So....we dove into planning alright.......

Wow I can't believe it is already Thanksgiving! Time is just flying by. ALOT has happened in the past 3 months.

So its now FOUR months to the BIG DAY and we have everything pretty much wrapped up!

• We just finalized everything with the Venues about two weeks ago. 
• I had my first Dress fitting last week and it is ready to be picked up anytime. 
• We had our engagement pictures taken on Halloween and we are still waiting to get them back. 
• The Flowers have been ordered.
• 2 out of 3 bridesmaid dresses are ordered! 

I'm getting really anxious to see everything together. I'm not really sure how I feel about spending all this money and ordering all these custom things and not getting to see them until March. Its almost torture!

Now we just need to get the invitations out within the month and then just sit back and wait for March!


The latest and biggest news however is that FDH and I just bought a house! Yea we were a little crazy for buying a house in the middle of planning a wedding.... we didn't realize how crazy tho, until we were in the middle of it! We moved in just this past weekend so we now have a new home!! YAY!  It was a very fast process from the beginning to the end. We went under contract in second week of October and we Closed last week! It was INSANE!!! We are SO glad that it is over though!  No we have room to house everyone the week before the wedding, lol.

Well, now it Holiday Season.... So time is going to fly by even faster!   

Thats all for now!

Diving into the Planning!

Its been so crazy around here with all the planning that I really haven't had time to get on here like I wanted to!

Anyways, since my last post, we pretty much started planning the wedding right away. We decided on a date pretty much the night we got Engaged. We decided on March 26, 2011.

My parents came up the next weekend and we went and looked at venues and we had one decided on and pretty much booked by the time they left on Sunday. We decided on the Holiday Inn at The Campus. They had too much of a sweet deal to pass up. But the big bonus was that they take care of set up and clean up and if we reserve a room for the Sunday Brunch then they even take care of the presents at the end of the night. So when the reception is done all we have to do is go upstairs to our rooms!

Next we decided on a Church for the ceremony. Since we really don't have a church home here in Manhattan, we decided to ask my parents Preacher from Sedan to do the ceremony for us. So all we had to do was decided on where we wanted it. I called two churches in town that we had been to and asked for some information. One church told me to call them back in October, and the other was willing to work with me right way. Since I was not willing to wait to start major planning until the 6 month mark, we decided on the University Christian Church. It is a very cute and simple Church and we look forward to working with the Staff.

The very next weekend my mom and I went to just start looking at dresses, and the Fourth dress I tried on was THE ONE! I was really not expecting to find my dress that day and especially not that fast! But I did while we were there my mom found her dress too! It was such a fun trip and a very productive one too!

Colors were picked before I had even gotten the ring, LOL. We are going with Navy Blue and Hot Pink. I love the two colors together! After finding my dress, we can't use White everything has to be Ivory so all together everything looks great!

Last week my mom came up again and we went and talked to a Florist. I'm pretty sure we are going to go with her, however I'm still waiting to get my quote back. That evening we met with a potential Photographer. FDH and I liked her so much that I wrote out the deposit check right there and signed the contract so now we have our photographer! And, Tuesday we dropped off our deposit and contract for the DJ!

Just yesterday we ordered the Flower girls' dresses from Dillard's. They are ADORABLE!! And my bridesmaids and I have a date set at the end of September to go dress shopping for them!d

Everything is just falling into place perfectly! I'm so excited! Most everyone keeps telling me that I've really gotten an early start...but I've only got 7months left! Anyways as we get closer I will probably post some spoiler pictures!

He Proposed!!!

So on Tuesday, July 27th, Chris took me out to dinner at Carlos O'Kelley's Mexican Restaurant. When we finished eating he suggested that we go to the lake since we hadn't been there since it flooded. So we headed to the observation point at the lake. We were sitting on a rock bench for a while just watching a boat on the water. I said I was ready to go. He stood up and said well, then turned around, pulled the ring out of his pocket, got down on one knee and asked if I would marry him! I cried and said YES! After I calmed down enough to talk I asked him when he talked to my dad. He then told me that the previous Monday when he had told me that he was working for his sister, he had actually gone to my hometown to see my parents. My hometown is a 3.5hour drive! I never even suspected it! I was SO surprised!

Poem for my Deputy

Every night I lay in bed,

I pray for you and tears are shed.

I think about how proud I am,

to be in love with such a special man!

As you guard the streets by moonlight,

I hope and pray you'll come home tonight.

I wait for the day I will wear the ring,

and find out the happiness that being your wife brings!

I am sure it will be hard worrying night and day,

but it’s the price I’m willing to pay!

I can accept your chancy job and put our love to the test,

because of all the men out there, YOU are the very best!

As a deputy and a boyfriend, you're handsome, smart and clever,

that’s why I will always love you, now and forever!

New Toys

It cracks me up that men are ALWAYS looking for new toys, and when they can't find anything that they want (or know that you won't let them have) they start looking for you.

Last Thursday, DBF and I were just sitting at home relaxing when he saw an ad for 0% interest for 60months on new Ford vehicles. So he gets it in his mind that I need a new car. I just bought a 2006 ford explorer in June of 2009, I don't need a new car. But somehow he got me convinced to look at a 2010 Ford Fusion. With the 0% it would lower my payments, and it is a newer car that has EVERYTHING I could ever want on it. These are the points that ultimately got me to start looking. So we looked on line and I really started to like the Fusion. So we went to the Ford Dealership here in Town they were down to just one Fusion and I hated the interior. So we went to Kansas City and I found the one that had everything from the color to the extras that I wanted. So we test drove it.... We both HATED it! So I decided that I'm sticking with my 06 Explorer that is a Very nice car until it is paid off. AND I made DBF promise that he wouldn't buy a new car until my car is paid off.

It just cracks me up how when He knows he's not getting anything new he tries to get me to buy something...

Holy Cow! Its been a YEAR?!?

Wow I can't believe it has been a year since I've posted anything. Honestly, not a lot has happened.

DBF and I just got back from our first vacation where it was just us and no one else. We decided to go camping at Wilson State Lake in Kansas. When I say camping I mean true, Tent and sleeping bag, cooking over a fire camping. It was kinda nice, really windy tho. We had 30-35mph wind gusts the whole time we were there (Monday-Wednesday night). On Wednesday we were ran out by a bad storm that came in. So we cut our vacay short by a couple days. Instead we had a Date Night Friday night, We went to Olive Garden in Manhattan for the first time since it has opened. It wasn't too bad. They had a wine for tasting that night that was out of this world. Then we followed dinner with going to see a movie. We saw Inception. It was a bad movie just made you think a lot. I didn't really care for it, I wanted to see Despicable Me, but I let DBF choose since I chose the restaurant. Then on Saturday we went to KCK to meet up with my mom who was in town for a Class Reunion. We went shopping at Legends and Went to lunch with my Grandma at Old Chicago. It was a great afternoon.

Vacation has now ended and its back to the old grind.

Next in store is more weddings.

I might get some pics posted at some point from the last year.

That's all for now!
~D