Bittersweet!(OLD)

Today is a very bittersweet day for me....it is my last full day in the office of USC School of Medicine!! December would have been 6 years that I have worked here and learned a whole new world of things along with many great people! I have truley enjoyed my job working with the 3rd and 4th year medical students as well as the many Internal Medicine Residents!! It has given me many great opportunites as well and wounderful work experiance. I might miss it a little bit but I am even more excited to see what is about to begin for me and my life with my soon to be husband in 15 days!!!

Soooo to play a little bit of catch up on the things that have been going on since my last post I will start in order of dates :)

On August 9th I had my second bridal shower that was hosted by Anita and Rhonda, I was joined by some of my co-workers along with friends my awesome 2 sisters and mom and some bridesmaids!!

I LOVE my china :)

Oh the Bachelorette weekend at the beach!!!!!!

It was a blast to say the least :) thanks to my amazing friends, SISTER and bridesmaids. We went to Myrtle beach for the weekend...it rained all day Friday but Friday night it stop so us 8 girls could have a blast!

We decided to get a taxi to come pick us up from the condo so that way we could all have a good time, but seems how there are 8 of us we need a VAN! Well Bethany called around to some places and one of them said no problem we will see you at 9:30 at your condo and we will be there to pick you up from Broadway when you are ready to come home! Perfect right :) well it was even more perfect when we all walk outside and there is a LIMO to pick us up!!!

Count down has begun!

• 6 days until shower # 2
• 11 days until Bachelorette weekend at the beach
• 19 days until shower # 3
• 15 days of work left at USC
• 33 days until wedding day!
  
  How EXCITED do you think I am right now?!?

Bridal Portraits

Friday is the day that it is all going to become very real! I have my bridal portraits :) so I will have my dress on, hair and make-up done and see the whole thing put together! I cannot wait to see what it all looks like!! I am doing something a little special as well, My Dad is going to come with me and we are going to do some Father-Daughter pictures with him in his uniform when I take mine as well….but everyone will have to wait until September 5th at 5:00 PM to see :)

back tracking....

Ok...I know it has now been 2 months since I last posted anything on my blog and that is horrible!

Where to begin with all of the updates...

On July 19th I had my first Bridal shower hosted by my best friend of 10 years Lindsay Dinkins and it was awesome, everything that I could have imagined and more. Thanks to all of my great friends and family I/we got lots of fun new stuff like my perfect something blue from Katie! It was a monogram shower so of course lots of things with our Name and initials on them.

My Bridesmaids minus 3....

That same weekend was Brianna's 4th birthday and Bethany's birthday as well. Brianna my flower girl wanted to have her birthday party at "Jen's house". She is too cute; we went to the water park for the day at Ft. Jackson followed by dinner and CiCi's pizza then cake and ice cream at the park in Lake Carolina near my parent’s house. She had her friends Haylen Grace and Jackson there to play at the park. Then a fun filled night with my parents and sisters coloring in her new princess coloring book and playing dress up in her new Cinderella dress :)

Emily and Brianna coloring....

The weekend of July 25th was Lauren's 20th birthday so I got to spend a day on the lake with her and her boyfriend and roommate then enjoyed a good home grilled meal and homemade ice cream cake!

I have my second shower coming up this weekend on August 9th and I am just as excited as I was for my first one! Anita who I have worked with for the past 6 years is hosting this one for me. This is also going to be another busy weekend for us, my parent’s 27th wedding anniversary is on Friday and on Saturday my Mom is graduating from USC Upstate with her BSN, YAY congrats mom!

Things are coming along smoothly for the wedding...invitations are out and I am having fun checking the mail daily for the RSVP's. We got the programs printed this past weekend now it is just putting them together b/c we all know that I cannot do anything just simple :)

Fritz's Graduation

I know it has been a long time since I posted anything, there has been tons of things going on :) I am getting ready now to fly to Kentucky for Fritz's Graduation in Fort Knox. He graduates tomorrow, June 4, 2009 at 10:00 am! I am so excited to finally see him, we haven't seen each other since we got engaged! We will be able to spend about 13 days together, it is going to be a blast...we will be going to Texas to find a place to live and get Fritz all moved in and ready to start his new job!





Well I am off to the have lunch with my Mom and then to the airport. I will be back to you guys in a few days, I can't wait to see everyone at the engagement party Friday night :)



Love,

Soon-to-be Mrs. Behnke!

23 days!

I have about 23 days until I am going to Kentucky to pick up the Love of My life from Ft. Knox....not that I am counting or anything :)

Fritz stills seems to be pretty positive about school although I know it has been a huge challenge for him. Last night they were in the field for the night (unexpectedly), he got to call and tell me all of that in about 30 seconds. Next week I think, they will be spending a week in the field, then turning in weapons and all of that good stuff before "Graduation" and I say "Graduation" because they are not really doing anything for them after 12 weeks of school & training other than sending them off to a new job in Ft. Bliss, Texas.

We have about 3 weeks’ worth of stuff packed into several days that he will be home, here is just a few:
1. Visit Family in Kentucky and South Carolina
2. Engagement Pictures
3. Drive to Texas
4. Find a place to live in Texas
5. Spend time together
6. Get our marriage license in South Carolina
7. Relax (not going to happen)
8. Wedding plans
9. And much, more!

Wish us LUCK!

Dresses & Shoes

You would think picking out your own wedding dress would be hard to do or flowers or something other than the bridesmaids dress! I have finally picked them out along with our official wedding colors. Fuchsia & Lime green it is :)

Thanks to Katie I was able to find the perfect dress for my style wedding along with the Tux for the guys and the little boys. I am still trying to decide on Brianna's flower girl dress...

I also found some shoes that I really liked for the girls...still looking for what I want for me. So we finally got just about everyone's dress attire picked out for the wedding day.

Now I need to pick out our color theme for the engagement pictures that we are having done while Fritz is home, any ideas?