Wedding & Body Worlds

So this weekend we did plenty of last minute wedding stuff which included a lot of running around here and there. One small craft project by Andy as well. After plenty of running around on Saturday I fell asleep on the couch for about an hour along with my baby girl, Izzy. Andy of course felt the need to capture the sweet moment.


To take a break from all the wedding stress we headed to the Body World's exhibit at the AZ Science Center. This was kind of neat, but also a bit disturbing to know these were real human bodies. The area that really creeped me out was the fetus section. It was kind of disturbing to know the pregnant woman was once alive and actually died with the fetus inside of her. Also all the baby fetus' on display from 2 weeks old and beyond were crazy to see as well. The other interesting thing that stood out was the display of the lungs. They had a healthy set next to a smokers lungs and that was then next to a coal miners lungs. Very interesting and nasty as well. The only thing about this exhibit we did not like was the amount of people that were there. Andy and I are not a fan of crowds at all so we really found this annoying. It actually made us move through the exhibit faster than usual. Despite the crowds we had a great time together and it was a nice distraction from wedding stress.

It was nice to have this break in the weekend from wedding stuff because I was starting to get very stressed out. Over what you ask? I really do not know. I was experiencing stress and anxiety on Saturday evening that I couldn't eat my dinner. I do know that I cannot afford to skip a meal because I don't want my dress to be too big so I slowly (and I do mean s-l-o-w-l-y) ate my meal. I then had two glasses of wine to relax me and that did the trick. Mmmmm...am I going to need to drink two glasses of wine from now until the wedding???

Another thing I did this weekend was make Pokey sticks. These are the famous cheese sticks you dip in pizza sauce and/or ranch dressing that you get at bar time from Gumby's when you were in college back in the midwest. They are oh so good! Thanks to Erin for recreating this recipe so I could relive those 2am college days, but on a Sunday night at 6pm.


Yummy!

One big accomplishment this weekend was Andy and I writing our vows. I am so proud of us and it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. It was actually kind of easy. Maybe that is one sign of true love! Thanks to my friend Pam for sending us a very helpful book on how to write your vows. Now we have less than two weeks to go before we get to exchange vows.