pelted with snow

I am sitting here freezing, and have been since I woke up today....don't know if I am getting sick or what, but I have also been sneezing all day long too. So, I started off my day today with my alarm waking me up at 8am this morning, because it was on battery mode. Yup, that meant that we woke up with no power, nice. And we look outside only to find about 6 inches of snow on the ground. But snow wasn't the only thing on the ground.....lots of branches, and branches that were still attached to the tree, were all hanging low... this is probably the heaviest snow we have had this year. And seriously, on March 29?!?!?! Doesn't Mother Nature know that I am trying to plan a beautiful May wedding?? She is not helping much with this snow! We thought we were done, but she didn't think so... Anyway, so yes, we woke up with no power, which means no heat, brrrrrr and no sump pump, eeeeeeek! Then that also means that our fishies were freezing too!! Then, as Rob and I were outside doing our good deed, and helping the older man across the street with his driveway and the heavy snow, we saw 2 Com Ed trucks drive by, boy were we happy to see them!! After about 5 hours with no power, it clicked back on at about 1pm. Just in the nick of time, so I could take a shower and get to work on time.... So, while on my way to work, the snow is falling from the trees, because the wind is blowing, and so when the snow falls, it is freaking heavy, and falls hard. Probably about 8 times, I felt like the snow that my car is being pelted with was gonna come through my sunroof!! Either that or damage my car with a few dents in it! So that's my story for today, but I must give props to Cheryl, who helped me through a difficult day yesterday (long story) and my sister who I have talked to almost everyday, who is doing her best to keep me sane through these crazy stressful times of planning a wedding!!! And I must not forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTINE!!!!!!!! I miss you!!!!!!! So, everyone, please Live Well, Laugh Often and Love Much!!!!

OUCH!!!

Tuesday was a weird day for me... first, we went bowling like we always do, or usually do.....as we were bowling, all of a sudden, I got a bloody nose, just like when I was a kid, I used to get them all the time...weird, I am chalking it up to the stupid winter that won't go away....anyway, then I needed some adjustments done to my thumb hole, so after we were done bowling, I took my ball down to the pro shop where the guy John (really cool guy and good at what he does) changed my insert out and made it better for me, so while waiting and after winning a game of air hockey with my brother, I went and picked up my ball, well, everything was good, and I brought my ball out to my bag, and I couldn't tell you what happened next, as all of a sudden, I dropped my 15 pound bowling ball on my toes!!!!!!!!! OMG, let me tell you that freaking hurt soooooooo bad!!!! So as I am standing there, trying not to cry, who else, but my lovely Fiance decides to tell me that I am an idiot for dropping my ball on my own freaking toes!!!! Now, really let's think about this, do you really think that I would do this on purpose?!?!? H-E-L-L-O!!!! Ok so after that, as I limp out of the bowling alley, we decide to go and eat lunch, we went to On the Border, and Rob's mom sat across from me, and the person with the shortest legs, kicked my bad foot about 4 times. OMG, I wanted to cry!!! I know she didnt mean to but man, it hurt!!! Well, thats all for today, hope you are all doing good! Love, Laugh, Love!

unity candle and holders

Long time, no blog.....

Monday means it' friday for me!!! Yay! Anyway, I just thought I would talk about stuff...yeah, just stuff. Nothing specific. So the other night, I think Cheryl and I had the BUSIEST night we have ever had, I mean we have had some doozies before, but this night was insane, that was last friday. First, we came in to someone picked up on a warrant, and had to send messages to see if county would come pick them up, so once that was handled, it seemed that EVERY officer on the road was trying to see how many traffic stops they could make, so one after the other after the other after the other. Now, at this time I surely cannot remember the timeline of these events, but here we go, we had another person who was stopped and wanted, so we had messages to send about them. 2 DUI's, a missing kid, an electrical box that was hit by a DUI driver and it was then on fire. And last but not least, we had a fire in an apartment bldg, where the fire was in an elderly man's apartment, and he was handicapped. Thanking the neighbors that got him out, we were pulling our hair out!!!!!!! It doesn't sound so bad, but in reality if you all knew how much work goes into each of these events, it is absolutely insane!! Whew! Glad we survived! Now, on to wedding stuff. Rob and I met with our Pastor for the first of 4 sessions. It was good, and he was great! Let me tell you, I am excited, he is really cool, and he reminds me of my Dad. How? you ask, well, First, he has the same shaped head and it's shaved bald, just like Dad's, and he also had the same shaped glasses as Dad's were, and last but not least, he has like the SAME blue eyes as Dad's!! He is great, and I feel really comfortable being married by him, and he doesn't make you feel silly if you don't know some things. He explains everything really well, and has a great deep and loud voice. Yay! I got our unity candle and holders, I will put up pictures after this. Lately, I am trying to get some songs together for the day. We are soooooo excited to be getting the responses from everyone, it is so much fun! So far, there has only been one day that we didn't get any. Well, that is about all that my brain will let me write for now. I hope you all are doing well, and I hope to see you at my shower, and then at the wedding! I can't wait!! Live Laugh Love

MUST have twice baked potato!!!!

As many of you know, we went to our tasting on Thursday. It was very different, wasn't what I expected. To me, it was a little disorganized. So, we got there a little before 6, and the doors were open, and no one around, so we went to look around, and show Jordan and Brian what it was like. We weren't touching anything, and weren't hurting anything when we got shooed out. Some like barely 20 year old came and said we aren't ready yet, we said ok, and she kept saying it, then she proceeds to ask me 3 times what do you have left to do to plan your wedding? I wanted to say, "we aren't ready yet", and leave it at that, but I fancied her question and said lots of little stuff. Even after I answered her question, she asked it again, so I just walked faster, and hoped that she would leave me the heck alone!! Then I ignored her. So once they opened the doors, and officially let us in, we just barely got in there, and were looking at the cheese table they had, I got like one piece of cheese on my plate and they were calling us in the room to be seated, but not everyone, just us. I thought that was a little weird, then started to realize that maybe they were staggering people in, which ended up being what they were doing. Ok, so we went in the room, and were seated, and had the owner guy come up to our table and proceeded to talk to us about how the night would go, well do you think Rob could let the guy get 2 words in before he was telling him about us and our wedding? OMG!!!! I think I finally realized that he has some major ADD! Sheesh! Ok, so enough bad talking Rob. He told us what would happen is that they would bring out the soups, and the salads, and then we could order 3 entree's, with a plate of potatoes and veggies, and then would be some kind of dessert if we stuck around long enough. Well, we started with the soups, and they brought out a nice tray that had all the soups in little cups, and were labeled nicely, so we knew what was what. So as we were trying the soups, Brian went to look for more appetizers, since we didn't get any while we were out there. Then, we were only about half way done with the soups when they came and asked if we were ready for the salads. Which, we obviously said no, we need a little more time. So after we decided on the soup we wanted, we were ready for the salads. So they brought out the salads, and they guy rattled them off to us, and boy, let me tell you, if you weren't listening, you would have missed it. As he got to the dressings for the salad, he wasn't even sure what we had there. This time, with the salads, nothing was marked. So, we had to do our best to remember what the guy though everything was. But, we only had 4 dressings there to taste. I thought that was a bummer, and then we had to ask , are there any other dressings that you have that we can choose from?? So, we finally chose a salad, and 3 dressings. Next was the choice of 3 entrees which meant choose 3 meats that you think you might want at your function. So we chose 2 chicken dishes, and a filet dish, because we had wanted to have filet and chicken. So we chose 2 out of the 6 chicken dishes and the filet to try. They came along with a plate of about 8 different potatoes and a plate of about 6 different veggies. So here came the hard part, I thought that the soup and salad were hard to choose....I had another thing comin'. So, we tried the filet and chicken dishes, and quickly came to a conclusion of the chicken we wanted, so that was done, and easy. One was really good, and the other was really bad....so easy! Ok, then came the filet, well, if you like your filet still mooing, then you wouldn't like this one, it was cooked medium, and a little more on the medium well side, no pink, it had a brown sauce on it, and Jordan and I thought it was pretty good. Well, Rob surely didn't. I still am not sure the problem he had with it, but now there is still a big debate on this one....will tell you more about that later. We also had the plates of potatoes and veggies, well, again, if you didn't listen the first time they told you, you wouldn't get it, guess what?!? Rob didn't get it. OMG!!! I wanted to scream! So, we tasted the potatoes and Jordan and I thought there was WAY too much of an onion taste in the twice baked potato. Well, I should go back here a little, let's just say when Rob dreampt about his wedding as a kid, he dreampt of TWICE BAKED POTATOES!!!!!! Because there was nothing that was going to change his mind!! Until we got a second plate of potatoes and a better explanation of them, when he decided that we were right, and unless you like lots of onions, then you wouldn't like them, so we got him to be ok with the garlic mashed potatoes and that is what everyone will get, unless you are the groom, cause he is still getting his dream of twice baked potatoes! Ok, whew! Wait, we aren't done there. Now we have to talk about the veggies, we all watched as Rob took 2 different kinds of green beans, and ate them, he was like "WOW, did you taste the asparagas? It was great!" Well, Jordan was laughing her butt off as I am trying to explain to Rob that he just ate green beans. And by now the whole table was laughing as he argued with me that he knows what he took, and what he just ate, and that I am some kind of an idiot and must be psycho. Well, finally he took the asparagas and ate it and then was like ack, gross, ok now I know what you mean....let me tell you, he still wouldn't tell me that I was right!! Yup, thats what its like living with a Kniskern! Oh boy! It was a fun, yet weird night. Ok, now I have to tell you about the filet issue that we are still having. even now. I liked it, Rob thought it was disgusting. He claims he didn't like the brown sauce, so we had our wedding planner come and talk to us about what we can do, so this Wednesday, we (only me and Rob) are going to taste the different sauces that they can do for the filet. Hopefully we will have a decision on Wednesday about the filet. OMG OMG OMG!!!! That was VERY difficult, yet fun! I have puposly left out what you are officially eating, as I will let you know when we decide everything on wednesday, cause things are bound to change, with Rob having anything to do with it! Wow, that is about all I have for tonight, I feel like I have been typing for a year! Live, Laugh, Love!

misc things

These are some misc items that I recently got, Rob picked out the flutes, and I found the serving set and the guest book to match. I love them! In real life, they are soooooo pretty!! And, they all say "Mr. and Mrs. Kniskern, May 9, 2009"

our rings

Here are our rings, mine is a little hard to see, because there is so much bling on it....he he!! I love it, I also LOVE Rob's ring, his is a tungsten metal, so it's a little darker than most rings, but he picked it out and he loves it too. Mine is the same as the picture I posted a while back, just hard to tell, cause its sooooooo sparkly!!