Jer and I just back last weekend from a trip to the Dominican Republic for our honeymoon! We loved the trip to this tropical spanish land! We learned about the Dominica and Saona Island (for a day trip). It was so much fun.

I have a couple of slideshows loaded into flickr that we’d like to share with you.

The first is of the resort and the first three days of the honeymoon, the second is of Saona Island.

Punta Cana:

Saona Island:

I will add pictures of wedding week and blog about the whole wedding experience soon. But for now, just know that Jer and I are doing well and loving our first (almost) 2 weeks of married life! It is a process learning to live, work, and play together but one that I am enjoying thoroughly.

blog post I’ll write (on here) as a single woman. As Kelly Cain. My blog’s name will stay the same, though, so don’t fret all of you RSS readers out there.

I’m not quite so sure why I’m awake – I’m ridiculously tired, but awoke this AM at 5, and just haven’t been able to go back to sleep since. I’ve tried, believe me, I want to sleep. My mind is overloaded currently with details, ribbons, paper, and fonts, guest lists, volunteer lists, nametags and flowers. While, these are by no means bad things to think about, I wonder if my mind or my body could handle much more of this pace and amount of information.

In just 2 weeks, I’ll be Kelly Smith. Just yesterday I joked that if “I have to put on a white dress and have everyone stare at me so that Jeremy and I can live in the same town, then so be it!” We’re excited and ready to not have to say “bye” every 5 days. These past few weeks have been strange really – I haven’t known how to cope with the goodbyes as frequent as they were, and the hellos as infrequent as they seemed to be.

In the past few weeks it’s as if God is giving me some treasured time with some friends that I haven’t seen in so long! On the way to Emily’s wedding, I met up with Holden and Michael and got to meet their brand new baby boy (and his monkey rug) Whitt! That night Jeremy and I stayed with Renn and Roger in Kannapolis (right outside of Charlotte) before heading to Emily and Thad’s wedding on Sunday! I cannot say enough how great it was to see these precious friends from college! It was so good tor reconnect and get to catch up on life! When I came back to Wilmington I got to see my sweet friend Lindsey who labored in Slovakia all last year with her stint team. A few days later I was hanging out with Jeanette, another dear friend from college, whom life and distances have kept us from seeing each other for over 2 years! With most of these friends, I had not seen them in at least a year, most of them 2 years, and some of them even longer! But, oh how sweet it was to reconnect and to be able to see them before the wedding festivities!

There seem to be so many life changes around me as well that I haven’t hardly had a chance to fully comprehend babies born, engagements galore (tis the season), and weddings. It’s a busy time, a good time! I have much to be thankful for! And this is perhaps the last blog post I’ll write for awhile, well at least till after the wedding and honeymoon, we’re 10 days away!

I finally got to the fun stuff of wedding planning. The picking out of fabrics and foods, places to go beforehand, honeymoon, bed & breakfasts, trolleys or limosines, the fun intricate things that will make our day ours. This weekend picked up speed in wedding planning land, Jeremy pitched in big time fielding (please notice all of the baseball terminology) quotes for honeymoons, going to left field for groomsmen attire, and bringing it back home with making some rehearsal dinner decisions. All-in-all a great and productive weekend.

I feel like I’ve finally gotten some footing with some planning and am excited to see some more things come together in the coming weeks. We’re into countdown land now – and time is drawing near for the big day, and the rest of our lives. I’m trying not to be sappy – it’s just exciting!

Really only… left!