Sunday, December 31, 2006

Progress

I am happy to report progress in the production that I am currently working on. Drum roll please....We found a venue!! Yay! Very excited!!! Its the Hunt Valley Golf Club in Phoenix, MD. Its the idyllic spot for a fall wedding. The ballroom has huge windows all across the room that over look the golf course and directly behind the courses are scores, and scores of trees and hills. It's very pretty. Now we need to just find a church. It has a tented terrace that can be used for the ceremony but there's no center aisle. I 'm thinking of using the terrace for the cocktail hour and the band so people can roam through the ballroom and terrace. We had a third venue we went and tried to look at yesterday but for starters it was like 9 hours away. Okay really only an hour but it felt like 9. And it was soo way out in the country. Cows, horses, donkeys and Best Westerns was all I saw. So we pulled up to the venue and it was Little House on the Prairie which is not the look I'm going for. But thankfully we still had the club which we all knew would be it. Friday night I realized that I only have 9 months left! On one hand when you think of it from the point of love and wanting to spend every waking moment together 9 months feels like an eternity but when you look at it from a planning aspect and then you look at the handy little checklist from The Knot and you see all of your unmarked task it really freaks you out! So needless to say I'm feeling some of the pressure, but it's all good. I'll pull it of and it'll be fabulous!

Blessing and Smiles in 2007!!!!

Friday, December 29, 2006

I was waiting

I was waiting For the day you'd come around.
I was chasing, And nothing was all I found.
From the moment you came into my life,
You showed me what's right.

I never felt like this before.
Just when I leave, I'm back for more.
Nothing else here seems to matter.
In these ever-changing days,
You're the one thing that remains.
I could stay like this forever.

What about now?

I am by your side,

Where love will find you.

What about now?

What about today?

What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?

What if our love, it never went away?

What if it's lost behind words we could never find?

Baby, before it's too late,

What about now?

Now that we're here,

Now that we've come this far,

Just hold on.

There is nothing to fear,

For I am right beside you.

For all my life, I am yours.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Wish

be
careful
what
you
wish
for
cause
you
just
might
get
it
all
i wished...and...i got it all

Crashed

Well I was moving at the speed of sound.
Head-spinning, couldn't find my way around, and
Didn't know that I was going down.
Yeah, yeah.
Where I've been, well it's all a blur.
What I was looking for, I'm not sure.
Too late and didn't see it coming.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I crashed into you,
And I went up in flames.
Could've been the death of me,
But then you breathed your breath in me.
And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away.
Somehow, I couldn't stop myself.
I just wanted to know how it felt.
Too strong, I couldn't hold on.
Yeah, yeah.
Now I'm just tryin' to make some sense
Out of how and why this happened.
Where we're heading, there's just no knowing.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I crashed into you,
And I went up in flames.
Could've been the death of me,
But then you breathed your breath in me.
And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away.
From your face, your eyes
Are burning to me.
You saved me, you gave me
Just what I need.
Oh, just what I need.
And then I crashed into you,
And I went up in flames.
Could've been the death of me,
But then you breathed your breath in me.
And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away.
And then I crashed into you,
And then I crashed into you,
And then I crashed into you,
And then I crashed into you,
And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Just a line or two

My life with you means everything
So I won’t give up that easily

P.S. My Christmas Gift

Oh and I forgot to mention for Christmas my amazing beyond words boyfriend got me a diamond necklace! It's soooo pretty....Yay! for shiny sparkly things and the boys who love you enough to buy em' for you....Man I'm so luck :-)

Christmas 2006

Merry (late) Christmas...or is it Happy Holidays??? Anyway...Merry, Happy, whatever you celebrate! I hope it was great for you! Mine was fabulous!! I spent Christmas in Orlando (Amen for flip-flop weather) I flew out Christmas Eve morning to meet Shawn. I was very nervous and a bit sad. For starters it was my first Christmas away from my family and the irony of it was it would be last Christmas as a Scott...The nervous part came in as I was going to FL to meet Shawn's family. In the days leading up to it I was physically sick! I was so nervous and just wanted to make sure that they liked me. But I met them and they are a great family! And I think ( I hope and pray) that they liked me. He comes from a big family like mine so that element was there and he has tons of adorable nieces and a nephew. They are the cutest and sweetest bunches of kids I've ever met (well besides the Scotts. Wink) Christmas Eve we opened gifts that way we could all sleep in Christmas day. That was the plan, but someone decided to disturb the peace and wake up at 7 AM for whatever reason I'll never know (Wink...OVOVOV) But Christmas day was spent mostly laying around in bed watching cartoons with little Shawn. And we got up and made a huge breakfast! I took two suitcases. One for shoes (Smile) and one for clothes and wore yoga pants and a tshirt the whole time! But we had a great time! It was a good start to many, many Christmases spent together....

I had pictures but they got deleted by accident when I took the memory card out. But I think I have a few random ones I'll post tonight....

Your All I Have

Train this chaos turn it into light
I've got to see you one last night
Before the lions take their share
Leave us in pieces, scattered everywhere

Just Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto


It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

You're cinematic razor sharp
A welcome arrow through the heart
Under your skin feels like home
Electric shocks on aching bones

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

There is a darkness deep in you
A frightening magic I cling to

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have

Friday, December 22, 2006

Everything

all i know is
you've got to give me everything
nothing else cause
you know i give you all of me
i give you everything that i am
i'm handing over everything that i got
cause I wanna have a really true love
don't ever want to have to go and give you up
stay up till 4 in the morning........

Venue #1...NO!!!!!

Yesterday we had our first meeting with a venue. And when my mom and I pulled up we agreed that it was 100% out of the question because it was in a shopping center! We had heard about this place but it was still in the stages of being built and from the pictures it looked very, very, pretty. So we decided to go take a look. The coordinator said they were in a temporary building while the facilities were being built but what she failed to inform us was that not only were the "temporary" offices located in a shopping center but so was the "Mansion". So I get out the car and looked at my mom and my little sister Julianna and said. "Nope, Not happening, No way" And we all agreed. But we still went into the meeting as a courtesy. We get in there and everything this company offered including their sales reps were circa 1995. But then the lady prints out the price and my mom looks at me and is like "Well, ya know the building is going to be extended past the shopping center. You won't even see the gym or liquor store!" I couldn't believe my ears! I immediately shut down. So as were leaving my moms like "So what do you think Al?" And I'm like "Please just don't call dad yet" I knew that as soon as we gave him the price he was going to want to sign a contract. But my heart just could not do it. We drove separately and I get my car and she gets in hers and like 10 minutes later she calls and says "Daddy said no". She called and gave my dad the whole scoop and he was all excited but then he says "Well what's the catch?" and she says "It's in a shopping center" and he said "Nope, my little girl is not getting married in a shopping center, I don't care how much it cost!" So he hung up and called me and said he was not going to try and pinch pennies or anything and to not worry that I would get what I wanted no matter how much it cost. Needless to say I was pretty relieved. Thank God for good dads huh? So tomorrow we have another meeting with my number one choice....We'll see how it goes....

Thursday, December 21, 2006

A & S :-) Mmmm...Love :-)




Jet Plane Ride

It's been quite a roller coaster ride...scratch that. JET PLANE ride these past few weeks. I've been wanting to blog about all of this for awhile but you know what? I'm speechless! ME! Alexandria (INSERT MIDDLE NAME) (INSERT LAST NAME) is utterly speechless. There has been so many good changes that have happened in my life. Actually I should say one change. But this one change has set the stage for many, many, future changes. What is the change? Shawn.... The most magnificent human being I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Here's how I'll explain it. For 19 years (okay maybe not that long, but you get the picture) I have been searching for him. The one who was playing my song. The one who made me want to touch the sky. Who made me not afraid. After each false alarm my heart got more and more anxious. Certainly he's around the corner! He's coming soon...Finally there he was. Without any kind of warning there he was.....And my heart is finally at rest. I couldn't have asked for a better one. It's a connection and love that comes once in a persons life and if you aren't careful it'll pass you by....I'm not letting it pass me by. I'm taking it in. I'm drinking it up and living for the moment. It's such a surreal feeling that I have. Like "Wow...He's it!" I can see my future so clearly now. He's a good man. Unbelievably sexy (Wink, Wink...Rolling Stones T-Shirt please!!) He's talented...(Long live the Arkitects) He's funny, smart, caring, intuitive, charming, romantic, serious, passionate, creative, and he loves me with a love I've never known (parents not included. LOL). I couldn't be happier, I couldn't be luckier...Every moment with him is a moment I want to put into a box to show our grand kids. We've talked about a lot of stuff and we are making a lot of plans.......Just stay tuned and keep October 2007 open.....

It's ovovovovov forever and always :-)