Screw you 2020

I haven't been on here in so long so figured I would update everyone! Last time I wrote all I could talk about was how exciting 2020 was going to be...

• my bridal shower

• my bachelorette

• our wedding

• our honeymoon

• my best friends bachelorette

• my best friends bridal shower

• my best friends wedding

• Kenny Chesney in August

ALL CANCELED due to COVID19 which in years to come will definitely be a good story to tell everyone but over the past few months I have never been so angry and fed up in my entire life. 2 years of planning my wedding and getting all of the last little things done over the winter... we were completely ready to get married and had the entire day planned out. But then a virus hit Massachusetts and many other surrounding states causing a global pandemic and making everyone stay inside and wear masks. Only grocery stores were open, many people lost their jobs or were laid off, the economy sunk and started a recession, alI while I had planned my bachelorette, bridal shower and wedding in May. This is supposed to be so fun and exciting and I had been looking forward to this for 2 years now. I really can't explain the feeling I felt when my sisters called me about canceling my bachelorette or the feeling I got when I rescheduled my bridal shower two times and both had to get canceled or rescheduled. And lastly the gut feeling I felt for three months knowing my dream wedding was going to be either canceled or rescheduled but then trying to stay positive at the same time. A wedding is something you plan and look forward to for so long and is supposed to be the best day of your life and it was like the world was out to get me and wanted to ruin everything. Well once I got over the tears, being upset, being sad and bitter, etc. about having to reschedule everything, I realized it was for the best. In order for us to have the day we planned for two years (now going on three) and be able to celebrate with our family and friends, we needed to reschedule to 2021. I am okay with it now and I think it was more of a relief once we rescheduled... just knowing everything was planned and we had all the vendors for our new date just put me at ease. Planning a wedding is stressful enough but then add in a global pandemic and ..... you have just total stress and chaos. But we have figured it out and our new date will now be June 5, 2021 in hopes everything will be better by then and we will all not be wearing masks. We rescheduled my shower to July and we plan to just have it then considering it was supposed to be in March so people have had gifts for a while and it also gives me something to be excited about. It was supposed to be such an exciting time but it was all filled with tears and this awful feeling... but it is what it is and it's not something we can control. I am looking forward to my shower and I cannot wait to spend the day with everyone! On the plus side - Cheers to another year being a bride though!

Okay so now that I just totally vented about all of that - I understand the virus effected many people in many different ways and it was and still is something to take seriously so not quite sure what the rest of the summer is going to look like but if there is nice weather and I can just lay out at my parents pool all summer, ill take it!

Although we were stuck at home and weren't able to to go to many places due to COVID19 - I coped with this by doing things around the house and we also got some projects we new we needed to do done. Last July we bought our first house together and there were some things outside we told ourselves we would take care of this summer. The people who lived here before really did not do much to keep up with the house so therefore over the year I painted every room and added my sense of style to all rooms with my kind of decor and such. As far as our summer projects we needed to get a pipe put underground in our backyard to make it so it was less swampy. We had a lot of water and wet lands and it made it very hard to enjoy the backyard. Therefore we got the pipe put under ground and extended it to the woods to get all of the water out of our yard and it totally worked. Our backyard has never been so dry and it is awesome! We also had a pool when we moved in but we gave that away due to the maintenance and just all around not really wanting it. The pool left a big circle of clay so we took some rocks and we covered it to make it more like a patio area and I prettied it up a bit by connecting pathways to the deck, adding pavers, and a fire pit. I am so excited to start to have people over and enjoy our patio area outside! We also sanded, power washed, and painted our deck a Seagull Gray color because it was so dirty and a redish brown color that was so ugly. It looks ten times better and it has been so exciting to redo it all and see the finishing project! I also had a lot of fun with plant shopping with my mom and putting together a bunch of planters throughout my yard. They just prettied up everything and made our farmers porch look so pretty with all the different colors! I also decided to paint our garage door white and add hardware which gave it even more of a country farm house look which is what I love!

As far as projects in the house - during the winter we painted all of my kitchen cabinets white and put on black hardware to kind of go with the theme of my house and we also painted all the kitchen walls a gray color to keep the flow of the other rooms. We white washed our fire place in our living room, painted the walls an off white and also painted the sitting room and the dining room the same color. It was so fun decorating these rooms and just putting my own personal touch on everything in our own new home :)

Besides that not much has gone on considering there was not much you could do over the past few months. Everything is starting to slowly open up now which is exciting but you still have to wear a mask and many other restrictions and rules apply as far as going into a store to shop or a restaurant to eat. This past weekend was a lot of fun. Started the weekend off on Friday with the beach with my family and then Saturday we were able to celebrate my best friend Kim and have her bridal shower. It was so much fun and it did rain, of course because 2020 sucks and we can't catch a break, but it didn't even matter. We made the day beautiful and she seemed happy and that was all that mattered. This next weekend should be a fun time because Zach and I are heading to the Cape to visit some friends and then coming back home and my family from CT is coming to my parents house for the long weekend for 4th of July. So I am really looking forward to this weekend with friends, family, and my happy place - the beach!

XO