Sorry for being inactive for such a long time. It's been one crazy year.
I got engaged last February and had a ton of wedding planning going on. Not long after that my fiancé's mother passed away... she was an amazing person that I didn't have much time to get to know. All I know is that she was a very big part of his life and he took it very hard. This is obviously very understandable I know I would be a mess if one of my parents died. I tried to postpone the wedding for a year to give him some time but he said that she would still want us to go through with it.
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It was an amazing wedding. We had a masquerade theme and we even made a mask for his mother.
It was a very fun and happy day. Me, my sister and my brother made all of the decorations ourselves. We had karaoke which was a blast. I got to see a lot of people I hadn't seen in a very long time. Overall the wedding was like a dream.
For our honeymoon we went to Florida, the Orlando area. We own a timeshare in Las Vegas that allowed us to trade down for a resort near Disney World. *screams like a little girl* Sorry I love Disney. Going to all the parks was amazing. I got to go to the other parks as well to see the Harry Potter attractions and we went to Olivanders Wand Shop where I was chosen to have a wand choose me. It was a great experience. The guy who played Olivander was spot on. Didn't get to see the Dragon breathe fire in Diagon Alley but the Hogwarts Express was an interesting ride.
There were a couple nights that were rough on my new husband, James, he spread some of his mothers ashes in the Ocean. He said she had always wanted to travel the world so he'd put a little of her wherever he could.
A couple weeks after we returned home James had an accident with a knife and cut all of the fingers off on his right hand. They were only holding on by the skin on the backs of his fingers. It was a crazy fiasco trying to get someone to reattach his tendons and nerves. Unfortunately we didn't have any health insurance at the time so nobody would help. We went through 3 surgeons before someone would do it. Finally one of James's family friends came to him and said that her father knew a surgeon who could do it. Her father was on his death bed at the time and wanted to do one last act of kindness for someone and so he got his surgeon friend (Dr. David Clough) to do it as his dying wish. It sounds like something from a story, but we were so lucky to know such amazing people. James got his surgery done and now is going through therapy. The doctor says his hand will obviously never be the same, but he is proving the doctor wrong in some areas. He was told he probably wouldn't be able to play the guitar anymore, but he still does, and still makes amazing music.
We never did get a chance to thank his friends father for the help in person because he passed away a couple of days after James's surgery. But we have thanked him many many many times over in our thoughts. We hope he knows how much he helped us.
So my married life started out a little rough, but hopefully I'll be back up and drawing again soon. I miss this place.