The dress.....

I was definitely not going dress shopping! I had a few dresses offered to me to borrow and of course, my sister's beautiful dresses were available. Why spend money on a dress? I was dead set against it. My wonderful best friend, Brittney, said "let's go dress shopping just for fun! Every bride needs to do that...you'll regret it if you don't." Then I tried on Tami's dress again....let me just say that working in a restaurant hasn't been good for my mid-section and Tami is WAAAYYY to skinny! haha
So I decided dress shopping couldn't hurt. I called my mom and told her I didn't want to do it without her...every bride's mom should get to be there when she steps into that perfect dress, right? We went last Saturday and had GREAT success!! Mom and I went to the shops in Rexburg first....nothing, really. One dress was absolutely gorgeous, right price, long sleeve jacket (since I am getting married in December, long sleeves would be great!) and a 30 minute minnimum time to get into!! Seriously, once they got you in it, they didn't want you out of it. The buttons on the jacket were extremely difficult to get done up and nearly impossible to un-do! They said they used a crochet hook to do it so we asked if we could use it. Their reply was, "Well, we don't actually have one in the store, that's just what they say works for those." GREAT!!! I'm never getting out of this dress!! No wonder it was still in the store. 30 minutes and a few choice word mumblings from both me and mom, I was free.
Then we met up with Brit and headed to Idaho Falls where we went straight to Heart's Tux and Gowns. We found this gorgeous vintage-looking dress and the minute I stepped into it, I knew it was what I wanted. Then we looked at the price tag and almost swallowed our tongues!!! I tried on a few others and they just weren't right. My mom said, "There was just that 'look' and it's gorgeous and it just screams your name." So, we swallowed our tongues and bought the dress. It really wasn't that bad of a price, actually. It's gorgeous and I feel beautiful in it! I'm so excited to wear it!!!
Anyway, boring post...no pictures and I'm sorry. I'll post some of my bridals soon. We're going home tonight to get them done tomorrow. I'm so excited!!!!

Engaged!!

So, I'm officially engaged!! I'm so excited to share this awesome news with all my fellow blogger friends.

Austin is so sneaky! Seriously, I didn't even see it coming. He had me thinking for the last few weeks that he hadn't even looked beyond asking me what my ring size was. So I'm thinking, "Okay whatev, we are planning for December anyway, he's got like 2 more months to propose." No big deal.

Well, we went to Boise this weekend to get his teeth done and decided to go out to our favorite Sushi restraunt for lunch. We brought my best friend Brit with us and she had never had sushi before so I had been telling her about this shrimp roll that she just had to try. The waiter brought out two platters and placed one down on Mom and Dad's end of the table and the other right in front of me. I was pointing out the shrimp roll to Brittney when in mid-sentence I saw the ring in a big box in the center of the platter. I seriously didn't even see it for like 20 seconds. They were all looking at me like, "Holy cow! She doesn't even see it!"

It was pretty funny. I saw it and was like "Oh my word...." Austin got down on one knee and proposed and of course, I said YES! It was very exciting and he is VERY sneaky!!!

So, December 13th Everybody!!!! Mark your calenders!

Here I am, having absolutely NO clue that the ring is in the center of the plate. Dir da dir dir!! I was more interested in telling Britt that the best Sushi was on that plate.

Okay, now I see the ring!

Popping the question.

How in the world could I NOT see the ring?!

Tessa, this one is for you!!

The ring...Austin, I love you!