Bridal Shower

I am a little behind on this

but I had my bridal shower June 4th.

It was so much fun and a little awkward :)

Opening up presents by yourself while people watch you 

is just a little intimidating.

Maybe it is just me though...

My Bridesmaids.

 My Great-Aunt gave me her Mom's (my great-grandma Duncan) 

jelly dish. Very Special.

Woohoo! So Excited! : )

Such a great and special memory.

So thankful for all the wonderful people in my life.

I can't believe I am getting married, it is still unreal sometimes.

(sorry for the picture quality, I don't know why they look so bad)

House Remodel Part 2

We have been making some progress in the past couple of weeks.

We got our bedroom painted:

Matt stained our new kitchen cabinets

and we picked out our counter tops.

We still have not decided what we are going to paint the kitchen,

remodeling a house it a lot harder than I ever thought and just thinking

about paint is giving me a headache.

(Huckleberry loves helping out too.

He thinks he needs to dig a hole to go underneath the house

to work with his Dad.)

Now what we have left in the kitchen is putting in the cabinets,

we have them where we want them but we still have to 

cut the holes for the water pipes and install those and

install the counter top and sink/faucet.

The next room we are working on is the bathroom:

 Matt took out the sink a few days ago and

we scraped the old linoleum out of the bathroom.

We picked out a new vanity/sink top we like,

the bathtub does not have a shower head so we have to install one

and as much as I don't care for linoleum that is what we got for the bathroom floor.

It is cheap and the room is tiny so no big deal. :)

So much do to but 

Matt won't be joining the Duncan family at the lake for the 4th weekend 

 so he can stay home and work on the house.

Maybe he will get lots done :)

On a side note, Matt's mom showed me this today:

 

This is Matt's Great-Grandparent's marriage certificate.

Ferdinand & Matilda 

February 7, 1878

SO COOL!

Sorry for the long post! I hope everyone has a Happy 4th of July!

 

 

House Remodel Part 1

We have been a little busy lately

and here is what we have been up too...

remodeling an old farmhouse:

This would be the living room. We have cleaned most everything out as of now,

the furniture is still in there but we will tackle that here shortly.

We will be living in Matt's grandparent's old farm house.

It has been vacant for 3 years and his grandma kept tons of stuff.

I am so excited to be living here, it will be perfect for us

but there is alot of work to be done.

In the kitchen we have torn out the old metal sink cabinets.

Then we will start painting and cleaning once we get our new cabinets stained and 

put together with the new counter top and sink.

The kitchen will be mixed match for now because the next big thing to tackle is the bathroom.

These are pictures of Matt and I's room.

We have spent a good 5 days on cleaning the room out,

scrubbing the walls, putting spackle on and priming it.

Deciding on paint color was another chore.

The room is finally painted but I will show you that another day.

We now have to sand all the trim and put a clear coat on it

so we aren't finished just yet.

Everything is coming right along

and I am so excited. 

We are about a month from being married 

and everything that needs to be fixe

should get done by the time we move in.  :)

Just Another Update

Here we go...

Yesterday Matt and started cleaning out our house,
(YAY, we have a start!)

Today I scheduled our first marriage counseling date for Monday.

and Saturday is my first Bridal Shower <3

And the next couple of days I have alot of errands to run,

June is going to be way to busy for me but I am going to love every minute of it.

This is also my first big summer of weddings, including my own.

Crazy how old I am getting. Weird.

Some other exciting news:

We are headed to HAWAII!

We finally booked our honeymoon and we couldn't be more excited.

We also added a new addition to our Wilkowske family:

Huckleberry

He is Blue Heeler and American Eskimo mixed and he is 3 months old.

We love him.

Thats all for May.

Happy

Matt is home.

Matt is also a college graduate:

So proud of him.

he is now only a phone call away and that makes me very, very happy.

Today is the DAY

It still hasn't hit me that I am going to pick him up at the airport tonight.

It just feels like another day without him.

16 weeks have passed faster than I expected.

Bring on the nerves & butterflies.

The End is Near.

I cannot believe this time next week I will be hanging out with Matthew.

I will say that the last 16 weeks have gone by pretty quickly

and I have surprised myself with how strong I have been.

I did have some moments but the better days out shined the bad.

My last day at the Bethany Y was yesterday

I have some mixed feelings over leaving 

but I am so glad to be moving on.

I have made some awesome friends from the Y

and there friendship has helped me alot since Matt has been gone.

I am so thankful for them.

Other than Matt coming home on Thursday

this week will be pretty fun.

Wednesday I am taking my bridals pictures and I am so excited.

Then next week I start my new summer nanny job with a cute 3 year old boy.

 : ) 

I don't think I have been any happier.

FOUR days left.