My Better Half

So Josh and I just got back from a trip with Divisi to Los Angeles. Divisi competed in the Intenational Championship of Collegiate A Cappella while we were down there and placed 2nd, which wasn't what we were hoping for but we're excited about it regardless. Divisi had a blast all being down there together and even got to go to Disneyland for a day. But what made this trip in particular so amazing, was watching my fiance be so unbelievably amazing!

What did he do that was so amazing, you ask?... Well, he volunteered himself to drive a 15 passenger van full of 11 college aged girls, me and one other girl followed in our car, all the way down to and around LA! That in itself was enough for me to love him and appreciate him even more than I already did, but he did it with more patience than I could ever dream of having. He stayed calm in situations, he problem solved and figured things out, and took control of situations that needed a leader, and all 13 of them still loved him! All the girls just fell in love with him, and he had way more fun than he thought he would.

I just couldn't get over how much better of a person he is than I will ever be when it comes to having patience and solving problems in a calm manner. The fact that he could step in and take on somewhat of a leadership role in a group of girls that barely knew him and 3 days later they are completely in love with him, is beyond me. He gained their love and respect, and he didn't demand it, he earned it and deserved it.

He is an amazing, kind, giving, and patient person, and someone that I truly look up to. When I was so fed up with the girls at times that I just got annoyed and walked away, or was so frustrated that I took it out on Josh, I would look back at him, and there he was working it all out, with all the patience that I couldn't find.

I told him on the drive home, how much I appreciated him being there, and that I really fell in love with him more each day that I saw him with all of my friends, and how he handled all of those situations. He continued to receive texts from Divisi on the trip back about how much they missed him and appreciated him, as well. It's really something when a group of 13 other women who also happen to be your friends all like, no... love your fiance. I think it says something about who you're marrying, and I realized, again, for the 80 millionth time, how amazing the man I get to marry is.

He's more patient than I will ever be, has more love in his heart than I thought he did, and is really, truly, my better half.

My dress!

My dress is here, my dress is HERE! I just got a call yesterday that my wedding gown came in to the shop and I get to go try it on and have my first fitting! Eeeeee! I'm so excited! My mom and I made an appointment for next Wednesday morning to go see and try it on, and I can't wait! MY dress for MY wedding, ahhh!

We also got our save the dates all sent out in the mail the other day. Josh and I went to the post office together to put all the stamps on them and we had them all in a stack ready to go, and we opened the door to the mail box together, and set them in, and I looked at him and asked, "Ready?", and then we closed the door. We both got really excited about it, even though we were both at the same time a little nervous. Not nervous to get married, like I told him the other day, I'd marry him tomorrow if I could, but nervous because now the wedding's really going to happen. I have to have a whole wedding planned in almost 5 months... there's no turning back now. The deadline has been set!

Besides being busy planning the wedding, Josh and I are also still both busy working our jobs, and picking up as many extra shifts to save as much as we can before the wedding. We've also recently been talking about looking into and getting more information to buy a house. With this $8000 tax credit we kind of feel like it'd be pretty stupid of us to not at least look into seeing if it's even a possibility. So wish us luck! We're going to be contacting a lender soon to see if this can really happen and how much we're approved for! I hope we can, because it'd be so nice to be able to have a house that's all our own and start our married life settled in our own home : )

The Countdown has begun!

... Just because....


Custom Countdown Clock

Weddings, weddings, here we come!

Well, it's been a little over a month since my last post and plans are coming along for the wedding coming up. It's less then 6 months away, and the time seems to keep flying by. There's a lot that's been done but there's still a lot to do!

I've been meeting with my mom every week to work on stuff for the wedding and she's been helping me stay on track and take care of things, which is wonderful. We've been addressing save-the-dates and have those almost ready to go out!

Yesterday we met my youngest sister Hannah, and maid of honor, and bridesmaid Jaime at David's Bridal to pic out the bridesmaid dresses. I already had a good idea of the one I wanted them to try on when I went in there but I had them try on a few different ones just in case, but they and I both loved the one that I had previously picked out. So now all that's left is for my bridesmaid to order them!

Later that day, I called Josh's older sister, Elizabeth back because she'd called me that morning and she asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding this June! Now, for those who don't know, she is also one of the bridesmaids at my wedding and Josh is a groomsmen in hers and her fiance, Mark is a groomsmen in our wedding as well! I just feel so honored that she asked me to be a part of her special day : )

I'm so excited for both weddings coming up! It's going to be such a big, important summer for all of us and I'm just so happy!

Still have a lot to do for mine though....

I have to send the save-the-dates, book a florist, finalize the menu with the caterer, pick out the groomsmen's outfits, find Josh a suit, and much, much more... so many details! Ahh!

Three years

So Josh and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary on Wednesday! I can NOT believe it's been 3 years... it's crazy how fast time goes by when you're so wrapped up in the amazing life you're living : )

It was a pretty low key day... I worked until 4pm and he got off work at about the same time. We both got home and watched a little TV and... fell asleep on the couch. We woke up at about 7pm and Josh went to the grocery store and went to work in the kitchen. I wasn't allowed to come in until he was done.

He called me in about an hour later and the table was set with two enormous steaks, twice baked potatoes with bacon, cheesy garlic bread, and salad. It was DELISH!!! Such a wonderful anniversary dinner that I didn't have to make : )

Later that night we got to talking about wedding stuff, and I was trying to describe how I want the tables and dance floor to be set up for the reception, so I opened up Paint on the computer so I could quickly draw up little rectangles to show what I was talking about. I thought Josh was listening and cared what I was talking about, and actually got excited about the fact that he wanted to be involved when he took the mouse from me and added a few rectangles only to then say.... "It looks like Wall-E!", and then proceeded to hum the song from Wall-E/Hello Dolly, Put on Your Sunday Clothes........

Needless to say, I'm marrying a 25 year old with the attention span of a 5 year old and the sense of humor of a 3 year old... and I couldn't be happier!

Look what I did!

Well, it is 5:30am... and I can't sleep, so look what I found!

Duration calculation results

From and including: Thursday, January 14, 2010
To, but not including : Saturday, August 21, 2010

It is 219 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

Or 7 months, 7 days excluding the end date

Alternative time units

219 days can be converted to one of these units:

• 18,921,600 seconds
• 315,360 minutes
• 5256 hours
• 31 weeks (rounded down)

I really can't believe in a little over 7 months I will be marrying the love of my life! It's still unreal to me sometimes that I even found him. In less than a week we celebrate our 3 year anniversary!

Technically we've been together a little longer than that, but Josh wanted to officially ask me to be his girlfriend on a "good date" and do it a special way : ) I don't remember what date we started hanging out and I don't remember the date of our "first date"... but I do remember and will always remember that our first kiss was on December 6th, 2006, and that Josh came over to my dad's on January 20th, 2007 and asked me to come outside, where he gave me a single red rose and "officially" asked me to be his girlfriend. I didn't realize it then, but that was my last first kiss ever and that I was saying "yes" to the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with...

I'm the luckiest woman in the world : )

Honeymoon and things!

So, Josh and I have finally decided what we're doing for our honeymoon! We're so excited! Our very good friends, Peter and Evynne Hollens work on Royal Caribbean cruise ships, and will be on one during our wedding : ( BUT we have decided to join them for our honeymoon! It is a 7 day cruise of the Greek Isles that ports out of Venice, Italy!

We're just starting to book everything, and get it all figured out, but we are so excited! We're not going to go on the cruise until October of 2010 because flights are so much cheaper, so we'll probably take a weekend away to the coast right after the wedding.

I cannot wait until we get to go on this amazing trip! Neither Josh or I have been anywhere like this before. If anyone has any fun ideas for what to do in Italy (Venice or Milan) please let me know!


I also wanted to let all of our friends and family our there know about a wonderful book that Josh's mom, Carla, got me for Christmas. It's called, "Night Light: A Devotional for Couples" by James and Shirley Dobson. Josh and I have been reading it together every night. It's absolutely wonderful! You read a chapter a week, and we've figured out that we'll be done with the book a few months before our wedding. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone : )