veranellies: anniversary...

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

anniversary...

I never dreamed of the "perfect wedding" The big white dress and all that. It was never my style. I actually didn't even think we'd ever get married. But I figured..eh, what the heck..

Three years ago today, the mister and I finally tied the knot after being together for 11 years. We are definitely not a "traditional" couple. We never celebrate anniversaries or special dates. Like I told my mom, "We've been together now 14 years. Three years of marriage means nothing. The only thing that changed was the way I do my taxes and my last name". I actually had to go back and look to figure out what the actual date was, some reason I always think it's the 26th but I know I would have never picked an "even" day to get married on..so then I remember it's the 29th haha. What a system I have huh?!

Our wedding was very fitting for us. Very informal at my sister's house (who owns a fall festival/ corn maze). My aunt (who I spoke about recently that has passed away) married us in front of about 100+ family and friends. I had originally wanted it to be a pizza party but my mom didn't like that idea so she rented us a food truck to go along with the carnival type theme we had going. There was a cotton candy machine, popcorn machine, and sno-cone machine. And no cake - instead there was an ice cream truck that played it's music and drove around giving out "free" treats to any and all that wanted them.

The attractions: corn maze, bouncy pillow, corn cannons, industrial sling shots, pedal carts, my sister even did a pig race! (I was like seriously?!? pig racing at my wedding! hahah) But everyone loved it. Lastly..a dunking booth. And yes, I got dunked.

The afternoon turned into a complete torrential down pour. Everyone was covered in mud and was drenched. I actually apologized to everyone that it had rained. I felt so horrible about it that it ruined the day.

I had a lot of fun creating the invitations, RSVP cards and Direction cards. My parents said they had a few friends that thought a carnival was coming to town and almost threw away the cards because they didn't realize it was our wedding!

A few of the highlights...

top row: Brian, Kevin's older brother. Us, well..you know..kissing..

bottom row: Kevin's oldest brother Jason (they could be twins except Jason had crazy long hair), Brian..being well..Brian and Townes, my best friends super awesome kid.

(dress was from Anthropology)

(mister's clothes - van sneakers, element pants and shirt)

Here's to three years of having the same last name..and 14 years with the same mister...love you mister!!

and ps. i love the bunny - you just have to learn how to give a present a little better! hahah

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Gypsy in Jasper · 656 weeks ago

You got a bunny!? Don't you love that that's the only thing I took away from that entire post?

Also, congrats on sticking it out. 14 years. Holy man. That's a long ass time.

AND finally, your wedding sounds like the most amazing fun ever. Seriously, a carnival theme. AWESOME. Ian and I aren't doing the whole marriage thing, we're just not into it, but if I were to do it, there would definitely be some sort of ridiculous off-the-wall theme. Maybe even some pig races.

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veranellies 79p · 656 weeks ago

hahah it's not a real bunny. the bunny will have it's own post =)

yeah, it makes me a little sad that i'm old enough to be with the same person for 14 years! how and when did i get so old?

yeah k and i weren't into the marriage thing either. i actually don't know why i finally caved. it seriously does nothing but change the way i do my taxes! oh and i changed my last name- something else i never thought i would do.

there are quite a bit of things i would have done different - but a lot i would have left the way it was.. but like i said- we arent the romantic, lovey dovey type - we're just us..so whatever..i'm married hahhaha

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Stephanie · 656 weeks ago

Happy Anniversary!!

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veranellies 79p · 656 weeks ago

Thank you!! How have you been it seems like ages since I've talked to you!

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Stephanie · 656 weeks ago

I know it has been forever. I'm crappy at commenting on blogs too, I put it off too long. We have been good! August has been busy. The first weekend we visited DC with my mom, and the week after that we got a new Foster Daughter. She is going to be six Monday and her name is Zoe. She's super fun but Tim, Townes and I are exhausted by the end of the day. I'm ready for the fall too, this summer has been insane!

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veranellies 79p · 656 weeks ago

a new kid?! that's pretty BIG news! i'm not up on the lingo - does foster mean she's only with you a short period of time? so insane! what does Townes think about this?!

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Stephanie · 655 weeks ago

We are foster parents who are also approved for adoption. We have gone through a lengthy process to be certified and a long wait to be matched. In most cases a child is with us while their mom works a plan to become a fit parent. If she can not/does not , and no other fit family is found we will be able to adopt her. Zoe will be with us probably for a while in either case. It is insane! Townes for the most part is very happy to no longer be an only child. We've had some adjustment challenges but over all things are going well. I'll try to get some photos up eventually, but it's tough because of privacy issues.

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veranellies 79p · 655 weeks ago

I guess I don't really understand the foster system, if you are fine to have her as a foster - why can't you yourself adopt her. Seems like a pretty messed up, backwards system. All I know is animals (so I'm sorry for the reference) but there is no way I could take in an animal for a short period of time knowing they will not be staying with us forever. Like I said - it just seems really odd to me. There are way more than enough children out there that need good homes - with everything they have gone through of not having their real moms and dads - why would the system want to keep bumping them around to multiple families? I guess I will never understand the temporary home portion of it all.

But I'm glad Townes is happy. You can always just send me photos and not post them - I'd love to see the new (temporary?) family.

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Stephanie · 655 weeks ago

The system is messed up, but they try to give the bio families as much time to do the right thing. It is very traumatic for a child to have to enter a new family. It really just depends on the situation and is a-lot more involved then they show on tv and etc.. Actually, yesterday we had to let Zoe leave to go to a special therapeutic foster home. She was showing many signs of being very disturbed and needs a level of care we can't provide. We are sad, and relieved at the same time. Not sure what we will do next.

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veranellies 79p · 655 weeks ago

I'm sorry to hear she has already left. I hope they are able to place you and allow you to adopt the right child to fit your awesome little family.

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Stephanie · 655 weeks ago

Thanks! It was so crazy. It was like she had multiple personalities. She actually was whispering to Townes whenever she had a chance that she was going to kill him! A 5 year old child... so I think we're going to be taking an extended maybe permanent break from the adopting idea. We do really enjoy being just the three of us.

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veranellies 79p · 655 weeks ago

That is so creepy! And I love your little family of three just fine too! Send hugs to Tim and Townes from me. I miss you guys!