Seven months from today...

...is our wedding day. I can't believe it.

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ETA: I forgot all about this post! It's Wednesday now, I did it last Friday, but blogger had a problem and wouldn't publish it. Better late than never!
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Other things I can't believe:

On Thursday my mom and I went to the wedding district in Cincinnati. We only went to one place and I probably tried on about 10 dresses while I was there. Once I got to the 7th or 8th one and tried it on, none of the others compared. I had found my princess dress! I'm so in love with it that I can't stop looking that the picture mom took of me. Of course I wasn't thinking, so we didn't get a picture of the back, but maybe I can eventually. The place we went wouldn't let us take pictures of all the dresses I tried on, only the one I chose, but I'll have that one on the photosite if you want to check it out. If you don't remember the password to the folder, let me know and I'll give it to you! So EXCITED!

I also asked Sheri to be my matron of honor and she accepted! Then, I asked Mandy to be a bridesmaid and she accepted too! I coudn't be happier that they're sharing this with me. I don't even have the words to say... :)

Things seem to be moving along and I know the time will fly by before I know it. The STDs (save the dates) are done for the most part and should be out next week. Now our next step is to get a cake!

So how do you like the new look? I think I'm going to keep this short, get ready for bed and read a little. My darling comes home on Tuesday, can't wait! Goodnight!

Birthday schtuff and other rambling...

[Product placement]

Remember that trip to the mall that Sheri and I took on Sunday? And those B&BW products we added to our collections. Well Sheri told me about a this scent that she absolutely loves and if you know me, you know that I don't stand a chance against peer pressure. I didn't want to buy the whole kit 'n kaboodle in case I didn't like the scent, so I just bought a little gift set with mini sizes of moisture wash, hand lotion, and roll-on perfume. Let me tell you I can't get enough of this stuff! I'm going to go back and buy the regular sizes and you should too! Apparently they don't make the roll-on perfume in anything but the gift sets because I don't see it on the website, but it's to die for! It has permanent residence in my purse along with the lotion. I hope no one walks by my cube at work as I'm sniffing my wrists and hands, wouldn't want them to think I belong in the looney bin or anything!

[Birthday festivities ]

Besides the previously mentioned birthday activities, I also went to have dinner and dessert with my parents. I went armed with my camera hoping to get some cute shots, and I certainly came through. Let the pictures begin...

Since I'm a last minute daugher and I always say that I don't want to do anything for my birthday, you can imagine the problems my poor mother endures. I just wanted to go out to a nice dinner together. So when she calls asking what kind of cake I want and mentions a few different options...including the ever famous ice cream cake or a big chocolate chip cookie cake, I decided to go for the cookie cake this year. However, the mall she and my dad went to didn't have one of the cookie places, and the next best store didn't have a birthday one. Instead, I got double holidays - my birthday and Halloween, lol. Worked for me, and no melting in my car to get it home.


That is my mom caught in the act after she swiped black icing off the cookie...
with the cake knife I might add...gorgeous.


Crazy younger brother who's a model at heart. :)


Rob has taught the cat how to play hide-and-seek, and I had to take a picture of it. To play the game, Rob peeks out from around a corner, looks at the cat and then hides again (like his pose above). He repeats this process a few times until the cat dashes around the corner to find him. I had to laugh my behind off at this, considering I didn't think you could teach a cat to do squat! You can be sure this photo will show up in a layout!


The birthday girl...


There she is again...


The happy siblings.
Of course Rob couldn't put down his mega combo bag of sour patch kids and swedish fish.


Got Rob to put down the superstar glasses and jumbo bag of candy to pose with his favorite sister. He used to be shorter than me, where did I go wrong?

I didn't get any pictures of my dad, so that's the goal for next time. And yes, Rob has leftover eyeliner on in the last picture from a show the night before. Overall, the day was good fun and I even got some jammies from my mom, I believe they were this set here.

[Other rambles]

I think I might be bringing my friend Mandy over to the blogger side of the world. She has a xanga, but I think she can do much better (she does too, hehe). We'll see how that goes. I've wanted to switch to the new beta, but my current template won't work because it's so specialized. I'd have to start from scratch on the template. Anyone else on the beta yet?

I know a couple people already, but anyone else watching the Bachelor? OH, how funny they all want to be princesses, especially Miss Timeline girl whose timeline for marriage is working out perfectly! I thought they'd bring Erica back for more than just voting. At least that's what the preview seemed like... like they've done in other seasons bringing the one psycho girl back. Oh well, I like the girls he gave roses to first for hometown dates, so I'm excited to see next week's show. Of course they had to show the dad who brings out the gun upon meeting him for the first time!

Well I'm off. Enjoy Tuesday and your hump day!

Aaaaand...CUT!

The tears, that is. I've had enough in the last two days to fill up some kind of...*fill in the blank with name of a small object*. Today was much better than I thought it would be with Dan gone, and he didn't fail to surprise me yet again!

On the top of my agenda this morning was church, and then Sheri came down from Dayton to visit and have lunch. She got to see the new apartment and we got to chow down at our most favorite restaurant O'Charley's. Lunch was followed by a trip to Target (no surprise there), and a browse around the mall "y'all." For the time we had, we just stopped into a couple stores, but ended up with some new Bath & Body products to add to our collections and some cute crafty decor that was on sale at a holiday store.

When I got back to my apartment and Sheri left, I decided to check my email before I left again to visit the 'rents. I won't lie here, I figured that if Dan scheduled a Sweetest Day email that he'd be sure to send a birthday email. I had no idea, however, that he'd have another surprise. This time, I was told to look in the "C" section of our DVD collection (and I don't say collection lightly...and yes they're alphabetized) and find my Cinderella DVD set. I looked and found a card! Yippee! Along with another adorable message, one more surprise was hiding for me in the trunk of his car! After I went flying down the stairs to open his trunk, I was greeted with a HUGE box. Back upstairs...unwrapping...unwrapping...more unwrapping...and I find these!


The card didn't photograph too well, but pictured is a large shelf from Target that I reeeeeeally wanted and a small one to match the two we already have holding surround sound speakers. Also, that adorable little lamp there will reside on one of these shelves in the living room. Mmmmm...what a great man I have. Two surprises in one weekend while he's thousands of miles away! :) Thanks cutie pie!

While I was opening these gifts he happened to call. How nice to hear his voice! I should get to talk to him again tomorrow during lunch on Skype! Wahoo! Now if I can just manage to hear his voice AND see him on camera (hopefully) without bringing on the waterfalls. I'm such a sap.

For now it's time for bed to get up early for work, but I'll be posting some birthday pictures tomorrow. Goodnight!