Promotions and Puppies

Life has been full.  That much I can say.  I feel like I've lived more and experienced more in the past three months than I have in some years of my life.  It's been a wild, wild ride.

It's official, I've been promoted to Senior Program Director.  A much more prestigious position.  Really challenging me all of the time.  I'm looking forward to my exec having her baby, but I am a little nervous about how everything at work is going to shake out with her being gone.  She is extremely hands on and that's been so amazing to experience.
So yay for me. I am happy with the change.  I felt some challenges in the old role.  But now I feel a lot more useful and in the right place.

Chance has been keeping us busy.  He's growing like crazy.  He's now over 3 months old and still completely adorable and doesn't listen at all.  :) But he's a puppy.

Wedding stuff is moving right along.  With the help of my bridesmaids, we found the perfect hotel for everyone to stay and have a free breakfast every morning.  Not to mention that there is a shuttle that will take everyone downtown and they offer transportation to the church and reception.  Everything that I was looking for. (Thanks Lib and Bridget).

We need to either find a good picture of ourselves or take one for the save the dates.  And I need to get those printed soon so that we can mail them out as Christmas cards. But I haven't gotten any addresses from my parents yet.  So I'll have to ask them to step on that a bit.

Anyway...here's a picture of my little guy.  This right before we both fell into the creek (twice).

Something finally registered

This isn't a post about registries, however, we did some of that today.

I had a minor weird health scare (I'm fine,  honestly) the other night, so we cancelled plans for the weekend and I laid around most of Saturday.  We woke up Sunday with plans to decide where we wanted to register.  We made our way to BBB, Bed Bath and Beyond.  Randy was surprised to hear that they had kitchen supplies, which I explained was the "beyond" part. We took in some good advice from our friends...the chef and the pastry chef (a husband and wife duo) and we took that mighty gun and shopped our little hearts out.

Needless to say, with everything else going on (with myself and everyone in my life), the whole experience was a little overwhelming.  And it was hard to listen the ladies sch peel, listen to the advice of our friends, listen to Randy's opinions and try to figure out what kind of mixing bowls I wanted to mix my future kids birthday cakes in.  It all sort of tied my life up in a little bow.  And I couldn't figure out what I wanted or where we were going to put it.  Randy had me worried about space until he picked out a counter top popcorn machine that we just "had to" register for.  I told him I figured my dad would buy it for him considering he also loves popcorn.  Although I can't imagine where on earth it's going to go.

It was just really overwhelming.  And then I sat down to work on the registry a little and saw this:

I was sitting there working on the registry, looked up and Randy winked at me.  And I started to cry a little.  I realized that it doesn't matter what bowl is sitting next to him, or the fact that the dog started to chew on our table (I know!) it matters that he loves me and I love him.  I thought about the future version of him as I looked at him sitting there working.  I pictured him with grey hair and the same crinkled smile he gives me and says, "Hi Pretty."  No matter what else comes our way, I've got the best person possible to figure it out with.  It doesn't mean things won't be hard sometimes.  I know they will, and sometimes they are hard now.  But it's through all of it that we will learn more and try and work and fight and love.  

I just realized that it's easy to get carried away, but I need to continue to  focus on the things that truly matter, my little family :)

Enough of a ramble for the evening.

Good night.

Things are getting exciting...

I'm so excited to marry him.  I really can't wait.  We now, weekly, ask each other, "will you marry me?"  I am guessing that there were many days we both wanted to say it, but we were waiting for it to be special. Now we can indulge.  I love when he asks me again anyway.

In more wedding news...

My bridesmaids have all been asked!  That is very exciting.  There is one more groomsmen that needs to be asked as well.  And then the wedding party will be official.

That's so awesome.  It feels good to get that done.  We have our invitations being designed, which are going to be awesome and then once my mom and I can agree on the church we will be home free.  Well...that and we need to get a ton of addresses for the invites and put together the shower.

That also means that we will have to register soon.  That sounds exciting!!

Also...here are some much better pix from Kelly's wedding:

Randy...totally ridiculous!

I love this picture.  We are having fun.

My favorite picture ever.  Looks like 1960's "why I oughta!"

He was "dangerous on the dancefloor"

My gorgeous girls.  Love you both.

Hamming it up Mustache Style like always.

My beautiful friend Bridget

The best one of all...with the bride.  All was perfection!