His Pot of Gold

I have been called anyone's Good Luck Charm, until Sunday night and Tuesday night!

Game 1 of the NBA finals was... last Thursday? ...And the Spurs won. Barely, but they won. And I was watching the game with Ava. Game 2 was this past Sunday and I didn't watch it with him (I had a ton of homework to read/do) and they lost. Then, Game 3, since he told me I had to watch this one with him, they won again! By a lot!

Ava has informed me that I am to watch all the games with him from now on.

Baking Bread

Food for thought:
All symptoms listed, minus the boobs part (kinda), um... yeah... CHECK!

Not getting my hopes up, but... my hopes are WAY up.

We'll see. I'll keep you posted!

Say What?!

I was reading an older entry and I had mentioned that we had 56 days until our proposed wedding date... Know what day we're on now?!

WE HAVE TWELVE DAYS LEFT UNTIL OUR WEDDING!!!!! 12 days!!! 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12!! So close to the day I've wanted more than anything else in this world!

But something more than that actual day, I've wanted to BE married more than to GET married. Make sense? I've wanted nothing more than to wake up at 4am with my husband - with my Ava - and make his breakfast and pack his lunch. I've wanted nothing more than to wash clothes, wash dishes, sweep and dust, cook dinner for my family. To HAVE a family with a man who loves the Lord and love me!

So surreal! I love it!

So Fresh and so Clean

Today is the day!



Well, today is the day of my Bridal Shower, anyway!

Over the past four or five months in planning for MY wedding I'll have moments of *WHOA I'M PLANNING MY WEDDING*!!! Most of the time I'm in my OCD mode, like, totally planning and making my lists - but I've been making my wedding lists since I was 14! To be actually crossing those things off of my lists - surreal!

I'm am so excited to be surrounded by my family and friends to celebrate with me. To be surrounded by people who have encouraged me for so many years!

Plus, I am a bit excited to get some awesome loot! :)

AND - we all get to talk to Elder Odom today for his Mother's Day call!! AND - we get to see Elizabeth!!

Its going to be a good day!

PS, to explain the title of this entry. I have had so many guys tell me that showers are good before wedding - takes the stink away! Oh boy... so fresh and so clean.

Speed Bumps

The hardest thing about planning the Temple side of this wedding has been deciding who to invite to the actual sealing. We've reserved the 35 witness room, but we are having serious difficulties narrowing our list down to 35!

Lucky to be in Love with my Best Friend

We are now at 40 days left until I marry my bestest friend! This past week has been so awesome! Tuesday Ava and I had our living ordinance interview with our Stake President. (We passed, by the way!) :) We called the Temple Wednesday morning! (May 23rd (officially) at 1pm!) With some help from my sister, Sarah, our invitations have been ordered. (They are GORGEOUS!! I SO LOVE THEM!) And (suprisingly) they should be delivered by Monday!

Got a message from one of the Sister's that served in this area... She's coming for a day in Woodville and has totally asked me to chauffer her around! AWESOME!!! :D

** Found out that Ava's work visa ID will work to get our marriage license - BIG sigh of relief because every other form of picture ID he has has expired!

Funny Moment: (in the process of finding out what forms of picture ID he has) I asked Ava if his passport has a picture it in. He responds with, "Yes! Of me!" I laugh. He laughs. "Of me and myself." What a silly man! . . . We get back to his house and he shows me his passport and I turn to this picture part of it and say, "Heeeey! It is you in this picture!" Hahahaha... Funny kids!

Awkward Moment: I called the Temple and when the lady answered the phone and I said I need to schedule our sealing date and time I immediatly burst into tears. When I could finally calm down and actually schedule it she kept saying, "Its okay... Congratulations! Its okay..." I hang up the phone and the tears stop - just. like. that. *Palm Slap to Face*

A Too Happy Moment: After calling the Temple (again, with help from my dear sister who has a credit card and not a check card from a small bank that won't let you make large purchases online after two large checks have cleared...) the invitations get ordered! I'm looking at the receipt, making sure they were actually ordered and not not, like, reserved or...whatever... and I get really excited and scream (I'm home alone), "I JUST ORDERED MMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYY WEDDING INVITATIONS!! MMMMMYYYYYYYYYY INVITATIONS!! FOR MMMYYYYYYYYY WEDDING!!!!!"

Picking up the dress, hopefully, next Friday!

The Dress

As we are now on Day 56 until our (hopfully) wedding date, the process to get my dress finished has sped up slightly. I had my third fitting yesterday with a very nice British woman (eat your heart out Megan!) who is apart of the head seamster's group. What do you call a guy sewer guy? A tailor? I like seamster better... I learned his name is Caleb, by the way. Crazy talented man!

He had the sleeved done on the front part of the dress and they look AMAZING - like they are naturally apart of the dress! I don't know if I can imagine what the dress looked like before them. Next appointment is on the 12th.