Wedding Week

What does the week of your wedding feel like?
Well it has just begun but thus far:

Sunday was "normal" we got a lot of things done around the house, did lawn work and got a few things in order for the wedding.

Monday, at work (although I don't really want to be) trying to do work an not think of the wedding and things that need to be done. Tonight we are meeting with our celebrant, Father Len.

The plan for the rest of the week:
Tuesday: Go to work even though I don't feel like. Another "normal" day.

Wednesday: Decide if I wish to NOT go to work OR to work a half day (the way Mon/Tues look I have a feeling I'll choose not to attend work) Get things done! Clean the house a little, afternoon massage, pack a "Bridal Kit" get things organized. Pick up Dan at the Boise airport at 8:00pm, pick up Bridget at the airport at 10:00pm. SLEEP

Thursday: A delivery of roses will be coming to the house at some point, make sure someone is at the house until they arrive. Dan will organize us in "prepping" the roses for Aunt Donna. Mani/Pedi appointments afternoon/early evening. Mom and Dad arrive in Boise!

Friday: LOTS TO DO! Take things to the church, get set up, wait for BLISS EVENTS to come in and set up! Go home, get ready for rehearsal dinner, arrive at church to see everything set up by BLISS EVENTS and enjoy the evening of rehearsal and rehearsal dinner!

Saturday: SMILE, HAPPY, MARRIED!

Can't wait! Is it Wednesday yet? These 2 days of working are killing me :)

Karen's ABC's

Age: 26
Bed size: Queen
Chore you hate: Scrubbing the DARK hardwood floor!
Dogs: I want a puppy, he will be my puppy but then Jordan's dog... at least that is what I say! :)
Essential start to your day: Goodbye kiss from Jordan before he leaves for work (he starts work at 7:30am)
Favorite color: Turquoise
Gold or silver: White Gold
Height: 6'2"
Instruments: N/A Basketball count?
Job title: Academic Advisor, Boise State Athletic Department
Kids: Not yet, nor for a while, but hopefully some day!
Live: Boise, ID
Moms name: Beverly Jean
Nickname: Mama K (college bball) Rotten Rose (growing up) No real nick name now
Overnight hospital stays: I'm lucky, haven't had one! Knock on wood!
Pet peeve: When people say "UM" 100 times when they are talking or giving a presentation, or don't speak up and speak with confidence when giving a presentation.
Quote from a movie: John Wayne, The Cowboys "I'm thirty years older than you are. I had my back broke once, and my hip twice. And on my worst day I could beat the hell out of you."
Right or left handed: Right
Siblings: 1 older brother, Dan Vickery, he's the best
Time you wake up: Around 7:00-7:30 week days, weekends, depends on what is going on or what happened the night before :)
Underwear: Nothing but Victoria Secret
Vegetables you dislike:
What makes you run late: The snooze button. I do love my sleep.
X-Rays you have had done: Left arm, broken in 6th grade. Right shin, horrible shin splints freshman year in college. Both ankles, resulted in double ankle scope about a year ago. Head/shoulders, horrible migraines about 2 years ago.
Yummy food you make: I would like to think EVERYTHING I make is yummy, but I do love it when I make twice baked potatoes!
Zoo animal: TIGER!

Cowgirl Bachelorette Party

What a great party!

We started off the night with food and drinks in a party room at the Holiday Inn Express.
My Aunt Vickie had provided more or less a FULL BAR! She brought her own glassware, shakers, premixed drinks, sugar and salt rims, it was great! Then we had a little surprise visitor! Who would have thought, my mother and her good friend, Roya Blevins bought a surprise stripper!? I was SHOCKED to say the least and I think the other 25 women in the room were as well. Thank goodness it was good clean fun, as I told Jordan "He left his panties on!" Haha! It was more fun for me when he finally started dancing with other people!

Then I opened gifts, Naughty Nightie Party, again everyone was so generous! Thank you!

Then it was onto the COWGIRLS PARTY BUS!
Thankfully we thought ahead and took Jello Shots with us on the bus.... not sure if that is legal, but we did it. The reason I said thankfully was because it took us like 45 minutes to an hour to get from the hotel in Meridian to Cowgirls in Kuna. We were stopping all over the place picking up groups of people! Like I said, thankfully we thought ahead and brought Jello shots with us to help us pass the time!

COWGIRLS! Well let's just say we danced the night away, sang Meat Loaf, the DJ didn't understand this request, but once got started he enjoyed it! About half way through the 8 minute song he brought his microphone down to us. We were going back and forth, ripping the mic out of his hands, singing our guts out of course.... there is no other way to sing Meat Loaf, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights! When the song was over and we were all trying to catch our breath the DJ told me that was the coolest thing he had ever seen and that about half way through the song he put us live on the radio. I am sure anyone listening to 103.3 quickly changed the channel but we were so excited!

We found a few cowboys here and there who could swing dance pretty well, but most of the night was spent dancing with the ladies, circle style or simply just rocking out together. I have to say the DJ was great, the group of ladies that helped me celebrate are FABULOUS, the night was just AWESOME!

We safely made it back to our hotel at about 2:30am after closing down Cowgirls, it was a successful night and one for the record books!

THANKS LADIES! The group of women MADE THE PARTY! Love you all!

For fun pics and more info, see Tiffany's Blog

Bridal Shower

I know, this is the lazy way to post but Tiffany did SUCH a good job with her post that I am going to steal it!!!!!!

For details on my bridal shower that was AMAZING see Tiffany's blog!!!!

THANKS AGAIN LADIES FOR THE BEAUTIFUL/AMAZING/FABULOUS shower!!!!!

Another exciting weekend, Bachelorette Party this Saturday!

http://tiffanyinreallife.blogspot.com/2011/04/karens-bridal-shower.html

Jordan and I had a great weekend this weekend! It started off exceptional for me, I was done with work early on Friday and was able to come home and get a handful of weekend "to do's" done before the weekend even started!

Saturday we got up and picked up our first bountiful basket!
We were so happy with what we received, we came home, cut up some of our fresh fruit and enjoyed it with yogurt! YUMMY! We then started laundry and I was feeling domestic so I made a pasta salad that we had with sandwiches for lunch.

Later I made Oatmeal/Chocolate Chip cookies that thankfully we are still enjoying!

Then we headed outside, Jordan flagged all of our sprinkler heads as we had a guy coming on Sunday to aerate our lawn and I watered the sections of my flower beds that don't get rain because of the rain gutters.

If you saw someone at church measuring the church pews, would you think they were crazy? We got to church early Saturday night so that I could measure the church pews for our wedding florist, my aunt, Donna Jones. She will be making bows for the first few rows of pews at the church.... I am sure that we looked a little odd, I had a sewing tape measure and Jordan was writing down the measurements, the only thing we forgot to do was a take a picture for Donna! I guess we'll have to do that another weekend!

We ended the night by watching the Bronco Men play in the WAC Championship basketball game, the guys played well and battled back into the game many times, however, the win didn't happen. I'm sure they will get into the NIT though!

Today, Sunday we slept in, the time change threw us off a little, but not a lot. We enjoyed more fresh fruit and yogurt for breakfast, then got ready to meet with our DJ! We are all set with our DJ for our wedding, one final vendor meeting to check off the list!

We had a great weekend and we will be ordering more bountiful baskets in the near future! Thank you Tiffany and Alisha for telling me about the baskets!!!!!

More pictures

We took a few pictures in our photographers garage with a canvas back ground and then headed to the Boise Train Depot!

Engagement Photos

We had engagement photos taken February 27th, they turned out great! Our wedding photographer is a friend of Jordan's. With how great our engagement photos turned out we are certain we'll have some great photos from our wedding.

Check out our photographers web site to see his work!

http://mchuckovich.zenfolio.com/p73626244