Merry Christmas + One

Cody Claus says "Merry Christmas from the soon-to-be Snyders!"

I am celebrating my last few days of my last full year as a Prager. By next Christmas, I will officially be a Snyder (of Scheider, according to members of my family). We spent a wonderful week in South Carolina with our family.

We have our mini-engagement party tomorrow, and then we are heading back home just a FEW Legos heavier.

We would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

STEVIE aka Cody Jr

Please welcome Stevie, or Cody Jr. to the family. I just saw this picture and realized I have not shown the world this amazingly cute puppy. My parents just got him a few months ago. He looks eerily similar to Cody, and is just as smart and outgoing. Stevie loves to play Catch Cody when Cody comes to visit.

A Paula Deen Catered Wedding

New Dream in Life: Paula Deen caters our wedding.

Reality: Not gonna happen. BUT, I will try and make my home the nearby Horseshoe Casino as much as possible to eat at the Paula Deen Buffet.

Don and I ate there last night when we were at the casino. The picture is of her bread pudding. Well actually it is the remnants of my plate of bread pudding that I attempted to shovel into my mouth at warp speed. SO AMAZING. If I had known how good the bread pudding and sauce were going to be, I would have literally just ate bread pudding. It was like a praline bread pudding extravaganza.

Everything else was awesome too, but they tried to trick you at the buffet. First of all, the plates were tinyyyy. I picked one up, and said to Don: "Okay, here's the salad plate. So where is the main plate?" But no, the tiny plate was the main plate. Well sorry Horseshoe, you can't dupe us, because Don just got two plates to start with. And I got 1.5 plates (aka small plate and smaller bread plate.) But that is not the end of the cunningness. So, most people do buffets right to left, as that is how people feel comfortable. Well, they put all the filling starches right at the beginning. Essentially my first plate was shrimp and grits, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese. Small plates combined with starches meant I basically filled up with three tiny scopes of food. AKA Horseshoe makes a lot of money since I basically ate nothing. Then the prime rib is all the way at the end, so you NEVER get there! The salads were over there also so you didn't get your salad plate first. You get the filling carbos first. Sneaky sneaky. Don won though. He was eating so fast I am pretty sure he never swallowed until all his plates were done.

Bottom line: Buffet = AWESOME. Horseshoe = SNEAKY. Don = HAPPPPPPY. Amanda = DREAMS OF BREAD PUDDING.

Well if you REALLY want to know, I didn't like it

My wedding Invitations day guests for Charlene & Kenny
Originally uploaded by Salicia

"If you guys have an ugly baby, and you ask me if you're baby is pretty, I'm not gonna tell you your baby is pretty. You guys better make sure you have a pretty baby." Linda Prager's baby policy from 5 seconds ago (this has nothing to do with this post, but she was saying it as I started posting so I thought it made a good addition)

So I went on a wedding rampage today. I FINALLY got some things done for the wedding.

1) I got the wedding guest list done. Somehow...since this occurred in the midst of another Amanda-Linda showdown and a Michael budget ultimatum.

2) I have ordered to invitation samples. Which my mom hates apparently. She said nothing at the time, then as I ordered them decided to let me know that she didn't like them. Queue the ugly baby rampage. Apparently if things are ugly she won't tell you until you ask...unless you have an ugly baby in which case she is perfectly happy telling you that you have an ugly baby. Which makes no sense, but that's my mom. But I like both the invitations. One is purple and following the wedding colors. The other is beige, more neutral, and falling more along the lines of our imagined oldies glamour theme.

3) I have started a wedding budget. My dad is expecting some sort of a professional powerpoint presentation extravaganza in order to convince him to increase my wedding budget. Yeah...I will get right on that! Seriously...I need a bigger budget so I will budget away until this is done. I wonder if $10,000 for flowers will slide by his eagle eyes...

Ahh, the joys of planning a wedding. Just shy of a year out and I already feel jaded. It will be lucky if I even show up for this in the end. ;)

Planning a Wedding + Law School = No Wedding

Happy Thanksgiving btw...I have been MIA on this blog for a while. Law school finally sucked me in for the semester in November. Once the smell of finals hits the hallways, its hard to find time for anything else besides wondering how many ways you can possibly fail each of your classes.

But the semester is finally over! Well, it was over a week and a half ago, but I am finally recuperated and ready to move on with life. AKA getting the wedding date finalized. Stacey (Disney wedding contract person extraordinaire) and I have been shooting emails back and forth. She is out of the office until Monday, but I am hoping that we may be able to sign the Letter of Agreement on Monday! Everything is a go as of now for 12/12/11, but it will be nice to know 100% that the date is ours.

Besides that, I officially have a Maid of Honor. I just asked her a few days ago, and she said yes! Like she said, it is basically the blind leading the blind since I have no idea what MOHs do...and neither does she. But she is great, so I know whatever it is she does will be perfect.

I am concentrating right now on the guest list. Yeah...That is not going so well, but I will get it done. My way. Sorry mom. People will be invited. There will be food. There will be wine (well maybe not wine...) BUT, all will have a great time.

I'll be back soon with more wedding details, as the wedding is officially less than a year away now. EEK! Better get to planning!