Labels and Ring!

My return address labels have arrived!!! Yeah!!! The save the dates were waiting for them so they could be sent out. Still waiting on a few addresses from Tom but once that happens we are good to go!! yeah! So excited! We are getting married!! In less than 8 months!!

Yesterday I also got a voice mail message from the jewelery store that one

of my rings was ready to pick up. So in I went hoping it was the engagement ring - and it was! I missed it. But honestly if one more person asked me if I was getting married soon and that was why I

had it rhodium plated I was gonna freak out! It's free people! Who wouldn't want a sparkly ring!! So now we wait on my wedding band. It's getting sized and likely I will get my engagement ring

sized too eventually. The wedding band will be a 6.5 and the engagement ring is a 7. It fits fine and hasn't fallen off so we'll see.

Tom really did a great job picking out the ring. It's simple and elegant - like me!!! hahaa! My camera is not the best but I felt like taking some 'artsy' pics today. In the pic above the green reflection in the diamond is my camera.

This next picture is another attempt at being 'artsy' which I am not but I still like it. The pic in the pic is of Tom and I on what we say was our first date. On June 23rd, 2007 we helped out at the wedding of the daughter of the camp director of the camp we met at. That night was really the night that changed my mind. Up until that night I had been very hesitant about starting a relationship because I was leaving for NET ministries for 10 months. What was the point of starting something. A good friend of ours talked to both of us individually that night and while I don't know what he said to Tom, I know that what he told me greatly influenced the start of our relationship. He helped me to realize that if I didn't open myself up to what could happen, if I didn't tale a chance and see what could be, that I would always wonder what could have been. So here we are now three years later planning our own wedding. I thought the idea behind the picture was good.

A favourite activity of mine is going for walks and stepping on CRUNCHY pine cones!! I love it!! When we worked at the camp, it was prime pine cone crunching location!! So many pine cones! So little time!!! One day after we were engaged (I think) Tom came over after he was working and brought me this pine cone. He had been out on a walk with a young person at work and stepped on pine cones and he brought me one home to step on. Of course I didn't and instead it sits on my tv unit. It's hard to see the ring on the top of the pine cone but it's there. The shine made it too flashy!

All in all, I'm happy.