// - Pictures!!! And a Dress, Veil & Invites!

^^^This are us hehe

Wow, I seriously have no clue where January went. Wow. So much has happened. Let's see here..

I got my dress ordered. Come to find out, dresses are made in China[?!] and it was ordered Jan 20 and it should be in Florida [where the company is] on May 1. And it'll arrive in Boise around May 7. Now, I'm no expert, but I'm getting married May 23, so talk about a time crunch. However, I'm not going to panic and I'm going to elect to get it overnighted from Florida to Boise so I can get it on and altered and all that happy jazz! Sweet! I got my veil too, I love it. It's a David's Bridal veil, but I bought it from a lady who had called off her wedding. It's beautiful!

The following weekend, we went to an Engaged Encounter. It's a requirement to have a Catholic wedding. You spend a weekend at a retreat and you get a notebook and are presented with various situations regarding yourself, values, beliefs, religion, parenting, sex, families and your fiancee. You don't share anything with the group or the leaders. It's just for you and your fiancee. You get from it what you put into it. Needless to say, I knew that my parent's had paid for it so I put more into it. There were some people there who did not want to be there and looked miserable. I wasn't keen on the idea, but I sucked it up and made the most of it. It was neat because probably 99.5% of the things we had talked about at one time or another. But it was nice to [wow, I can't believe I'm admitting this] get away from the Internet and for the most part, my cell phone. We lived through it and are still planing our wedding. I was telling people that if we broke up, I was blaming the Encounter. I was shocked at the amount of people living together already. For it being a Catholic event, I figured more people wouldn't be living together. Brett & I don't live together yet. Dr. Laura would be happy, ha ha. I'm actually planning on getting the address of the team leaders & the priest and inviting them to the wedding. They were really neat people.

We found our house. I love love love it. It reminds me of the house I grew up in and it reminds Brett of his Grandparents' house. We are going to put an offer on it. I'd set up to do that on Friday, but after thinking about it, I emailed him and asked if he could fax it to me and we'd sign it and submit it that way. I sure hope. I can honestly, truly see myself in this house forever. It just feels homey. I'm so excited. Keep your fingers crossed :)

I started addressing our invitation tonight. I'm excited to get them printed up and sign, sealed and delivered. I also ordered address labels from Vista Print which is a really neat site. And super cheap. I'm excited to see them. Not excited to see the postage bill however. Brett said he'd pay for it. I said, "Well, there goes the savings for a down payment on the house." HAHA!!

Well, I'm going to attempt to put photos on this.. We'll see. Diana, I'm tryin', I promise! And I promise I'll update this more this month!! OK, I think I got the uploading done. Although I've got a feeling there is an easier way to do it. Oh well, it's done!


Our bubble favors. They are so cool!


Our invitations. Yay for Martha Stewart!


One of our bubble wands.


A close-up of our tags on the bubbles.


My beautiful veil!