Jake and Erica by Kelly

Registering last week was a lot of fun. Jake had Monday off so we took advantage of it and went to Crate and Barrel and Macy's (it's under Hagerty or Wambold if you want to buy us things).

I got an email from the woman that helped us at Macy's. It read "Dear Jacob and Erica, I really had a good time working with you on Saturday."

What am I supposed to do with this? Apparently two days before he registered with me, he went to Macy's and registered with what I can only imagine to be his other fiancee Erica.

How weird that the same lady helped both Jake and me, and Jake and Erica. Kelly

Flower girl by Kelly

Here is Grace who has been in 342 weddings.

Flower girls by Kelly

Finding a wedding dress was fun. Finding flower girl dresses was much more fun. Actually finding them wasn't fun, giving the girls the dresses was fun. I have two flower girls. We don't have anyone that can be a ring bearer in either of our families. So we are having two flower girls.

Grace is 8. She has been a flower girl in about 342 weddings. So I know she will be a pro. Annie is.....3 or 4, I can't remember (see picture. Grace's will be posted tomorrow). She was so excited when we brought the dress over. She explained to me that she is a flower girl in a wedding, and gets to walk down the aisle, and gets to hold flowers!!!!!!! Her mom told her she would be beautiful but not as beautiful as the bride. She then said, "What's a bride???"

I didn't ask Grace to be a flowergirl until yesterday because I haven't seen her in months. She couldn't have been happier (or at least is a good actress). I gave her her dress as a birthday present. She instantly tried it on and I don't think she was too happy when she had to take it off.

I saw ruby red slippers at Target and decided that if the little girls want to wear shoes like mine, that would be cute. If they don't, That's cute too. Kelly

FOCCUS by Kelly

We finally took the FOCCUS. About two weeks ago we were with the deacon just doing a pre wedding checkup and asked how we go about doing the FOCCUS. He said, "Want to do it now?" So we took it.

He left us in the room together which made me think that Jake would try to cheat off of mine. I was tempted to cover my answers with a piece of paper. He should have been the one covering his answers because I definitely looked at his paper. Not to see the answers, but so I could see how far he had gotten. I am a very fast reader so obviously I was a little ahead of him. It's not like it was a contest to see who get done faster (I was done much faster).

Well apparently I should have taken a little more time to read the questions carefully. My brain forgot to work a little and I answered ridiculous questions with ridiculous answers. Apparently I said that Jake and I don't agree on proper party behavior. I think we need to get invited to parties in order to find out what proper party behavior is. Kelly

Ready for the Party by Andrea

Everyone keeps telling us to "enjoy the moment" and "savor all the little details" while planning our wedding. But for some reason we just see this as the biggest most expensive party we'll ever have...and we're ready for the cake and dancing. I know I only get to do this once. I know I should be taking mental (and digital) pictures of everything to capture the experience. I know I should be taking full advantage of all the bridal events and promotions because I'll only get to be a bride one time. But when I think about it, I really just want cake. I'm not excited about the flowers, the makeup and the dress. Well, I am...but that's just the celebration for one day...I'm really excited about married life!

I'm looking forward to all the fun we'll have when we're married. Cooking dinner together, staying up late watching movies in our pajamas, you know...all that cute fun couple stuff that we do already, except we won't be two single people; we'll be a family of two. That's the important part. The wedding isn't the goal, it's just a big party to kick off our new lives with a bang. So anyway, I think my point was that I want cake now and September is a long time to wait for baked goods. Andrea