How precious is this

This is the wedding cake topper I just picked up today. Isn't it cute? The men are all going to be wearing black cowboy hats for the wedding so I thought this was appropriate.

Note to my sister, yeah, I think I'm getting hooked on E-Bay. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!

The morning after

Ohhhh.... How my head hurts.

It's my own fault. I know that much. But I'm still looking for something or some one else to blame.

This weekend both roommates and my man went over to Spokane for the weekend. Leaving me and this huge house to my self. So I call up my sister, her husband and a really good friend of ours and told them to come over.

With all the kids playing upstairs, us adults got to "relax" downstairs. By relaxing I'm talking about the consumption of an entire bottle of voldka by my sister and I. The boys drank off of a different bottle and had some beers.

Oh my goodness.... My sister and I were DRUNK. We weren't just drunk, we were drunk drunk.

We don't get the opportunity to cut loose like this very often so we took advantage of it to the fullest.

Comcast on demand has a section in their music file with Kareokee songs. All of us were jumping around singing random songs (off key of course). I remember sliding down the stairs on my butt. Even though I've told the kids countless times not to do that very thing. I now have rug burns on my calves.

Oh yes, and then there is the drunk dialing. I'm apologizing now to my favorite auntie whom we called just as she was getting into bed. Good thing she's cool and has a sense of humor. Not everyone is cool about getting drunken phone calls at night.

I don't remember exactly what else we did last night. Running around like a dork, laughing at nothing in particular, all in all having a good time.

Not so good a time now though. Waiting for the coffee to run through my system more better.

Ug

The town I moved to is a very small town. Part of the reason why I chose to live there. Wanting to far enough away from the city to be away, yet close enough to do my shopping "in town."

Well for the first time since I moved in, I did my grocery shopping at the small family grocery store here. I have no idea why it took me this long, but I'm glad I stopped in.

I saw several customers run into each other there and greet each other with friendly hugs and huge smiles. They all stopped for a few minutes to catch up on what was happening.

This store is pretty small, but it had everything you could need. Just not twelve brands of everything. The producer was incredibly fresh. There are so many farms around town that there is a good chance it came from one of those farms. The employees wore their regular clothing, not a uniform.

I got winked at by an old lady who caught me smiling at everyone. It felt so good to be a part in such a small close nit community. I can't wait till I start meeting people. Until some one runs up to me in the store wanting to chat and catch up on stuff.

Just being there today left me with this good happy feeling the rest of the day. Knowing I made the right decision moving into this house.

This my friends is my good looking fiance and our sweet little puppy. I feel very blessed to have such a good man in my life. I look forward to being his wife and sharing our lives together.

Been meaning to post

Ok, here it is! My lovely 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath dark blue house. This is a picture the insurance agents get to look at to help them figure out how much home owner's insurance will be. It was taken before the driveway and the yard were finished. It's huge and I love it. Well worth all the extra effort and saving up it took to get in.

An announcement to make

Ok I know I haven't written in quite some time, but I've been in the process of unpacking and organizing my house. Then, when I got to a point where I could take a break and do some typing, my computer died. Or so I thought it did. Turns out comcast had a problem changing over my account from one house to the next.

Any way... On to the announcement.

I am now an engaged woman!

Ivan proposed to me last weekend. I am absolutely reeling. Floating on clouds. So incredibly excited.

He was really romantic about it too. We were at this concert. The guy we were seeing sings one of "our songs." Well, "our song" starts up and we slow dance to it in the crowd. After the song got over, he pulls this ring out of his pocket, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.

I cried. He cried. My sister cried. Girl roommate cried. Boy roommate had something in his eye. There were even a few people standing around us that were a little teary eyed.

I've been floating since then. Getting ready to plan a wedding now that we're in this house together.

Life is good.