and then the text in my God is warming up outside.
someone just showed me a website where you enter any url and it creates the page into a poem. it is highly amusing! check it out here. just add the url of your choice. here's the poem for my blog:

lily of the last
minute shopping
done. for an increasing amount
of being
the summer
after marriage . only have left a bad
things i always in
this excited feeling of my week
and more and
then it is not matter how we can
do my savior. all
the
ones i had
a paper i
do. my wedding dressand i love to
give an hour
reading children
i am tired
and unpacking, i have being a
chore, it is about them, up
material things And then the
text in my
God is
warming up outside.

haha, i love it! (9 days!)

"with my fighting so vain, with my vanity so strong, i'm rolling over..." -caedmon's call

written by * kat * at 1:00 PM  

10 days!
josh and i applied for our marriage license today, so it is official. this wedding is happening. it was pretty cool to fill out "reilly" under the field "surname after marriage". only 10 more days of being a haggerty. very interesting. i'm sure i'll be slipping up and signing my name incorrectly for the next year or so. :)

tonight my mom, josh, and i are meeting the function coordinator at rossi's to finalize the reception plans. it will be a very fun meeting. we have between 200-250 guests coming so seating arrangements will be a challenge! things are falling into place though and i can't help but feel blessed and happy. the stress isn't so overwhelming anymore. answered prayers are the best!

"maybe all that i'd to do was done a long time ago..." -derek webb

written by * kat * at 1:04 PM  

11 days!
one week from saturday, one week from saturday! i am far past the point where i can rationally discuss wedding plans and my life without beaming and clapping my hands. (it's cute at first... then it starts bugging people.) so aren't you lucky, all you readers, that you only have to read my thoughts instead of listen to my delighted squeals as i tell you my thoughts? i still have a lot to do but i have more joy about completing last minute tasks. everything is making me happy. thank you Jesus that i get to have such a blessing as marriage!

i can't form coherent thoughts right now. my mood varies between overjoyed-kathleen and completely-stressed-out-don't-talk-to-me-kathleen. if you're reading this, please pray that all goes as planned for the next few weeks and that we have nice weather on june 7th. i'll be back before then, but advance prayers won't hurt. thank you everyone!

"try as i may i can never explain what i hear when you don't say a thing..." -allison krause

written by * kat * at 12:58 PM  

19 days!
to my delight and to your great annoyance I have decided that all posts from now until the wedding will be titled with the number of days i have left to go. as you can see, today's count is 19 more days until i get married! i can't believe how many things i have left until the last minute. i thought i was on top of everything - i was wrong! i have to pack up all my belongings and move them to josh's place, find my passport, make a packing list, wrap the bridesmaid and flower girl gifts, call and confirm all of our reservations, go to the store to pick up a billion things (hair dye, crest white strips, waterproof mascara, and the list goes on and on...), finish sending my thank you notes from my second shower, and there are a million more things. i'm going to hit the mall tonight to get all the last minute shopping done. afterwards i will clean and pack, clean and pack, clean and pack. after the wedding and honeymoon you know i will be cleaning and unpacking, cleaning and unpacking, cleaning and unpacking. i am thoroughly crazed, although not a fully-formed bridezilla. hehe.

i am loving that other people are excited for josh and i though. our families, obviously, are excited. but also our good friends and co-workers keep asking us how things are going and saying they can't wait for the "big day". it's very encouraging to know that our friends are thinking of us and praying for us right now. we can certainly use the prayers and kind thoughts! our main concern right now is having a marriage that is wholy centered on God. we're so easily distracted right now, especially by the thought of living together and certain marital benefits we will be enjoying that we have never had the privilege of enjoying before. ;) thanks to all for your prayers!

"and the God of second chance will pick them up and He'll let them dance, through a world that is not kind..." -bebo norman

written by * kat * at 11:55 AM  

life passes us by...
almost all of my close friends are graduating from various colleges this month. i am jealous and scared and joyful all at the same time. when did we get so old? what happened to high school dances and slumber parties? when did the worries of which boys i liked become replaced by worries of which health care plan to suscribe to? and then there's the whole getting married factor. my friends say "i can't believe you're getting married kathleen! you must be so excited!". i am so excited, i am! but what happens after the day i have dreamed about my whole life is over? in reality i know that everything will be fine, that i have so much to look forward to in life from my wedding day onward. but in my mind i am grasping frantically at every moment that speeds by, trying to slow things down. when you're six years old you feel like life will never be over, school will never be over, and any grown up responsibilities are too far in the future to even consider thinking about. now i am here, twenty-one going on twenty-two years old, fielding questions about when josh and i plan to have children. i love my life. i love what the future is bringing to me. i love the gifts God is giving me. but at the moment i am like a deer in the headlights trying to understand what is happening, what is about to happen, and what am i supposed to do in response to it all?

29 days from right now i will be at my wedding reception. i don't know whether to yell for joy or hide under the computer desk. i am not nervous about things going wrong at the wedding or about having a bad marriage... i'm just not used to being the center of attention at any event, especially one so anticipated. the two wedding showers i have had so far have been wonderful, but a little bit embarrassing with all eyes focused on me. i'm sure on the actual day i will be too distracted to be embarrassed however. i can't wait.

i feel as if i have loads more to share with you but no way to put all my thoughts and feelings into words, so i'll trust that this entry finds you all well, and i will do my best to keep everyone up to date as my life flies by.

"come away with me and we'll kiss on a mountain top, come away with me and i will never stop loving you..." -norah jones

written by * kat * at 11:33 AM  

one month!
an update is coming soon, i promise you. i have a million and one things going on around me, so as soon as i have some time to myself i will let you in on what's happening.

"nothing's in the way now, don't you see..." -david gray

written by * kat * at 8:31 AM