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HAPPY EASTER!!!!

Well today was pretty much a regular Easter for us. We meet up at the Park, stuff our faces with BBQ and play a nice family friendly game of kickball which we usually just take "intermission" and NEVER start the game back up! :) It's fun and tradition.

Edgar had to work today from 9-5 so he missed all of my family festivities but made it in time for his families after he got off work. We just met up at his parents house and ate dinner. Well he ate-I was too stuffed to eat anymore. I did have a nice orange and a bowl of cookies-n-cream ice cream! Last night Edgar made his confirmation and we sat in Church for 3 1/2 hours!!!! There were about 20 kids/adults making their sacraments for the Catholic Church(hence the 3 1/2 hour long mass!!!) but to get through it didn't seem like that long. Afterwards we went to eat at IHOP and we got home at like 1 or so. The mass started at 8, but we got there at 7:30 p.m. because it gets pretty full for the Easter Vigil. It was really pretty because mass starts with a candle lit entrance and every light was off except our candles. Kinda makes me want a candle lit wedding ceremony, but thats impossible. I would have pics to show BUT my camera decided not to work tonight so I don't have any pics of last nights events. Egh-oh well.

During dinner at Edgar's parents we were talking about the language of the our wedding mass. The priest won't do a bilingual ceremony so we need to choose spanish or english. My immediate family know NO spanish! Edgar's Mom and Dad speak spanish, and his Dad knows more english than his Mom. My whole family speaks english as their first language and most of Edgar's family speak spanish. We could have the mass in Spanish and my family won't know ANYTHING or we could have the mass in English and his family will know a little. The problem with a Spanish mass-I won't get the full effect. I know enough spanish to communicate with Edgar's family-but I don't speak spanish religiously! We are in a BIG rut here because Edgar won't speak up to his parents and say "Laura doesn't speak spanish so we're having it in english...." so I have a feeling this is going to not be fun!

The good thing about it is that Edgar switches to trucks tomorrow. He has to be in to work by 4:45 a.m. and he will get off no later than 4!!! This means now he only works Monday-Friday! I'm so excited to spend the weekends together. It's such an awesome feeling-he hasn't been off of work on the weekends without requesting to be for TWO YEARS!!!! Now that he switched departments he needs to put in time off for the wedding tomorrow when he goes in. I can't wait!

Oh yea.....in 3 months I will officially be a married woman!!!!!

Such a FUN day!

Yep, I did it. I went to the Bridal Extravaganza here in Austin with my Bestfriend since 1st grade. We are both bride to be's but she has not set an official wedding date yet. I couldn't have picked a better person to go with, it was just amazing! We ate pretty much every piece of cake there....which I should probably try on my dress to make sure it still fits! :) Oh well...I have plenty of time. (hopefully!)

Then, we went to see BRIDE WARS!!!! That movie was just amazing! I loved it. I'm so glad I went to see it with her because we've been BESTfriends for like 18 years. The movie fit our personality and it made me choke up and get teary eyed twice! I even had the BIGGEST knot in my throat. Ahhh, I'll be seeing that movie again.

This morning we went to her apartment and worked on cutting out a piece of my program. These will go on top of the black cardstock. And in the inside of the program, there will be either ivory paper, or green paper. I haven't fully decided yet. They will be full sheets of paper folded in half and then 2 hole punched with ribbon on the binding. Here's a pic of what we cut out today.

I also printed out our RSVP cards. Both are printed out on lime green card stock. They're so nice, and they look so classic. I'm going to be cutting them out and gluing the front to the programs. As soon as I'm done cutting out a few of the RSVP's I am going to get one full invitation together so I can go and weigh them. Luckily I won't be mailing out a ton, only about 20 out of the 97 I will be making.....so I won't be spending a fortune on postage.

YAY! I'm so happy with the progress I'm making with the wedding planning. Hopefully I continue. Monday, we have a meeting with the Father at the Church. I have a list of questions I want to ask him and then I'm going to also ask about the timeline for the Church Ceremony so I can get started on my programs. I always want to be one step ahead incase something tragic (God forbid anything does) happens, and we have to put a hold on wedding planning for a bit. I also need to ask him some photographer questions. Uhmm...what else? We are going to be taking our FOCCUS test at 9:30 Monday morning, so I'm kinda worried about that. I think it will be fine and I'm just overreacting. I also got an e-mail from one of the ladies that work at the Catholic Diocese of Austin and they got our check in the mail for our marriage classes. They were originally requesting we go to the retreat but I really didn't have $260 bucks to fork out. SOOO, we opted to do the 7-9 pm on Tuesday evenings for 4 Tuesdays beginning Jan. 20th(for only $90). So we will be there until February 3rd, but I like that option better.

That's all for now.

Puttin' Along...

I really need a kick in my @$$ to stop putting wedding checks on the back burner! We have met with the priest at our Church and we put it down in the books...so I am OFFICIALLY a July 11, 2009 bride! I can't stop smiling when I think about it all. The wedding will be at 2 P.M. The only thing I was thinking about falling through, was when we finally got to talk to the priest, that my date was going to be taken. Oh well it didn't happen that way, and I'm excited!

Today I went to David's Bridal with one of my BM's. We've been best friends since 1st grade and I sometimes regret not asking her to be my MOH. Instead I asked my 2 sisters, because I thought that is what I was supposed to do. I do love my sisters, but they haven't helped one bit!

I thought I would be the type of bride that was going to let my BM's choose the dress they want. I wasn't (still am not) good at making decisions as big as wedding decisions. I thought I would just tell them the color & length of their dress, but after going to David's Bridal and realizing there are MANY different types of black (fabrics) and different "tea" length dresses....I figured I would let them know the exact dress. This is the dress I chose for them...

I sent them an e-mail letting them know I would like them to try this dress on in mid-November. I'm giving them Until Feb 11th to order their dress. The sales consultant let me know it would be about 6-8 weeks for the dresses to come in after ordering them. This will place the time frame around late march or early april. Which in turn, will allow them about 4 months for alterations. I let them know they are $135 and I have a $20 gift cert. for them to use and any black shoes would be fine. I am getting them to let me know if they are going to want their hair done. I'm going to ask the lady that is doing my hair to give me a range for up do's and down do's. Hopefully, she will give us a deal if a lot of us want them done.

These are my wedding shoes that I chose today at DB~~~~~~>>>>

They are SUPER comfortable, and I would have NEVER decided to choose these. The only reason I did is cuz my BM wanted to try on some heels with the dresses she was modeling for our BM dresses. I chose these for her and she raved about how comfortable they were. When I put them on, I was sold!

I have also went ahead and printed out some of my invitations. Here is a pic of them. I also have a spanish version that will go out to FI's family, but I don't have a pic of that yet.

I really need to go through all of my wedding things and organize, and make a list of things I still need and things I have that maybe I can get rid of. There are sooo many things left to do. Until later, tata!