Good Weekend

It's Monday again and I had a great weekend! Angie and Alyssa came to visit and see my house. We went and had manicures and pedicures and ate out a couple times. Saturday night was my housewarming party and it was a success!! It was really fun to see some old friends and family! Plus, it kinda turned into an impromptu engagement party. Fun!!

Sunday, Angie, Alyssa and I went to Southpoint Mall and looked at bridesmaid dresses. We ate lunch at Champs! yum! It was nice to hang out with them and have a 'girls' weekend. They left in the afternoon and I sang at church last night. Then we hung out with Joe and Jessica who got engaged a week before us! It was a great weekend with family and friends. Hooray!

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And We're Off!!

Wedding mayhem has begun! After some deliberation and schedule checking, Jerry and I have set the date for....drum roll please....August 25th! Yes, as in 4 months and 6 days from now. In other words, we have work to do! but we are in good shape, we have the ceremony and reception sites set, I am narrowing down bridesmaid dresses and I already have my dress! Piece of cake. Speaking of cake, we have ideas for that too! At this point, we are focusing on gathering the rest of the addresses and getting our Save the Date cards out. This will take a load off for me because I want to make sure our out of town friends have plenty of time to plan.

Like my fiancee said, we will feel better once we start narrowing things down and make some choices. Then it will just be the execution phase which is the fun part. But who are we kidding, it's all fun!!

I dropped off my ring to get sized on Monday night. I am hoping to have it back in time for the party on Saturday. I miss it! It's so pretty and so mine! I love being engaged.

More to come!

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I can't believe I made that putt!

Today is Saturday. Today I am making plans to marry the love of my life in October. Rewind 24 hours.

Yesterday was a typical day, work was slightly busy. I took a walk on my lunch break and had an apple at about 3pm. Friday night, Jerry and Krusty came over to have dinner which is also pretty normal. We were tired so just had some frozen pizza and brussel sprouts (remarkably common for us, sadly). After dinner, we decided to get some putting on the disc golf basket in while the sun was still out. We play a lot of disc golf, so of course Jerry has a basket in the back yard. As Jerry was putting, he said ok, if I make 4 of the next 7 putts, we'll go out tonight. I responded, ok and if you make all 7, then you have to propose to me tonight!

Well, he only made 1of the 7. Needless to say, we didn't go out. But the story continues. He then said, ok, you do it, if you make all 7, I'll propose. Well, I made 1 also. So then it was a Putt-off!! We went through 3 best of 7s with Jerry "winning" every time. The last one was a tie that ended with him winning in sudden death. So, because the time was right and we were having such a great time, he gave me all or nothing stakes. From about 50 feet off the basket, he said, 'ok, all or nothing. If you make this putt, you win'. So I zeroed in, knowing this was it, focused and threw. CHING. The disc landed firmly in the basket!!! We both screamed and laughed and hugged and then didn't really know what would happen next.

We decided to go over to Jerry's house and after we were there for a while, he started talking about what fun we have together and he said that he wants to make it last and be married to me and said, I want to be married to you, I want to get married, will you marry me?? Of course I said yes.

He then pulled a ring out of his pocket that he explained was the ring his Grandma Glenna wore for over 50 years. He then put it on my finger.

I am engaged!

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