Friday, July 16, 2010

A Girl Can Dream, Right?

Okay, I'm going future shopping. There is nothing quite as nice as being full of cheese pizza, watching "Say Yes to the Dress", the sound of heavy rain echoing in the fireplace as thunder rumbles in the distance, and dreaming about your future. I'm going to build my future in pictures right here, down to the last shallow detail.



Go to as many UGA home football games as possible while I attend the school. Sit in the student section, scream until my throat is raw, and discover how great it really is to be a Georgia Bulldog. Have the time of my life in college, study hard, and make tons of friends that I'll keep for life. Soak everything in and become my own person.




Graduate from The University of Georgia at Sanford Stadium in 2014 as an honors student with a degree in Early Childhood Education. Watch the fireworks as tears stream down my face with my family cheering me on from the stands as I feel a humble kind of pride swelling in my chest.



Find a genuinely good, maybe even a little nerdy, guy. I've always been sort of attracted to the nerdy guys, especially when they still manage to be really attractive. The ideal nerdy guy I have in my head is a Topher Grace kind of guy: Smart, cute, quirky, funny, sweet.



Join the Peace Corps and work with under privileged children in a third world country. I'd love to go somewhere in Africa. If I'm married before this, it would be ideal to experience it with my husband, if not that's fine too.



Use the money from my time in the Peace Corps for a European vacation. I've always wanted to go to beautiful Venice, Italy. I also want to go to Athens, Liverpool, London, Paris, and Bavaria, Germany to visit Neushcwanstein Castle, the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland! If I'm already married, my sweetheart can come too!



The beautiful creation above is my dream engagement ring. Of course, unless my husband-to-be is extremely wealthy it may a bit out of reach. The point is, I want something very classic. Honestly, it doesn't even have to be a real diamond, I just really like this cut. The ring is beautiful. I also just want something from Tiffany & Co. at some point in my life. I'm not a materialistic girl, I just really want that one thing. Sue me.

WEDDING TIME!

I want to get married in a beautiful old country church, but one that's big enough for all of my family and friends as well as my sweetheart's. I want a big wedding, and I mean BIG. An outdoor wedding is also completely possible. I would love that! Just me, all my friends and family, my baby, and a big ole' open field! Either way, as you can probably tell, I want to keep the location of my wedding pretty simplistic. I think simplicity is beautiful. It helps to keep your eyes on what's really important at a wedding- the union of two families thanks to love.



First of all, my ideal dress. I want my wedding to be some time in the Spring. Some time around Easter would be wonderful. I want my dress strapless, because I like my freckled shoulders. I want something extremely classic and timeless, and this one is perfect. I literally stopped looking when I saw this one, it's beautiful and I love it and I want something like this. I'll wear my tri-color pearls with it with some matching earrings, and my hair will be up in some sort of up do showing off my natural curls, and I'll keep my makeup simple and natural. If I, for some reason, ended up with a fall wedding, I'd really want a long sleeved dress. I know it seems outdated, but I really like them. Long, lace sleeves, beautiful.



I want this for my wedding band. I love how it looks with the ring, love it!







I want the first picture to be my bouquet! Yellow is my favorite color, and sunflowers are my favorite flower. I love the way the yellow roses look with the sunflowers. I also really feel like this could easily be a fall or spring bouquet. The other two pictures show what I'd like as far as decorating goes. As far back as I can remember, I've always loved yellow and purple together. There are so many choices as far as yellow and purple flowers go! I just can't pass it up. I'd really like beautiful arrangements of fresh flowers all over the place, during the wedding and for the reception.



I want all of my bridesmaids to pick their own style of dress. Basically, I just want all of them to be short, and I don't really want any of them to be strapless. I could probably live with it if Steph wanted her's strapless or something, though. I want none other than Stephanie Leigh Putnam to be my maid of honor. I want Kate Towery and Megan Foote in the group as well, with someone that I maybe haven't met yet rounding out the bridal party. Their bouquets will all include both purple and yellow flowers.

For a cake, I couldn't really find a picture of one that matched what I wanted. I want something simple and white, maybe decorated with sunflowers and little edible pearls.


As far as music goes, I want "Songs for Swingin' Lovers" played, and I want our first dance to be to "My One and Only Love".



For my honeymoon, I want to go to Disney World. I've never been, so that'll make the experience even more magical. I want the little bride and groom Mickey and Minnie hats, I want to kiss in the teacups, I want to kiss under the fireworks over Cinderella's castle, I want something magical.



I want to teach elementary school, and I want to go observe at Ron Clarke Academy.




I want to live and work in New York City but leave before it makes me hard. I want to experience the magic of Times Square at Christmas time and see the statue of liberty in person. I want to be a northerner for a little while in a nice little cozy apartment in the big apple.




I want to live in Northern California once but leave before it makes me soft. More specifically, I want to live in beautiful San Francisco. I want to live in a sweet little townhouse like the one the Tanner family lived in in Full House. I want to travel across the Golden Gate Bridge on my way to work. I want to swim in the Pacific Ocean and experience the West Coast lifestyle.



I want to visit the Olympic Peninsula and see the beautiful rainforests that the United States has to offer. Maybe I'd even like to live in Seattle, with it's rainy weather and musical atmosphere.



A beautiful big pregnant belly! Once my husband and I have had four or five years to experience life as a couple. I want three or four kids that aren't too far apart in age. I want to sing "Kids" by MGMT to them, read Dr. Seuss books with them, and protect their beautiful innocence and sense of wonder.

So that's it. That's my future! At least, what I want to be my future, and I think I can make it happen, with the right man of course.

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