Went to Chili's for dinner. Its kind of a Friday night tradition in our little 2 person family. Barney joined us tonight though. Chips and salsa, Chicken fajita pita, diet coke. love.
Saw Juno. LOVE!
Now, Jon is making me homemade popcorn. LOVE LOVE (him and the popcorn).
This crunchy, cold, dry snow, is like nails on a chalkboard to me. When I drive through it and walk in it, I cringe at the noise it makes and the way it feels under my feet. Like I said...hate.
I would like it to warm up so that it melts, please. Thanks much.
Since we moved into our apartment, we have been pretty sporadic in our usage of the apartment complex fitness facilities. We go in spurts when we are pretty good about going...but nothing like we have been in the last two weeks! Jon outfitted himself with some new shoes last week and he is a new man. He wants to use them all the time and it's great! They are pretty sweet, I must say...and light as a feather! I tried on the same in the women's version, but didn't get them because mine still have some wear left to them. But I digress...we have gone to the gym 4 times this week! Each time really pushing it and feeling like we did a good job.
So what did we do today?
Well, after such a great week, we treated our sore bodies to a day of laying around, watching tv and eating steak and potatoes. whoops. oh well! As much as we really want to feel more fit (and to lose some weight for that wedding in August, let's be honest), I know we are going to have a hard time changing our eating habits. Baby steps....baby steps.
I really want to wear a fun pair of shoes with my wedding dress...no white pumps for this lady. I found these today on a website that said they were available on Piperlime. So I figured if they were on that website, they must be affordable and I had to have them....
This Christmas had special meaning...with the engagement and all. We put up the Christmas tree together on the night we got engaged and last night we took it down. awwww.
We also sent out a Christmas Card for the first time together this year. I thought it was appropriate since we wanted to announce our engagement anyway. I had an idea to do a photo booth type greeting. I thought this was a unique idea, but then as I was looking at different wedding blogs, it turns out a lot of other people have done this also. Oh well. So way back in the beginning of December, I set up a photo shoot in our living room and we took a ton of pictures. This was the end result: 
...and here are some of my favorite outtakes
The girls surprising me at dinner with champagne in celebration of the engagement.
...the message written on my plate. (note: the dulce de leche cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory is the best)
Jon was done with school back in August, but the graduation ceremony was in December.
I decided to give my dull blog a little facelift. It was looking like a sad, deprived child and now that I think I have a little more inspiration and reason to write, I wanted it to be somewhat interesting. I was trying to figure out how to do an all over background (that isn't just a color), but couldn't figure it out. If anyone knows how to do that, let me know!!
I also updated my blogroll because the last one was rather outdated.
The color scheme is what my world will revolve around for the next 8 months. We are going with black, white and green for our wedding colors. I love the starck contrast of the colors and hope to incorporate some patterns as well (maybe the damask as shown above...) There might be splashes of yellow also, but that is just an idea because there could be a fine line where it could look like a Packer wedding...which is obviously not what we would like.
Now that I know how to jazz this space up a little, I think I'll change it up often...just to keep everyone on their toes.
Wedding update.
The date is set for August 9, 2008. (08-09-08, I like the sound of it. Not as good at 08-08-08 would have been, but we didn't want to have a Friday wedding)
The church is reserved and we are meeting with the priest next month. We ended up going with St. Jude after getting rejected from a couple other places. I was sad for a second, but then decided that it will be sweet getting married at the place I grew up going to...and where Jon and I met! Yes, we met there at Gina and Todd's wedding rehearsal. It will be perfect.
We paid the deposit for the reception spot yesterday. I couldn't be happier with our location. Their prices are within our budget, the food is going to be delicious (Saz's, yum!), the location is great for both our Milwaukee and Madison guests and being on the golf course it is going to be beautiful.
I found a photographer. I think her pictures are stunning and she has great rates, which is great for our budget. I found her through this little blogosphere I lurk around in too!
Next on the agenda is a DJ...
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