A Party for Me

Huge shout out to my friends, coworkers and old roommates Annalise and Sarah for throwing me a bridal shower!  Even though only 5 people came (I'm going to assume that's because it was the holiday weekend and not because people hate me...) it was still a lot of fun and I'm so very grateful for them and all the effort they put into it.

Engagement Pictures!

What I know many people have been waiting for...engagement pictures!  I haven't posted the ones on the announcement (unless I change my mind in the next few days...) so you'll still be surprised when you get it :) Enjoy!

This may have taken many, many, MANY shots to get the seeds to fly...

Look at his beautiful smile.  I'm so lucky.

I love this picture and for some reason he hates it.  I can't figure out why.  But It's my blog so I'm posting it :)

I like that you can also see the necklace he bought me for Valentines Day :)

Hooray!  We're getting married!!!

Midterm Update

I'm just glad this is my last semester.  Can I tell you a secret??  I think I'm getting senioritis.  This canNOT happen.  I have waited four years to graduate with a bunch of little stars next to my name and I can't throw it all away this last semester!  But it's soooooo tempting.  I have two tests tomorrow.  Haven't started studying for either.  I just want to watch movies and go on walks and bake banana bread and brownies.  Not good.  Also not good for my I'm-getting-married-and-supposed-to-be-getting-skinnier look.  Ask me if I care.  Only a little.

Wedding update.  I'm in the process of booking my photographer.  We got engagements back and I'm working on getting announcements made and printed.  My mom is working on stuff back home.  Not really sure what's going on there but I'm sure it's just fine.

Life is good.

Engagement Shoot

Wedding planning continues!

As mentioned earlier, there's only two things, wedding-wise, that I've really been slightly stressing about.  engagement pictures/ announcements and housing.  Well, I can cross half of one off the list!  Last weekend we went to Logan, UT to have pictures taken.

We.are.awkward.

Seriously.  Neither of us are huge picture people and don't have them taken very often so we don't know what to do.  We kept asking things like "sooooo where are we supposed to put our hands?", "where should we look?", "does my hair look okay?!" (okay so that last one was just me).

It almost was a no-go too.  It POURED almost the entire way down to Logan.  Thankfully, we found an hour and a half window where we were able to shoot some.  We were both impulsive and bought new outfits once we were down there.  I don't even remember the last time I bought an entire new outfit in one shopping trip.  Like shirt, cardigan, pants and shoes.  It may never have happened before.

You know what else has never happened?  Me wearing skinny jeans.  I tried a pair on during a band camp shopping trip my senior year of high school and refused to put any on since then.  I hated them and how I looked.  Well, my dashing and ever-fashionable fiance convinced me to try on a pair last week at a store.  I did not buy them.  But they weren't as bad as I thought they would be.  When we went to the mall in Logan we found the same pair again and I tried them on again with the top I just purchased.  With quite a bit of convincing from Nate and Alexis......I bought them.  WHAT THE?!?!  Who am I turning into!?

Not only did I buy a pair of skinny jeans but I WORE them for our pictures.  Isn't it some sort of rule to not do anything too crazy before getting pictures taken?  Like don't cut your hair really different or dye your hair...or wear something you've refused to wear for the last five years because you thought you looked ugly in them.  It's got to be a rule.  And I totally broke it.  And we didn't even change outfits because we were too lazy to.  We brought a change of clothes.  We are that lazy.

Now I'm just going crazy trying to be patient to see some of the pictures!!!!!  I didn't see ANY of them and I am freaking out.  I just have to have some faith that at least five pictures turned out.  That's all I want.  Five good pictures.  That will double the amount of pictures we currently have together.

Well, we look good from far away at least.....

Wedding Planning?

I totally fail at trying to plan a wedding.  Like, epic fail.  I kind of forget that I'm supposed to be doing stuff for it.  I have a feeling I'll make it to graduation and THEN I'll realize I'm supposed to be getting married in two weeks....oh well.  At least I won't be stressed all semester...right?

I have done some planning.

I bought a dress!  That's the most important thing.  Well, more importantly I called the temple and scheduled the wedding so that I can actually get married.  But second in importance is that I found a dress.  I did not have one of those "ah-ha" moments where I started crying when I tried on the second dress and just knew it was mine.  I probably tried on a total of 20 dresses before I found mine.  But I love it and it's perfect!  Now I just have to play the waiting game since it had to be ordered and won't be in until mid-July.  Yikes.  Hopefully it fits well!  As much as I'd love to give all five blog followers a sneak peak of the dress you will just have to wait until August 10 to see :)

What else have I done?  Picked colors.  Kind of.  I still don't love them but Nathaniel does and I don't hate it so they'll work haha  It's all about compromise.  I figure if we can compromise on wedding colors, we can compromise on anything.

Honeymoon is booked.

Annnddddd that's about it.  Next on my list is to get engagements taken and find housing for the fall.

My goal is to not be a bridezilla.  I think I'm doing okay.  But I almost might be the opposite.  Some things I just don't care a ton about and take forever to make decisions on.  Like colors.  And the dress.  And everything else I have to make a decision about.  This is going to be a fun semester :)

But really, it actually is kind of fun!

And here are some of the epic fails with dresses...

Little roses on the back???

My face says it all