guess what i did last night? i finally dropped the wordpress from my url address and registered www.jayadores.art! step 1 to becoming a legit blogger: check. now i’m in the process of redesigning my whole site. but i’m thinking that planning our wedding will be a bit higher on the priority list. someday, someday. happy monday to you all!
(photo taken at papailoa beach, the morning reis proposed!)
oh hey blog. nice to see you again. it’s been awhile.
this girl has been busy. reis finally got his tentative schedule for next year so we were able to pick a tentative date. we are getting married in california (hopefully santa barbara/santa ynez area!) so i’ve been scouring the internet searching for venues. i’ve e-mailed about 15 places:
3 don’t hold events anymore
5 are booked the entire weekend of our date
2 are too small and won’t hold the amount of guests we will be having
3 haven’t responded
1 that’s oh ya know, only $22,000 to bare bones rent the place,
and 1 that might actually work (hallelujah praise the Lord!)
wedding planning is so so fun. it’s all i want to do. (but hot dang, i’m realizing that weddings are so ridiculously expensive. so many 4 and 5-digit numbers that make my head spin.) on my lunch breaks i’m sending out e-mails to vendors, texting pics of wedding dresses to my mom and sister, reading wedding blogs, and then when i get home until i go to bed, i’m googling venues and making uber-cool formulaic excel spreadsheets to stay organized. planning a wedding from 2,500 miles away is a bit difficult. but thank goodness for my amazing parents who are just plain awesome and are going to great lengths to make our special day so very special. oh and that groom of mine? he’s pretty great too. (i.e. sample convo: me: “hey babe, what do you think of this place?” him: “yeahh, looks cool, sounds great”. good answer.)
happy aloha friday!
sunday, february 26 was one of the best days of my life. seriously. that was the morning that reis proposed. which by itself was enough to put me in “oh-my-goodness-i’m-so-excited-happy-ecstatic-i-could-fly-over-the-moon” world. he purposely proposed that morning because my sister and brother-in-law were flying into oahu for a 4-hour layover that afternoon before heading to kona to visit his family. my sister is my other half/best friend and reis knew how much it would mean to me to be able to see her on that special day! we surprised them at the airport with my new piece of jewelry and lots of screaming and hugs went down on that airport curb…like LOTS. little did we know they also had big news they had planned on telling us that day too. when we got to the restaurant, kimberlee and blake gave us a belated “anniversary gift.” we opened our gifts and pulled out matching mugs saying “auntie jaymee”and “uncle reis.” yeah. let’s just say LOTS more screaming and hugging took place right there in that parking lot. it was quite a HUGE, wonderful, emotional, and amazing weekend for our family and we could not be more excited for the new additions to our family this year (+ my brother is also getting married this year)!!!
congrats kimmy and blake! you both are going to make an amazing mommy and daddy. i can’t wait to meet the little nugget.
a few photos from yesterday:
shots from the beautiful drive to the north shore (there’s so much more to oahu than waikiki!),
teaching sunday school to the little 2 year olds (not gonna lie, seeing reis with kids kinda makes me melt),
and having a delicious brunch with friends after church (thanks brett!).
ooof sorry i disappeared for a few days but wow, thank you all so much for your sweet comments on my engagement post! your sweet words really mean so much to me so thank you thank you thank you!
this past week has been totally surreal and awesome. work has big time SUCKED. but ya know what? it hasn’t really phased me because i look down at my ring [no joke every 4 seconds] and instantly get so ridiculously excited that i’m engaged! I’M GETTING MARRIED! a 9 hour day on saturday? oh okay. sure. no big deal. i’m engaged yahooo! (reis’ timing was pretty perfect to give me the extra pep i need to survive these crazy hours. plus coke zero and peanut m&m’s of course). i cannot wait for tax season to be over because all i want to do is wedding plan! colors, picking a venue, looking at dresses, decor, designing my invitations…eeee!! every single aspect of planning our big day gets me so excited….if you couldn’t already tell by my extreme use of punctuation. i’m sure i will be sharing planning details along the way so be expecting a little detour into wedding-land for the upcoming months :)
i’m engaged!!
on sunday morning, reis asked me to marry him! (obvs i said yes). i feel soooo incredibly blessed, overjoyed, ecstatic, and so. in. love.
i still remember several years ago when i had the BIGGEST crush on him my junior year of college and [pathetically] played underground dodgeball every sunday night JUST so he would notice me (when in reality, i was scared to death of playing that game because dodgeball is a seriously vicious sport!).
and now. a little over four years later, he is all mine. forever!!! we have so many things to look forward to and we are so excited to spend forever together.
{ my engagement ring! }