We are going on a Honeymoon!

You would think that we would be so excited to go on our Honeymoon that we would've booked our flight and hotel soon after we got engaged.....no us.

we procrastinated until about 2 weeks ago. :) I don't regret procrastinating. I still think we got a great deal and i'm excited to say we are for sure going to Las Vegas a.k.a. Sin City and are staying a the Mandalay Bay hotel.

Josh and I have actually never vacationed alone together. We have always gone with family. And we haven't ever traveled out of state together. This is something Josh has rarely done, while me on the other hand consider myself a seasoned traveler. I'm excited ride on a plane with him - he's only been once, and I probably fly at a minimum of once/year. I'm excited to land in Las Vegas and have to "figure out how to get to our hotel". Ok, i'll admit it, I like to travel and I don't mind being lost or not having much of an agenda. I have a list of places and things we want to see, but i'm totally up for winging the trip. I hate those trips where people have to plan everything to the hour or minute. It'll be interesting to see how Josh handles these things. It's the one thing in our relationship that we don't know about each other.

Wedding Favors

I FINALLY decided what to do for my wedding favors. It took a lot of changing of my mind and researching costs but I have finally decided and there is no turning back since I bought all of the materials and starting putting them together.

So what are we doing? We are putting Hershey Kisses & Hugs at each place setting. The Kisses and Hugs are wrapped in Tulle Circles, tied with a ribbon and have a tag attached that says "Hugs & Kisses from the new Mr & Mrs" It also has our name and wedding date printed on them.

I am so excited and proud of them. I created the tags from scratch on my computer, ordered them from Kinkos, cut them out, wrapped the kisses and hugs in tulle and tied them off myself with ribbon. Our wedding has many personal touches from the invitations all the way to the wedding favors. I hope everyone likes everything as much as I do. I'll try to post some pictures soon

You know you are getting older when....

You know you are getting older when you get Power of Attorney papers in the mail from your parents. More specificially, I got them in the mail today from my dad. Which is a little weird anyways, not because I can't handle being the power of attorney, but because my dad and I are not close and have our issues.

Without getting into tons of details, I almost "univited" my dad and his entire family from my wedding because of some family issues. It's becoming even more evident that my dad will not have much an impact in my life through the next several years and probably for the rest of my life. So this is why I find it kind of funny that I have power of attorney. Although, i'm not sure who else he would even nominate other than my brother, but with the way his life is going that does seem very unlikely.

Anyway, this post is not to be down and out. I really don't mind the responsibilities, but the "wow i'm getting older" light bulb came on in my head today and I kind of chuckled, and then filed the paperwork away.

This week hasn't been so bad....

I haven't written in awhile. Nothing major has happened and I didn't feel like being depressing, although this week I have a lot to be optimistic and excited about.

Our wedding is 2 months away, almost to the day. It's getting so close and i'm getting that nervous excited feeling. As much as I wish we had eloped, I am excited to have a real wedding. I really don't think I would regret eloping at all, I, just like most girls have always envisioned a formal wedding. The practical side of me really doesn't understand the expense of a wedding and I get cynical about it and I probably always will, but I know i'll have a good time and I am excited to see all of our family and friends there!

On the advice of our minister, I bought a couples devotional book yesterday. We read the first day last night before bed. It was a good start. :) Josh and I have been looking for a way to start incorporating church and god back into our lives. We were both raised in that enviornment and would like to raise our children in that as well. It's important to us, but we weren't sure where to start so our minister recommended a couples devotional to 1)Start talking about god and 2) It's for couples to help us with our relationship as well.

I'm going dress shopping this weekend too! Not for myself of course (I already have my dress) but for my mom and my future mother in law. I love dress shopping, especially when it's for someone else. We decided to go to Somerset. Lansing just doesn't have the range and as nice of stores like we do out here.

Things are starting to pick up with the wedding stuff! Work has been a downer, but I have so much other stuff to look forward too, that i'm trying not to let it get me down.

Happy Thursday!