It's getting closer!!

Wow, we had such a great time up in New England this past weekend with my family. Patrick and Uncle Terry bonded over early morning breakfast conversations (and conversations in the car, and around the house, and during marital counselling, and did I mention conversations?), and he bonded with Brett as they bunked together in the basement.

Interestingly, I saw a new side of P that was kind of scary: the PYRO side. During our visit, we sat around a fire pit twice. On the second night, Patrick realized that "Hey--it's FUN to make fire!" and began running around feverishly like a chicken with his head cut off to throw more pine needles and branches onto the ever-rising flames. Aunt Debbie had to tell him to calm down and wait twice because the fire was taller than he. The grin on his face while he ran back and forth was hysterical.

We visited briefly with the Ventura family on the way back, and we had an AWESOME trip!

Once we returned, we got the marriage license, and we got the wedding bands today. I'm working on arranging the ceremony music right now (gotta love Finale!). Everything is getting done little by little. Mom and I are planning to go out shopping for more wedding stuff today.

The response cards are coming in. It's exciting to go to the mailbox and see a bunch of little ivory envelopes waiting to be opened! I love getting mail! :-)

There's a shower out in Frederick on Saturday, and I'm looking forward to meeting a ton of people! It should be a lot of fun! On the same day, my cousin Gary Strickland is having his graduation party--we have a doctor in the family!! Congrats Gary!!!

Next weekend, I am going with the family down to Lynchburg for Nick's high school graduation party. I can't WAIT to see everyone--especially Emily!--and it's so exciting that another one of us has grown up! Congratulations Nick!

More Stuff Done!

Well, my first full, official day off saw many things accomplished.

All of the music for the wedding ceremony has been chosen and all but one piece has been ordered (I still need to find it). Because this is done, we can now make up/print the ceremony programs.

The rehearsal time is set.

We have decided to go with Basta Productions for our videography and I'll hopefully meet with Henry Basta some time in the next few weeks. Next week, hopefully we'll meet with Mr. Perskie and firm up our photography package.

Mom and I did another count of all of our supplies today and we plan to make another Michael's run tomorrow.

I am still looking for a piano, but I may have found a sofa today . . . we'll look at that tomorrow too.

I still have to pack for this weekend--we're driving up for marriage counselling in New Hampshire and we'll get to spend time with the fam!!