100 days

Yes...in 100 days I'll be walking down the aisle. That scares me a little...only cause there are still many things to do, but excites me a lot cause our dream will finally come true!

Our Engagement Party

Karena and Drew, Angela and James hosted an Engagement Party for us and the wedding party on Saturday, February 21, 2009. We had a great time and everything was PERFECT! I cannot thank everyone enough -- for having gone to so much trouble, coming to celebrate with us, and to being in our wedding!!

Special thanks to Jennifer and Zack who brought an amazing Italian Cream Cake & Oatmeal Cookies (My Faves!) and for Jenna and Chad on helping out!

Here's a few pics from the party:
The Groomsmen:
Robert, Nick, Mike, Taylor, Blain, Nick, my dad Ronnie, Matt, Jr & Jaace

The Bridesmaids:

Karena, Jennifer, Wendy, Shawna, ME, Meagan, my mom Barbara, Jenny & Hana

Opening gifts (this was about the only pic that turned out!!)

Our Toasting Flutes which are so beautiful!!! from my parents, Jenny & Nick, Jillian & Thomas, and Jaace

Me and Meagan, one of my Jr Bridesmaids! She's so pretty! And tall too!
The engaged ones! :)
Smooches ... to end the night!
Thank you ALL again - from the bottom of our hearts!

8 months and I'll be on my HONEYMOON!

Yay -- how cool is that!? Yep -- 8 months from yesterday I'll be walking down the aisle. 8 months from today and I'll be heading for my HONEYMOON as a Mrs and not a Miss!!! SO EXCITING! Robert and I worked on the honeymoon this past weekend a bit. FUN!!! It's starting to come together .....

I also went shopping on Monday (Dillard's of course -- 70% off sale!!!) and did some serious damage. And just by chance I bought 2 really cool tops for the honeymoon (not to mention some really cool shoes -- not for the honeymoon, but just for fun!)! Yippee!!!!

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Gotta Love the Weekend!

Especially those that are FREE! Robert and I have no real "set in stone" plans this weekend. No doubt we'll still be busier than ever, but nothing that we just HAVE to do.

I still have the Christmas tree up. We took down all the outside decorations last weekend, so it's time for us to hit up the inside. I'm sad to take it down because the Season just came and went so fast! But I need to get off my rear and get it done! ha ha

We do have some errands to run tonight and are likely meeting up with his friends Brian and Kim for dinner in Columbus.

Saturday will be de-decorating day! Saturday afternoon I'm going to Steph's wedding shower which will be good fun! I've got a trip planned to Ventura's before to look at bridesmaid dresses, but mainly color swatches! And hopefully in the evening Robert and I can look into our Honeymoon a bit!

Sunday will be church and undoubtedly more wedding stuff. Like the GUEST list. Wow! That is craziness. But EXCITING!!!!!

We had our first Rodeo meeting last night which was good. Always nice to see so many sweet familiar faces. We went to Watson's after for a couple drinks with the Subsea7 clan then up to Stephanie's to get Sophie and a few things. This morning he mentioned something about "your husband" and it was SO COOL to know that in such LITTLE TIME we'll be a Wife and a Husband. Awesome!

I hope you all have a great weekend, whomever reads this. Know I'm thinking about ya -- cause I'm always thinking about ALL those I love and have cherished friendships with!

Shiner girls representin'!!!!

We hit the Bridal Extravaganza on Sunday and had a great time! I got loads of ideas and even got to see 'my' dress on the runway!!! Yep -- it made the show. It looked sooooo preeeeeeeetyyy!

It was the first time for Jenny, Jillian and Dawn to see it, and was glad to hear they thought it was nice.

Do these shirts look familiar? They are the ones I got all the gals when I asked them to be in the wedding! Mom and I got one too so I thought it would be really cool to wear them to the Extravaganza ... and they were a hit! How many times did we hear "got any beer?" "where did you get those?" "are ya'll from Shiner?" It was pretty cool!

2009 - Back at Work already!

Man -- I don't know how many of ya'll are suffering today like I am. It is all I can do to get some good work done today. I've been muddling through but the motivation is JUST NOT THERE YET!!!!

2009 is going to be a busy year. Most importantly with our wedding! It's so exciting! And we go so much done over the holiday's. Of course ya'll know me I want it ALL done like yesterday, but I'm managing to not get too overly excited or stressed. I am just so happy about the leaps and bounds we've made so far! Yahoo! More details of that to come.

I wanted to share a picture of our His and Hers Washer and Dryer! HA HA HA This is Robert and my FIRST purchase together. They are AWESOME too!!! I'm not sure if the washer is HIS and the dryer is HERS, but I like to think the Washer is mine and the Dryer is his. (then HE gets to take the clothes out and fold them, not me!) Right? Right! ha ha

Last night was Robert and my first night apart in over 2 weeks and it was so hard to leave. But I needed to get back to Steph's and missed visiting with her over the past weeks. I slept good but was just lonely. He didn't get to bed till after midnight, said he just couldn't sleep. That's a cool feeling. (not that he couldn't sleep, but the feeling of oneness when we are together).

Yesterday I went up to the barn with him so he could attach a bracket to Jr's pigs water spiggot and I was watching him work and tears welled up in my eyes because I just love this man so much. I never knew I could love someone like this. I love my Mom and Dad, sisters and brother, grandparents and family so much -- but the love I have for Robert is different. He truly does complete me.

Thoughts and "lasts"

Hello everyone -- HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Can you tell I'm excited? I'm really hoping to get all my work stuff done so I can enjoy the time I should be having off. I really really don't want to "work from home" but inevitably will and I really don't want to "come in on Monday" but still may. Oye.

So I just reminded myself of something as I was responding to my good friend Stephanie's recent blog -- I've had some of my first last's recently!!!! What do I mean?

Now that I'm ENGAGED! (yah! Yahoo! YIPPEE!) I've experienced some "last's" and there's NO TURNING BACK FOR ME, no siree bob!

I've had my last Halloween as a single lady. (we got engaged the friday before)
Robert's had his last Birthday as a single man!
We've both had our last Thanksgiving as Mr Corkren and Miss Chumchal. Next year will be Mr & Mrs Corkren. (cool!)

And I'm about to celebrate my last Christmas as a Chumchal. Well, ya'll know what I mean. :)

Some really cool "lasts". 10 months and it's all going forward from there!

MERRY CHRISTMAS with lots of love from Jamie CHUMCHAL! hee hee