The Bachelorette Heads to Bermuda!

This week on the Bachelorette, they headed to Bermuda!! There will be 3 dates: an individual date, group date, and 2 on 1 date. And on the group date, if they don’t get a rose, they are headed home immediately.

Doug is the one to get the individual date and they walked around town for a little and did some shopping. They are so cute together! Emily got a postcard to send to Doug’s son, Austin. I thought that was really thoughtful of her! At dinner, Emily tried to dig deeper and figure out more about Doug. She thinks that he is just giving him perfect answers and not honest answers. But then he asked her for her faults and she said that it was hard coming up with them on the spot so she realized how he felt when she was asking him what his faults were. In the end, she gave him a rose so he is safe this week! It seemed a little awkward at the end. Doug was saying in a side interview that he isn’t going to make the first move to kiss Emily and that if she wants a kiss, she will have to make the first move. The look on her face made it seem like she was a little disappointed that he didn’t make the first move and kiss her.

On to the group date…they did some sailing! The guys were split in half and took part in a Bermuda match race! The winners would get to spend more time with Emily while the losers were headed back to the hotel. One group almost tipped their boat over! I don’t think any of the guys had any experience with sailing. I’m glad that Arie and Jef were part of the winning team. Emily seems to have a connection with both of them.

Next was the date that the guys were dreading…the 2 on 1 date with John and Nate. And at the end of this date, someone will be going home! They went to an island called Diving Board Island where they jumped off a cliff into the water! It looked like so much fun!! I would love to be able to do that someday! After that, they went into a cave to have dinner. That looked amazing!! The whole date was really awkward! I bet Emily felt a little better when she got the chance to talk to Nate alone for a little bit. I don’t think Emily and Nate have gotten to spend as much time together as she has with some of the other guys. I’m just not seeing any connection between them. And Emily didn’t see that connection either because John got the rose, sending Nate packing.

Surprisingly, Alejandro got a rose. I haven’t seen any connection between them. Maybe she just wants to keep him so she can spend more time with him. The 2 guys going home were Michael and Charlie. I think that was a good choice because she never connected with either of them.

Next week they head to London, England. I can’t wait for next week! Things are getting really good!!! One thing that is going to happen next week is that one of the guys tells Emily that one of the guys referred to Ricki as baggage. I really hope she finds out who that guy is and gets rid of him! I guess we’ll have to wait until next Monday night to find out!

What I’m Loving Wednesday

Linking up with Jaime at this kind of love for What I’m Loving Wednesday.

I’m LOVING that my summer has officially begun as of last Friday! Now I have time to keep up on all the housework! I made myself a cleaning schedule. You can check out the post here to read about that.

I’m LOVING that tomorrow evening my fiancé and I are getting our engagement pictures done!!! Here are some engagement picture ideas that I found on Pinterest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m LOVING that on Friday, it will officially be one year until I walk down the aisle!!! I can’t believe we have been engaged for about 1 year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and 9 months!!!  And you would think being engaged for that long we would have a lot of the planning done? Nope…we only have the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

venue and photography. We are going to try and get most of the planning done this summer. And then what we don’t get done, we will have

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to put it on hold from the end of August to mid-December because I’ll be student teaching then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m LOVING that this Sunday I am going wedding dress shopping!!!! My mom, aunt, and future-sister-in-law are going to be spending the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

night on Saturday and then on Sunday it will be the 3 of them plus my step-mom, grandmother, and a bridesmaid going shopping!! I have

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

been waiting for this day for a while so I can’t believe it is finally almost here!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m LOVING my two babies…my kitties!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And as always, I’m loving my fiancé!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are you loving this Wednesday? 

The Bachelorette

So I’ve never watched an episode of the Bachelor or Bachelorette before and I don’t know why. It may be that there were other shows on at the same time so I didn’t have the time to watch either show. But I taped the season premiere of the Bachelorette last night and I wanted to write about what I thought as I watched it. I was hooked from the very beginning. Emily’s story is so touching! A single mother whose daughter never even got the chance to meet her father because he died in a plane crash before she was born. And then Emily was on the Bachelor and ended up being the girl that he picked. But then something happened and they broke off their engagement. She even said herself that being on the Bachelorette is a big risk but she is willing to take that risk to find a husband and a father figure for her daughter. So this season on the Bachelorette, she will meet 25 men and hopefully find her husband.

Watching her meeting the guys for the first time was awesome! I can’t imagine what was going through her mind at that moment. Instead of mentioning all of the guys, I’m going to mention some of the ones that stuck out to me.

Doug is a single dad with an 11-year-old so I think Emily loves that about him.

Jackson immediately took her hand, got down on one knee, and said “Life’s not about how many breaths we take, but about how many moments take our breaths away. And this is one of those moments.” Kind of cheesy but sweet at the same time. 

Aaron came out and said, “I’m a high school biology teacher but I’m here to have chemistry with you,” yet another cheesy line. 

Jef decided to skip the limo and instead came out on a skateboard behind the limo.

Next up was Tony who had a pillow with a glass slipper on it and said his name was “Charming, Prince Charming.” He’s looking for his princess, how cute!!! Then he put the shoe on her foot and it was a perfect fit!

Travis was carrying an egg that he said was a symbol of Emily and her daughter and that he will take care of the egg throughout the journey. That was kind of strange, but okay.

Ryan pulled out some notes that he had taken so he would remember what to say and on one side of the paper it said “You are beautiful” and the other side said “I’m so nervous”. That was cute!

Next, a helicopter appeared. One of the guys was like, “What if it’s Brad?” It wasn’t, it was just Kalon. I don’t think the other guys were impressed by that, but I think Emily was.

I think any one of those guys would be perfect for her! This is going to be a great season!! Once she met all the guys individually, she got to see them all again, but this time they were all together. Doug gave Emily a note that his son, Austin, wrote for her. That was adorable!! I definitely think Doug could be the one. But then again, it’s still too early to tell because they are all great guys!

After she got the chance to mingle with the guys for a little bit, the host brought out the first impression rose which Emily has to give to a guy and that guy is safe at the first rose ceremony. Seeing that rose pushed some of the guys to get their one-on-one time with Emily. I think it’s funny how the guys are already fighting over her. When she found out that Arie is a race car driver, she kind of seemed nervous at first, but she said she is fine with that. Her first fiancé was a race car driver and was actually on his way to a race when he died so Arie was nervous to tell her that.

Next Emily took that first impression rose and asked to see Doug so she could give him the first impression rose. She loved the note that she got from his son and the fact that he is a single dad. I think she picked a great guy to give the rose to! He deserved it!

Up next was the rose ceremony. At this stage in the game it’s hard to tell who she will send home. I think she likes a lot of those guys and is going to have a hard time deciding which ones to send home. The ones that left were Brent, David, Jackson, Jean-Paul, Lerone, and Randy. I’m not really surprised about her eliminating any of those guys. She definitely kept the right guys there.

I’m glad I decided to check out the show because it looks like it is going to be a great season! So be sure to check back each week to read my recap of each show!

Happy 3 year anniversary to me and my fiancé!!!

Our anniversary was actually on Thursday, the 12th, but I didn’t have time to post then. We went out to eat at TGIF and then went to Target to start our wedding registry! We wanted to go to JCPenny, too, since we were close to there, but here they don’t have the scanner that you walk around with and scan things. Target has that though, so we got to walk around and scan barcodes of things to add to our registry. That was fun! I’ve been waiting to do that! Someday I’ll get to do it again when I’m setting up a baby registry! But that won’t be for a few more years.

So anyway, today I surprised him with a trip to Hersheypark for our anniversary. It’s a little cheaper to get it now compared to what it is in the summer, so I figured we would go now since I don’t know if we’ll make it there this summer. So we got in his car and I just told him where to go. Well, it turns out he figured out where we were going a few days ago but he didn’t tell me his guess. Oh well, we still had a great time even if it wasn’t a complete surprise.

He won an Angry Bird from a claw machine!!

Here are some pics from Zoo America

 

 

 

We saw this little duckling trying to swim upstream…

 

 

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t make it!

 

  

 

Here are some pictures taken from the Monorail 

 

 

I can’t believe I actually got this picture! I thought that the coaster left the view of my camera before it took the picture.

  

 

I can’t believe it’s only been 3 years that we’ve been together!!! It seems like we’ve known each other for so much longer!! And I also can’t believe that in 399 days we will be getting married!!!! This next year is going to go by so fast!!! So I want to say thank you to my fiancé for being the best fiancé ever and for being there for me! I love you sooooooooo much!!!!

Have a great rest of your weekend everyone!!!

Another thing I’m loving….

So since I wrote my What I'm Loving Wednesday post this morning, I didn’t get to add another thing I love since I hadn’t gone outside yet.

I am LOVING how nice it is outside!!!! It definitely feels like Spring outside right now! One of my friends (and previous co-worker) is coming over soon to check out my new house and catch up for a bit. Then after that I’m going to make dinner and I think me and my fiancé are going to eat outside tonight!! After that, hopefully it’s still nice out, I would love to take a walk to the park which is pretty much in our backyard!!! I’ll be sure to take pictures if we end up doing that. If you live somewhere where the weather is really nice outside, then get outside and enjoy it!!

31!!!

I don’t know about you guys, but I love 31!! Not familiar with 31? It is a direct sales company that sells all sorts of bags like purses, totes, wallets, organizers, and much more! I bought this thermal tote a few months ago and I love it!

Looking through a catalog and at the online site, there are so many different things I’d love to order if only I had the money!!!

Like this bag…

I could totally see myself using a bag like that in the future when I have kids as a diaper bag!!

Another bag I love…I think it would be perfect for the beach!

So…since I love 31 and their bags, I have decided to host a catalog party. If you would be interested in buying anything from 31, you can click on this link to place your order and it will be delivered straight to your door!!

What I’m Loving Wednesday

I haven’t linked up with What I’m Loving Wednesday in a while so I thought I’d link up this week. I was thinking about it yesterday at work and what I would write, so here goes…

I’m LOVING that the AC in my car got fixed on Monday…and it only cost me $100!!!! Last August, I got it fixed because it wasn’t blowing out cold air and I paid $225. Well, I just noticed that it hasn’t been blowing out cold air again, so I made an appointment to get it checked out. Here, it was just all out of freon. Which I don’t understand because this has  never happened to me before. But oh well, I don’t care. It’s fixed now and it didn’t cost me that much!!!

I’m LOVING that after tomorrow, I only have 2 more weeks of my summer class left!!! My grade is pretty good so far so let’s hope I can keep it up!!!

I’m LOVING that I start work at 11 today instead of 9 because it’s giving me time to catch up on some blogs!!

I’m LOVING that tomorrow is Thursday because it’s my only day off from work this week!!!! I’m using the extra time to clean up the place and study for my midterm tomorrow night.

What are you loving this Wednesday?? Leave me some comments! And have a great Wednesday!!!

I’m featured on another blog!!

I just wanted to say thank you to Michelle for allowing me to contribute to her “The Road to Finding Love” series on her blog, a little bit of this & that. Go check out her blog to read my story and to follow Michelle! She also has another series on her blog titled “Not Another Bad Date”, so check that one out as well! Have a great Monday everyone!!!

What I’m loving Wednesday

I did this last week, so I thought I’d keep on doing it every week.

I'm LOVING that the end of the semester is almost here!!! I have 5 classes left and then finals start!!

I'm LOVING my new dress I bought from Walmart last night!!! I can't find a picture of the dress online, otherwise I would totally share it!!

I'm LOVING how nice the weather has been!! I think the warm weather might be here to stay. Fingers crossed!

 

I'm LOVING that I get to see my fiance's family two weekends in a row!!!

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What I'm Loving Wednesday

So I found this on Lindsay's blog at Simply Lindsay, so I decided to give it a shot and share what I'm loving today.

I'm LOVING the fact that my huge paper for my assessment class is done and that I will be turning it in at 5:30 tonight.

I'm LOVING that the semester is almost over and soon I will have more free time to work. And soon summer will be here!!!

 I'm LOVING that my weekend is almost here. After I'm done with classes today I have two classes tomorrow and then I'll be going home to work!

And overall, I'm just LOVING life in general! Have a great Wednesday anyone!!

Would you rather?

I’m going to start a new weekly post. I’m going to call it “Would You Rather Wednesday”

Alright, I was having a debate with my roommate about this. And it was actually her boyfriend who started it. He had a job interview today for something that is totally unrelated to his degree. He texted me earlier today saying “Here’s my dose of mean: I will probably get a job that pays more than you will ever make teaching. Hahaha”. So then I responded with “At least I’ll be using my degree”, to which he said “Whatever. Tell that to your bank account.” I then told him “It doesn’t matter about the money, if it did, I would have picked a different career.”

So then when I got back to my room I asked my roommate, “Would you rather do something you love and get paid a little or do something you hate and get paid a lot?” You know which one she said? The second one. Then she went off about how if you love your job and get paid a little, you’ll be miserable because you won’t have a lot of money. Well I then said that if you hate your job but get paid a lot, you will still be miserable because you won’t like your job. So either way, both scenarios would kind of suck. But you know what, I’m willing to get paid a little to do something I love, which will be teaching. If I wanted to get paid more, then I would have gone to school to be a doctor or a lawyer, but I wouldn’t like either one of those jobs. Who cares if I’m not getting paid a lot? Then I will just have to get my priorities straight and not splurge on things I need. If I want to go on vacation I can just save money and go every other year or every few years.

So now I wanna know, what are your thoughts on this topic? I put up a poll on the right side of my blog so vote and leave me your comments letting me know what you think.