Lavender Rain

As I have previously announced, I got married in November and have been waiting for the professional photos to come in. Well, we received all our wedding pictures on a DVD and thought I’d share a few… These pictures were taken by the talented Lloyd Yoon of Night and Day Photography, along with his wife, Merry. These 2 are really awesome photographers and I’m glad that we had them as our wedding photographer. I can’t wait for our wedding album to come in.

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For more pictures from the wedding, click here.

(CHRISTMAS RECAP)

• We spent Christmas Eve at my parents’ house, where Zoe was showered with many Christmas gifts. It must be nice being a little baby, because you are so popular and everybody gives you a gift even if you aren’t even close to them. I miss being a kid again.
• We then spent our Christmas day at Josh’s parents, had dinner but we left early.
• I kinda want to set up our own Christmas tradition, but since we are just starting our family, I think it’s also important to spend time with our immediate family… but hopefully someday in the future, we can develop our own tradition.

(RANDOM NEWS)

• I find myself reading a lot of Wikipedia articles. I don’t know why. They’re not always accurate, but a lot of the stuff on there are interesting. Wikis are fun.
• Also when I am bored, why do I keep reading the questions and answers on Yahoo! Answers? They are all a good laugh, for sure, but a lot of those questions are so stupid it’s not even funny.
• I am so proud of my husband. He hasn’t smoked in a week. He tried many times to quit in the past but this time, he seems to be doing well. I hope that he keeps it up. Another thing that I am happy about is that he is finally worship leading in church. God has blessed him with his talent in music and I’m glad he is using it for God.
• I am still trying to come up with my goals for 2009. So far, I only came up with one. And that is to continue working on my unfinished project — aka Vanity High.

(POST-WEDDING) I can finally post! I know that it has been a while. Life has been hectic lately. As I mentioned in the previous entry, I just got married on November 15, 2008. It really was a beautiful wedding and I couldn’t have asked for more. I really was not expecting for things to turn out fine. I was actually expecting the worse. The hall not being set up on time, the photographers getting sick, me tripping as I walk down the aisle, etc… I pretty much was thinking of all the worse things that could go wrong. In the end, things turned out well. Not perfect, but that’s to be expected. I am really thankful that I am surrounded by people who are selfless and are willing to volunteer their time to help us. People who I never expected to help went out there and did so much more than I asked. I really can’t thank them enough.

(LIFE) How’s married life so far? To be honest, I don’t really feel much different. It isn’t a big change compared to becoming a mother and having a baby. I still feel the same. But I know that I do have more responsibilities. I’m no longer just a mother; I am also a wife now. I definitely feel like I have more to do at home. I feel like cleaning the house everyday is mandatory. Because of this thinking, I kinda felt overwhelmed… I have a 9-month old who loves to crawl everywhere. She picks up little things off the floor and eats it. She also loves to play with electronics. She is particularly fond of TV remotes. Yesterday, I woke up at 7 in the morning and first thing I did was the laundry. Then I made breakfast, changed Zoe’s diaper, routine, routine… Afternoon came and I realized that I didn’t even eat yet. So I tried to make myself food. It was impossible! She never let me get any cooking. What would’ve taken 20 minutes took me 4 hours to do. Zoe is growing through separation anxiety. I don’t know how other moms do it. I don’t know how they get things done… I for one have learned how to wash the dishes with one hand as I hold Zoe with the other, because she loves to watch me. I know that I can’t do that while I am cooking…

So by the end of the day, as I watched Zoe drift to sleep while nursing her, I began to think of this little baby that God blessed me with. As I watched her, I realized that I was too busy trying to get things done around the house. I was too busy trying to finish things. I realized that I didn’t even get to really spend my time just to play with her. I got too busy running around. Someday this little baby girl will grow into a beautiful woman… and someday she will leave home…. I should be enjoying every moment that I can while she is still young, while I can still hold her… I forgot the reason why I wanted to do this, why I wanted to be a stay at home mom… I want to see all the firsts, I want to be there as my children are growing up…. Because someday they are all going to grow… Someday they are going to leave us… The one who will stay with me for the rest of my life isn’t going to be my kids, but it’s going to be my husband. I know that I am trying to be a good housewife for Josh and for this family that we are building. I thought that I could do that by getting all the housework done. But it’s difficult. But I can still do my best. I just need to get my priorities straight. Deal with baby first before housework… — and of course it’s all about balance.

Anyway, I gotta go end this post now… but of course I’ll end it with pictures under the cut…

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This will be a quick post. Just wanted to say that I got married on Saturday, 15 of November. The wedding went really well and I have been called a “relaxed” bride.

Professional pictures are not available yet, so here’s one that a friend took.

Yup you read correctly. I have made a few wedding invitations templates available for download on my site. It is free for brides to use. The only thing that I ask is for you not to sell these templates. It must remain FREE! I decided to do this to help other brides who are on a budget. The only thing is — ALL TEMPLATES are in Corel Draw format. That means, you need to have Corel Draw (at least version 12) in order to open and edit these files. These templates are high res, so they are print quality!

When you customize/personalize these templates, I do suggest sending the digital file along with the fonts used to a print shop to print your invitations. I will also eventually offer to do custom invitation designs for you and will make it printshop-ready.

Please click here for more templates….

Giselle from Enchanted

I am still worried about how my hair will look on my wedding day. I have always pictured it to look like Giselle’s hair from the movie Enchanted. But after the hair trial, I just realized that I am really unhappy about it. I don’t know what how I should go about this. I bought that hair piece just for this wedding. I was talking about this with Josh today and he just told me to not to worry and just use the hair piece since I paid $50 for it. I will be wearing my contacts for the wedding. I think I just need to get used to it? I still have to e-mail the picture from the hair trial to my maid of honor just to get another opinion.

I am thinking of maybe just leaving my hair down and just leaving it straight like it normally is?

Also, we are going to be taking our pictures before the wedding so I am also concerned if my hair piece could stay for that long. I really should be discussing my concerns with my hairdresser, but I just need to organize my thoughts and don’t want to suddenly call/e-mail her when I am in this state. I don’t want to appear like a bridezilla, so I’m just going to relax for a while and work on something else.

Thank God I have this blog to post my concerns and just vent away whenever I want to.