Finally!

I have been keeping my hair long for most of my life. When we got engaged, I told Max I would grow it out as long as it would go until after the wedding and then I would chop it off. Well I finally got to cut it all off and I love it!
















It now takes me less then ten minutes to do my hair from out of the shower to ready to roll :) It used to take me over then minutes just to blow dry it!

Wisconsin Reception After Party

I had my wedding reception on December 13 at Faith Community Church. It turned out really well, I think. They decorations that my family and I worked so hard to put together turned out beautiful (did anyone get a picture of the centerpieces? I wasn't able to take any pics myself since I was talking to everyone but I would love a pic!) Dinner was delicious, complements of Max's stepmom Laurie. She is an EXCELLENT cook. I really enjoyed seeing everyone and spending time. I was so surprised at the turn out! Max and I know a LOT of people!

After the church reception and the takedown of the decorations, a medium sized group of us went to City Limits for a little drinking and celebrating. It was a lot of fun!

Here I am with my Aunt Darcy on the left and my Aunt Tonya on the right. Both were incredibly helpful with my reception. Thank you so much guys!
My sister and I... usually Caitlin is the one looking weird but we switched it around I guess!
This is Ashmonkey and her boyfriend Nate. I met Ashley in college and became fast friends! She is hilarious!
This is another college friend of mine, Sarah. She came down to the wedding in St. Croix and did the photography for the wedding! She's super good at what she does I'll tell you that right now!
A group of us... we were getting so camera happy! Actually anything dealing with the wedding had a million funny face photos. We are a crazy bunch my friends, family and I!
John and Kristi.. I haven't spent a lot of time with them since I was a little, little girl! Thanks so much for coming out guys! It was like a blast from the past seeing you and mom hanging out!
My momma and her boyfriend Brian. Love you Mom!
My brother Nathaniel and I.
Caitlin with her bridesmaid gift... a personalized harmonica! For those of you who don't know Caitlin, she tends to whip out her harmonica in the oddest moments but someone had just stolen her last one so she was quite happy about it!
My husband and I. This is kind of a weird photo of us but oh well.
All of my siblings minus Ame who obviously couldn't come to the bar with us. From the left we have Nathaniel, myself, TJ and Caitlin.

Caribean Part Two

So, finally I am blogging. The title of my blog is part 2 because part 1 is still on JW computer from when I had to unload my card. It was too full for any other photos. So here is a slight photo slideshow from my vacation... I can't put all the pictures on here, that would be crazy!

This is the view from the pool area to the left...

This is the view from the pool area to the right...

Max and I after enjoying a small dip in the ocean. Actually he was snorkeling and I was walking around the waters edge. This was when both of us got stung by sea urchins... he got them in his hand when he fell over trying to get up with this snorkel fins on and I got them in my feet from wandering around. They hurt and are very hard to get out of your skin!

Max and I went into town with Dad, Cathy, Ame and Sarah to get some souvenirs and to look around.

I thought this was kinda funny because it's like those corona commercials or whatever but if you look closely at the picture it has a sign saying you can rent the chairs for 5 bucks. Typical.

Dad and Cathy. We ferried across to another small island where a resort was having a beach BBQ. They also offered some entertainment along with it. They had a dressed up guy on stilts dancing around (this was more for the kids I think) and then they had a fire-eating/glass walking guy that was actually really cool! Some of the things he was doing made me cringe!

Here he is stomping on his glass shards but he lit them on fire too... crazy guy. It was pretty funny when he would reset up him little blanket... he would have to bend over and pick out a giant piece of glass out of his foot like it was a tiny little sliver or something!

A multi talented fire eater/ glass walker... he also did the limbo.

This was our last day... Max and I went walking along the beach to enjoy our last stroll :(

These little guys were around everywhere! Not as little as this guy but small.

Our fancy upgraded room they gave us since we were the wedding couple ;) The tub was a whirlpool tub too... very nice.

Waiting for our cab to come bring us to the airport.

This funny guy was the main cab driver. He pretty much drove most people around. Day or night you could call Houston up and he would come for you. We left kinda early for the airport so Houston took the long way and gave us a tour of the island.

This was our little nine seater island hopper that brought us to the island and back to Puerto Rico. Max's mom was seriously freaked out by these little planes and called them flying Taurus's for how small they are.

The ocean from out the plan window.

This was our view out of the plane from Puerto Rico to Charlotte, NC. The sun was setting and it was so pretty the way it looked on the clouds.

HOLLA

Shout out to my work buddies! I will miss you but not as much as you will miss me I bet!

Coletters... I hope you wear some chaps to my reception! :)

Golly Jolly Molly... I can't wait to give you a big ole hug and squeeze you so tight you might get a temporary buttcrack!

Nicoli Garden... You just remember that chat that we had about being mean... tsk tsk! Make sure someone scrunches your hair everyday so you don't forget me!

ErinAnn... I better be getting an email everyday from you ;)

(all inside jokes... sorry to the people who are on the outside)

The time has come

I wrote a long blog about all the things going on in life, about how stressed I am, about how excited I am but I am in such a weird state of mind that I was rambling and nothing made sense. So I am leaving you all with a small little something.

I am getting married in 4 days :)
I am leaving at 330am to go the airport to fly to St. Croix Virgin Islands.
I finally get to say the vows that we wrote together to Max.
I will be an Arco very soon.
I am very excited for the reception and to see how all the hard work we did to put it together turns out.
I am going on vacation with 24 people that I love very much that are so wonderful that they spent the money to come to our wedding that is so far away.
I get to get out of this cold, cold, cold weather to enjoy 80 degree sunshine:)

Another thing, after things calm down a bit I will for sure be blogging a bit more :) I will put up pics of the vacation when I get home and Sarah will put up the wedding pics very quickly would be my guess for everyone to see.

Next time I write I will be Jessie Arco!