nothing. (huge shy or relief). We were in an out in an hour. THANK GOODNESS.

I have some awesome bridesmaids who look great in everything, who liked everything and who knew to say ....."Do you like Amy cause that's what matters" Ahh... Thanks gals. That is all but my monster wonderful 10 year old cousin Rebecca. Who once the dressed was picked said over and over "I hate that dress". grrr... I'd like to point out she only liked the other dress because it was and i quote "fun to spin in". Well...........what better reason could you need. So i caved and let her and her twin sister get the fun twirly dresses. Don't tell them....but i think it was the better dress for them anyway.

Rebecca in the "fun dress"

 Rebecca and Jessica in the dress everyone else is getting

The girls in the dress.....only theirs will all be black.....this was before I told Becca she could have the other dress. She's the last one in blue she looks so thrilled pissed.

They next day was my 30th birthday/ bridal shower. Hey what can i say with two of my BM's coming in from out of town for my birthday it just made sense to have the shower while they were here. Taylor made all my decorations, they were so pretty! And Soccermom and Pam helped get everything ready. There were...........

GAMES....TP Brides and Me

Bow bouquets

And SEXY TIME GIFTS

I'm fine never..........

I haven't done a writing assignment in so LONG! But here goes.

I choose the top ten list of things you NEVER want to do before you die.

10. Eat a spider....knowingly. I hate spiders. Yuck. Little ones I can handle, pretty much anything larger than a penny is a no go for me. The worst thing I can imagine is a spider crawling in my mouth and around on my tongue. YUCKY!

9. on the same lines as eating a spider i never want to be bitten by a crocodile. I'm not sure what crazy shenanigans would have to occur for me to EVERY be in the position to be bitten by a crocodile....but I plan to steer clear of anything that leads to that outcome.

8. Being trapped in a mine shaft or falling down a well are far from my idea of a good time. I don't have a super smart dog to bark warnings to my family and friends if I do fall down the well....so I'm pretty much SCREWED if that happens.

7. I'm not a huge fan of kittens. I'm a dog person, even if my dogs would be completely content to sit outside the well and lick themselves while I'm drowning in spider and crocodile water...I'm still a dog person. But even after that being said....i wouldn't want to run over a cat.

6. I enjoy a good old zombie movie as much as the next person. The thrill of the chase, wondering if there's yet another brain eating decomposing neighbor waiting for you around the corner....I love it. However I wouldn't want to be a zombie. See I'm sort of fond of my face, my body and not rotting from the inside out. Trust me i have some bad morning breath, but rot breath. No thanks. Plus there's that whole eating people. It's only a matter of time until you hurt some poor persons feelings because you choose someone else for dinner over them.

5. I never want to run for president. Christ, the skeletons in this closet. I'd embarrass Clinton, and JFK.

4. I hate my job. I know, I know, i should be HAPPY to have a job. I am. But that doesn't mean i have to like it. But even as much as I HATE my job i would never want to be one of those sign holding signing people on the corner advertising some pizza joint or tax service. I don't have the time for that crap. twirl your own sign. Jump up and down in a costume yourself. I'd be on the news in 5 minutes for tossing my cardboard pizza at some passing car.

3. I would never want to teach Bio-Chemistry. I SUCK at science. I sucked in high school. It cost me half of my senior year tennis season. Science is lame.

2.I don't like enclosed small spaces. The thought of being buried alive gives me the hebee geebees. Scratching at the lid of the boxes while someone tosses dirty onto seems....counter productive .

And the number 1 thing I definitely don't want to do before I die is have my own survival reality tv show. Who wants to be dropped off in the middle of the Arctic in your PJ's and socks and see if "you can make it". Who thought that up. I mean really 1 maybe 2% of the population will ever find themselves in that situation anyway. Why. WHY would you want to subject yourself to walking across a desert in your bare feet with no clothes on being burnt to a crisp to show people what to do and not to do if they find themselves in that situation. PASS.

Is this your dress??

I'm a girl. The boobies and girly parts tend to give that away.
I carry a purse. Inside is a mirror, a comb, chapstick, and a coach wallet.
My cell phone case is pink.
Occasionally I wear earrings or a necklace, but always my ring.
I use the bathroom that has a stick figure wearing a dress on it.
I'm a girl. But NOT a girly girl.
I don't wear make-up.
I don't wear dresses or skirts.....I don't even own a skirt.
My hair hasn't changed in 20 years.
I'm NOT a girly girl.

BUT I LOVED wedding dress shopping yesterday! LOVED IT.

Up close of me in Dress #3

Back of the dress...so pretty....but not my dress.

front of the dress.....but not my dress.

Dress #2........NOT my dress.

Dress #1 This was the dress I went WANTING the most! this is NOT my dress.

I went dress shopping planning to end up with dress #1. I loved it on the site, I loved it in the catalouge. It's beutiful in the store. It looked pretty on me. I wasn't the most comfortable. But I still liked it.......untill I tried on Dress #4.....but I can't show you that dress...because Dress #4 will make it's debut on September 8th......at my wedding. When I saw myself in dress #4 I cried. I smiled. I looked at everyone else. They cried. They smiled. And the dress came home with ME!