space.

So, yea, I had my the last of my 4 bridal showers last night. 15 people RSVP-ed and 50 came...thanks to Sarah and Christy and a few other people...who actually did pull it off...it was a great night...

however,

my apartment....it's small. perfect for me and my dog. mike, mimi, and i probably could do ok...but not with everything i've gotten at these 4 showers...it's TINY!!! so i thought i would post pictures of what my apt. looks like now, after this 4 shower...

oh yea, and we haven't moved any of mike's crap in yet either...

feast on these....

fret.

so i've been thinking...

this last week i heard a comment from someone, and you know how things just hit ya sometimes, even though you've heard about 100 times before...well i heard this comment, " if i could go back, i wouldn't fret as much about all the little things."

what have i done in the last 3 or so years....i have freakin' fret about every little thing. everything little plan that didn't turn out my way, every little area that wasn't cleaned to my standard(more so in the last year) :) , everything little note i played wrong or sang off tune. every little skip in a cd, every little person that annoyed me, every little thing i wanted but didn't get right at that moment, every little thing. how pathetic is that? why?

i live in rochester, mn. home of mayo clinic. i work at a flower shop. every day, i hear a story of someone in icu, barely hanging onto the last thread. i send out about 10-30 "get well soon" cards a day... i dont' care how sick they are, they are sick and here i am complaining about how mike can't put the blanket on my bed the right way. and i'm truely bothered by it. what???? what is that????

things haven't been the smoothest lately with certain people in our lives (mike and I's-more so Mike's) and we're trying to plan a wedding, kind of a big thing, and here we are crying over spilled milk.

burning bridges, not cool.

i know the change starts in me. so here's to change...well hopefully..

kt b in 18 days.

excitement!

So 19 more days!!!! Till Katie Cass no longer exists...it's Kate Bartlett. I'm excited! Today was a special days for many reasons...
one. i helped pack my future husband/roomie stuff, so he can move into my small apartment in just under 3 weeks!
two. we went to a great movie, "licensed to wed" fun stuff.
three. we went to the mall to shop, little did i know he had something awesome picked out for me, as a wedding gift.
four. had a great dinner.
five. had great conversation, about life, love, etc. outside on this beautiful day.
six. we have each other forever and ever.

awesome day. anyways, about this gift. for a long time, i've wanted a COACH purse. from the first time i mentioned it, which was about a year ago, he knew he was going to get me one, but they are kind of expensive. so anyways, just recently i have mentioned it a lot. so he started to slowly save up and today, thinking we were shopping for something completely different. we wandered through our mall and into the COACH store, which just opened up in our mall and raised my opinion on the mall in my eyes. anyways, i showed him all the ones i loved and finally came to this one, which would be most realistic. He grabbed it down for me, cause it was way up there in a display case, then i told him i loved it, but he could put it back up there. he said "no." what??? he was going to buy it for me. what??? again, i asked. then he told me to make sure i didn't want any of the other ones, but i looked around, and that one still had my heart. so he bought it!!!!! and now i have a COACH!!!!!! crazy. I love this man. he is so good to me. better than i ever could imagine. incredible. I was seriously in awe. i was annoyed by the asian sales person, that would not leave our space, but whatever, my man just bought me a coach!!! pictures below.... anyways, today was a good day!

katie b in 19 days!

so here it is...

summer wknd.

fireworks, fireworks, fireworks...