2 months away!

2 months from tomorrow I will be a Drager!! Things around here have been good, we took a break from wedding things after we sent the invites out and got the rest of the inside of the house painted. Also, back on July 27th, we celebrated Bella's 4th Birthday, as you can see above, me and Diesel threw her a party and unfortunately Zach was gone at work so he missed it.

We also have been using our grill every weekend and Zach is quite the grill master :) We made ribs, grilled pita with hummus, grilled potatoes and a nice salad for dinner last night. Now you may look at the photo above and say "wow, Zach and Jaclyn must have had people over for dinner" Nope! If you know anything about the Drager's its that they like good food, make amazing meals and have PLENTY of food! Zach has of course inherited that trait and I am reaping the benefits (plus having to do additional workouts! :)) Today Zach also decided to start canning. Now this is a new process to me as he likes to call me "city girl" I must admit, I was kinda grossed out by his canning process, mainly because I don't like okra and putting a hard boiled egg in a can just looks gross. Zach however was in heaven canning for over an hour in the kitchen! Well Zach's off again tonight to TN and right now Diesel is looking at me with his ball in his mouth so I better go play with him outside :)

Wedding Invitations, 2nd Anniversary, House Projects, Oh My!

We finally got our wedding invitations out in the mail this past Friday (picture above), so be on the lookout! Now that those are out, I will work on our programs and candy bags for the candy bar (my mom ordered 81 POUNDS of candy for the candy bar!! She is the best!). Also, one of the things I love about Zach is that he always wants to work on something around the house. I love that he always wants to work so hard for us and better our house, but I think right now with all the wedding stuff we are working on might not be the best time to repaint the inside of our house. Well we decided to do it anyways and decided to do the wall with the fireplace a dark color (picture above) and we are doing the other walls a lighter color. Now that we've started I'm really glad we did do it and we had a fun day today figuring out paint colors and then actually painting. Although Diesel and Bella are completely confused as to why our furniture is all pushed to the middle of the room and they can't get to their spots on the couch. Also today, August 1st is our 2 year anniversary! Zach got me the best present, a soft serve icecream machine!! We used it tonight and it was so delicious!! Zach said he'd never seen me so happy, I told him he could have saved himself alot of money and just bought me this machine instead of a ring! :)

Just kidding, I'm glad he got me that ring, I can't believe that 2 years ago I got so lucky to have Zach ask me out on a date and now we are 2 months away from being married!!

Summer Fun

Zach and I just got back a couple days ago from our MI trip, it was a blast! We got to visit with all of Zach's family and friends and I even got to meet Zach's 2 uncles that I hadn't gotten to meet yet so that was really nice. A highlight of our trip was my first Apple Fritter from Erie Orchard. Is it sad that I am still thinking about that apple fritter? It was just SO good! Diesel did really good on the trip, he was FANTASTIC in the car rides, on the way home it took 15 hours and he was just perfect! The picture of him above is him exhausted from playing so much on our trip :)
Zach's cousins Amber and Leigh are in town right now and yesterday we went up to the mountains with Colleen and visted Grandfather Mountain. The picture above is of us in the park on the way to the top of the mountain. Once we got to the top it was so windy and there is a bridge you have to walk across, well we got to the other side and it started to rain on us! Luckily the rain didn't last long and it ended up to be a beautiful day. We then took them to the candy store at the Mass General store, although Colleen and I were the only two that got bags of candy, imagine that! :)
The last picture above is all the veggies I picked from our garden tonight!! We are having Erin up for Leigh and Amber's last night on Friday night and I think we are going to make homemade pizza with all our veggies, yum!
In wedding news, I'm going Saturday for a practice run on my hair, I haven't decided how I want it yet but I'm excited to go see what they can do with it! Also, our invitations have arrived! Be on the lookout for them around the beginning of August!

Wedding Planning is in FULL force!

My mom came up to visit us over the long 4th of July weekend and we went full force into wedding planning! Even Zach got into it, you can see him and my mom in one of pictures above at the event rental place talking over our centerpieces. I have to give him credit, he has had some really good decorating ideas and even came up with one of our centerpieces! My mom, what a trooper! I'm seriously not kidding when I say she should be a wedding planner, we got so much accomplished when she was here, we both feel alot better and prepared for the big day that is less than 3 months away!!! We did fit in a little non-wedding events and the one picture above is of Diesel watching fireworks. We met my brother and his girlfriend Sarah down near Lake Norman and watched a good show. Diesel did good, the finale kinda freaked him out since it was so loud though. The other picture above was of him getting a bath the day his grandma came to visit, he likes to look his best when we have company! This Thursday Zach, Diesel and I are going to go up to Michigan!! I am so excited to get to visit with Zach's Grandparents and the rest of his family up there!! We will stay until Monday and that is gonna be our last trip until our honeymoon so we are ready!! Check back after next weekend and I'm sure I'll have some good pictures to post from our trip!

Summer is here!

Summer is here and we have 109 days until our wedding! My mom is coming to visit next week and boy is she in wedding planning mode! She has always been a very organized person and on top of all the little details and it is coming in so handy for this wedding! I think she should open a wedding planning business on the side! The photos above are from Zach and I at our friends Taylor and Megean's wedding this past weekend, it was an outdoor wedding and it was hot! It was a beautiful wedding though and it got me very excited for ours! The other picture is of our first squash and jalapenos from our garden! Zach grilled the squash and it was so good! I love seeing how excited he gets about his garden. He will go outside for usually 20-30 min. just looking at the garden. Pretty soon we will have habaneros, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, onions, peppers, and more squash and jalapenos! Well that's all for now, Diesel is sitting here at my side with his ball in his mouth waiting to go play, he is the boss!

Taste of Charlotte

This past week Zach has been away on his fishing trip and things around here have been pretty quiet. He got back yesterday and we decided to go downtown Charlotte to the Taste of Charlotte, where there are tons of food vendors and craft booths all along one of the main streets. It was packed and about 95 degrees so we were hot but still had a great time! Now its back to "normal" for us. Zach has to leave this afternoon to get back to TN. I'm not looking forward to it but thankfully he gets a long weekend next weekend and we are off to Chapel Hill for our friends' wedding! Some good news, in an earlier post I had talked about having to kennel Diesel when we go away next weekend but my awesome brother offered to let Diesel stay with him since he will be in town now, thank you Gene!!!

Busy Busy!

Things around here have been pretty busy the past couple weeks. My dad came to visit and we went to the Nascar Truck Race & the Nascar All Star Race and topped it off with a trip to the Nascar Hall of Fame! It was a really good visit with my dad, and I wish he could have stayed longer. Then this past weekend Zach and I met Erin and Brandon and tailgated down at the the Coca Cola 600. It was a day filled with too much sun and Bud Light Lime's but a fun day! Then this week a very nice lady in my real estate office offered to co-list a listing with me to get me experience. She also has been working with me the past two days giving me tips on the industry. Whoever says there aren't nice people left in this world anymore, sure hasn't met her! And finally right now Zach is on his way back from TN only to leave before 6am tomorrow to head up to MI for his week long bachelor party fishing trip! He's so excited and I just got done baking for it. The pictures above are of the cookies and brownies and oyster crackers Zach requested. I am tired now and actually going to catch up on General Hospital before he gets home :)