2010 already? It's gonna be a CRAZY year!

I haven't blogged since LAST year!

While I haven't been updating my goals, I have been working very hard towards them.

Ry & I spent a very nice holiday with his family and then traveled to Buffalo for a week to hang out with my family (maybe, someday, I will get around to some photos on here). We spent time with the niece & nephew, hung out with family and friends, and even managed to do a few things for the wedding (officially less than a year now!!!!)!

As soon as we got back home, I went into crazy work mode, preparing for a BIG committee meeting. While there was an opportunity for it to be an amazing success, it did end pretty well. But resulted in lots of work that I need to do NOW, NOW, NOW! If I want to graduate in May ...

While freaking out about graduation, I am still waiting to hear about a job. I have applied to a few dozen places now and am just hoping to hear SOMETHING at some point! I will soon start looking in to other types of work!

So the next few months will be busy, busy, busy, with a dissertation, finding a job and getting ready for the wedding!

Good thing I like to be busy!

Time is flying!

Stopping by to let you know ....

just 500 days until the wedding!!!!!!!!

Yay!

(To check out the webpage, go to www.mywedding.com and type in one of our names in the "find a webpage" area!)

Less than 600 days!

Oh my! Time is flying!




Luckily, we're not too stressed yet! We have the church, reception hall/hotel, dj, and photographers all lined up. I have bought a few favor/decor/gift sort of things. And the rest ... I feel like we still have time for!


We have set up a wedding webpage too! If you want to check it out our webpage, go to http://www.mywedding.com/. Then, on the rightside of the page, in the middle, you can type in my name or RyGuy's and you'll find us! We're going to try to update it often as we get more info about wedding related events! In case you're curious!

Next wedding goals: limo, semi-finalized guest list, save the dates, and loose some weight before dress shopping!

Yay wedding!!

Thanks friends!

The voting has ended for Steve & Kel's Ultimate Wedding!

We know they finished in the Top 12, but we have to wait until April 5th to see if they were #1!

Thanks everyone for voting!!

(PS -- I made it to 230 votes yesteday, if they loose by less than 100 votes, I will be so pissed!)

LAST DAY!!!!

It's the last day to VOTE for Steve & Kel!

Please vote as much as you can!

http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160

(PS - In addition to being able to vote on multiple computers, I just figured out that you can vote on BOTH Internet Explorer AND another web browser (i.e. AOL, Netscape or Mozilla). If you have more than one browser, please vote again!!)

THANKS!!!!

(My personal goal is to hit 200 votes today! Can you please try for 20 votes?)

Please!

Only 2 more days to vote for Steve & Kel!

Please VOTE VOTE VOTE!

10 times per day per IP address!

Tell your friends, families, students, enemies!

VOTE!

http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160

3 days LEFT!!!!

The Ultimate Wedding contest ends MARCH 17th! Just 3 days left!!!

PLEASE vote, vote, vote for Steve & Kel! Tell your friends, tell your co-workers. Vote on all computers as many times as you can!

Go to their little proposal story http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160

Click on "VOTE for this entry" at the bottom of the page.

Refresh the page and click "VOTE for this entry" again!

You can vote up to 10 times per day, per IP address (internet connection)! You never have to enter an email address or give your name or any information!

Please vote 10 TIMES per day, every day! If you have a computer at work and at home, you can vote 10 times per day on both!

Vote many, many times everyday, until March 17th!

They are in the "Top 12" and have been for almost the whole contest, so they definitely have a chance!!!!!!

Must vote, must vote!

Steve & Kel have slipped from the Top 12!

How can this be??????

(perhaps because I have slipped from 60 votes per day to just 30?)

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!

http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160

Please tell your friends!

Latest Ultimate Wedding Update!

I know you're all dying for another Ultimate Wedding Update!

Kel & Steve are still in the top 12!! They have yet to fall off the "random top 12"!

You can click here http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160 to vote for them OR go through www.buffalobrides.com and then find them in the Ultimate Wedding contest on page 8 (no longer page 9!)!

You can vote 10 times per 24 hour period per internet connection!

Get out there and vote everyday until the 20th!!

Ultimate Wedding Update!

You can keep voting for Steve & Kel until March 20th (not the 17th as we previously thought)!

So please VOTE VOTE VOTE!

10 times per day per internet connection!

They are in the "random top 12", so we must be doing pretty good!

And if you have a blog or facebook or myspace, please urge your friends to vote too!

Rock the Vote!

My lil' bro recently proposed to his long-time girlfriend Kel! And we are all very excited about their wedding!!!

Kel has entered them to win a FREE wedding at Buffalobrides.com!

This is not a randomly picked winner sort of contest -- the couple with the MOST VOTES wins a $30,000 wedding!

They totally deserve an awesome, fun wedding!

Helping them to win is so EASY!

1) Go to their little proposal story http://www.buffalobrides.com/ultimate-wedding/contest-entries?detail=1&id=160 (if that doesn't work, go to http://www.buffalobrides.com/ , click on "Ultimate Weddings" and they are on page 9 under Kelly Rinehamer. Look for this picture!)

2) Click on "VOTE for this entry" at the bottom of the page.

3) Refresh the page and click "VOTE for this entry" again!

4) You can vote up to 10 times per day, per IP address (internet connection)! You never have to enter an email address or give your name or any information!

5) Please vote 10 TIMES per day, every day! If you have a computer at work and at home, you can vote 10 times per day on both! Also, I found if you re-connect to your internet connection, you can vote again (I have already voted 50 times today!!).

6) Vote many, many times everyday, until March 17th!

PLEASE take a minute and help Steve & Kel win!
(They are currently in the "Top 12!")

Also, please send this to any of your friends that would be willing to help out!

THANKS!
I owe ya one!

Officially official!

Lil' Bro & Kel are engaged! YAY!

Congratulations!

Can't wait for the 2011 wedding!

Counting down the days!

That's right! Just 23 months until the wedding!

I'm not sure if 23 months is a long time or not enough time!

Ry & I are working on a wedding website to keep you all updated on all of the wedding excitement! Stay tuned!

The Big Date!

That's right!
Just 750 days until the December 31st, 2010 RyGuy-Sneks Wedding!


We're so excited about having a big, fun New Year's Eve party with our family and friends!

Just 2 years to plan it (and finish a PhD and get a real job and hopefully even live in the same state as Ry)!

But with a big wedding party and an excited family to help, I think we'll be able to have a super-great time!

(And don't you love the cute wedding countdown board? Thanks Mom!!!)

The perfect day!

Yesterday, Ry took me to NYC to celebrate our 3-year anniversary!

It was a very beautiful day .....

.... but it was very rainy!

So, Ry decided we should go on a horse-drawn carriage ride around Central Park!

At Strawberry Fields, our carriage driver pulled-over and said he'd happily take our photo along the path!

Suddenly, Ry dropped to one knee. And I start saying "What are you doing?"

Then he repeats himself a few times because I am having trouble listening to him! Finally I hear "You haven't answered me! Will you marry me?"

And of course I say "YES!!"

Such a beautiful ring!

Then we walked around the park until Ry took me for a wonderful dinner at Tavern on the Green!

With its beautiful trees and fancy dining rooms!
And we celebrated our engagement!

Showered!

For those of you dying to know -- Shower Weekend was a massive success!!

BF Kimmy's Baby Shower was a wonderful event full of lots of green and lots of frogs and lots of fun!! I am just so excited that my bestest friend (for 20 years now!!!) is having a baby! And I am so happy for her and her husband Bill that they got so many wonderful gifts last weekend and so much love from everyone!

Anna's Wedding Shower (which began just 20 hours after the baby shower ended) also went fabulously! Lots of fun had by all and lots of gifts for Anna & George to start their married life with! (Umm.. however, I am a horrible MOH and failed to take ANY photos. I suck!)

I realized something though, that I had previously failed to notice as a shower-giving friend: Moms are crazy. The only real stress associated with each shower was with the Mothers of my girlfriends. Baby Shower Mom hated the ugly room we had the shower in and was upset about the lack of seat assignments. Wedding Shower Mom was in arms over the fact that we didn't buy those pastel mints (gag me) to put on the tables and that another bridesmaid and I kept telling her to sit down and enjoy herself rather than running everything. I always tried to be nice to the Moms, but ultimately I feel like my role is to make the mom-to-be and the bride happy. Who knew that showers could make Moms so crazy?? Luckily, I am sure my mother will be totally calm whenever I get around to having my showers. We'll just share a few drinks and have a good time (right Mom?)!

Cake from Kimmy's shower (made by Bill's Aunt, not a professional bakery!)

The 3 girls!
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In addition to all of the Shower-Craziness, I was also able to spend some time with my awesome family! I had dinner with everyone (from Buffalo's famous Chinese/pizza/wing/bar restaurant), caught a movie and did some shopping with Kel (my lil' bro's gf), watched Nephew play some soccer (perhaps full-contact sports are not his thing, but he wants to be an animal rescuer anyway, so lay-off!), had a super fun time at a party thrown by my sis-in-law (and bought lots of yummy treats), and enjoyed having the "Sneks Girls" (Mom, sis-in-law, Kel and me) at both of the showers! I also enjoyed the whole 6 hours I spent with Ry!!

An action shot of my favorite Nephew at soccer!!!

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Oh, and did I mention that my car had to stay in Buffalo while I came back to the Little Town with my mom's car (Thanks Mom!) because I HAD to give a final??

Overall though, I think the weekend was a HUGE success!! And I already miss all my friends & family!!