Our first blog....

Once upon a time, a boy named Cory met a girl named Jennifer and they quickly fell in love.

Fast forward 3 years-we're engaged, with 3 months and 10 days until the wedding (ahhhhh!), looking for our dream house with a tiny little budget, and I am currently trying to survive my first big-girl job as a nurse! Whew!

We are so excited about our wedding and each day that passes we (or rather I!) find something new to add to the ceremony or reception :) There's just so many great ideas for a destination wedding....the problem is trying to keep it within budget. Never did I EVER imagine weddings would be so dang expensive. People want to charge you an arm & a leg for anything wedding related-it's sickening actually. I started out wanting to DIY most of our stuff, however, trying to do so while finishing up nursing school was just not going to happen. But, so far everything has turned out great and we couldn't be happier! **Thanks to my parents for helping us out!**

On another wedding related note, we FINALLY booked our honeymoon! After months of debating where to go for the best price, we picked The Grand Palladium Resort & Spa in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Hopefully we do not get ran out by hurricanes! As much as we wanted to go to the Turks & Caicos Islands, that'll have to be a 1 year anniversary trip!

We've also been house hunting for quite some time and it is so exhausting/frustrating/exciting all at the same time. The minute you think you find your dream house, you also find that it's under contract or someone has outbid you, etc. From the moment we began talking about a house, we've wanted to move to Coweta County-it is such a nice area with nice schools and close to the interstate. We found a house we really loved down there in Sharpsburg, but have been too busy to go down and really walk around inside. In the meantime, my mom found a house right down the road from our current house and it truly couldn't be more perfect for us. It has everything and I mean everything we have been looking for in a house-3BR/2.5BA, an office, a formal dining room, cherry kitchen cabinets, a massive basement, a huge fenced in backyard for our dog, and.......an INGROUND POOL! Bonus: it's a foreclosure and cheaper than any house we've looked at thus far! So, we're putting an offer on it-wish us luck :)