5 days

wow. it's coming. fast!

we took a long weekend to go camping with my family in our annual trek to cades cove. it was a good time to relax and be outside in the gorgeous smokies, but now that we're back, the wedding is pretty much here.

megan's in training all day and tomorrow, which means i have long to-do lists. everything's pretty much done. but like when you're moving, just because you've gotten the furniture and big boxes moved out, you've still got a lot of small stuff to do.

1. coffee
2. walk dog
3. to do list
3a.
3b..
3c...

-jd

catch you up

wow, we haven't blogged in forever. sorry 2 loyal readers!

to catch you up, we're getting down to the wire. we spent the past couple of weeks unwinding from the school year. we took a trip down to the georgia coast with my brother, his fiancee, and some of their friends. it was a lot of driving, but very worth it. megan finally got to see savannah. no, we didn't eat at paula deen's restaurant, but we went on a trolley tour and know all of the places we want to explore when we go back.

after some begging, we've gotten most of the rsvp's back and have some sort of idea as to how many people will show up. do we pay for more food and expect everyone to show up? do we suspect some folks will back out at the last minute? will more people come than said they would? we're gonna let that decision run down to the wire.

megan says she's got her dress all ready to go. i haven't seen it of course, but it's supposed to fit just right and there are some numbers and some buttons and loops for this thing called "bustling..?" that's why she's the woman and i'm not.

we went over all the final wedding planning with cedarwood today, and are meeting with the minister on monday. i'm so glad God put him in our life. he's such a cool guy, and is going to be the perfect person to marry us.

i never dreamed that there would be so many little details that we have to take care of at the end. meg's getting a little stressed out by them, but everything's going to come together just like it should.

that's about it for now. we're going camping with my folks next week. in the meantime it's going to be a mad dash to get everything done on time. if you wanna see what's going on in my nerdy little head, you can read this.

-jason

new and improved website!

i know, i should be resting my sinus infection and cough, but i got started on this and couldn't stop until i was finished. i present the new and improved website. i'm guessing there may be a few bugs to work out, but i think you'll like it much better than the first. enjoy!

-jason

for our loyal reader

apparently there are people out there who read this thing, or at least 1 future sister-in-law anyway! ah let's see what we need to catch you up on...

• we bought a townhouse in brentwood! it's 3 beds, 2.5 baths, 1 car garage, about 1500 sq. ft. we're super excited we could afford something like that, and can't wait to move in. it hasn't been built yet, so we got to customize everything and pick our own upgrades. we'll put up with apartment dwelling until november and then we get to move to the first place we can officially call "home."
• invitations were mailed out yesterday. a whole lot of stuffin, lickin, and stickin. now you get to send them back. don't worry -- we addressed and put the stamp on them for you! just fill out the card, donate some saliva, and drop it in the box.
• the dog/cat merging hasn't progressed at all. i have scratches on my arm, and blue has scabs on his nose. i don't know what we're gonna do. anybody want some cats?!? (hopefully meg won't read this either!)
• i love wedding showers! megan goes away for a couple of hours and comes back with a car-full of stuff. then i get to put that year of unloading chick-fil-a trucks experience to use finding the best way to fit everything into a tight space. there need to be showers for men, except you'd call them something manly like... i dunno. but you'd get tools and man toys.

that's all i've got for now. we're under 2 months away, so a lot more will be happening in the next few weeks. we'll try to keep you up to date!

jason

oh, and i want this to be our first dance song! it's on the right hand side, click play!

showers, fittings and houses

So, it's been awhile since we've last posted...sorry for the delay! In that time we have traveled to both Iowa and Georgia and attended 2 showers. In my opinion, showers are great wonderful things where old, embarrassing stories are told, but you get wonderful presents out of the deal! I thank everyone for the wonderful gifts that we received!

Meanwhile, we travel ever closer to the wedding day! The blogger has it all marked out, but I believe we're at like 9 1/2 weeks!!! That is absolute craziness! Everything is coming together though, and I'm really not stressing too much. We have to finalize tux selections, address and send out invitations, and have one last planning session at Cedarwood before it's all said and done.

I have my first dress fitting this week, so that's pretty exciting! I'm not exactly sure what takes place at a dress fitting, but I'm taking along a good friend who also has no idea what's going on so it'll be a good time!

In other news, we're working on buying a house. Round one didn't go through as planned, so we're back to square one and ready to start looking again. I have to say, for being a buyers market things aren't dropping as much as you would expect. But, we've found some good possible contenders so we'll see how that all goes!

Other than that, there's not much new...maybe Jason will post with more interesting stories!!! :)

Megan