Any Volunteers???... :-)

So, I have a favor/request. The LOVELY Judi P. is heading up the decor for the reception. She is looking for 5-6 people who would be willing to meet on Saturday morning, the 7th, at 8am to help her decorate the MC for our reception. It will be in the morning and you will still have enough time to go home before the wedding to change and all that jazz. If this is something that sounds good I would LOVE your help. Go ahead and shoot me a message here or call if that sounds like something you would like to do! :-)

Thanks so very much everyone!!!

20 more days... :-)

So, the wedding is very, very quickly approaching. It's weird to think back on when we first got engaged...about 5 1/2 months ago. It feels like forever ago and yet like yesterday all at the same time. So strange! We are hammering out a lot of the final details...and probably details that aren't really considered "final details" but have become that because I've left them until now to think about. hmmm. Oh well. I got my dress back on Tues. That was really fun. I was soooo nervous driving there. I had this crazy fear that I would try it on and not like it any more...or not like the fit after seeing how it fits in my size. A little crazy. I still really like the dress, :-) It fit like a glove...perfect. Everything except the length. Oh well. It's getting altered right now. $300 later I will have a shorter dress with a bustle. YES, I did say $300 which is HALF of what the whole dress cost. What in the world? It seems completely ridiculous to me...but, the dress has to fit! So....oh well!

So, some things that have to be done this week:
-Order the roses for the cake and bridesmaids
-Go to my practice hair run
-Order daisies
-Do my taxes
-Work
-Go to Growth Group
-Pick up my dress
-Pick up my wedding band
-Get an idea for numbers...have you sent in your RSVP yet? :-)
-Figure a menu
etc, etc, etc.

Anyways, that's probably a 1/3 of what we need to do. That's all that I could think of off the top of my head. Sooooo, I'm off to go to bed!!! :-)

Some Eye Candy!

Well, even though the wedding is in three and a half weeks....here are some engagement photos. haha. It took a while to decide what form we wanted the photos in...CD or prints. So, here are some fun one's. Hope you enjoy your complete overdose of "Jason and Anna"! :-)

So, there are a lot of "walking" pictures. Hmmm. Kind of funny!!! :-)

Wedding Shower Fun...!

Well. yesterday was the Grace Church wedding shower...thrown my the lovely Debbi!!! It was really really fun! Strange that it was for me...but super great! It was so funny because I was telling some people about how I actually forgot that the shower was for me. I got there and said hi to people and then we started off with some games. There were a couple of games and I kind of got distracted by them. Then Lisa prayed before the food and she mentioned my name. When I heard my name I jumped a little because some where between arriving and the games I forgot why I was there. I've been to so many showers and I guess figured I was at someone elses. haha. Anyways, it was very fun and thank you to all who came and for all the AMAZING gifts! I felt so blessed! Thank you, thank you!

Soooo...I think my dress comes in this week! I'm super excited. I'm a little nervous because a friend of mine got her dress back and ended up not liking it. Hopefully that won't happen! :-) Hopefully there won't be much altering either...for the sake of our bank account! Anyways, we are at less then one month away for the wedding. So crazy. I feel like there are still a lot of things to do...but, they'll get done I'm sure! We have our first two nights reserved for after the wedding but we are still trying to figure out what else to do. We're thinking kind of low-key and not super expensive. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas??? :-)

Merry Christmas...Happy New Year...etc, etc.

Hello all!

Well, I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!!! :-) Mine was most pleasant! :-) So, I don't have a ton of time to post a bunch of updates but I thought that I would put some pictures of the "family bridal shower" that I had last Saturday! Jason's mom is having surgery and will not be able to go to the one that is at Grace this Sat. so, she decided to throw one herself! It was quite fun!!!On the left is my sister-in-law to-be Joanna. She is Tyler (Jason's brothers) wife. On the right is Ashley, Jason's cousin who I was actually friends with in high school before I even knew Jason.

My Great Aunt Lilly May and I! She's so cute!!!

A little friendly tp competition fun! :-) We had to make dresses! My mom won! It was her fetching TP rosettes and hat that did it!

Anyways, that was the shower. It was very fun! And...there's another one coming up on Saturday. Yay, how fun! :-)

~CoLd~

*I seriously posted this a few days ago. When I signed onto my blog though it wasn't there...weird. Ok, so let's try this again...*

I believe I can no longer remember what it feels like to be warm. What's that big round thing in the sky that produces abundant light? I can't seem to imagine it any more! Ok, so it's a little mellow dramatic but my oh my....i'M cOlD!!!!!!!!

I feel like I haven't been warm while awake for quite a few days. I'm warm in bed but that's about it. All other times of the day...buuuurrrr! I think there was even snow up in San Fran and in the mountains around Santa Barbara. That is a no bueno in my book. I like it warm. I figured that because of this fact the Lord will put me somewhere where it never gets above 50 degrees...just to stretch me. Maybe warmth is my "idol" and being put in a freezing environment will be the "thorn in my flesh." When I'm weak he is strong? Well, if this happens maybe I can ask the Lord to pack a few more pounds onto my body. I need some insulation!!!

So, it's been a while since the last blog. The van is all legal now...with California plates and all. I will admit too...I like it! I'm a mini van driving 24 year old who has no kids and I'm proud of it! Here is a short list of the things that I am enjoying about it:

• The heat works so well and it gets so roasty toasty right from the start (which is obviously very important from what was written above)
  
• There is a handy arm rest so I can comfortably drive.


• I sit so high! I can see everything!


• There is so much SPACE! I can put my work stuff in there, and my gym bag and there is still space to spare!
  
• The back is always spic-n-span...I never use it!


• Cup holders! (The truck doesn't have any).


• A little sound that goes "bing" when gas is getting low...no way to forget!


• It also dings when you leave your headlights on. The truck doesn't do this either. I still can't believe we haven't killed the battery on it yet.

So, I'm enjoying the van. Wedding stuff is coming along. I think.... :-) Invitations should me going out any day now. Last Sat. marked the 8 week mark. It's coming soon. I also can't believe that Christmas is a week away. That's nuts! We did our engagement photos which was...fun. haha. It was really awkward at first. That's for sure. I also had bruised ribs from laying on rocks. Overall though it was a good experience. I'm not sure if there is a way to post them on here but I will try. If they are on here then I was successful. If they aren't, then I wasn't!

Well, I probably won't post before Christmas so I hope that everybody has a great Christmas. Ooh, Jason showed me this rad blog. It's called http://www.oneyearonearth.com/. It's a couple who traveled the world for a year as their honeymoon. I think they did some humanitarian work too. They aren't believers or anything but if you like cultures, pictures, and travel stuff check it out!

I'm a really bad blogger

So, I used to be a blogging Queen!!!! What happened? It's funny because I feel like I actually have less to say now. For whatever reason I could always think of things to say when I blogged every day. Now, I think that I forget to make "blog notes" in my head. I know, it's a bit pathetic but when interesting things happened I used to think, "Oooh, I have to remember to blog about this." I don't really do that any more so things just get lost in my mind and I can't think of anything worth writing about.

Let's see what I can dig up...! :-) So, I'm enjoying the van. It's nice to DRIVE!!! Yay. I also enjoy the fact that it has ac, power steering, and cup holders. I'm immensely enjoying the fact that I can drink coffee and turn the wheel without feeling like I'm a hazard. (It was a bit tough to drink coffee, drive a stick, and turn the wheel without power steering). I can also text message easily while driving! :-) It's so much simpler when you are driving an automatic. I know...it's not safe. But I was pretty good at it while driving a stick...just think how good and safe I am now that I drive an automatic. haha. So, the car situation is quite nice.

Wedding plans are coming along. We send out the invites in two weeks. We are sending the invites at the 6-week mark. It's a little crazy to realize how close we are getting to the big day. Very exciting! So, if you get something in the mail from us...it's not a Christmas card! :-)

Overall things are good. I'm enjoying the company of Mrs. Fugler here! She's just lovely and her little girly is pretty darn cute. She's so tiny! :-)

Man, this week is a crazy week. It's getting to that time of year! On Tuesday night Jason and I have a Christmas party. On Wednesday night we have growth group. I work on Thursday night. On Saturday we have our engagement shots (yeah, we're a little behind on that!), on Saturday night we have another Christmas party, and on Sunday night...yes, ANOTHER Christmas party. Whoa mama! Kind of crazy. Good times though! Ok, well, I'm beat and I need to go to bed! Hope you all have a great week!