Over the weekend I had the blessing of being a bridesmaid in one of my good friend's wedding...I had such a GREAT time with friends and sharin debbie and josh's special day with them!! The ceremony and reception were put together so beautifully and everything ran smoothly. Debbie seemed 100% stress free and they both seemed to really enjoy their day. Now I am becoming even more impatient for reese and my wedding. Oct 30 seems so stinkin far away!! We are really enjoying wedding planning tho and the whole "engagement phase". I've heard from so many people that wedding planning is super stressful, but we havent experienced that at all! As of now all we really have to do is book our photographer (who we already have picked...we just have to send the check in), book the cake person, and start lookin into florists.

I'm still unsure whether i wanna do silk flowers or real flowers...if i buy silk flowers on sale i can save a lot of money and they are still beautiful PLUS they wont die and i can make them/put the bouquets together way before the wedding. But i can also save money with fresh flowers by buyin them straight from the grower and then assembling the bouquets on my own w some help with friends/family. I really like that idea but just worry cuz we'd have to put the flowers together the day before the wedding which puts us at risk of having flower problems and then not havin time to pull something else together! I dunno i dunno i dunno...got time to figure it out tho. If anyone has any input let a sista know! :)

I'm just so excited for the wedding tho...I can't wait to be Mrs. Brown..i cant wait to walk down the aisle surrounded by all our friends and family and marry my knight in shining armor :) Debbie's wedding seemed to fly by SO FAST and it made me sad in a way cuz i know that if i thought it went fast then debbie probably thought it FLEW by...and as the bride im sure the day will fly by for me too but i dont want it too!!! I want to slow things down whenever and wherever i can so we can hopefully take it all in and enjoy our day as much as possible! I just feel like im all geeked and excited for our wedding day and ill be this way still for like 7 more months and then in one day it will all be over! But then i suppose the upside is we will then have SO MUCH to look forward to as married couple, future parents, etc. Oh yea...ps. i have been havin baby fever like CRAZY!!! CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY!! I just can't wait to pour my love out into our little ones...reese is gonna be such an amazing dad and i cant wait for all the fun times that havin a little one will bring. Not to mention i feel like our kids are gonna be flippin hilarious and awesome so i cant wait to be entertained lol. I feel like reese and i will entertain our kids just as much as theyll entertain us...we call our family unit the "goof troop" which is too perfect of a title. I've just always felt like a calling of mine is to build into youth and i cant wait to help our very own little one's grow :) We eventually want to be foster parents and/or adopt as well (or if thats God's plan from the get go then we'll do it when called upon), but im really excited for that too. I just feel like ive had all this love poured into me that it is only dutiful and necessary to pour it back out and there isn't a better way than to pour the love into those that are looking up to me for that very love, guidance, and security. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHh i just cant wait for marriage, little ones, and all the other blessings God has for us! And i just cant help but be excited for our kids just cuz i really think they r gonna be hilarious...some real pieces of art thats for sure! hahaha! anyhoots enough of all that.

Headin to a marriage conference at Notre Dame this coming weekend so hoping to take in a lot of really great info and continue to build the foundation already laid for reese and my marriage. Not to mention ill get to see family from south bend and my godson!!!! I dont get to see my big bruhder, sister-in-law, and nephew NEARLY as much as i wish i could. If i lived by them id watch keaton on all my days off when they were at work. I hope that someday all my brothers and i can live close to eachother so we can spend more time together...and not just for certain occassions like holidays/birthdays/etc. I wanna be able to just throw together a cookout on a random weekend and have all them and their girlfriends/wives/kids/etc around to kick it with. Maybe someday!! What's crazy about all that longing for being close to them is that reese and have been contemplating temporarily moving somewhere WARM year round for a while (like florida or california type of states ya digssss). I could do traveling nursing so we wouldnt have to pay for rent/utilities/health insurance AT ALL and he could find a job for the length of time im contracted and we can just soak up the fabo weather and fabo savings! Plan is ideal but not sure if itll ever happen...especially if we have kids soon after we are married cuz i dont know how i feel about being new to an area with a little one with no family/friends nearby. It's a thought tho! lol. Anyhoots...probably should get back to work...it's been a slow night so far and im hopin it stays this way so i can chill and get some non-work stuff done! Anyhoots...Be real. Love God. Love yourself. Eat fluffy biscuits. And don't skip breakfast.