a confession:

i have been a bad blogger. a very bad, bad blogger.

things at team springet are still clicking along towards november 7th, 2009........i, uhh, just haven't been blogging about it. sorry! ahhh. maybe i'm not cut out for this blogging thing. (have you ever noticed that if you say a word often enough, particularly a word that is funny to begin with, it tends to lose all meaning? blog. blog. blog. bloggity bloggity blog blog bloggity blog. the word has now lost all meaning!)

in all seriousness, there has been a lot of 'handmadebride'-ing that actually would have been awesome to write about in the last few months, and i wish i had. i'll try and catch you up in the next few weeks before it gets to be too late (it's weird to think that, technically, this blog will 'expire' on november 8th of this year!). for one thing, there was the day my mom, maid of honor and i spent making great big piles of tissue paper flowers to decorate the wedding site with--you know, the kind you make in grade school or see decorating cheaper mexican food establishments? we did them in marigold colors, and when you have great big piles of them like we will, they actually look quite chic. the secret, for once, is quantity over quality. at the very least, it will be a fall-color explosion. ;)

there's also the knitting i'm doing for the wedding, a lace wrap and purse for me and one of each for my maid of honor. and the fact that i'm making my own veil because i think $75.00 for a piece of tulle stitched to a comb is the best joke i've heard all year (or the worst, depending on your perspective). there were also my mom's attempts at baking trial wedding cakes in the hopes that she could make our real one (a goal she has sadly abandoned to the professionals, but it's probably for the best.....we were having a lot of fun eating her experiments, though!). or the ultimate DIY project, our invitations! i'll have to post a photo of those later, they are too good to simply describe. very excited about those.

so you see, dear readers (all three of you?), there has been a lot happening within the walls of team springet headquarters lately, all of it funny, insightful and blogworthy......i just haven't been sharing it with you. because i am a bad, bad blogger. ;)

i will try to do better.

So, we are planning to spend a week in Paris and another week traveling around the rest of France for our honeymoon! I took French all four years in high school and was really good at it (I won prizes! I was a language nerd!), but it’s been………ahem………….eleven years since I was in high school, and I’m afraid I’m more than a little bit rusty. ;)

My vocab at the moment is basically back to the ‘Hi, how are you, my name is ______, the car is blue, nice doggie, a cup of coffee please,’ etc level, and I’d like to improve it before we go on our trip just in case we have to ask or answer any questions that don’t involve, you know, coffee, blue cars, or doggies? Ha ha. Mike speaks no French, so I’m the official trip interpreter (and my inner language nerd rejoices!), but I am going to need some help.

I wish I could afford the Rosetta Stone packages, but they’re just out of the budget at the moment. Does anyone out there know of any decent, FREE language learning resources online? Podcasts or audio lessons would be especially helpful, since it’s my listening/speaking comprehension that needs the most work…….but really, anything will do! Thanks!! :)

[ WEDDING RINGS // MAY 2009 ]

hello.

remember me? ;)



[ new posts coming soon. ]

HELP ME...................................

which?...................................and why? never mind price for now (i could potentially possibly afford any of these, although some are, shall we say, much more affordable than others).

so, we had our wedding tasting this afternoon! and of course, i meant to bring my camera along to the tasting and forgot it, but they were nice enough to pack up some extras for us to take with us at the end, so i photographed them once we got home--they gave us a whole box full of cheese! a Whole. Box. Full. Of. Cheese. miraculous!! ;)

our menu is as follows:

domestic cheese display [with fruit, crackers & fresh bread]......that's the box 'o' cheese seen above

farmer's market salad

spinach and fontina stuffed chicken breast

rosemary grilled salmon with frizzled leeks and lemon-chive beurre blanc

creamy parmesan potatoes

roasted garden vegetables

mmmmmmmmmmm.........i know what i'm having for dinner tonight. :)

and because i love you...........or because i meant to post these weeks ago when they first arrived, ha ha......here are the 'save the date' magnets.........................................