257 days....

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow what a full weekend. It began on Wednesday with Andrew's dad's birthday party. Followed by thanksgiving with Andrew's family Thursday afternoon and thanksgiving with my family Thursday evening. Then out to the woodburn outlet mall at 10:00pm, a couple hours of sleep and up again at 6:30 for the doorbuster sales!

The first stop was the most interesting. For the most part black friday shopping was pretty enjoyable. There was not any crazy moms fighting over the last Wii. Everyone I encountered were very pleasant. However, at coastal, while we were waiting at the front of the store for the rest of our group to finish up, we noticed a little comotion by the security detectors. There was a women who had set off the sesors, but she was not carrying a bag, only her purse. The security guard was being very patient with her trying to figure out what could have set it off. The lady just kept kind of dancing in place muttering about how this was absolutely rediculous. They finally narrowed it down to something in her purse. When asked if the security guard could search her purse the lady's face said it all. She vehemently refused. The altercation ended with him escorting her back to the security office. On the bright side I got all of my Christmas shopping done:)

Saturday Seve and I had breakfast then went wedding dress shopping with my mom. We went to Rosewood Bridal. All of you who plan on buying a wedding dress someday go to Rosewood Bridal. They have the best service, the most friendly workers, the most comfotable atmosphere, cute dresses, and they are not much more expensive than david's bridal. Needless to say I FOUND MY DRESS!!! Obviously I am not going to post a picture here but if you want to see it let me know and I will send you a pic.

Then Andrew, he father, and I met with a DJ and booked him. So that is another huge thing crossed off my list.

Then this morning I began looking for Bridesmaids dresses (aided by my sister who is home sick on the couch.) I changed my color for bridesmaids dresses from orange to green because I really like green and it is easier to find than orange. No sooner had I decided this than I found a green dress on target.com for $12.94!!!!! You can't beat that price. So we went ahead and ordered them and my mom is going to spend the next few months playing with them to make them fit each girls just right. Aren't mom's great? What would we do without them?

Catch up

So last weekend my whole family went over to black butte to celebrate thanksgiving. It was so much fun to just to spend the weekend playing domino's and making dinner with the family. We do this because Kelly and Trav can't make it over to the valley and Tygh and Britney have Britney's family. With our family it doesn't matter what day you celebrate the holiday on as long as you are with your family.

Andrew and I also had our first pre-marital counseling that weekend. It was really fun because this first session was just going over our personality profiles. I learned that I am hostile and not as indifferent as people think I am. I am also very logically driven. The tests also showed that andrew and I knew each other pretty well for only dating for 11 mon.

On Sunday we woke up to a few inchs of snow, which was a fun surprise. Andrew made a snow man and we had a snowball fight.

Not a lot...

So wedding planning has been put on hold for the time being on my end, seeing as i am down in Corvallis and focusing on school. Although Andrew and i did complete our first five exercises in saving your marriage before it starts. I don't think that we really discovered anything new about each other... but it's just the beginning.

this weekend we are going to black butte to celebrate thanksgiving with my family. My mom and my sister and i are heading into bend on Saturday to meet with a photographer I am really excited about her. I love the colors in her pictures and i think she will be a really fun person to work with.

Then at some point this weekend Andrew and i will have our first pre-marital counseling session with my dad where he will proceed to tell me about all my personality disorders and how Andrew must be certifiable to want to marry me:) so i will fill you in on how that goes after this weekend

Warning: This could be along one

Last weekend was packed full of wedding planning, and family.

Saturday was my nephew's first birthday and of course (Britney being his mom) this was no small celebration. Kelly came into town from bend so we decided to capitalize on having my MOH in town by scheduling as much wedding stuff as we could.

We started on Friday by dragging Andrew along with us to look at tux styles. We needed to figure out what he likes so that we would have an idea what to look for. This went well and we now know what we want the tuxes to look like.

We then kicked Andrew out and my mom and sister and I went to try on wedding dresses! We went to David's bridal because it is open until 9. I did find a dress I really liked but I wanted to try on other dresses to have something to compare it to.

Saturday morning we woke up early and went to Anna's bridal in Lake Oswego. This was a very different experience than at david's bridal. I didn't really like the lady that was helping me she was kind of pushy. And I got the feeling that she didn't like my mom and sister for giving their opinions. She also made it hard to look at the dress objectively... i don't know it's hard to explain. Anyways I found a dress that I really liked and it fit me really well. However, once I left the store and began to picture my wedding and what I would be wearing I could not see that dress as part of the picture... so the hunt continues...

Saturday afternoon was spent at the children's museum where my adorable little Brae was dressed as Ricky Bobby for his party. It was so much fun to watch him smash his face in the cake and sit on the floors surrounded by all his new toys.
Saturday evening we relaxed from the full weekend and once the trick or treaters stopped coming we changed into our comfies and watched The Proposal.